AI can't create anything new. Based on its statistical model it can come up with variations we've never observed before. This might feel like it's new, but that's it. It is fundamentally conservative. It has no imagination or creativity for truly novel insights that will take our humanity further.

As an Indigenous person this is not a valid question.

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Also, transnational highway systems into the Arctic.* --- *I understand the technical difficulty there, and it's a "two-way street" as they say---bringing in new problems more easily as well as lower cost groceries, but it might still be better than China or Russia gaining greater influence maybe?

Anyone wanna get this for me for Christmas?

I know you "need" this Christmas Winter Holiday themed pirate constexpr long sleeve shirt! jason-turner-shop.fourthwall.com/products/con...

What Black owned business(es) are you supporting for #BlackFriday? I just bought some swimsuits from MBMSwim.com for my upcoming vacay.

If you go to CBC Radio, Rich Terfry is doing a 1 hour deep dive (starting at 5pm MT) on Susan Aglukark's music. If you miss it, you can change the website setting to PT and catch it an hour later, otherwise I think it's played again on Sunday?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Elk Wolf Raven Grizzly Human

Authoritarians typically neither like science nor scientists We are seeing this everywhere So, fighting for science is also fighting for democracy www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The feds have the money to dirty our drinking water. Where's the money to clean it?

A lawyer representing First Nations in a 2019 lawsuit against the federal government says his clients may take legal action to force Ottawa to reintroduce legislation to give them clean drinking water.

After figuring out the continuation constructing paradigm, I now see it everywhere. Not just computing, it's fundamental to expressive composability / compositionality which is something that shows up in all aspects of existence.

Earlier this month, the ITK denounced the federal government for not renewing funding to eliminate the disease in Inuit

I haven't yet overhauled my library with this new constructive paradigm. I have one design consideration left: My facades currently take a pointer to their respective models. My new design takes a pointer to the model's array. It means all facades now have the same C++ type. What are the tradeoffs?

world's first direct quantum observation of a bench

It’s why I’m excited for initiatives like what’s being undertaken at @socarxiv.bsky.social We need to rethink the submission pipeline, close the cracks, and raise the bar. Knowledge production & dissemination is our species’ holy grail of progress and we can’t lose it to slop

Do narcissists enjoy watching star trek?

I finally get to shovel today. Two houses in fact. My landlords want me to do another of their rentals. I'm 2 months out of shape (2 months out of work), but I still have some muscle left after my 3 month extreme data entry job. Building muscle during data entry is what made it "extreme," haha.

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. With @adn.com

After all these years I'm finally learning how to do object oriented programming in a good way. (self-taught)

[cctmp] I've refined my method equip paradigm. The first image (left) is the original paradigm, the second image (right) is the refinement. In particular it is now a paradigm for constructing compile time containers in my library for which there are three: { array, vector, concord } 1/10

the funny part is that internalising this properly *actually is the thing that makes you no longer be susceptible to the pareidolia* understand its function properly *so that you can correctly identify when its function is not aligned properly with your will as its operator*

Picard engineering tip: Don't allow the computer to push you around. Let it know who's boss.

I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.

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Strong young women who want to protect others from sexual assault- the shame and accountability belongs to the perpetrator. These young women deserve all our support! www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

[quote:] The North consistently poses high numbers of police-reported intimate partner and family violence. According to the Status of Women Council of the N.W.T., in 2020 the rate of sexual assault in the territory was 7.3 times the national rate. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

OK - just apart from anything else, how can you “permanently pause” anything? Is not a pause, by definition, temporary?

It finally snowed reasonably.

thank you to the roundabout near where I live for once again providing a physical representation of the AI economy

A lovely song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yy-...

The very definition of public service

Alt-text: graphic titled “Native Land Dispossession” shows land inhabited and stewarded by natives and land controlled by settlers overtime, top depicts Palestine/Israel and bottom depicts USA

#AcademicSky Mood

the Bow Valley Insider is hiring an “AI-first reporter” to produce ChatGPT articles about Canmore, Alberta, if anyone is looking for a low-paying job that rots your soul ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."

Locutus assimilation tip: Like you, we also started with just an Internet. Keep posting. You are almost ready for us.

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans rabble.ca/podcast/the-...

Who's Madeline?

One way to fight fascism is to not let it take away our sense of hope. Our sense of wholeness and our sense of humor. This Thanksgiving, amplify Indigenous creators. Watch my friend @joeycliiiiiift's short film POW! Hilarious, radical and real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTu...

BC says Carney ‘has to fuck off’ with pipeline plan from Alberta www.biv.com/news/carney-...

AQHI where I am: 10+ (very high risk; the scale only goes to 10)

[cctmp] Productive day. I have 4 major containers in my library: { literal, array, vector, concord } By reshaping my method equip paradigm (model, facade, lens) just a bit to be more naturally composable I've cleaned up these containers in a way for which I'm finally happy. I've even found 1/7

I used to host an extremely weird nightly show called ZeD and I 💯 agree with this post.

Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.

"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."