Trout in Plaid

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Ensuring people have the wherewithal to eat and sleep with a roof over their heads is a great start. But I’d take issue with the idea of basic income (or jail!) replacing the Canada Council: grants to arts organizations help pay artists, yes, but also lower barriers to access for Canadians.

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads and drilling.

Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

I suspect that I'm going to be repeating "these books are medicinal" a lot.

If we really want to make this stop, we can. We need to shut everything down and protest every day until it happens.

Nike is supplying all the masks to the ICE agents.

You know what to do.

Sad to see demolition of some of these historic buildings w/o a review of GE's report, ignoring PACAC. I spent a lot of time with the site and with reports on their toxicity for a project led by Anne White in 2020. Review by Nick Taylor for @arthurnews.bsky.social www.trentarthur.ca/news/mapping...

No offence taken, just trying to understand from all angles. 👍

Fair enough.

Do you think he should poke the bear?

Absolutely. It's a moving target. Best to try not to invite vengeance, but for now keep rolling with it.

Very good!

Canada‘s Conservative Party (their House Leader Scheer on CBC) is claiming that anything less than the complete removal of tariffs is PM Carney “failing” and “breaking his promise.”

I expect a lot from Carney, but the Conservatives constantly remind me how they’d be worse. Unserious hypocrites.

No.

Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years?

America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.

“Stop watching America like a multi car crash on an icy highway! Time for looking at this authoritarian nightmare and hoping it won’t come to 🇨🇦 is over! MAGA is here with Premiers supporting Trump regime and Alberta talking 51st State! We must act now!”

#CanadaSky

🔗 youtu.be/r0ktEoUeCyo?si…

Go Jays!

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Only 5 years ago, the world was largely co-operating to prevent a pandemic, rushing to make a vaccine that would curtail a humanitarian catastrophe. And now: genocide, disappearing innocent people, silencing media and education, overwriting history, extinguishing human rights. Who the fuck are we?

If AI is so smart, why hasn't it figured out how to run its data processing systems without using water and creating massive carbon emissions?

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same [as human cognition], because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’
— @olivia.science

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous.

What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Not a coincidence that people who think lowly of human creativity and scholarship, think highly of generative AI slop

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

Justin Ling: Pierre Poilievre is eating the NDP’s lunch. Here’s how a new leader can save the party from itself Why the party needs progressive pragmatism rather than purity tests and social media clout.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Bluesky is trending sports teams and Taylor Swift. Meanwhile the real world is wracked with pain and anxiety. What is wrong with this picture?