Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.

A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.

Soooo worth a watch if you haven’t already!

@aimenlau.bsky.social introductory remarks and insights into Cofacts are super interesting! Canada can learn so much from Taiwan’s civil society and their work in countering foreign info manipulation.

(still a fan girl of MP Normandin 🫶🏼

Done! Went well and thought my fellow witnesses had some excellent points as well.

My name is always mispronounced during these testimonies which I personally am not too fuss about as I pay in kind by making all the Francophones endure my terrible French pronunciation.

CON DOUBLE GRATULATIONS. let’s nerd together

WOOO FIVE MORE YEARS FIVE MORE YEARS FIVE MORE YEARS 😭

prepare tissues for end game credits

Surveillance pricing is awful but count me disappointed to see Avi Lewis launching his Hill career with… this press conference.

I can think of MANY MANY MANY other public policies that would be a higher priority for Canadians 😭🙃

touch grass plz

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits

Growing up our teachers frowned at us for using Wikipedia for research, now I cannot go without Wiki...

The references & footnotes are a treasure-trove of primary & secondary sources. Plus not having to worry about AI hallucinations 🙆🏻‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Review in progress by Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs

my (academic) future hanging on by a thread

a collage of pictures from the commemoration event in Bangkok for the victims of the April 10th 2010 military crackdown in Bangkok 4 of the pictures show tables with the pictures of those killed and people paying respects. 1 shows wreaths.

Mourner holds picture of Bung netiporn who died during hunger strike demanding bail rights at the commemoration, behind here are banners & pictures of those who died on april 10th

Table of offerings in front of pictures of those who died on april 10th 2010 massacre

Crowd lighting candles in bangkok, behind them is the democracy monument

Busy weekend #MilkTeaAlliance
Here's the events🧵
Today marks 16 years since the April 10th Military crackdown in Thailand against the UDD. 25 were killed, 800+ injured. Today Thai friends commemorated in BKK & highlighted recent losses & political prisoners
นิรโทษกรรมให้คนเป็น ทวงความยุติธรรมให้คนตาย
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Cover of piece Grieving Ching Ming Festival

In her latest piece @chercywong.bsky.social talks of the grief of self exile, that is often felt during festivals such as the Ching Ming Festival, when cannot carry out traditions. Worth a read.

konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/ching-ming/
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Sydney HungryPanda workers say Chinese police intimidating families over pay disputes | ABC NEWS YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

In Australia , delivery workers say hungry panda used connections to police officers in China to intimidate their family members over pay issues youtu.be/JAVnuBiiwBA?...

Here's the thing, though. "I believe that abortion is murder and churches should have the right to torture gay youth" is a pretty big stance to take and if she's willing to abandon those "values" to march the party line, then she's got no integrity. But if she stands by those values, she's a traitor

Why Cheng Li-wun’s Visit to China Matters Cheng Li-wun’s visit signals that Beijing is still seeking to influence Taiwan’s political trajectory through selective engagement with the opposition KMT.

Cheng Li-wun’s to China visit signals that Beijing is still seeking to influence Taiwan’s political trajectory through selective engagement with the opposition KMT.

When racialized people dare to disagree with white colleagues, the BIPOC often gets labelled as problematic. This is all too common for BIPOCs working in white-dominant spaces.

If folks have resources on explaining "racialized aggressor" & "white victim" in the workplace, please send them my way.

WHAT IN THE WHITE HELL

the CAUCACITY

what the absolute fuck

also pls don't digitally touch people's faces

a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face . ALT: a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face .

shook

Why do I keep talking about Chinamaxxing?

Cause I am eager to rage bait racists into showing themselves.

Grieving Ching Ming Festival The last time I was in Hong Kong was almost ten years ago. My family members told me I was wasting my day to make this trek to visit 爺爺嫲嫲 parental grandparents’ tombstones, but I insisted - and I am g...

Grieving on 清明節 Ching Ming Festival might be an un-original topic, but here... I wrote about it anyways.

konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/ching-ming/

The Shrinking Space for Labor: Hong Kong’s Trade Unions Face “Chilling Effect” Under National Security Overhaul - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 The formal removal of the Professional Teachers’ Union from the official register marks far more than the demise of a fifty-year-old institution; it stands as a grim milestone in the rapid evaporation...

staying with Hong Kong... @hklabourrights.bsky.social latest outlines the huge loss of unions (275 unions have “disappeared” from public records since introduction of NSL) & shrinking space for the fight for labour rights in Hong Kong.
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I am very insistent to yap about CHINAMAXXING some more 🚩

lol

🍎 Let’s Talk About Apple Daily 🗞️ Must have been over twenty years ago, a family friend invited us to visit the printing factory of Apple Daily in Hong Kong. I barely remember the building, but I can somehow visualize the space. It ...

This draft lived in my notes app for 5 years, but finally, I am courageous enough to hit publish:

🍎 Let’s Talk About Apple Daily 🗞️

konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/apple-daily/

Love it how fast Chinese people clock other fellow Chinese people 👌🏼

A new Chinese coffee shop opened up in the neighbourhood, they always go full speed Mandarin when I come in despite I respond in English 😂 only switching to Eng when I go in with white folks

I just fall asleep at any dose of edibles. Props to you fam 🫶🏼

Article excerpt: The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy. But it was late that January night — around midnight — and she was still hungry. Her mom, Doris Flores, had tried nursing her to calm her down. It didn’t work. When she brought Briany to her breast, the milk wouldn’t come. Flores thought it had to do with the panic that set in after the officers arrested the baby’s father and told her she was next.

Continued article excerpt: The baby also drank formula. The pastor and his wife, who’d never had children of their own, should take her bottles and the yellow cans of formula, too, and follow the instructions on the label. They should use distilled water, never from the tap. Briany drank 5 ounces at each feeding. She needed to eat every two to two-and-a-half hours. She was almost due for her next round of vaccinations. She was getting big enough for Size 3 diapers. What made her happiest was to be held in someone’s arms. The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland. If he and his wife, a fellow pastor at the church, didn’t take the girls in, they would have to go into foster care. “What else could we do?” he said.

When Doris Flores was arrested, she begged officers not to separate her from her baby, Briany: “My girl needs me.”

Briany was one of thousands of U.S. citizen kids whose parents ICE detained in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Please read their stories: https://propub.li/4ti9WpO

Wab Kinew's welcome address at the NDP Convention should be studied.

He is charismatic, authentic, educational, and THE BRAGGING OF PUBLIC POLICIES 🙆🏻‍♀️ There is a reason why Manitobans elected him when the federal NDP only won 1 seat in the entire province.

"winning matters"

lol I just get racist abuse from X

but I’m hoping to leverage the profile/network to raise visibility. It’s not immediate cause -> effect, but not feeling great about my chances tbh 🥹☠️