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Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

“…would have consumed as much power as Edmonton…” My god.

H/t to Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis for the clues from their book Rebooting AI

I’m sorry you seem so persuaded by the pod. Here are some clues from the cognitive sciences, new or nested in “recognizing, abstracting, & applying patterns…” as to why it’s facile and risks category errors to simplify what humans are doing to “recognizing, abstracting…” only. The other stuff:

Well-crafted.

AI is marketed to people who can't get their way out of a jam in an '80s sitcom

Much like "Value(s)", this speech was studiously. . .Rorschach-y (yes, it's a word). A lot of words, but little coherence when considered as a whole. Enough coherence within parts for people of all stripes to see something of "themselves" in segments. Honestly, Value(s) is a masterclass in this.

Please post your findings when they're available. LOL.

1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

The scale-at-any-cost paradigm will not last long enough to get a single shovel in the ground for “new power plants”. Also, these companies are buying $70k chips that they can’t afford to plug in because they lose money the second they’re operational. Come on now.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gangs of masked white supremacists roam our streets indiscriminately killing civilians. But at least I don't have to hear Kamala Harris's cackle.

What does his union say?

Bootstraps and rugged individualism and whatnot.

And yet it can't "remember" in any useful way the context I gave it three prompts ago. Aside from all the damage (environmental, labour, ethical, etc.) it's just an incredibly narrow and brittle technology. Garbage, really.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.

For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.

How a Swedish Video Game Company Accidentally Molded the American Right A history on grand strategy games and far right radicalism, coming from an actual grand strategy gamer.

This is an exquisite piece about something I know absolutely nothing about. Worth paying @ettingermentum.bsky.social

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

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(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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I also must recommend David Gerrard at www.pivot-to-ai.com , who really does yeoman's work. Merchant had the heavier lift, with Blood in the Machine, but there's a bit grassroots effort to throw sand in the gears of this fascistic tech known as "gen AI".

Ridicule as praxis!

I’m also seeing these tactics and failures at work continuously. Such a great book, this one! More than once (at work, to my team) I have said something like “the reason I ridicule it [our “AI tools”] so much is because it’s ridiculous.” I vaguely recall it being from Hanna and Bender.

"Traumatizing" them. My goodness.

Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference | The Walrus How far are we willing to go to preserve our relationship with the US?

As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets?

thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

To search the database for your own work and file a claim, see:

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Hahahahahahahaha!! Thanks for this. It took me a moment, but I lol’d.

I think you could replace "democrats" with "governing Liberal Party of Canada" in this message and it would convey perfectly how I feel most times I get challenged on my criticism of Mr. Carney's Liberals.

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.