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Review finds intimate partner violence deaths preventable, calls on B.C. to do more
The report, which echoes calls made by previous reviews and advocates, highlights the failings of the current system to identify and prevent cases of intimate partner violence prior to the victim's death, and the outsized toll of this on women, Indigenous people and rural communities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/intimate-partner-violence-death-review-b-c-9.7178826?cmp=rss

CBC Canada Apr 27

CBC Newfoundland & Labrador Apr 24

His language was lost. His worker was drunk: Inside Kirby Mistenapeo's time in care
The lawyer for the family of deceased Innu teen Kirby Mistenapeo says child protection officials in Newfoundland and Labrador were aware that his primary caregiver was drinking on the job — one of the many alleged systemic failings raised on Thursday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/kirby-mistenapeo-innu-inquiry-9.7174690?cmp=rss

CBC Canada Apr 21

Investigation into deaths of 6 Innu youths shows how the system failed them, inquiry hears
A report into the deaths of six youths from the Mushuau Innu First Nation between 2015 and 2020 has found 12 systemic failings — from placements in faraway group homes, to the persistent problem of gas sniffing in their home community.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/innu-child-protection-inquiry-death-investigations-9.7172178?cmp=rss

CBC Top Stories Apr 21

Broken dreams, failed systems: Innu child protection inquiry hears details of death investigations
A report into the deaths of six youths from the Mushuau Innu First Nation between 2015 and 2020 has found 12 systemic failings — from placements in faraway group homes, to the persistent problem of gas sniffing in their home community.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/innu-child-protection-inquiry-death-investigations-9.7172178?cmp=rss

WIST Quotations Mar 9

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Poem (1980), “A Warning To My Readers,” A Part, ch. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82608/

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Berry, Wendell - Poem (1980), "A Warning To My Readers," A Part, ch. 3 | WIST Quotations

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is…

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WIST Quotations Feb 14

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct.

[Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations

We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct. [Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.] First appeared in the 5th (1678) edition. (Source (French)). Other translations: We attempt to Vindicate, and value our selves upon those Faults…

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Karlheinz Agsteiner Aug 14, 2025

Tried to create a venn diagram of LLM vs human features.

Turns out that much of what we have in common is our faults. So probably it's not AGI what we'll have but AGU - artificial general unintelligence 🙂

Here's my diagram.

More thoughts on why I believe AGI, trying to get AIs to get our intelligence, might not be a reasonable direction in my blog:

https://agsteiner.neocities.org/Blog/002_agu_en

#llm #agi #alienIntelligence #failings #agiIsOverrated #ai

the roamer Aug 11, 2025

Will we ever get this sorted?, he asked, almost crying. It's such a mess. We aren't really equipped to do this, are we?

Oh, no, we never will sort it, she said, smiling. And we are really, really bad at it.

No one ever succeeds. Stop fussing. Here, have one of my Rotis, fresh from the pan.

#vss #imperfections #failings

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ThePfromtheO Jul 8, 2025

"#JamieZawinski has #repeatedly said:

Now hear me out, but What If…? #browser #development was in the hands of some kind of #nonprofit #organization?

In my #humble but #correct #opinion, #Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

#Building THE #reference #implementation #WebBrowser and
Being a jugular-#snapping #attack #dog on #standards #committees.
There is no 3."
"Perhaps this is the only #viable #resolution."

"#Mozilla, for all its many #failings, has #invented a lot of #amazing #tech, from #Rust to #Servo to the #leading #budget #phone #OS. It shouldn't be trying to #capitalize on this #stuff. Maybe 3encourage it to have semi-independent #spinoffs, such as #Thunderbird, and as #KaiOS ought to be, and as #Rust could have been."
"But #JamieZawinski has the only #clear #vision and #solution we've seen yet. Perhaps he's #right, and #Mozilla #should be a #nonprofit, #working to #fund the one #independent, non-#vendor-driven, #standardscompliant #browserEngine."