Notices by Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)

@evan “yes, but it will be in Alberta” 😉

@ai6yr when people confidently assert that fears of AI causing a mass extinction event are overblown, I think they’re overlooking this sort of thing as an extremely plausible scenario.

The risk of hyper-competent AI systems autonomously wiping us out seems low, but the risk of incompetent human operators making catastrophically bad choices based on the *assumption* that AI systems are hyper-competent seems to be growing day by day.

@evan noice

Listening to CBC podcasts that describe the battle for Canadian sovereignty with accuracy and clarity - each of them brought to me by Google AI, which is doing great things for Canadian businesses.

@evan is it a rupture? A war? Really?

What are we even doing here?

We can invite the world to help us build pipelines, poison the atmosphere, reneg on our commitments to #climatejustice , shred our social safety net to pay for weapons in order to assert our independence from the US, but we can’t *imagine* a future where our digital spaces aren’t colonized by US billionaires.

Our Prime Minister is on fuckign *YouTube* telling us how it’s gonna be.

So angry rn.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mick/117246817565971375

Honestly, this is insulting and infuriating. It’s been every episode of The World This Hour, Front Burner, Two Blocks From The Whitehouse for a week or more.

*Every* pre-roll ad! The #CBC fully attached to the adversary’s teat. It’s embarrassing.

I can’t even @ these people on the Fediverse to tell them how disappointing they are, but I can find them on X or YouTube or Instagram wtf.

This needs to change.

@aral idk about this one.

By the same logic every site on the Internet could be disrupted by a call to the CEO of ICANN, which is a US-based organization. Or knock out the entire .de TLD with a call to IANA.

Diversify everything away from US organizations, sure, but AWS and Microsoft are real threats. Trump has these CEOs on speed dial and they can’t help but jump to kiss his orange ass at every opportunity.

By contrast, it’s not clear that anyone at the ISRG would even return his call.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/117174909209167949

Two things are true here:

1 - a special paramilitary police force has been deployed across the US which has detained a critic of the regime, which is a disturbing step on the path towards autocracy

2 - in this *particular* case, this is very, very funny

@evan Kind bars are basically inside-out chocolate bars.

Making it easier to see the peanuts doesn’t make it less full of sugar.

Filing under “granola bars.”

It’s hard to say from in the midst of it, but it seems possible that when the dust settles and historians are looking back on this moment, #Trump will be remembered as the person most responsible for hastening the global transition away from fossil fuels.

The injury his stupid war has done to the global oil market is looking more and more likely to be fatal. 🤞

With luck, he’ll bear this epitaph as a curse, as it is intended.

“Here lies history’s most-useful idiot.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116859882067989585

The last time we saw a convoy of Russian vehicles this long run out of gas they were failing to take Kyiv.

Nothing but the cutest kind of trouble. 🥰 #dogsofmastodon

As long as we’re age-gating social media, I really think we need to do something to protect the boomers from whatever the fuck Facebook has become.

“This week, The Times has been reporting on the push by some Canadians to have their province breakaway and become its own country.

For decades, this was kind of a fringe idea, but polling shows that now, roughly, a third of people in that province support the separatist cause, which is set to come up for a preliminary vote this fall.”

Hearing this clownshow reported on in seriousness (even in the Friday News Quiz format) by US media gives me the fear.
https://overcast.fm/+ABJ86cp6BKU/9:11

On one hand, I think allowing the government to decide what sites Canadians are allowed to visit on the Internet might be incompatible with the operation of a functional democracy.

On the other hand, I think allowing our citizens to be radicalized by foreign actors through algorithmically boosted propaganda on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube might be incompatible with the operation of a functional democracy.

#cdnpoli

Surely we must be reaching the saturation point for Yellowstone-related media?

Said goodbye to this very good girl this evening.

I am so glad that she was part of our family these past nine years, and I will miss her so much.

Give your furry family a hug for me.

#dogsofmastodon

Fucking snowing wtf

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis/115951384277379517

Good to see Canadian politicians laying claim to Canadian digital spaces.

This is what leadership looks like.

#elbowsup #canada #fediverse #LeaveXca

@mike @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty hey @dansup are you taking requests?