If enough Canadians contact
their local representatives, as well Mark Carney's office this week, we might be spared from this authoritarian mass-surveillance measure called "Age Verification" in Canada.

The time to fight back is NOW: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/social-media-ban-for-kids-under-consideration-in-online-harms-bill-carney/

Privacy is a human right essential to safety and democracy. If we do not fight to protect it, we will lose it.

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli

From Global News:
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour

"The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset," privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/

#NoAI #Grok #Privacy #Consent #CanPoli

A sea otter with her pup in an inlet on Vancouver Island. Photo taken during a private photo tour in May.

#photography #SeaOtters #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife #travel

Are you really expected to run five type-checkers now?

https://pyrefly.org/blog/too-many-type-checkers/

#python #typing

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585

This is more important now than ever.

Unfortunately, even Mozilla (@mozilla) recently added the Google Play Integrity API to Firefox for Android (@firefoxnightly), as part of their effort to support generative AI features.

Hoping that someone at Mozilla sees this thread and reconsiders that decision, in order to reconcile with their mission statement/values.

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious