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RE: @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
I emailed the bill’s sponsor (Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree) and my MP to oppose C-22. You can find the minister’s contact information here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/gary-anandasangaree(89449)#contact
Wait, people believe that‽ I thought everyone knew that layoffs destroy morale and productivity.
TIL the planetarium at the Royal Ontario Museum was closed in 1995 “due to budget cuts” when it was TURNING A PROFIT at the time.
Fucking Conservatives.
I've just finished up version 0.4.0 of Nesbit, my NES emulator for Apple platforms, with some major performance improvements and a debugger that I'm feeling very proud of!
You can try it for iPhone, iPad, or Mac at https://nesbit.app
@schwa@mastodon.social @thejacenallen@mastodon.social
I won’t argue we’re restrained. But it’s reasonable to be furious that the world is rushing into this technology that accrues almost all its value to the wealthiest while giving them cover to lay the rest of us off. That makes it harder to believe anything we see and hear. That erodes public trust and our ability to relate to each other. That was trained on the world’s collective stolen data and is now being sold back to us at a premium.
And it’s also useful sometimes.
This is maybe the least-hot take of all time but I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time and it’s _immediately_ got its hooks into me. These characters are so amazing and the voice acting is out of this world! Loving it so far. 10 hours in. Off to see the goblins after having visited the druids.
RE: @mgeist@mas.to
I emailed my MP about this again. When the surveillance state to the south says our surveillance bill goes too far…. 😬
RE: @mosgaard@uddannelse.social
@davidbragg@tech.lgbt you probably already knew about this, but just in case:
When I emailed my MP to express my displeasure with bill C-22, her office asked for my address and phone number. I replied asking why they wanted my information (especially with my opposition to C-22 being on grounds of privacy and security).
She (or I suppose someone in her office) replied it’s “for the purposes of data entry”. 🤨
RE: @craiggrannell@mastodon.social
Same. Hannah Fry is great but I took issue with the same two things:
1. Even if AI is “getting better fast,” that’s more scary, not less. See the claims about Mythos, which are terrifying (if true).
2. Personifying the agent, which I think is dangerous because it lets users shirk their responsibility for its actions. (And it’s easier for us to get fooled if we start thinking about agents and tools as human with human-level judgement and intelligence.)
I find I’m accidentally holding down my iPhone’s volume buttons _all the time_. Most of the time it’s something else in my pocket doing it (I keep my AirPods case in the same pocket as my phone).
I’m kind of floored that there’s no accessibility setting to only change volume on each click of the volume button, and not auto-repeating when the button is held down.
I filed a feedback for this (FB23913894) in case anyone at Apple sees this :)
Things You Could’ve Done With $1 Million Instead Of Spending It On Jensen Huang’s Fuckass Jacket
https://aftermath.site/nvidia-jensen-huang-jacket-auction-million-dollars-ai/
@worktree@mastodon.social hey folks, I’m having trouble pushing to my repositories and unable to find much information on what’s going on. The status page doesn’t show any acknowledgment of the outages and I didn’t see any posts on your socials either. Any updates?
Thanks! #HugOps
Unsurprised to see a new, flashy, AI-focused app completely ignore the licenses of its dependencies.
Oh, you want to ship iSH in your app? I want to, too, but it’s GPL’d!
Finally saw Project Hail Mary, and wow, the buddy movie is fun, and wow, the sci-fi movie makes no goddamn sense.
