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Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - - -The arc of the moral universe is feeling ...

"The arc of the moral universe just walked into the kitchen but forgot what it was looking for. It mindlessly opens the refrigerator as if the answer might be sitting next to the milk. All the shelves are empty."

... they suggest his decriminalization of abortion wasn't enough. His reply (effectively): grow your support. You can build your audience, or you can shrink it with stunts like this

I figured! This is obscure enough that it was once something I could find easily in CBC archives and am now struggling to: Press conference following diplomatic mission to China. Pro-choice activists interrupt, and he prevents security from removing them. ..

You sound like Pierre Trudeau

'AI' will eat itself

Haven't quite found the joy yet

Postman wore it better

Opinion | The North American Tariff Backfire Even the United Steelworkers union has called the duties ‘harmful to workers.’

“Canadian retaliation has already cost U.S. exporters. U.S. exports to Canada subject to auto retaliation declined by 53% year over year in April, and U.S. exports subject to IEEPA retaliation declined by 13% [...] But retaliation is far from the biggest problem.”

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

IRL is the killer app

Nothing beats it for anything

It's inefficient, but it works better than anything else

Everything else is a workaround

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

“To call AI a con isn’t to say that the technology is not remarkable, that it has no use, or that it will not transform the world [...] It is to say that AI is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking—and, soon, feeling—machines.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Opinion: Bus-only lanes can irritate drivers, but they help city dwellers share limited space Urban life is all about making compromises so that we share limited space fairly

Here's hoping we actually do get more of this infrastructure as the City of Winnipeg's Transit Master Plan is implemented...

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Are we still going to qualify for HAF once all these amendments are consolidated, or are we just about to kiss it all goodbye?

Measuring the motor vehicle splash zone on sidewalks when there's a heavy rain should be a factor in setting speed limits.

Of all the -isms, transactionalism is the most powerful

JC Taco on Henderson is the best in town

The Texting Network for the End of the World Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.

Meshtastic is designed specifically for sending text messages over free-to-use radio frequencies to both groups and individuals, even when cell service and internet connections are nowhere to be found.

www.wired.com/story/youre-...

I’ve said it before: companies used to be coy about the extent of the surveillance. It was always more extensive and egregious than the “bargain” suggested. But now that artifice is out the window. The thing they are explicitly selling, in fact all they have left to sell, is surveillance.

It's odd that nostalgia now includes earlier phases of the Internet

I used to be an early adopter