Not signaling should be 3 demerit points. It's the easiest thing a driver can do!!!

Chat starting with "So this entire time this chat bot had been telling me to do something that doesn't work." Copilot responds: "short answer: yes – and you're right to be frustrated. I owe you an apology and a clear correction. What happened (plain and honest). I led you down a path that sounds valid architecturally but does not work in reality today.

I've genuinely tried to be open minded and not just a hater, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that literally every time I've tried to use AI at work I end up with the same results

Manitoba NDP government loans $475K to Winnipeg AI call-screening company | CBC News Manitoba's NDP government has provided financial support to another private business, this time in the provincial tech sector. Premier Wab Kinew's cabinet authorized a $475,000 loan to JasperVOCAL, a ...

Perfect use case for both AI and provincial funding: 21 year old insurance salesman robocaller ceo who got his start on conservative political campaigns.

CEO of Siloam Mission in Winnipeg orders staff to go ‘media silent’ Siloam Mission management has directed staff to be “media silent” and has blocked access to shelter events — including its annual Easter meal — amid internal tension over the appointment of its new CE...

Not a good look

I brought In the Distance by Hernan Diaz on holiday because it's a western and western are fun, right?

It was Not Fun. Brilliant amd gorgeous but extremely not a beach read.

With apologies for the flex and to the non–meat eaters: I made very good pork chops tonight (all hail J Kenji López-Alt) with roast potatoes, butternut squash, savory apple sauce and a toronto

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

To be fair I'm extremely looking forward to thinning carrots in some little shorts, a chore coat and my blown out 20-year-old pair of blundstones

Hunched over a grow light in my basement wearing nothing but long johns cause menswear guy said I should be comfy

Canning like a homesteader today (transferring 4kg of Costco peanut butter into individual mason jars)

I replaced a dryer belt like five years ago and still bring it up

It's really clarifying to think of AI as a tool that reduces your capacity for human thought then rents an approximation of it back to you for a fee

So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug?

The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.

I'm sure others will have less obvious answers, but Russell Books in Victoria is great.

Big gulp of cherry tomatoes? In this economy?

Opinion: Missed opportunity at CMU

A real win for CMU tbh www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

On February 10, Canada suffered one of the worst mass shootings in its history when eight people were killed in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, including five students and a teacher at a secondary school. After the shooting, OpenAI reached out to authorities to provide information about the shooter’s use of ChatGPT and announced it had banned the shooter’s account months earlier. However, what OpenAI didn’t say, but the Wall Street Journal discovered, was that employees pushed for the company to reach out to Canadian authorities to alert them to what the person who would later take eight people’s lives was inputing to ChatGPT. The user was flagged through an automated system for suggesting scenarios to the chatbot involving gun violence. “Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on [the user’s] posts,” wrote the Journal. “Some employees interpreted [the user’s] writings as an indication of potential real-world violence.”

Altman’s comments were bad enough. But the following day to read about how OpenAI had neglected its duty when it banned a user in Canada who was using ChatGPT to play out gun violence scenarios put his comments in an even worse light.

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The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Winnipeg, MB. Just in my inbox via Councillor Duncan's office, so I thought I would post for those who've been following this issue, given timelines & delegations tomorrow.

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

Opinion: Canada’s university funding system is broken

Yes it is, and this is a good explainer of the impact of international student caps.

But it's infuriating that Benarroch is simply reconciled to the state of government funding while pushing for tuition hikes.

So remember kids...

Bullying works.

Basically, your Charter right to free expression won’t apply downtown

It's always the people whose offices have doors and sunlight who insist workers will be more productive in person

Infuriating interview

Screenshot from Government of Canada website that reads: "Over 11,300 participants provided their thoughts and ideas during the 30-day online public consultation, which ran from October 1 to 31, 2025. We captured over 64,600 responses to 26 questions on the eight AI pillars identified for the purpose of the consultation. The responses were analyzed using SimpleSurvey, which uses natural language processing algorithms to provide insights from open-ended questions by analyzing sentiments, keywords and topics. ISED also created an internal classification pipeline for analysis, incorporating Cohere Command A, OpenAI GPT-5 nano, Anthropic Claude Haiku and Google Gemini Flash to read through the submissions and identify common themes. Responses were also classified by question, pillar and sentiment. Human reviewers validated and refined the AI-generated analyses, ensuring accuracy and comprehensive representation of all perspectives. The same approach was used to analyze the Task Force reports. This innovative approach enabled thorough, unbiased reporting in record time—months faster than traditional methods—demonstrating a balance between efficient delivery and responsible, Canadian-centred AI adoption."

Canada did a consultation on a new national AI strategy, formed an expert task force to write 32 reports, then used AI to analyze the responses & reports. The result is a summary that strings together 100s of vague action items & flattens nuance and policy trade-offs into false consensus

Data gaps obscure impacts of Winnipeg Transit overhaul | The Narwhal There’s ‘no question’ fewer people rode Winnipeg buses after the transit overhaul, the mayor says. But gaps in the data make it hard to get a clear picture

Winnipeg’s transit system upgrade was supposed to increase ridership, but the data — though not entirely reliable — suggests it may have done the opposite, @jsrutgers.bsky.social reports
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Analysis mixed on $900-million Chief Peguis extension Supporters of a $900-million proposal to extend the Chief Peguis Trail predict it would help spark the construction of 15,000 new homes and create thousands of new jobs, while raising $59 million annu...

Roads and police and police and roads

If you're open to party politics and want to vote for the next party leader, today is the last day to become a member.

one of the worst things about so many canadians being glued to cnn and msnow is that they import that approach to politics, such that you can’t ever criticize the libs or carney because they’re your team even when they absolutely need to be pushed to do better.