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"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers"

I ❤️ when the titles write themselves

But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions ‘We did nothing wrong here,’ head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

When I teach, I spend what feels like an egregious amount of time on definitions for precisely this reason. Subsequent slippage also makes it easy to tell who hasn't been paying attention in class.

The poll results I posted about earlier seem to suggest that this is indeed true of the bulk of committed Alberta independence supporters. #AbLeg

Company on the wrong side of history claims they've done nothing wrong.

Genuinely surprised the Timbit was only invented in 1976

2010 autocorrect: Fiagnosis? You must mean diagnosis.

2026 autocorrect: Fish odyssey. Must be.

Welcome to the “everything stopping working” century. This must be what 5th century Rome was like.

Canada could do the funniest thing now and resurrect the Avro Arrow

Aging indie/punk people, romance people &zine people, activists ofc too, all kinds of creative & resourceful people, we're talking & having ideas & doing the thing. "Who's paying for this" wingnuts scream. LOL babe that's cute. we're used to doing something cool for no money, powered partly by spite

"The world is built on relationships, not leverage, and relationships are built on reciprocity and respect. It is not Trump’s genius to recognize America’s unused strength; it is his blindness to see that our strength was a function of our restraint."

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions ‘We did nothing wrong here,’ head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees

Brutal. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Mahon has clearly swallowed *something*.

It's time to start tracking and naming the traitors in Alberta politics. Is your elected MLA a seditionist traitor?
Check here for find out:
albertawatch.ca/en

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"...for roughly half of separatist supporters in both provinces, independence is more a political message to Ottawa than a plan they are prepared to suffer costs and sacrifices to achieve."

#CndPoli

Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1163570...

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

Haileybury Legion, North Ontario. Robbie Burns Night.
My mom had a Dutch boss. As a child he was in a bombed out farm house as the war raged.
In the early morning his family heard a strange sound:
It was Canadian pipers marching through mist bringing freedom.
That is the meaning of the pipes.

Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff over possible deal with China President also claimed US refineries will process seized Venezuelan oil, saying ‘we take the oil’

Ok, grandpa, let's get you to bed.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month

Videos from medical channels "...represented fewer than 1% of all the YouTube links cited by AI Overviews on health."

I'm sure this is fine and will not, in any way, be the subject of a massive future lawsuit.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Completely 'taking emotion out of decision-making' would leave you unable to make a decision. (Neurological studies of stroke victims provide empirical evidence of this.) Without emotion, there's no stakes and no motivation.

Plus, there are patterns in who typically gets depicted as 'emotional'.

Is this too spicy for BlueSky

Wow. Japan has included itself into the Carney Paradigm.
#CarneyParadigm
#cdnpoli

Build Canada Homes and the Outlook for Housing Programs under Budget 2025

This deserves more attention than it's getting. Mark Carney promised Canadians 500,000 new homes. Yet the Parliamentary Budget Officer reports "the contribution of Build Canada Homes will likely be modest and estimate that the program will add about 26,000 units over five years". #cdnpoli

23% of Americans want their State to separate from the USA. Alberta is polling at 19% wanting to separate. It's less separatist than: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Montana, Idaho, California, Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, New York.......

Canada Lives Because…

How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...

Chat, is it a good thing when giant companies use property controls to grant themselves a de facto monopoly in a given area?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction | CBC News NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is calling for a moratorium on data centres along with other measures in a bid to rein in emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies that he says are...

"Lewis warns the success of corporate generative AI giants like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini depend on 'causing mass unemployment.'"

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"What if your favourite celebrities are on the Epstein list?"

I can assure you neither Moo Deng nor the gay penguins from the Central Park Zoo are on the Epstein list.

✨New article out in International Studies Review✨

NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models.

doi.org/10.1093/isr/...