If AI was designed to help humanity, it would have already have helped us to distribute wealth equitably, eliminate boring, low-paying jobs, create a UBI system, stop #ecocide, end #violenceagainstwomen, cure a lot of diseases. But instead we get war machines, surveillance, deep fakes and porn.
Staff shortages in public hospitals and other public healthcare settings is happening across the province. This is negatively impacting nurses and certainly patients. Glad to see this pro-active petition from @lakeridge-health.bsky.social @ontarionurses.bsky.social. More of this please.
so, to be clear: ICE has been doing neoStarlight Tours, if instead of taking natives a three hour walk out of town in -40° and ditching them there without their personal effects, to kill them, they drove folks hundreds of kilometers away and ditched them without their personal effects, to kill them.
"The real effect [of AI] was not the eradication of millions of jobs, but a more subtle and pernicious transformation of work and workplaces to reduce the leverage of workers and shift that power even further to their bosses."
Are we ready to break up the monopolies yet?
The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.
All of these cute stories about robots running sub-4 min miles during a half marathon fail to mention how terrifying it will be when these things are hunting us for sport in 2029.
Want.
VERY BIG NEWS out of France a week ago:
"French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday, April 10, a ban on installing gas heating systems "by year's end" in new buildings, including multi-unit housing, to curb France's dependence on fossil fuels."
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
![Screenshot from ontariohealth.ca
Delirium Aware Safer Healthcare (DASH) is a multi-year quality improvement campaign that builds towards reducing hospital-acquired delirium across Ontario.
The campaign improvement bundles focused on are:
Cautiously prescribing medications that increase delirium risk (e.g., sedative hypnotics [for sleep] and/or opioids [for post-surgical pain])
Optimizing sleep environment
Promoting discussion of delirium in huddles
Engaging care partners
Optimizing wellness during the wakeful hours
Targeting specific diagnoses associated with a high-risk of delirium
Why Focus on Delirium
Delirium is one of the leading causes of preventable hospital harms in Ontario; it impacts patient and provider safety, access and flow, and alternate level of care days. Delirium is associated with increased mortality, and those affected by it have hospital visits prolonged an average eight days, resulting in an additional $11,000 per hospital stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2nnzhqskmg4qgnboibmwa7p/bafkreigcmue3yko6f7dzz4lvctwn4awtpwy3nb75yw37ajt7eqc4lhrw4m)
Screenshot from ontariohealth.ca Delirium Aware Safer Healthcare (DASH) is a multi-year quality improvement campaign that builds towards reducing hospital-acquired delirium across Ontario. The campaign improvement bundles focused on are: Cautiously prescribing medications that increase delirium risk (e.g., sedative hypnotics [for sleep] and/or opioids [for post-surgical pain]) Optimizing sleep environment Promoting discussion of delirium in huddles Engaging care partners Optimizing wellness during the wakeful hours Targeting specific diagnoses associated with a high-risk of delirium Why Focus on Delirium Delirium is one of the leading causes of preventable hospital harms in Ontario; it impacts patient and provider safety, access and flow, and alternate level of care days. Delirium is associated with increased mortality, and those affected by it have hospital visits prolonged an average eight days, resulting in an additional $11,000 per hospital stay.
Has your loved one developed delirium in hospital? Is your Ontario hospital involved in reducing hospital-acquired delirium? #delirium #ontariohealth
The Donald Trump Presidential Library: The only library in the world to have two sets of books.
Ontario’s drinking water is protected by little-known committees, tied up in conservation authority changes. The groups were set up following the contamination crisis in Walkerton & are still waiting for working ‘clarity’ after conservation authorities consolidate.
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour...
I'm willing to bet my car can also beat the human world record.
Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
Pope Leo:
This is worth watching... regarding AI.
If you advocate for and actively promote the use of LLMs, you should live near a data centre, have one family member working as a data worker and another, a teenager, using the LLM as a psychologist.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Nice of him to give back the jet that he wanted to impress DT, but I can think of a lot of things I would rather he give back - Ontario Place, Exhibition Place, Billy Bishop Airport, the Science Centre, environmental protections, bike lanes, public healthcare, school boards, rent control ...
Ford's dropping poll numbers convinced him the new gravy jet was a bad idea.
www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
“There are few legislative or regulatory guardrails around how developers refer to their products — or even whether the products are safe or effective…”
Interesting bit from a speech Cory Booker gave yesterday at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus in Detroit: (Full speech here: www.c-span.org/program/camp...)
We Need Shared Experience
https://www.brittlestar.com/p/we-need-shared-experience
Yes. Yes, we do.
That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.
