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.
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.
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
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.
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
I got tossed out of an Alberta separatist celebration this week after asking the organizer about his group's weird US ties pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
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!
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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:
Wait a minute......tunnels are good now?????
There’s a ‘top-secret’ project beneath the White House East Wing. CNN has the details on what’s inside – and what’s coming | CNN Politics share.google/Yghz4QjdQgGX...
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.
🟣 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...
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.
not shocked that the Wall Street Journal op-ed page is running with "Hey you know what would help the affordability crisis? If workers made LESS money."
🗞️ 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...
Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has entertained a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.
But they keep telling us about the omnipotent, all-powerful, ultra-efficient of the private market in providing the things that society needs🙄🙄🙄
Oakville luxury condo project enters receivership share.google/Edud8QTTXT9G...
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
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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
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The disgusting, sick genocidal people at the New York Times are out here trying to claim that al Sharaa is like Mandela
Yes, you read that correctly. This is not satire!
A Militant’s Transformation - The New York Times share.google/9JvmEYPJVkNh...
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:
If you think about the vital government service of putting out fires, and you eventually come up with "wow, steady supply of tax revenue, we can jack up prices on these suckers endlessly," congratulations you've got a job on Wall Street for life
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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...
Israel has weaponised the Bondi Beach antisemitic massacre.
Here's an idea: don't use violence to justify even greater violence.
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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.
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...
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.