mattivated.bsky.social

mattivated.bsky.social

@mattivated.bsky.social

Because I'm a totally independent, apolitical and unbiased person who uses common sense, you can be assured that everything I say is 💯 correct

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NEW: Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as minors—the latest challenge against the wealthiest living person’s chatbot.

motherjones.comTennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over child sexual abuse imagesIt’s the latest legal challenge against the Grok chatbot’s mass creation of nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and girls.

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Nothing says generational investment and building faster than ever quite like gutting transit. He has mountains of our cash for arms dealers and fossil fuels, but it's carnage for everyone else.

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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

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Can I respectfully suggest that our AI Minister wake the f**ck up and exercise his brain rather than relying on US Big Tech to generate results if he cares about democracy! Cohere btw is partnered with Thiel's Palantir, which is busy destroying the world, from Gaza to the streets in America.

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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

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🧵 Is Canadian police contracts with the same online surveillance companies used by ICE… anything?

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Here’s a $75,000 contract Hootsuite sold to Calgary police for social media surveillance in 2023. Not sure why anyone would be interested in that though.

CP24 is acting as state media for the Doug Ford govt This article says that Peel schools are running deficits due to an increase in "special edu spending" but it makes NO MENTION of the fact that municipalities & edu are things that are funded by the provinces! share.google/4icH2UaIyskt...

share.googlePeel school board supervision a 'smokescreen' for underfunding, chair saysThe chair of a school board recently taken over by Ontario’s minister of education is defending the management and finances of the board, saying the supervision is a “smokescreen” to distract from pro...

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🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda? Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that. Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars. Sneak peek:

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Canada’s AI Minister “has been accused of naively embracing AI rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.” Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.

thewalrus.caEvan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon? | The WalrusThe journalist-turned-minister says the tech will make us richer and regulation should be “light”

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🟣 Jewish Voice for Peace on protests outside an NYC synagogue over the sale of stolen Palestinian land, which several elected officials labeled “antisemitic”: “When people protest against sales of stolen Palestinian land, elected officials and far too many Jewish institutions rush to decry the...

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60 workers at Ubisoft’s studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia voted to form a union. In response, Ubisoft announced it was closing the entire studio. Maybe it’s time to look into the millions they get in public money for operating in Canada.

cbc.caVideo game giant Ubisoft closes Halifax studio, cutting 71 jobs | CBC NewsStaff formed company's first North American union in late December but Ubisoft says unionization did not influence closure.

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🗞️ NEW: Israel-backed militias operating east of Gaza’s “yellow line” say they expect to be folded into a UN-approved “vetted Palestinian police force” under Trump’s plan, and replace the current police in western Gaza, The Sunday Times reports. 🔴 In Rafah, Ghassan Duhine says his faction has...

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Do people really think it's good that we are relying on the patronage of elites to run our public institutions????? Instead of relying on their charity we need to tax the fuck out of them, break up their monopolies and end cronyism share.google/jeSn9pk5CuCX...

share.googlePrivate donations are supercharging the city’s museums and galleries - Toronto LifeOver the past few years, donors have injected millions into Toronto’s major cultural institutions

If the government actually had the public's best interests at heart they would take over all the private condo developments that developers are refusing to build and finish them and convert them all to nonprofit housing search.app/LHgDD

search.appCondo industry expects worst year on record — with only 165 new condos selling in Toronto area last monthBILD expects to end the year with around 5,500 sales for new homes, the lowest since record-keeping began.

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NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social was among the 30-person delegation Israel turned away from visiting the West Bank. But when she called me, I Iearned why her staff told me the incident was worse than what's been reported -- and that TWO Israeli officials laid hands on an MP. Here's what happened:

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Trump claims there is “legitimate large-scale peace in the Middle East.” He cites the hundreds of billions in investment from Gulf countries as evidence. 400 Palestinians have been murdered in daily Israeli bombings in Gaza since Israel and Hamas agreed to the 1st phase of Trump’s peace plan...

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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

cbc.caLibraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC NewsLibraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...

To all the anti-conservative/Liberals out there: There are now multiple Conservatives who have crossed the floor to the Liberals....can u finally admit that Carney and the Libs are rapidly moving Canada to the right? Markham–Unionville MP Michael Ma defects to Liberals share.google/0bSaStEwnmbF...

share.google‘This is a time for unity,’ Markham—Unionville MP Michael Ma says as he defects from Conservatives to Liberal government caucusMa’s move comes weeks after publicly opposing a Liberal budget proposal and attending a Conservative holiday party.

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the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror. i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.

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