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Joshua Schwartz

@chesedgevurah.bsky.social

Interested in justice (social, corrective, distributive); practising law Erstwhile scholar of kabbalah & chasidus

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Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 22h ago

This is an example of an appropriate (& immensely beneficial) use-case for AI, which should drive policy-making choices around its implementation & development.

Marvin Heiferman @whywelook.bsky.social · 23h ago

WHY WE LOOK? Because Canada wants to leverage A.I. and digital imaging to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...

Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 2d ago

The essay’s position, like so much else related to the joke of contemporary American governance, privatizes & individualizes elements essential to a free & democratic society, which used to be performed by (somewhat) reliable institutions

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d ago

The number of dangers and the amount of work AI is already causing and will cause us is astounding. Yet we keep getting advice on how to make it work for us. FU if that is your advice.

Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 3d ago

There is a general confusion, in American legal theory, between the concepts of a "right" & a "freedom". A right entitles its holder to compel another party to do something or cease doing something. A freedom entitles its enjoyer to engage in a certain form of conduct, w/o interference from another.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

maura quint@mauraquint.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · last wk.

Respectfully, what this commentator misses is that much of romance is already algorithmic, even if it is human-generated. Any genre that puts "tropes" first reduces art creation to production and consumption. It is being scripted through you. In this way, JCO is identifying a likeness with AI.

Tara O’Connor@taraocomics.bsky.social · last wk.

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.
Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · last wk.

This is immensely wise. There is sometimes a rebuff of the premise that pain or trauma ought to be responded to with empathy. But people miss that compassion is not the same as agreement. If the goal is to help someone move forward, care is part of the process of correction.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · last wk.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have. What does “truth to pain” mean? It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it. I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability. And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live. She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
Senator Kim Pate@kpateonthehill.bsky.social · last wk.

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour all of those impacted by residential schools and continue to advocate for decolonization, decriminalization and decarceration. This day serves as a reminder that the harm caused by residential schools is profound and persists in Canada. (1/4)

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · last wk.

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · last wk.

Today, in Canada, is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Its watchword is that "Every Child Matters". It serves as a mandate toward inclusion, that ignoring the suffering of certain kinds of children & regarding them as less deserving of care & concern, is inexcusable & cannot be tolerated

Robert Zaichkowski@rzaichkowski.bsky.social · last wk.

Leave it to @graphicmatt.com to debunk Bradford’s justification for a line-by-line audit of Toronto's budget. Argues any per capital increases can be easily traced to things like opening libraries on Sundays, crisis response teams & improved snow clearing #TOpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just math

Lately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle

thestar.com

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.

Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.

Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.

nationalobserver.com