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Leslie @predster.bsky.social · 12d

Private AI companies are part of Build Canada and have been pandering to Carney to cut government workers in favor of AI chat bots. This isn’t about AI, it’s about privatizing government services

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12d

If it wasn’t already clear the direction AI policy was going under Mark Carney and Evan Solomon, this task force makes it clear.

The inclusion of the chair of Build Canada, whose members openly pushed for a Canadian DOGE and Poilievre government earlier this year, is just one of many examples.

Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 12d

If there was truly any conviction for the public interest, members of the AI Strategy Task Force would resign in protest for the configuration of their group.

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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · Jun 6

As Canada moves to build more energy intensive AI infrastructure, farmers are concerned data centres pose a threat to farmland and water resources. Find out why.

#ai #agriculture #cdnpoli

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As Ottawa pushes AI boom, experts warn of risks to farmland and resources

In the race to grow AI infrastructure, farmers are urging governments not to sideline farmland and food security.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · Jun 3

AI News brings up a new potential Black Mirror episode every week, if not more often.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Jun 3

A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots.

AI Startup Backed by Microsoft Revealed to Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending to Be Chatbots

A Microsoft-backed AI startup that relied on hundreds of human workers posing as chatbots has collapsed into bankruptcy amid fraud allegations.

www.latintimes.com

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Leslie @predster.bsky.social · May 8

Perhaps github.com/antiboredom/... by @lav.io

GitHub - antiboredom/videogrep: automatic video supercuts with python

automatic video supercuts with python. Contribute to antiboredom/videogrep development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Apr 11

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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Global News @globalnews.ca · Mar 26

The McBarge, a floating McDonald's restaurant from Vancouver's Expo 86 that has sat empty for decades, is sinking into B.C.'s Fraser River.
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The McBarge, a former floating McDonald’s, is sinking into the Fraser River - BC | Globalnews.ca

The McBarge served as a floating McDonald’s restaurant on False Creek during Expo 86, but has sat empty ever since. Now it's sinking.

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404 Media @404media.co · Mar 24

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 11

If this doesn't feel like fascism to you because things are still mostly normal at work and school and the vacation is still planned, congratulations you've just learned what fascism is like.

It is insidious. It will initially target only the most vulnerable — people who probably aren't like you.

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Leslie @predster.bsky.social · Feb 26

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AI has been built this way

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 5

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Axios @axios.com · Jan 27

Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.