Category: Angst
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A New Dawn
Should humanity continue?
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Epiphany
How many of the “do your research” blowhards figure they’re clever because a mobile device game told them their IQ is over 140 because they can free Santa from a rock slide by matching gems? This is somehow so much worse than “my mom thinks I’m cool”.
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Legit businesses hate this one trick…
This article from The Verge talks about how disastrous it would be if developers are forced to ask content creators’ permission to use their Intellectual Property – eg. their WORK – to train generative algorithms. https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter If paying for the right to use legally protected content is a step too far, then surely to goodness…
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School’s Out
I was going to make this big ranty post about the SK provincial government’s attitude toward education, citing the absolute farce of our premier scolding school divisions for instituting or increasing school fees for parents while at the same time his government has been underfunding primary and secondary education (and likely post-secondary as well) for…
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Separate and Distinct?
The Premier of this province has been bumbling around, talking about how his party wants to create a distinct “nation within a nation” in Saskatchewan, and that they want to somehow create a more autonomous province. There’s media out there today about how a good chunk of folks who live in Saskatchewan think that’s a…