Luisa Fernanda
@luisafernm.bsky.social
Drawing Artist, Writer. https://luisafernandanino.kit.com/profile Based in Montreal 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
This is such a wake up call www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr... If you are Candian and you care about the environment, the economy and the future, I urge you to use a translation app to read this column. What Carney said in the past vs whatt his government is doing today @mark-carney.bsky.social
Carney contre Carney
Voici ce que l’ancien gouverneur de la Banque d’Angleterre et envoyé spécial de l’ONU pour le financement climatique dirait à l’actuel premier ministre canadien
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When I see a useful extension, I can't hide my glee 😁
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo agoA developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...
Many announcements from the Canadian govt about defense, infrastructure, pipelines etc. I wonder where they get the money. I guess we must all start with understanding basic economics and this video was so helpful. Our countries basically own nothing, it's all a loan. youtu.be/vamgbxM-fec?...
Should you be scared of the bond markets?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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I decided that when and if I must occasionally use any of the LLMs I will develop a very detached, an almost household -appliance-instruction-manual writing "style". It's very funny. My human-speak will be reserved for humans. This is where we are.
If you are Canadian, you must be aware of the cheeky amendments they make to this law to get it passed. Write to your representatives to halt it.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2mo agoCanada’s Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. Instead of jamming it though on an arbitrary deadline, it should be debated fully. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
"I would say that my currency is more despair than rage. I think I’m good at both. But I’m really terrible at a straight love song. I’ve tried." #CourtneyLove Interviewed - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/oFSXhtB
We suffer from history amnesia, the more recent the worse.
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Caught a Lite Sneeze youtu.be/weWtRqoSUOI?...
Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape
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Shirley Strange@shirleystrange.bsky.social · 3mo ago#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge June 4. A favourite album. Choose any song from that album The Cure - Seventeen Seconds At Night youtu.be/MTew2DC1WnY?...
And yet, managers, CEOs and governments seem to blindly trust AI agents.
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 3mo agoAs older tradesworkers retire, apprentices face burnout, discrimination, and red tape that push many out before certification. Kunal Chaudhary, The Walrus’s regional correspondent for Ontario, examines the cost of losing a workforce Canada urgently needs: https://ow.ly/VsN950Z4X3n
This is so sad. Sometimes in my innocence I think he's doing it to placate AB and it's a genius move but my realist self says, nope. He really doesn't care about climate at this point. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @mark-carney.bsky.social
Canadian prime minster Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein
While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving on
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Why do Canada Post’s deficits trigger calls for privatization while military spending gets framed as investment? Writer David Moscrop explores how the language we use around public institutions shapes what Canadians believe is worth preserving. https://ow.ly/pvAk50Z1UPk
"While we’ve been critical of the industry at times, after getting to know Sam and the OpenAI team, what stood out most was their openness to feedback and commitment to getting this right. " 😂 After reading @ronanfarrow.bsky.social I don't think so. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
OpenAI Gets Into Media, Buys Streaming Business Talk Show TBPN
The red-hot streaming show features newsmaking interviews, with a heavy emphasis on tech. Now they will do it for OpenAI: "The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us."
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So @adobe.com creative cloud is having major issues, I can't even create a miserable social media post for work. I wonder if they deployed some AI code that brought everything down? #aibubble #aicode
This is hilarious and terrifying theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... An ai agent submitted some code to an Open Source project, got rejected by a human developer, then the ai proceeded to generate a hit piece on him. The comments though.. wahh. who are people, who are bots?
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre fully and unequivocally supports the US–Israeli war against Iran. Interim NDP leader Don Davies condemns the war as illegal. Writer Wesley Wark examines the widening political fracture: https://ow.ly/MeR950Ys7qP
It's been a while since I checked the Notion home page and I found this... Meet the night shift. Then the day shift comes in and has to fix everything. Ugh. Get AI out of here.
“Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” will be published Tuesday by @mitpress.bsky.social; hardcover proceeds benefit EFF. Get your copy today! www.eff.org/Privacys-De...
Privacy's Defender
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetEFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s
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💎 Dans la dernière newsletter on raconte pourquoi l'industrie numérique est très friande de matériaux extrêmement purs et des conséquences écologiques. Mais aussi : → L'effet domino de la pénurie de mémoire vive → Le pire Windows → Des sucettes électroniques jetables buttondown.com/LimitesNumer...
Limites Numériques #22
Ce mois-ci on parle pureté de matériaux, de représentation écologique, de l’impact de l’IA sur le marché de la seconde main, et toujours le meilleur et le...
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"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"
There's a Grim New Expression: "AI;DR"
The slang is a sign of how overrun the internet is with AI slop — and how the real humans using it are fed up.
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Kim Gordon has shared a new song, titled ‘DIRTY TECH’. You can watch a video for the song, made by director Moni Haworth, here: buff.ly/fVAJrcB
