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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Bit late to this but:

Around 2018 I was interviewing a bunch of white supremacists who were like, 'learn to code, your industry is dying, haha.'

Happy to say this was terrible advice, and even happier to note that I didn't follow it.

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The Liberal Party is gearing up for a tech crackdown - The Logic Canada’s ruling party wants to embrace AI. It also wants to regulate it.

AI guardrails are coming to Canada, thanks in large part to Quebec. My latest #quebecink column, via @thelogic.co

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Bully?

Heh. I'm 92 per cent sure I interviewed him at the time.

Zero Knowledge! Wow.

Now can we ban crypto?

Not today, Satan.

Ottawa mulls workaround to pass online harms bill without tackling AI - The Logic The government could ask cabinet to regulate ChatGPT and other AI systems at a later date without needing to pass fresh legislation, The Logic has learned

New: The federal government may exclude ChatGPT and other AI chatbots from its upcoming online harms bill and instead rely on cabinet to regulate the technology at a later date.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social and @lauraosman.bsky.social.

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Feds reconvene Trudeau-era online harms panel amid chatbot fears - The Logic Ottawa has reached out to experts as it grapples with potential harms posed by AI—an issue on its front burner since the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Lady Luck! Here she roams: “Under a new prime minister, the government is poised to try again. One senior official, speaking on background on the condition they not be named, told @thelogic.co: ‘Online Harms has died twice before, so hopefully, three times a charm’.”

From @patriquin.bsky.social:

Quebec shut the door on crypto. It just flung it wide open to AI - The Logic Hydro-Québec turned its back on the crypto mining boom. Now, faced with a new AI cash cow, it’s taking a different approach.

"In diverting its 170 megawatts of allotted power in the province away from crypto and towards AI, #Bitfarms is signaling its belief that its future lies more in large language models than blockchain."

My latest, via @thelogic.co

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Mexico Killed ‘El Mencho.’ What’s Next for the Drug Cartel He Led?

Here's a periodic ringing of the "thank god that this particular cocaine kingpin is dead, now there will be no more cocaine kingpins" gong

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Montreal's Galvion, through U.S. reseller, supplied US$15.5M of ballistic helmets to ICE - The Logic The helmets, which are designed in Montreal, have featured prominently in recent immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis and Illinois

NEW: Galvion, a Montreal-based military hardware company, is supplying ballistic helmets to ICE as part of a US$15.5-million deal between the agency and a U.S. reseller.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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"we just added 'arms up' as a UGC format at DansUGC."

please remove me from this planet

They say Canada’s AI industry has a doom-and-gloom problem - The Logic Canada is home to some of the finest AI researchers in the world. Yet some prominent figures say negative views of the technology are holding the country back.

"Comedians and columnists can reliably get away with hyperbole. When academics use it, it’s to the detriment of their audiences, particularly when it’s a Turing Award winner doing the hyperbolizing."

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via @thelogic.co

...and it's right twice a day

The Trump Administration Is Calling the Viral Story of My ICE Job Offer a Lie. Good Thing I Kept the Receipts. The administration that lies all the time is now lying about me. And I can prove it.

hell yeah @laurajedeed.bsky.social
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Ottawa won’t change Online News Act, despite U.S. objections - The Logic The government says it has no plans to amend or repeal the Online News Act which has resulted in Meta blocking news in Canada since 2023

Ottawa won’t change Online News Act, despite U.S. objections, my colleagues @lauraosman.bsky.social & @patriquin.bsky.social report for @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/exclusi... #cdnmedia #TradeSky

Ottawa won’t change Online News Act, despite U.S. objections - The Logic The government says it has no plans to amend or repeal the Online News Act which has resulted in Meta blocking news in Canada since 2023

The Canadian gov has "no intention" of repealing or changing the Online News Act despite U.S. pressure. Even so, officials have been talking to Meta about potentially bringing news back to its platforms, sources said.

By @lauraosman.bsky.social & @patriquin.bsky.social.

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They say Canada’s AI industry has a doom-and-gloom problem - The Logic Canada is home to some of the finest AI researchers in the world. Yet some prominent figures say negative views of the technology are holding the country back.

"Comedians and columnists can reliably get away with hyperbole. When academics use it, it’s to the detriment of their audiences, particularly when it’s a Turing Award winner doing the hyperbolizing."

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via @thelogic.co

continue to be baffled that the libs got football in the national divorce

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read

the competition is strong but it's a real contender

Quebec shows the rest of North America the true impact of bike lanes - The Logic Behold, North America’s most bike-friendly cities of 2025. Number two will shock you.

Bike paths make economic sense—even in the dead of winter. Just ask the city that purportedly can't stand them.

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Via @thelogic.co

Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users

Meet Étienne Brisson from Trois-Rivières, Québec. He understands why people don’t like “AI”.

– by @patriquin.bsky.social

Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users

In the small industrial city of Trois-Rivières, thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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Lawsuits claim ChatGPT encouraged delusional spirals and suicides - The Logic Allan Brooks, one of the plaintiffs, spent weeks speaking to ChatGPT about a mathematical formula he had devised that could bring down global financial systems. Then he realized it was all a lie.

A Canadian man is suing OpenAI, claiming his interactions with the company’s ChatGPT chatbot destroyed his reputation, alienated him from his family and sent him into a mental health crisis. Read more by @patriquin.bsky.social in @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/openai-...

One year ago

If you work(ed) at #Shopify and have been a part of the ongoing quiet layoffs, and want to speak about it securely, reach me at aleksagan.12 on Signal or pop into my DMs.

Pornhub still hasn't paid support to victims of a sex-trafficking scam - The Logic Pornhub owner Aylo agreed to pay victims of a sex-trafficking scheme as part of a deal with prosecutors. Dozens of women who made claims for support haven't seen a cent.

A victim told @thelogic.co that she is relying on reimbursement of $100k+ to ensure care for the rest of her life. “I don’t think I’ll ever be 100% but I’d love to just keep improving and working on myself and finding better methods to deal with all of the trauma.”

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