Gabriel Murray

Canadian AI 2026 will be in Vancouver BC, and first-round submissions are due December 22.

www.caiac.ca/en/conferenc...

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

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.

Wired has a nice article about Meshtastic. It's very cool technology.

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

Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence · Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence The 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence will take place in-person at the University of Calgary from May 26th to 29th, 2025. The event will be co-located with the Computer and Robot Vis...

Thank you to everyone who attended Canadian AI last week in Calgary. The full proceedings are available here:

caiac.pubpub.org/ai2025

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.

Read more: www.wired.com/story/youre-...

The session on Explainability, Interpretability, Ethics and Safe AI is coming up soon! #canadianAI

www.caiac.ca/en/conferenc...

We're very excited to welcome you to Calgary next week for Canadian AI 2025! You can explore the full program here.

www.caiac.ca/en/conferenc...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...

"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

The American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

The Canadian AI conference is coming up soon, May 26-29. We're excited to welcome you to Calgary.

www.caiac.ca/en/conferenc...

Regardless of context or circumstances, “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires” has got to be one of the strangest phrases ever uttered by a standing vice president

Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali- tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

Join me at the TeslaTakedown The #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up t...

It's pretty wild to see what the Tesla Takedown people have built from nothing, totally organically in just two months.

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

CROW ON MST3K: He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin MacLeod!
ME AT 13 YEARS OLD: haha

I always wanted to work "driving cross country in my astronaut diapers" into a song.

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government The Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

The people carrying out Musk's plans at DOGE

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

unfortunately it looks like the only way to save human civilization is for the government to destroy all my companys competitors and also give my company a bunch of money

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Embarrassing for modern classical composers that none of them are considered as good as a guy who died in the 1700s. Like being an automotive engineer and getting smoked by the designer of Fred Flintstone’s car

Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

it is so good

The paper submission deadline for Canadian AI 2025 (Calgary, AB) is coming up on February 17.

www.caiac.ca/en/conferenc...

me walking my buddies around NYC: "this used to all be wheat fields"