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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 4h

Yup, done that too.

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 4h

I have left voicemails and emailed dozens of times, and have only once gotten a response. When I did get that one callback from my MP, he actually *lied* to me, saying that the UK did not put conditions on their recognition of Palestine and implied that Canada wouldn't either.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 4h

Unfortunately he's about to gut the public service :(

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 4h

I have bad news for you - "sovereign" apparently means built and owned by US tech giants now :(
bsky.app/profile/blai...

blair @blairaf.com · 17h

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 5h

Going to lose my goddamn mind

blair @blairaf.com · 17h

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 12h

Wow, yeah Carney's a big tough guy when it comes to Poilievre's inane bluster, but when it comes to Trump he runs to DC and sits there meekly while the fascist uses him as a prop.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 21h

The Mark Carney government not going to comment on proposed US legislation to integrate Canadian and US border forces until Carney gets his official marching orders from DHS

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree’s office declined to comment on Langworthy’s bill calling for greater integration.

“These are legislative proposals which have yet to become law,” responded David Taylor, Anandasangaree’s director of communications. “We’ll wait for Congress to consider them before commenting.”

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 16h

I did not say that. I'm done with this conversation. Environmental regulations are there for a reason, and this Ezra Klein BS you're spouting is not interesting or convincing to me.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 16h

I agree the rules themselves are loosely defined, but it strikes me that's by design: if you're a company that isn't lying or misrepresenting your project or product, then you have nothing to worry about under the greenwashing rules.

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 16h

As for the "non-binding" and "advisory" nature of the greenwashing rules: the Competition Bureau is a law enforcement agency with the power to levy fines. That sounds pretty "binding" to me

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 16h

Regardless, you're saying on the one hand that "none of this is enforceable" and on the other saying "this creates barriers to development".

That's a disingenuous argument.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 16h

I suppose that's why orgs like the Pathways Alliance *took down their entire websites* rather than risk prosecution under the greenwashing rules you're saying give them so much wiggle room? And why they desperately opposed these rules in the first place?

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Someone uses Sora to generate a video of Sam Altman high-fiving Obama, which gets posted to truth social, leading Trump to designate OpenAI a terrorist organisation.

Then Larry Ellison takes Altman on a jetski vacation, a tragic accident occurs which only Ellison survives, etc, etc

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

HOW WILL THE AI BUBBLE COLLAPSE:

I think it'll be OpenAI running out of money to a sufficient degree that everyone whose accounts are held up by OpenAI equity can no longer keep it propped up and have to admit their losses. That's when it cascades.

what's your prediction?

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Someone uses Sora to generate a video of Sam Altman high-fiving Obama, which gets posted to truth social, leading Trump to designate OpenAI a terrorist organisation.

Then Larry Ellison takes Altman on a jetski vacation, a tragic accident occurs which only Ellison survives, etc, etc

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

The part of the bubble when lying about the size of your marketing campaign is itself the marketing campaign

Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 1d

Just called LA Metro and I don’t think this is true.

Avi Schiffmann, Friend AI founder: Largest tech campaign in LA's history
307 billboards
160 buses
500 bus shelters
$500,000

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Your government has done everything it can to hurt flight attendants and postal workers.

Yesterday you sat there while our PM laughed at Trump's jokes about murdering Venezuelan fishing boat crews.

And you've taken no material steps to stop Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Shameful.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Hello from a Canada in lockstep 👋

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d

OTTAWA – The Liberal government has given its new AI “task force” until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan that critics say leans too much on the perspective of industry and the tech sector.

Experts say Ottawa’s new AI task force is skewed towards industry

OTTAWA – The Liberal government has given its new AI “task force” until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan that critics say leans too much on the perspective of industry and the tech sector.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

There are countless other ways to approach the situation we're in, and Carney consistently chooses policy that benefits those at the top, to the detriment of the vast majority of us.

Not to mention the about-face on climate (although I never bought into the notion that he was serious about that)

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Economics is political though. Rolling back environmental regs is beneficial to certain people - primarily extractive business owners - and harmful to most others. I cannot eat this country's per capita GDP, but I will most definitely be breathing its air and drinking its water.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

With this one, Carney's another step closer to getting ratioed on a platform chock-full of Liberal Stan accounts.

It's almost like he's begging the Conservatives to take down this govt when the budget drops.

I don't see how he wins majority running on being friendly with Trump though!

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump and I know that there are areas where our nations can compete — and areas where we will be stronger together.

We’re focused on building these new opportunities.

🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

Regardless, characterizing of Carney as "trying to look after his people" is a HUGE stretch. It sounds like you agree that if Carney could get away with going further, he would!

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 1d

You should read about Bill C-2 then. Being described as Canada's version of the Patriot Act. Carney is at best trying to manage popular sentiment while he pushes us further toward the techno-fascist future that his Palantir pals dream of

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shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 1d

jfc. how many pipelines that no one needs is carney going to build?
#cdnpoli #climatecrisis #nopipelines

Insider says Mark Carney and Donald Trump discussed reviving Keystone oil pipeline

The official said Trump was receptive when the pipeline was raised as the leaders spoke about possible energy-sector co-operation between Canada and the U.S.

www.thestar.com

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