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mélanie daigle

@asteur.bsky.social

Directing, acting, animating, writing, illustrating… ✍️ Née en Acadie, flies out of YVR A Mari Usque Ad Mare ✌️ https://melanie-daigle.com (she/her)

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Benjamin L. Clark@benjaminlclark.com · 39m ago

The use of "resurrect" phrasing and imagery is really unsettling. A human life is finite. That's OK! Death is hard, but it's something that living people must grapple with. Yes, I'd dearly love another conversation with my grandfather, but I *don't* want a zombie puppet of him. It'll never be him.

Malaclypse the Middle@malaclypse.bsky.social · last wk.

A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

For those who died and those who survived and all we list during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 20h ago

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

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My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 2d ago

Palantir wants health data. "According to its registration, Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary was interested in “areas where [the] company's capabilities & experience in improving patient care while optimizing limited health system resources match needs & objectives of the B.C. public health system.”

Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · 2d ago

The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities. Elsewhere in the world, Palantir’s health-care contracts are coming under fire. zurl.co/J0wmn

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 3d ago

As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News

Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...

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Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 9mo ago

It's notable that OpenAI lawyers tried this because it undermines the indemnification clause in their services agreement. That indemnification clause backed up by heaps of money and hubris has been key to lawyers for business users allowing widespread use of "AI"-generated content.

xkcd "entire AI industry" supported by tiny "indemnification of business users for IP infringement"
Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Sure, our plagiarism machine ingests enormous amounts of copyrighted material without anyone's permission, but it's the users of the machine who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 criminals, your honor." 🙄🙄 Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The San Francisco-based company, whose founders include Sam Altman and Elon Musk, had said its language learning models absorbed entire training sets of data rather than storing or copying specific songs, the Munich court said. Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court.
mélanie daigle@asteur.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’m convinced that our current decline started with (and maybe is best exemplified by?) the grounding of both the Concordes and the space shuttle program. Retiring technology, not in the name of progress, but because it’s not the most immediately profitable.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 7d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.