Notices by May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party), page 2

This article is trying to get a conversation on "AI ethics" in product management going. It gets pretty close to the point, but without talking about overall product ethics, this notion of AI ethics is unlikely to go anywhere.

It also falls into the regular trap of relying on these corporate "responsible AI offices" to lead, and again, we know how that goes. To quote someone at Hugging Face on an article on AI ethics is hilarious.

They also cited Dr Emily Bender, but just on AI capabilities and not on AI ethics. Which is ridiculous.

Don't get me wrong, I'm always wildly excited when product people write about ethics. I just wish we could take a wider lens social-good approach to it.

https://www.prodpad.com/blog/ethics-in-ai/

#product #AI

@ireneista I think it'd be fun to give employees the first right of refusal to any sale of company assets. That'll solve the offshore tax havens problem as well.

My greatest fear is probably poverty.

Growing up poor, I decided that I never want to live like that again. I bought into the work gospel: work hard to get a degree, get a nice job, be a productive member of society.

Well, that doesn't work for anyone. You get this temporary safety buffered by income and savings. I'm not them anymore, you tell yourself. You buy nice things for the people in your life who can't afford them, but deep down, you know they shouldn't be struggling in the first place.

The deeper you look, the more you see the systemic inequity scream out at you. You put more blinders on. Make yourself feel better through philanthropy.

"What good could I do as one person?", you ask yourself, "I'm not a billionaire. I don't even own my own home. I'm not responsible for their well-being."

In Canada, the tech salaries aren't as inflated as in the US. But then I see my friends living off disability, and friends working low-waged jobs finally feel like they've "made it" at $50k (Canadian)/yr, and it's a shit job. But they can never leave it because they believe that it's the best they can get. And there they are, a decade later, still at the same pay.

The wealth gap is killing us.

You can't rest because you'll be poor.
You can't be unemployed because you'll be poor.
You can't fight for better working conditions because you'll be fired, then poor.

Nowhere in here did I even mention living. This fear overwhelms every part of our lives, that we're willing to give up more and more of it for money.

When do we live?
When do we find peace and belonging in community?
When do we find out that poverty can be defeated in community?
When do we defeat poverty?

I've been really enjoying this Katran web comic series by @JoKeR. Their art style feels so good, and the story feels beautifully whimsical with layers of complexity.

https://mastodon.art/@JoKeR/115118110689590721

Give them a follow!

@skinnylatte Thoughts on a toasted bagel sandwich?

@skinnylatte Posted at the same time:

@mcc For questions that depend on math-math, I use Wolfram Alpha. They now use LLMs to parse language and honestly their old systems worked better for the obscure shit I wanted to know.

@evan yes, but physical moderation is also critical.

@kaia I know a couple of old people who almost fell for this trick. :(

@aetios

Can you imagine what it'd be like if humans had to molt like insects? What'd we do with all our shells? Would still use clothes? Our skin would be so pristine!

@skinnylatte The Asian plaza/food court scene here is pretty solid in the suburbs. It's relatively insulated from the mainstream influencers. Do you have anything like those in SF?

I was a teacher. I've seen kids have kids, and watched their whole world fall apart. Age protection/verification laws aren't going to help reduce teen pregnancies or inform young people about safe sex or healthy relationships.

If anything, these laws make it more difficult to create educational content on sexuality.

What is the purpose of these age verification laws? Protect the children against what? Knowledge? Has the lack of knowledge every protected anyone from anything?

When was the last time you experienced joy?

Before you hit send, sit with that moment and re-experience it.

#askfedi

A friendly reminder that Meetup steals your event and audience if you stop paying for it. Don't use that shit and be very careful how you switch platforms if you're already there.

@evan This was such an accessible read! A rarity in many technical posts.

Must be nice to be so white that you can ignore all of colonial history.

"Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza."

"Carney says Canada's recognition does require democratic reforms from the Palestinian Authority — but those are reforms that the PA says they want to make, so there should be no barrier to this recognition happening in September."

From federal politics journalist Justin Ling. https://bsky.app/profile/justinling.ca/post/3lv7kfbqka22s

#cdnpoli #palestine

This might be my favourite SMBC ever.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

@AnnaAnthro jeez
"The Quebec government recently sent out a new directive stating that foreign workers with open work permits are not eligible for subsidized daycare.

The government says it’s enforcing an existing rule, but lawyers for the parents say the province is creating a restriction that is invalid and illegal."