So much for the wearing of the helmets. I don’t get not wearing them and I’m a child of the no-supervision 80s…

Also I had no idea they had both a Home Hardware and a Rona...

Ah...I missed that you were in SPM. I assumed the Caraquet truck just had the SPM plate as a decoration.

That is a Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon plate. Used to see the occasional SPM-plated car in Fredericton but I haven't come across one for ages.

Reminder: Corporate consolidation, like what we've seen over the years in the airline industry, leads to less competition.

It gives the biggest remaining corporations the power to rip you off and protect profits because you have fewer options from whom to buy from.

Rusty would fit under the tall mask for sure.

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

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It is honestly as simple as this.

Really good. The sourdough base is excellent.

I was headed to Maybee for the brick oven pizza, but if the greeny line extended down Route 7 towards Oromocto, it certainly seems interesting...

There was a Freddie fire truck and a support truck seemingly cleaning up some of it on the bridge over the Vanier Highway at the Wilsey Road/Alison Blvd exit last night around 7:30 or so. The greeny line definitely went back toward Vanier Ind Drive.

I wish you all the luck...

Do you like plug in a laptop or something?

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial

Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas

Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer

Want to stop Trump bullying your country? Retaliate - a good rubdown on why Europe, and by extension, Canada, should not let the bully to the South keep taking our lunch money without a well-thought-out fight.

We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Is he at least like the BBA students society rep? Cos even then…

It was the reason (well, one of many, really) I ended up in Arts and not in Engineering…

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

The US has nothing to teach Australia - or any other nation - about how to deal with gun violence. So many days each year with multiple mass shootings, yet politicians, media and far-too many Americans are unable or just unwilling to do what is needed to end this cycle - meaningful gun control...

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.

How in any delusional reality is using Calibri as an official font a “diversity move?” It’s a middling sans-serif font at best. They have managed the font-impossible: made me like Calibri just a little and never want to use Times-New Roman again: www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I was initially surprised by how often I ran into the attitude from students in these programs that they don't actually need to be well-versed in anything besides the exact information they need to know to conduct research in their field."
We no longer train scholars, we train specialists

I heard plenty of talk of career- and job-focussed university programs being the future when I was doing my MA in the early 90s. I will take my Arts-derived critical thinking and research skills over thrall to the latest tech or business trend any day or year...

UNB Admin Office or the UNB Student Union should have a printer/fax setup still. Coveys or Staples should be able to...

Agreed. Portland has a great scene and the local spots make it so...

Would be a great spot to have a bite & a pint for the area. It really shouldn’t be an impossible task to rezone it if it was a good proposal for a licensed local-focussed gastro-y pub, but there’ll always be nimby opposition to development in YFC.

It is rather disappointing as Noreasters go…

Yep. Glad I am winter prepped and tire-d.

First snowstorm of the season in Fredericton and no cars are stuck or slipping away on bald all-seasons heading up Smythe Street as of yet…