ALERT:
Canada 🇨🇦 has a new lawful access bill on the dock that will impose
* mandatory wired-in surveillance infrastructure on all service providers (i.e., backdoors)
* that is undertaken through secret orders
* and will include mandatory metadata retention
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www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/...
I NEED HELP!
Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!
I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!
Please circulate widely!
Poster showing a massive hand rising from a waterfall. Text reads THIS IS OUR STRENGTH ELECTRIC POWER
I'd add, our government remains all over Elon Musk's Nazi site, as do many other institutions, associations, and 'respectable' people for some inexplicable reason.
Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles.
But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.
Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay
Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
🧵Tradwife culture is moving further into the mainstream. People who watch this film will likely come away with a better sense of the performance, hypocrisy and marketing behind the movement. But, the real issue is the way tradwife content functions as an algorithmic gateway into far-right ideology.
Read every word, down to the last line. And imagine this is about you, the food you eat, the report you wrote, the house you built, the city you live in ...
That is bizarre! We’ve cancelled all our cross-border geology field trips because we can’t guarantee students’ safety.
This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.
A few years ago, I bought a house with the aim of making it my home. I succeeded. But I also became part of a serious national problem, and shame.
thewalrus.ca/i-bought-a-h...
Look forward to hearing how they plan to do this without verifying everyone’s identity on social media to make sure you’re not a teenager
Dayna! Sophia called about your jewelry repair! It's ready to pick up but they're closing early today at 6 so you'd better hurry.
So there's a person named Dayna who keeps giving out my number to all and sundry and I'd really like her to stop, except I have no way to contact her. I get messages for her every day. Considering turning them all into a slam poem that I can perform until someone recognizes her and tells her to stop
@glutelord.bsky.social is essentially giving a PhD dissertation in under two minutes on how modern incel culture is coopting a very narrow and weirdly specific gay sub-culture.
April 15, 1993, died on this day at the age of 84 Canadian geophysicist John “Jock” Tuzo Wilson. He is best remembered for his important contributions to the theory of plate tectonics (being an opponent in his younger years)
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Preprint but still interesting.
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
We are sorry to learn that the pedestrian hit at Oak & 6th last Wednesday has died. We went out yesterday evening to place some memorial flowers in the area. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Mark Carney gets his majority, thanks in part to two women eho have fought for public services in Canada. Funny, given how he is defending public services! Here's my 2 minute take.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gABB8t/
Yipeng holding a sign in clinic that reads “healthcare should never depend on status”.
I am a family doctor and public health researcher, and I oppose Carney’s cruel cuts to refugee healthcare. I join healthcare workers in 9 cities across the country today to demand access to publicly funded universal healthcare for ALL regardless of status. #NoCutsToCare
New oil & gas projects = growing financial risk. 😵💫 💰
Analysis shows Canada could face stranded assets and rising costs as the energy transition accelerates: shorturl.at/ahj3A
#EnergyPolicy #cdnpoli
this absolutely deranged statement of statements which includes a revisionist history of this government's commitment to mass social murder was released this morning, a day early
its not a "toxic-drug crisis," its a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
this is disinformation
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.
Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.
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If this happened in Canada then Regina and all of our downtown parking lots could power all of Saskatchewan.
"Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said he is open to the idea that Claude may already have some form of consciousness, and company leaders frequently talk about the need to give it a moral character."
This is a sales pitch, and journalism that doesn't highlight this has failed.
One of my all-time favourite books!
A century of hair samples shows how sharply lead exposure fell after modern environmental rules took hold in the US. A PNAS study found that current lead concentrations in hair from Utah’s Wasatch Front are almost 100 times lower than before the EPA was established. buff.ly/odLXa0j
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Writers put their livelihoods on the line for this.
Weird autocorrect of the day: I typed trepanation. Autocorrect changed it to reparation. Not even remotely the same thing, and why not something with vaguely similar spelling like trepidation?