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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 1h

We've reached the part of the holidays where I loudly remind everyone that there's a word in Gaelic (uaine) for the green of supernatural things like the northern lights and glacial lakes and instant pistachio pudding

Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 1h

Thanksgiving weekend am I'm back in the ancestral part of the recipe book. The "half a big tub a' Cool Whip" part.

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 3h

a cartoon of spongebob saying victory screech

Alt: Gif of Spongebob Squarepants, arms raised in triumph and screaming with the caption "victory screech"

media.tenor.com

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 4h

This is the vision and leadership we need!

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 4h

Oh HELL yeah

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 5h

A GREAT time to really go to town on the government's AI strategy survey:
ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s.aspx?s=8...

30-Day National Sprint

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

Any other current or former methods TAs and teachers want to go in on an open letter re. the content on this survey? I have notes! And Evan Solomon's office is going to hear about them!

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

(The Teacher Of Research Methods, Doctor Sarah Faber Experience differs slightly from the Jimi Hedrix Experience)

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

Toddlers...I think they would bring a fresh perspective and would likely be better behaved in the HoC

Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

They DID get the full Teacher Of Research Methods, Doctor Sarah Faber Experience, though

"This is an ill-posed question"
"What in god's name does 'strategies for derisking and promoting investment in different parts of the AI stack' mean?!"
"Your assumptions there belie your sincerity here"

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

I would love to hear their national strategy on snacks!

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

Where I think Canada could lead the world in is developing laws to protect the environment, workers, artists, and citizens from AI-driven exploitation.

Do I think they're going to do it?

No

But you have to try.

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

What is being promised now is a real emperor's new clothes of ethical alarms and intellectual property theft in an effort to make more money for massive tech companies with the added benefit of using so much electricity, it's significantly contributing to global warming!

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

I told them the vision of having an algorithm capable of identifying things humans miss works in very specific settings, like identifying unambiguous lab reports and leaving borderline cases to human clinicians in cancer screenings.

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 8h

I really gave this the business, and so can you!

A lot of the questions are VERY "hey, person who *loves* AI, how can we, a government who *loves* AI, make sure companies who *also love* AI come to Canada to do trickledown economics?"

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a scant ten months and here we stand again. At this particular sign. Tapping furiously.

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · Dec 6

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a collection of songs in possession of some shared characteristic, must be in want of a genre tag.

But here's the thing...machines are FAMOUSLY SHIT at this

Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · Dec 6

Continuing the saga of the clear enshittification of music genres by Spotify

stank face. a Spotify created genre so fake that Spotify can't even define it

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 2d

Reject modernity, EMBRACE TRADITION*.

*Being my friend and receiving lovingly handcrafted playlists full of the most delightfully esoteric shit you have ever heard in quantities best described as 'scandalous'