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Freelance information & #privacy professional in Halifax, NS. Geek, history & caffeine enthusiast. MLIS, CIPT. I work hard so my pets live the good life. @vmcntosh on the old bird site. Skeets on a little bit of everything.
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
It’s “we need a new word” level of stupidity.
Sometimes I still find myself humming Zelda’s Lullaby when I cook.
I know where I stand.
Doesn’t say. Notes that the position has been hereditary along with a smattering of bishops; no hint of the bishops are also changing.
This seems like a really big deal.
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Welcome to Canada. 😑
the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.
I think I may have cracked it
"We're going to sell intelligence," says World's Dumbest Man
Oh they're saying it out loud for everyone to hear now.
Without humanity involved in every step of the process, there is no new intelligence--just a recycling of what exists. And even more devastating? No wisdom.
It is already a utility that individual people were once paid to dispense. And now Atlman is stealing it from us to sell to other people. He's a parasite.
…. why does anyone need this again?
The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity
Remember you can hate the leaders in a war and not extend any of that to the civilians or environments involved.
Being very much not a fan of bombing communities or causing decades of natural damage does not support the attackers or the military forces in opposition.
If you are a researcher using ChatGPT Edu metadata about your research has been leaking www.fastcompany.com/91507219/cha...
Do it.
The framing around limiting the US military’s use of generative AI for domestic surveillance should unsettle the rest of the world, writes Kristina Irion. Countries seem woefully unprepared to respond to AI-enabled mass surveillance by another state.
"The Chinese will spy on you if you buy from them" no longer sounds any better or worse than US tech, tbh (except for anything connected to your actual computer or phone, including adapters and plugs, because my new rule is to have only one group spying on me at a time from a single device).
For. Fuck. Sakes.
And yet again, I will remind everyone that lawful access has *twice* been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada, and that the Liberals fought against it for fifteen years before Carney came in and suddenly they were in favour of it.
“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”
therapist: you use humor to deflect from trauma
me: so you think I’m funny
therapist: it’s a maladaptive behavior
me: what I’m hearing is I’m funny
They're calling him the most French man in history
One of the hardest things about grief, and I say this earnestly, is it takes time. Even when knowing that doesn’t help. Even when knowing if you say it to others experiencing grief, that knowledge won’t help.
It can’t be bypassed, sped through or lessened. It simply is.
Square Enix's lawyers: *cracks knuckles*
I love how proud Hazel is of her work.
We have more privacy controls yet less privacy than ever www.bbc.com/news/article...