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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar

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Canadian elbows-up philobiblian, structural grammarist, writer, freelance editor, fibre artist, musician, in the most beautiful valley in Canada. She/her usually; will use any pronoun. BS expert, politico, insouciant, indomitable, indefatigable since 1887.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 41m

This is an excellent point. Maybe there should be different fees for law firms which use generative algorithms in their practice?

Personally, I’d rather employ clerks and students, but I recognise wanting to pay humans for human ingenuity is not a popular opinion.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 43m

As a professional editor, I fully concur.

I argue that most humans also need more than a cursory “review” for their first drafts and miss important factual errors FREQUENTLY.

ALSO we need to continue to be vigilant with algorithm-produced content.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 45m

It’s weird, how emotions work.

Everything was going just fine until my very first Great Love commented on a post and then the waterworks started.

Almost 40 years later and I still grieve the loss of that relationship.

Emotions are weird.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 59m

Like. This is common sense. Would you show the client or the court something a human had drafted and not reviewed?

Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 2h

From the Law Society of Saskatchewan's Generative AI Guidelines:

"A lawyer must review all generative AI outputs for accuracy, including, but not limited to, any legal analysis & citations to authority, & correct any errors or misleading arguments before submission to the tribunal."

#AI #Ethics

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1h

I feel you.

Ugh.

It’s the year, for me, but also the week.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1h

NOOOOOOOO

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 13h

Yeah, actually. I would. Depends when because I’ll also be gone for a while this winter.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 13h

Soooo…lemme get this straight. The Republican president is now turning his jackbooted thugs on anti fascists. Know who does that? Fascists.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 17h

FINALLY an edict of Ms. Smith’s I can fully get behind.

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/dani...

Danielle Smith announces plans to hold her breath until she gets what she wants

EDMONTON – After meeting with Mark Carney to discuss pipeline construction, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has vowed to hold her breath until the Prime Minister gives her absolutely everything she ask...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 18h

Friend, I have been to Portland. I fucking love Portland.

The only war zone in Portland is the one the government is making.

Well, that and maybe that one guy. But you have to give Ronny a little latitude; he’s a tad scrambled.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 22h

*steroid jacked up NOT PROPERLY REGULATED dairy

They also scream about not being having enough of a shipping subsidy, while our farmers have had theirs completely taken away and still manage to sell their product to international buyers but whatevs.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 22h

You mean right around the time they’d spent through 1/3 of our provincial reserves and were shooting for the fully monty?

NOT THAT I’M STILL EXTREMELY BITTER ABOUT LOSING 2B

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 23h

I’d settle for cost-effective.

Hell, I’d settle for efficient.

I never expect governments to do the right thing, because governments do not have conscience; only those forming gov’t do, and they generally only care about power.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Again, it’s more expensive to incarcerate addicted and unhoused people than it is to treat and house them.

Like. If gov’t wants to argue from a cost perspective, which they do when it’s convenient for them, they should know this shit already.

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A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 1d

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

It’s also SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE than affirming care.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

I rescind my criticism of subsidising the ag sector. Government clearly knows what it's doing. Private ownership is silly.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

really need extra education. Frankly, as long as they can count to ten and read some basic signs in English, that’s good enough. So why waste time and energy on anything more than about grade 4? Think of how much more productive folks will be if they start work at 10 instead of 15!

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

And really, government should just take over schools and post-secondary as well. Your kids will all get the same education, and if they have special aptitudes, the government can help them pick a career in government that matches their skills. Most people don’t have aptitudes, so they don’t even...

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Which when you think about it doesn’t really make sense; if the government is already providing housing and food and clothes and stuff to the people working in its factories and retail and farms, they probably can just get basic health care at government hospitals. Anything more than that though...

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Then if gov’t takes over insurance and hospitals and stuff, they get to keep the profit from that too, and they can just let doctors and nurses and whatever live in condos near their work, and as long as you work for government, you can have a basic health care allowance to pay your medical bills.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

This is a great way to reduce the obesity epidemic, when you think about it. Control the food people have access to. All you need to do is ensure basic caloric requirements are met, and Bob’s your uncle, healthy population who can work in those factories and farms and shops for EVER.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Now that you think about it, gov’t could take over retail too. Just think of how much money you’d save as a businessperson if you didn’t have to pay staff. Gov’t can house all the workers, source all the materials, and then distribute food and clothes to people as needed.

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

But you know what’s silly is letting farmers and factory workers own their own vehicles. I mean, where do they need to go, if they’re living on the farm or near the factory? Buses make more sense. Gov’t can take back all private vehicles and send people to work in buses. Good for road maintenance!

Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Hear me out here - if the farmers and factory workers all live in like apartments and condos, government can offer those bigger houses to politicians who vote the way government wants them to vote! Oh man, this is SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT!