Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere
in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle
I just made the loudest involuntary sound
Many people don't understand but the billionaires tax you every day by overcharging you and underpaying you
You controlling the Government via democracy and taxing and controlling the billionaires is the way of balancing this
In the last 50 years that balance has been destroyed
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.
Baiting! What does that even mean? If you are conspicuously doing something that the police don't think is an "Anglo Australian" thing, then you must be doing it maliciously? Stefanovic is an unabashed racist and should be sacked. Minns failed for even answering that question, disgraceful.
#auspol
So much of the creeping surveillance infrastructure has been predicated on a (foolish) assumption that the US would never become an authoritarian state.
As the US becomes an authoritarian state those that were nonplussed about the panopticon being built around them may change their stance about it.
Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent.
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
It is 2008 and Ds' are campaigning on codifying abortion rights 2012 and Ds' are campaigning on codifying abortion rights 2016 and Ds' are campaigning on codifying abortion rights 2020 and Ds' are campaigning on codifying abortion rights it is 2026 and Ds'
M4A would make Abortion Rights accessible
If this moves forward, federal workers caught up in a future reduction in force could lose their ability to challenge whether their firing was fair, lawful, or politically motivated.
This matters because these protections exist to keep the civil service fair and based
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
"the most widely accepted definition of the working class"
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
Someone needs to put on her big girl pants
Also! Modern management values data over a lack of data and more importantly and dangerously *even when that more data is incorrect or has errors*.
Bureaucracy will value more incorrect data over no data at all.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
This is lunacy & a move to destroy any possibility that tourists will ever come to the US. Disclosing 5 years of social media history as requirement to simply visit the US as a vacationer is insane👇
Paddy Power and Betfair to pay £2m settlement after failing to protect users.
Companies exploit/encourage addiction.
Puny fines are just another cost of doing business.
Nothing will change until execs personally fined and prosecuted, exploiters shut down.
First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?
Again, the secret ingredient was crime.
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
I went to a dinner with the AI Minister and I read a paper on Lovelace Institue --- a proposal from Tony Blair's Institute on how we could fund breakthrough science better. And I wrote that all up into one incoherent mess for you to enjoy. tomforth.co.uk/nationalpurp...
'An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the Russell Group university “does not have appropriate arrangements in place” for managing workplace stress and was unable to demonstrate that it is managing the risks associated with excessive workloads.' 1/2
We've noted this via student work too: a ref that looks dodgy; a search shows that it doesn't exist; but it has multiple (50, 60+) citations in Google scholar. Really poor scholarship.
Around 70% of COVID transmission also from schools. We urgently need clean air and are living with unnecessary infections.
The McSweeney article is good but I did LOL at the assertion that he "travelled to Camden", given previous-mentioned locations in the article include Lambeth and Millbank. Eg Brixton (where Lambeth Town Hall is) to King's Cross (in Starmer's constituency) is 17 mins on the tube. 9 whole stops!
