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brianpeiris

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  • New Brunswick MLA Bill Oliver forgetting to remove the AI prompt from his speech in the legislature.

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  • The Internet is changing again?

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  • The Internet is changing again?

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  • The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

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  • I think we have to do both. Bans/restrictions to prevent immediate harms (or at least attempt to), and regulation to prevent future harms.

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    Human rights group Amnesty International calls out Meta's 1GW data centre project in Sturgeon County

    www.ctvnews.ca /calgary/article/human-rights-group-amnesty-international-calls-out-meta-data-centre-project-in-sturgeon-county/

  • Georgia families face losing their homes to make way for AI data centers: "It's theft"

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  • I'm surprised they ran this, and left the YouTube comments open. I'll take what I can get.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Georgia families face losing their homes to make way for AI data centers: "It's theft"

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • I kinda agree with this, except the machine learning field should bear some responsibility for begetting LLMs. In particular, they got very used to the idea of scraping the internet for huge amounts of data needed for all types of models, and paid less and less attention to how much energy their training and inference was costing versus the value the models were providing. The seeds of the problems with LLMs existed before they landed on the scene.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • In case you didn't hear, Bun was acquired by Anthropic.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • If the Zig community carves out a territory of principled engineering like this, I may adopt it as my primary language and make a career out of it. Finally an island of sanity in a sea of slop.

  • Canada’s Insane Immigration U-Turn Explained - TLDR News Global

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  • I appreciate you saying that. It's all good.

  • Canada’s Insane Immigration U-Turn Explained - TLDR News Global

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  • No wonder so many of them turn to crime.

    I agreed with you until this point. What percentage of them "turn to crime"? Is that percentage higher than non-immigrants? My guess is that it's a negligible fraction.

  • Canada’s Insane Immigration U-Turn Explained - TLDR News Global

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  • This was one of the key points in the video. Their source is a TD Economics report, which in turn references a report from The Institute for Canadian Citizensihp:

    The Institute for Canadian Citizenship’s Leaky Bucket 2025 report shows that onward migration is highest among immigrants with doctoral degrees, strong earnings potential, and experience in management, ICT, engineering, and science based occupations. Within five years of entering Canada, highly educated immigrants are more than twice as likely to leave as lower skilled immigrants.

    https://economics.td.com/ca-silent-brain-drain

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    Canada’s Insane Immigration U-Turn Explained - TLDR News Global

  • Meta: Hey mods, can we un-pin the posts? They're old now.

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  • Awesome, thanks very much. If you get in trouble, you can pin it on me :)

  • Meta: Hey mods, can we un-pin the posts? They're old now.

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  • Hi TootSweet. Hope your health has improved. Any chance you could still un-pin these old posts? As you said, I think it just needs a mod to take action, instead of waiting for consensus.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    British Columbia 'preparing legal action' against OpenAI in wake of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/bc-attorney-general-legal-options-tumbler-ridge-9.7261071
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    B.C. 'preparing legal action' against OpenAI in wake of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/bc-attorney-general-legal-options-tumbler-ridge-9.7261071

  • Oops, there was downtime

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  • Thanks for letting us know, and for your steady maintenance. I'm really happy with how fast and stable lemmy.ca has been for many months.

  • e-7389 - prohibit arms going to the USA and Israel

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  • Thanks for sharing this

  • South Korea unveils $880bn chip and AI investment plan

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  • Oof, they're going to be in a whole lot of pain after the burst. Hopefully they can reverse course mid-way.

  • Exhibit on displaced Palestinians set to open at human rights museum amid criticism

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  • Genuinely considering a trip to Winnipeg to see the exhibit and support this museum. I hope other people do to and that it stays up for a long time. In fact, I'm going to donate to the museum right now.

    From another article:

    Charles Levkoe, a member of the Jewish Faculty Network, an advocacy group made up of Jewish academics and scholars, called the controversy surrounding the exhibition ironic, given that it hadn’t yet opened to the public ahead of the protest.

    Levkoe said one of his fellow members was part of the consultations for the exhibition and provided regular updates to the group.

    “As Jews, as members of the people that have experienced lots of discrimination and persecution over the centuries … I think as a group we collectively were very excited about it, because we know how important it is for people who’ve been marginalized to tell their stories and have their perspectives heard,” Levkoe said.

    The story of the Nakba is not often told because of its controversy, but Levkoe did not expect the exhibition to be the subject of such backlash.

    “It’s like this knee-jerk reaction to just try to shut this thing down without even saying, ‘Well, let’s give it a chance, let’s see it first,’” he said.

    https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/06/26/protesters-denounce-controversial-exhibition-at-rights-museum

  • Conservative MPs launch fundraiser for LGBTQ2S+ refugees

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  • I think it's important for progressives to support this kind of signal in the conservative party, because the alternative is regressive back-sliding into bigotry. If we can reinforce a baseline of acceptance in Canada, that's always going to be a good thing, because it means that we can reach even higher as progressives.

  • Canadian energy minister plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

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  • I would have been happy about this, since I generally support nuclear over the fossil fuel alternative, but I fear they're only doing this to satisfy the AI data centre craze. Though I suppose when the bubble pops, we'll be left with cheap abundant energy. The question then becomes; how much damage will data centres do before the pop.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    "After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next" - Richard Campbell - NDC Conference Keynote 2026

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    Saturday, June 27th - Canada-wide protest against hyper-scale, generative AI data centres

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    Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

    www.reuters.com /technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
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    What's behind the growing backlash towards AI data centres?

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796
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    Magnifica Technologia: Seven key takeaways from Canada's new AI strategy | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

    www.policyalternatives.ca /news-research/magnifica-technologia-seven-key-takeaways-from-canadas-new-ai-strategy/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    "I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me"

    fortune.com /2026/06/02/ai-bubble-history-railroad-crash-1873-pulitzer-liaquat-ahamed/
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    Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety

    www.nbcnews.com /tech/tech-news/florida-sues-openai-sam-altman-saying-put-profit-safety-rcna347602
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    'Use your brain': Hundreds march in Vancouver against AI data centre expansion

    vancouversun.com /news/ai-data-centre-protest-vancouver
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Education as Canary in the Coal Mine: AI and the Institutional Restructuring of Human Judgment

    web.archive.org /web/20260522155601/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/education-warning-sign-ai-restructuring-human-robert-atkinson-qhm6c/
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    Professor rejects exam results amid AI cheating allegations at Western University

    www.ctvnews.ca /london/article/professor-rejects-exam-results-amid-ai-cheating-allegations-at-western-university/
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    Professor rejects exam results amid AI cheating allegations at Western University

    www.ctvnews.ca /london/article/professor-rejects-exam-results-amid-ai-cheating-allegations-at-western-university/
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    Get your Vitamin B12, friends - "Woman died after vegan diet made her delusional"

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c62d0z7l4rno
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    Get your Vitamin B12, friends - "Woman died after vegan diet made her delusional"

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c62d0z7l4rno
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    The Time Bomb Went Off: AI's All-You-Can-Eat Era Just Ended in Real Time

    www.thestateofbrand.com /news/ai-subscription-price-subsidiation-ending