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the own goal of public health and medicine (sneering at the people they need to convince) is driving me squirrely -- how can folks not see that's the opposite of what needs to be done and is just worsening the problem ah well 🐿️

Canada is going to Eurovision 2027. It’s up to you to decide who takes the stage. Cast your vote by November 5. www.cbc.ca/eurovision

so much for their combined brainpower "Reuters: The winners of the elections in Serbia plan to halt arms exports to Ukraine and maintain energy ties with the Russian Federation."

defense uwu 🥰

Wab Kinew: "I support Prime Minister Carney’s work to position Canada as a global leader in human rights and democracy. The Indian Act is inconsistent with achieving that vision"

"Wab Kinew calls on Ottawa to abolish Indian Act: "I'm not sure if that lines up with your vision of Canada, that we still have a race-based form of identification in this country. It's long overdue that we have a relationship with Indigenous ppl's in Canada that reflects who we are as Cdns today."

narrative violation ... it's almost as if how it is done and the rate at which it is done matters for attitudes towards immigration and dismissing any criticism as racism isn't helpful for constructing good, broadly supported policy x.com/harry__faulk...

"Kinew tells Carney to abolish the Indian Act at meeting with chiefs" www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

@tedunderwood.com i've deleted thanks for taking the time to explain 🫡

"BC's economic engine is home to the Coast Salish people. We're business people. We talk, we make deals. We don't use words like "settler" or any of that academic language. One of our own, from a high-status family, is even in the new Conservative caucus. But the way other Tory candidates

seeing as I’m apparently a predictions genius, I wrote a longer tweet about the BC Election on Substack - and what we’ll see for First Nations affairs: substack.com/@rjjago/note...

IR theorists, what if the thing that’s worse than a multipolar world without a hegemon is a world with

security through absurdity

"You really might end up in somebody else's workplace for the worst day of your life, and it'll just be a day in their job

Buddy I can barely execute code locally if you know what I mean

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

Claude at the museum

hopefully they can keep up that pace 🫡

This is like the opposite of the “don’t worry kitten” post.

The prime number generator was totally correct, it just stopped at the first one.

I'm on the other side of this one, actually. Style counts. If people can hear modelspeak in your prose, it weakens the effect in the same way overusing clichés weakens the effect. I don't care *how* you get there, but if an editor says "this doesn't sound fresh and authentic," you have a problem.

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The AI 'Reverse Engineer Anything' craze is going to further sloppify the real world & put insecure buggy stuff on all sorts of hardware. It is also going to liberate a bunch of internet of shit devices that have been needlessly bricked by their manufacturers www.404media.co/reverse-engi...

Time traveling Yudkowsky convinced Peter Norvig to make python the AI language thereby buying humanity an extra few decades.

the man who was rescued by aerial drone yesterday: "After being seriously wounded in February, Kostiantyn lost one leg. Several months later, when gangrene set in, he had to amputate his other leg himself. Throughout all of this, he continued to hold the position alone." 🔗 x.com/gerashchenko...

every country around the world, doing their defence purchase planning -including LEO satellite internet, looking at what the US is doing right now and thinking hmmmm ...

“Fifty eight, out of date! Let our onions speculate!” 🧅 🧅🧅🧅

interesting to see the shift to corruption as a top concern welling up that focus, on everyday difficulties vs incumbents' corruption and flaunting their wealth, was key to getting Orban out. www.epc.eu/publication/...

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu : we're going to start with local curfews in select regions

"Users of Russia’s sprawling VK social network continue to report major connectivity issues today after Ukrainian drones heavily damaged one of the company’s datacenters in St. Petersburg this weekend. Slow loading speeds have made the service “unusable” for some Russian users." - Osinttechnical

am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling

Expanded on recent mini threads over the last month on why anti-globalization populism in the US may have peaked. I would like to think that Globalization 2.0 may be a “Sometimes the dustbin of history turns out to be the recycling can” phenomenon. www.ft.com/content/ba3b...

"The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) want to buy one million anti-personnel mines from domestic manufacturers (...) Preparations for the purchase began after Finland's withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention took effect in January" yle.fi/a/74-20252139

#slopcore française (français?) x.com/extraltodeus...

if you are in Calgary, Red Deer or Edmonton , pls consider donating blood 🩸 x.com/yoke_and_puc...

Generally we say “how unfortunate that this is happening under a would-be authoritarian regime in the US!” But there’s also an upside of having this conversation at a moment when we’re acutely conscious of what can happen when you let the Executive Branch make judgment calls.

⚡ Update: Ukrainian drone attack hits St. Petersburg oil facilities, damages homes and kills 1, governor says. One person was killed and five others injured, while 12 apartment buildings and two houses were damaged in the attack, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said.

vk data centre 🎯 x.com/exilenova_pl...

"Ukrainian attack drones hit a datacenter belonging to the Russian social media giant VK tonight, setting it on fire. VK's network has begun experiencing disruptions." 🔗 x.com/osinttechnic...

wonder what it takes for France's Minister of the Interior to call a state of emergency

c'est cuit youtu.be/U7k12mtqRLw

Zelenskyy on analogs for Starlink: "All of Europe has seen that it's possible to regulate Starlink connection from the U.S. independently of good will and contracts. Now Europeans are raising the question of analogs, and they're already working on it, and they will succeed. I can already see it"