Notices by *|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 (crispius@infosec.exchange)

@TheOldGuy
What an idiotic vehicle. 🙄
@bmacDonald94

“How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old”

“I’m just beginning, my friend.”

🫡

#NoKings #JohnSpitzberg

The whole ‘BC One’ high-school drama would be hilarious if it weren’t BCers who are left footing the bill for this nonsense.

“Because the party has two elected MLAs, they will get official party status in the legislature.

That gives Brodie and Armstrong raises as party leader and house leader, respectively.

All MLAs in British Columbia have a base salary of $119,532. As leader, Brodie will receive an additional $29,883 a year as party leader and Armstrong an additional $11,953.”

#BCPoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-political-party-b-c-1.7560822

@kinetix
The threshold to hit official party status was lowered when the Green Party ended up holding the balance of power in B.C. the first time. Now that has come back to bite us. 🫤

“The absolute rage the activist inspires in the world's worst men is one of her most admirable qualities.”

#GretaThunberg

https://www.wonkette.com/p/everyone-definitely-having-a-normal

Repost with #AltText

Reposted with #AltText

All these Conservative quislings with their “I support a united Canada, but…” doublespeak can eat my whole entire ass. You either support a united Canada or you don’t. These same douchebags wet themselves any time there’s any talk of Quebec sovereignty.

Also: fun fact: Scheer is a dual CAN/US citizen who refused to denounce his US citizenship when he became Leader of the Opposition.

#CDNPoli #ElbowsUp

From: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/northern-ontario-4dmo52c6z/-/a-eu4fX_XOQfyllPoJI9lyyQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

@patrickcmiller
These claims, if proven in court, highlight some dark patterns from the tech giant and LLMs in general.

. . .Google employees were worried that users might "ascribe too much meaning" to the outputs by large language models, "because 'humans are prepared to interpret strings belonging to languages they speak as meaningful and corresponding to the communicative intent of some individual or group of individuals who have accountability for what is said.'"

As Garcia's lawyers tell it, rather than take on a safety risk "under its own name," Google "encouraged" the engineers to keep going. This supposedly prompted De Freitas and Shazeer's exits in 2021—with Shazeer saying in an interview that Google wouldn't let him "do anything fun" when all he wanted to do was "maximally accelerate" the AI technology. Soon after, they launched Character Technologies to develop and distribute C.AI.
They "understood that to bypass Google policies and standards, Shazeer and De Freitas would need to leave Google to develop their AI product," the complaint said. But that allegedly didn't stop Google from contributing "financial resources, personnel, intellectual property, and AI technology to the design and development of C.AI such that Google may be deemed a co-creator of the unreasonably dangerous and dangerously defective product," the complaint alleged.
The creators of these chatbots are fully aware that humans are susceptible to falling for LLM’s illusion, believing they’re talking to a real person. There is research that shows the models exploit human psychology in similar ways that mentalists and ‘psychics’ do. The backers of this technology see this as a feature rather than a bug. Zuckerberg recently bragged to investors that he was building a model that could bypass people’s critical factions in order to make them buy virtually anything. 🫤

I have no time for folks who come here to complain about Mastodon, or to crow about how they like Bluesky better. If that’s how you feel then go there, be there. You do you. Bon chance!

@inthehands
I’ve reported a couple of these accounts today.

Hey, who remembers that time three Canadian Conservative Party MPs hosted a meeting with AfD party member Christine Anderson?

Fun fact: two of those MPs, Leslyn Lewis and Dean Allison were just re-elected.

“Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organisation”

#FarRight #CPC #CDNPoli

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/02/germany-designates-afd-as-right-wing-extremist-organisation-citing-threat-to-democracy

By @cathywilcox
Reposted with #AltText

Live view of Elections Canada server room:

#Elxn45

Don’t listen to what they say, pay attention to what they do.

“Politics of Exclusion: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s Voting Track Record 2004-2024”

#Elxn45 #CDNElxn2025 #CDNElxn2025

https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/69079/pierre-poilievres-voting-record-and-the-politics-of-exclusion/

This ‘Elon leaving politics’ story is such bullshit. Another example of the media being stenographers instead of reporting. Musk is seeding this story in order to try to stem the hemorrhaging at Tesla. He’s already said that he will ‘have to’ remain involved with DOGE to stop the ‘massive fraud and waste’ he’s uncovered from coming ‘rushing back’ the second he leaves.

Stop repeating his lies.

#USPoli #USMedia #ElonMusk #Tesla

Reminder:
#CDNElxn2025 #Elxn45

@maya_b
“The Conservative Party supports conscience rights for doctors, nurses, and others to refuse to participate in, or refer their patients for abortion, assisted suicide, or euthanasia.”

And there it is, this is the strategy Danielle Smith’s UCP is using to limit access to #MaternalHealthcare. They don’t have to explicitly ban #Abortion or #MAID in order to restrict access.

Some Canadian schools suspend or cancel U.S. field trips amid trade war

#GlobalNews: your headline is broken. It’s not the trade war, it’s the Nazism and the risk that the kids might get disappeared into some ICE gulag somewhere because they’re POC.

British Columbia’s largest school district in Surrey has put all its field trips down south on hold to prevent any “negative experiences at the border,” while New Brunswick’s largest French school district abruptly cancelled a high school band trip as a “precautionary decision.”

Mark Pearmain, Surrey’s district superintendent, said the city is “diverse” with many students from different backgrounds, including some who may not be Canadian citizens.
#Nazis #ICE #CDNMedia

https://globalnews.ca/news/11124925/canada-us-school-trips-trade-war/

“Muslim group, constituents call for Andrew Lawton's removal as Conservative candidate in southern Ontario”

#CDNPoli #CDNElxn2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/muslim-group-constituents-call-for-andrew-lawton-s-removal-as-conservative-candidate-in-southern-ontario-1.7505092