MicheleV_AK
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Robert Vincent
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Computer science teacher at Marianopolis College in Westmount, Quebec. Mostly harmless.
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The New York TimesMaggie & Terre Roche’s 1975 LP Is a Revelation. Why Is It Forgotten?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/arts/music/maggie-terre-roche-seductive-reasoning.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts @arts-newyorktimes
Joshua J. FriedmanIf reducing the nation's anxiety is a new Trump administration policy goal, I have some suggestions
Meanwhile in Canada
The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.
I noticed he didn't say thank you.
Saethelred the UnreadyFaculty: can we get some more pens
Universities: we will create a task force with an associate dean acting ex officio to determine best practices re: pen acquisition and distribution and report our findings when classes resume this Fall
Government: abandon your students and principles
Universities: finished it before you were even done asking
Worthwhile Canadian initiative: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/canada/canada-eu-military-industry-trump.html #cdnpoli
Timnit Gebru (she/her).The idea that you shouldn't be expected to know what data you're using to train your systems and that doing so is "an impossible task" is so normalized that its hard to know that this was not always the case even in the field of AI.
Data theft and scraping became completely normalized, along with the exploitation of crowdworkers, with the advent of photo sharing and other platforms and others like amazon mechanical turk.
So now NOT exploiting people and stealing data is the anomaly.