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Jerzy Jarmasz
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Oh hey, just another Twi***r refugee trying out this new Masto thing... Learning to live and get along in Crawford Purchase Territory.
I had reason to bring up McDermott's (1976) classic "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity" in a work meeting today, and I have to say, it still holds up astonishingly well... https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340
Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity | ACM SIGART Bulletin
As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward ...
Why was he elected to the Royal Society in the first place?? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/17/royal-society-elon-musk-resign-science-fellowship-tesla
Leah McElrath“Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist…was educated in a southern African city [in the former German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia] in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated.”
More about the roots of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk:
How the roots of the ‘PayPal m...
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theserfstvCan't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
The Tyee“There is a litmus test for progressive professionals: Are you willing to pay more so your waitress doesn’t have to struggle to feed her children, or your janitor can put a roof over his family’s heads, or your Uber drivers doesn’t have to juggle so many part-time jobs that they hardly see their kids?”
A-Dub 🥝the conservative government of Ontario just introduced the extremely obnoxious Bill 242 today, which will further criminalize unhoused people. it deserves to be 🛑 STOPPED COLD 🛑 because fuck, where are unhoused people supposed to go when there's no housing for them?? certainly none is forthcoming from the province!
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1005857/ontario-taking-action-to-protect-parks-and-public-spaces
As a gauge of voter sentiment and values (rather than party platforms) one thing that is very stark in yesterday's results is the polarization between urban and rural voters. That's something we really need to pay attention to. This is not a new rift in Canada but I don't see anyone working to heal it yet...
The one riding in Toronto that didn't go Liberal? York Centre decided to elect Roman Baber, who was removed from his provincial duties for being too extreme for DoFo. Good lord...
Canada might have dodged a bullet last night, depending on your perspective. But remember: any time fascist views are platformed as legitimate party platforms, that's already a loss for everyone.