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Software developer, will code for money.
The first way that the CBC could be responsible is to name it correctly and provide a clear definition of what they mean by "AI" - one of the Generative LLM approaches or old style "Machine Learning"
Journalists of all people should realize that precise naming matters.
Journalists of all people should realize that precise naming matters.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The first way that the CBC could be responsible is to name it correctly and provide a clear definition of what they mean by "AI" - one of the Generative LLM approaches or old style "Machine Learning"
Journalists of all people should realize that precise naming matters.
Journalists of all people should realize that precise naming matters.
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Yeah. Like BC. And Indigenous folks. And anyone who cares about climate. And anyone who isn't focused on corporate profits.
Mark Carney says hurdles remain as tensions rise over pipeline deal for Alberta
Mark Carney says hurdles remain as tensions rise over pipeline deal for Alberta
The prime minister said a memorandum of understanding with Alberta will set out "necessary conditions" for any federal greenlight to a new oil pipeline.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Yeah. Like BC. And Indigenous folks. And anyone who cares about climate. And anyone who isn't focused on corporate profits.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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...
Genesis Program www.energy.gov/articles/ene...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/25/w...
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/...
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
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/...
freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/...
There was an update this year freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2025/...
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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...
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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
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...
🤔
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...
🤔
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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
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.
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...
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
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...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
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
* 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
"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...
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
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
* 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
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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
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
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
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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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...
Current WHO ADG: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
Current WHO ADG: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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 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
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 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...
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...
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
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...
substack.com/@anneward1/n...
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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
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
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...
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
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...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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...
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
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l...
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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/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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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
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.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Carney is awful on climate. No amount of self-delusion by his loyal fans will change this reality.
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-...
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
Carney is awful on climate. No amount of self-delusion by his loyal fans will change this reality.
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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."
"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
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."
"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."
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?
improvingwetware.com/society/tech...
improvingwetware.com/society/tech...
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
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?
improvingwetware.com/society/tech...
improvingwetware.com/society/tech...