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Grant Millar

@grantmillar.bsky.social

Obsolete software developer, FOSS enthusiast, prairie socialist hoser riffraff. Proud Canadian, subject of King Charles III living/playing/working on unceded traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh,Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh,+ xwməθkwəy̓əm. Rants mine alone.

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Heather McPherson MP@heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Based on new information reported today, I again asked the Speaker to allow Parliamentarians to question the government about foreign interference and issues with the Alberta referendum. Once again, the Speaker has denied my request. 1/2

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4mo ago

If you're anti AI & making claims that some of the models under the AI umbrella are ok because they seem to be serving scientific goals, then you fell for a type of hype. One from the 2010s; stats models aren't blessed by their use in science and they can erode our thinking. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

Another is: 2️⃣ "numerical point prediction is not something we can nor should expect" from our models at all! Something that I think is completely lost on so many people sadly, especially in modern artificial intelligence hype rhetoric. 5/

Second, numerical point prediction is not something we can nor should expect. Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025), by involving prediction without any caveats, constate that they see models as fit-to-data models and not as cognitive models; they have slipped into assuming that both are of the same type. We can instead consider other forms of prediction — often not labelled as such in a formal setting — as desiderata. Numerical prediction is flimsy, theoretically inert, and often contra building the very scientific understanding we wish to nurture and support. Qualitative prediction is a different beast altogether. An informative example from the history of science is that the tides were numerically predicted for centuries before we col- lectively decided on a scientific explanation (Deacon, 2018; Hughes, 2006). Namely that the Sun’s and Moon’s gravit- ies cause tides. This latter understanding, as opposed to the precision-based numerical one that only helped us decide when the tides came in and out and by how much, is what scientific understanding is about. Gravity causing tides is a scientific explanation of the phenomenon, and it references no numerical values (Cartwright, 1983).
Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4w ago

America was told about Newsom. America was told about Platner. So you cannot keep setting down Jello with glass shards in it at the potluck and then accuse everybody else of ruining the party because nobody ate your food.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4w ago

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 4w ago

Not to be an alarmist, but alongside a war economy and a lead in unmanned warfare over us, Russia is willing to throw away hundreds of thousands of lives for nothing. Most European nations are not, and Putin knows it. We must increase our aid to Ukraine and improve our deterrence

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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4w ago

Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w ago

NVIDIA has sold about $535bn of gpus and associated gear (mostly GPUs) in the data center segment since the beginning of fy2023 (February 2022). If Microsoft only has 2gw or so, I think it’s unlikely anyone else is even close. Where are the GPUs?

onion person@junlper.beer · 4w ago

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

Matthew Bennell@matthewbennell.bsky.social · last mo.

More than 153 million digital scans of U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses and tens of millions of other IDs are for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum on the dark web. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security

A record available at this identity theft service that includes the drivers license for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is one of several high-ranking U.S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale.

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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.

Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last mo.

Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli.

Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”

Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These worker...

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Covie@covie93.bsky.social · last mo.

-It is still Lake Ontario -It is still the Gulf of Mexico -It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. -He is still a pedophile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.