Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

If you then asked AI for an etymology of "monter," IT WOULD GIVE YOU ONE.

[Kyle Reese voice]: "That's what it does! That's all it does!"

I wanted to fix all the "monters" in the e-book but our contracts with the publishers were to make an exact e-book, not a new edition of the work. So, maddeningly, I had to complete the ebook with lots of Gila monters. Cute little guys.

It's pretty impressive that 404's story put a stop to this pipeline to the wood chipper. As a former e-book production person, I just want to add some considerations about the *data* the AI companies were getting, and implications for the output.

Instead of forcing everyone who uses the Internet to cough up their sensitive personal data to private companies and to the federal government to “protect” kids, regulators and law COULD go way harder at rooting out the many freaks and creeps in high tech company leadership positions, like at Meta

so to greenlight an unbearably sad little popup plaza for a crony, a mayor's office can move mountains, but if for some decision a bureaucracy for its own mysterious reasons hides information, there's just no way such an office could intervene, my expectations are very unreasonable and naive

“With so many experienced public servants gone, is this about better services, or about replacing them with politically aligned insiders at City Hall?” - Stephanie Allen

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Programming in #Clojure on the #reMarkable, the way God intended.

(Better video and a writeup coming soon)

also it requires digital backdoors, which means not only do we lose secure private communication, but these backdoors are found and exploited by bad actors and/or abused by those with access

cryptographic experts have repeatedly proven that there is no such thing as a secure encryption backdoor

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more.

Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

They should sell $10 tickets where you just get to boo the us anthem and don't have to stay for the hockey

It's totally clear: if you care about climate action, or even just want politicians to make decisions based on fact and evidence, ABC is not the party for you. This look at ABC's climate votes is particularly humiliating for Mike Klassen.

We deserve better.

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And the follow up - addressing safety concerns:

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I have some thoughts 👇

Supportive housing exists because our systems sometimes fail people.

It’s the solution, not the problem.

And we need more of it. A lot more.

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