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improvingwetware.bsky.social
@improvingwetware.bsky.social
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Software developer, will code for money.
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Yeah. Like BC. And Indigenous folks. And anyone who cares about climate. And anyone who isn't focused on corporate profits.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
Only Nine months to show results, what could possibly go wrong?

Genesis Program www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/25/w...
White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots
Today’s hot story is the latest executive order from the Trump Administration: “Launching the Genesis Mission.” The plan is to fabricate science with chatbots. [White House] The order just says AI,…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
Thoughts about the F35 program from Marcus Ranum back in 2019, looking at the challenge of developing a "logistical management system for an aircraft like that is a non-trivial thing"

freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/...

There was an update this year freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2025/...
In 5 Years There Will Be Moaning and Wailing
I’ve set a reminder in my calendar and I’ll do the googling and analysis so you don’t have to. Assuming we all survive, that is.
freethoughtblogs.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
Hey everyone, this is weird! Why would the astroturfing campaign pulling Danielle Smith's strings be based outside of Alberta?

It's almost as if we have external enemies trying to weaken Canada, the same way Russian influence campaigns drove the UK off the Brexit cliff...

🤔
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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hbcompass.bsky.social
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
This is not the first time that Deloitte has been caught using generative AI to generate references to support their arguments. Any organization that has a report from Deloitte should do a careful review and rethink using Deloitte.

theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
You are not paranoid if they* are really out to get you.

* Where they means the various airborne diseases that are currently circulating

So yes, wearing a mask ever since COVID was first announced and have no plans to stop masking
taniaspencer.bsky.social Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 3d
"Maybe they know that, despite the strong case for upgrading air filtration & establishing indoor air quality requirements, this has not been done, & masks are an easy-to-implement, effective layer of protection against pathogens":

Via @bcschoolcovid.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
A Mental Health Professional’s Perspective
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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merlinofcanada.bsky.social
If you needed any more proof that @ABDanielleSmith & the #UCP are not bright enough too govern here it is.
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
No surprise here ... "Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The walls are closing in on those responsible for the worst medical error in history. There's no denying it was a mistake when they let their egos reject the advice of people who knew better, there's no denying it killed an enormous number of people.

Current WHO ADG: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
DER SPIEGEL: But even the World Health Organization didn't take the spread via aerosols seriously and didn’t issue a warning about it until the autumn of 2020 … Farrar: Yes, you are right, that was a very big mistake. We could have prepared better if bigger decisions would have been made around aerosols, around face masks, around the best treatment options, personal protective equipment for nurses, doctors, about the capacity for intensive care units. That would have saved an enormous number of lives. On the video call, tensions rose. At one point, Lidia Morawska, a revered atmospheric physicist who had arranged the meeting, tried to explain how far infectious particles of different sizes could potentially travel. One of the WHO experts abruptly cut her off, telling her she was wrong, Marr recalls. His rudeness shocked her. “You just don’t argue with Lidia about physics,” she says. Morawska had spent more than two decades advising a different branch of the WHO on the impacts of air pollution. When it came to flecks of soot and ash belched out by smokestacks and tailpipes, the organization readily accepted the physics she was describing—that particles of many sizes can hang aloft, travel far, and be inhaled. Now, though, the WHO’s advisers seemed to be saying those same laws didn’t apply to virus-laced respiratory particles. To them, the word airborne only applied to particles smaller than 5 microns. Trapped in their group-specific jargon, the two camps on Zoom literally couldn’t understand one another. Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
This appears to be a hint that OpenAI knows that the result of Generative AI queries are not guaranteed to be correct.

OpenAI limits the statement to "tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice" but realistically it applies everywhere.

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
Forget the F35 "It is the infamous Avro Arrow moment repeating itself. [...] Canada built one of the world’s most advanced interceptors, [...] But Washington didn’t like our independence, and a spineless Conservative government scrapped the entire program."

substack.com/@anneward1/n...
Anne Ward (@anneward1)
Very well said. From the post (additional emphasis mine) … “The Ghosts of the Avro Arrow This entire scenario feels like a bitter historical déjà vu. It is the infamous Avro Arrow moment repeating i...
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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sobittersosweet.bsky.social
Coastal First Nations say the federal government hasn't been talking to them about Alberta's pipeline proposal, despite multiple requests for nation-to-nation meetings

"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
“As the Rights and Title Holders of the Central and North Coast and Haida Gwaii, we are incredibly alarmed to read media reports about alleged negotiations between the federal government and the province of Alberta regarding proposals to build an oil pipeline to the northwest coast. “We have been very clear that we do not support this proposed project and Coastal First Nations, along with the province, have called on the federal government to uphold the tanker ban. Any discussions around an exemption to the current ban on oil tankers triggers the honour of the Crown and requires our consent. “We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press. Both the Prime Minister and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson have repeatedly stated that such a project would require the support of First Nations and of the government of British Columbia. “We have put forth multiple requests for nation-to-nation meetings with both the Prime Minister and Minister Hodgson. It is time for them to live up to their commitments and set up a respectful table that includes Coastal First Nations and the province of BC. This approach is only building mistrust, and Canada should commit to talking with us directly instead of deliberately sidestepping our communities.” On November 5, 2025, Coastal First Nations and the Province of BC signed the North Coast Protection Declaration, calling on the federal government to uphold the oil tanker ban as a matter of national responsibility and an investment in Canada’s treasured marine environment and the economic prosperity of future generations. The oil tanker ban is the result of over 50 years of advocacy from First Nations and coastal communities and is supported by federal and provincial governments of all political stripes.
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
How do we preserve local knowledge when GenAI focuses on providing the most statistically likely response from the training dataset?

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
Vibe Nuclear - AI data centers need more power, so let AI generate the regulatory paperwork - it is not as if anything bad could happen is it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l...
Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
Telling on themselves?

improvingwetware.com/society/tech...
Defeating Claude's Guardrails · Improving Wetware
Anthropic seems to have admitted that the guardrails on the Claude Code are relatively easy to defeat
improvingwetware.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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rob-sheridan.com
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Carney is awful on climate. No amount of self-delusion by his loyal fans will change this reality.
brishti.bsky.social Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 11d
Latest for @pressprogress.ca:

One day after @amnesty.org report confirmed what First Nations + doctors have been saying — that living near oil & gas causes all kinds of health harms — 🇨🇦 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social announced more support for LNG infrastructure in BC

pressprogress.ca/fossil-fuel-...
As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down
First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
pressprogress.ca
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.

"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."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
How do we learn how to evaluate the results from generative models when the buzz about the various tools is always claiming that the models produce great results?

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Evaluating LLMs · Improving Wetware
The general perception of Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT seems to be that the answers are trustworthy and reliable, even though the systems come with a disclaimer
improvingwetware.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
improvingwetware.bsky.social
The 51st state claims and the "Welcome that non-americans get" are likely to keep the Canadian Snowbird visitors to the USA low in the 2025-26 season

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump tariffs and strict US border rules threaten flight of Canada’s ‘snowbirds’
Annual migration from frigid Canadian winter to Florida sunshine could become thinner as travellers look elsewhere
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM