A more direct one might be: have two groups sum a column of values on a spreadsheet. Give one group Excel and the other group paper and pencil. Then replace Excel with paper and pencil for the first group. Does using Excel make us dumber?

Privatizing airports because everyone loves the value they get from the telecoms.

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

Have any serious researchers of consciousness suggested that AI might be conscious?

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Chantal Hébert on Bill C-39: "The battle against it will not be taking place in the HOC as much as it may be taking place in the courts and on the street. You've got a trifecta of labour, FNs, environmentalists who are feeling that they are not going to be getting a fair discussion in the HOC."

lol it is NO coincidence that my list is racially and gender diverse. The people who understand the harms of something usually exist at the INTERSECTION OF IDENTITY. And yet those are the people who continue to be ignored. STOP IGNORING MARGINALIZED VOICES ON AI!!!!!!!

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

Yet more evidence that we need a public option social media platform. Free individuals and business alike from the tyranny of Big Tech’s enshittified walled gardens.

Public option pricing for auto insurance is so popular that even Scott Moe won’t mess with it in Saskatchewan. And SGI was established by Saskatchewan’s CCF government, the first explicitly socialist government in North America.

Early in Killing Eve, they note how strategic Villanelle is at avoiding surveillance cameras and disguising herself. But eventually she’s just openly killing as herself in crowded spaces. Honestly, I don’t even care. The campier the better as far as I’m concerned.

Post a meme made by you.

This information is out there now. The original site can go down, but bad actors already have it.

Faster approvals require the necessary labour, ie the public service. Otherwise, they will be poorly done.

I’m gonna make a general comment here: every person who comes into a Black woman’s mentions to say she doesn’t know her intellectual place thinks that race and gender has nothing to do with it. BUT: The decision not to consider how Black women are targeted before commenting is itself misogynoir.

Fast. Cheap. Good. Pick two. Carney is picking fast and cheap for project approvals.

What isn't surprising: work requirements are reducing coverage because of paperwork burdens What is surprising: apparently The Pitt had a storyline that demonstrated the difficulty of navigating Medicaid redeterminations