Hey folks - for health reasons (mine, not hers!) I may need to soon re-home my amazing cat, Smalltalk! If you live in the SF Bay Area and might be interested, please ping me! She's truly a wonderful sweet creature! (She'd do best as an only pet.)
(Update 6/27: I’ve found a couple wonderful humans and am exploring options w them. Thank you all for your help!)
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A very legitimate well-done to Canada for being one of the least suckered into AI garbage in the world!
ctvnews.ca/business/article/ca…
"“We’re not seeing that literacy that we would like to see when we compare ourselves to our global peers, and there’s some reluctance around trusting AI and really embedding it in how we perform our day-to-day work and how we work,” said Terril."
Excellent news.
#AI
As countries around the world race to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), a recent study found that Canada is falling behind, although it’s not due to a lack of innovation, but growing uncertainty and a gap in public understanding, one expert says…Joshua Santos (CTVNews)
I had a great conversation with @baratunde on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better.
Watch it here youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?feature=s…
AI may look like magic, but behind the scenes, it’s propped up by a vast human labor force. In this season finale of Life With Machines, Baratunde sits down ...YouTube
You’ve probably met Torx, the star-shaped screw that has become common in our phones, consoles, and cars. But have you met Torx Plus? It's the high-tech upgrade nobody told you about: straighter walls, zero cam-out, and way more torque transfer. Sounds great, until you try to open your gadget and realize your trusty T5 doesn’t fit anymore.
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What the %#@$ even is Torx Plus? It solves a lot of the problems of earlier screw designs, but we’re skeptical of wide adoption. Here’s why.Carsten Frauenheim (iFixit)
Trust me, if it happened in Ontario, it happened here in Québec, and across Canada! Corporate lobbyists and apologists for corporate landlords and investors are trying to say they're not to blame for the housing crisis.
If you're a landlord renting out a property for 3x-5x what it would've rented for ~5 years ago, you're the problem, too.
And you should be ashamed of yourself.
Your tenant shouldn't pay all your bills w/ the rent they pay...
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Conservative policies have not led to more homes being built, but they have led to higher housing prices.Paul Kahnert (rabble)
ElevenLabs' new AI voice assistant can automate your favorite tasks - and you can try it for free
https://www.zdnet.com/article/elevenlabs-new-ai-voice-assistant-can-take-action-for-you-and-you-can-try-it-for-free/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Artificial intelligence @artificial-intelligence-ZDNet
MCP integration means ElevenLabs' 11ai can connect to your Slack, Google Calendar, Perplexity, and more to take action for you.Radhika Rajkumar (ZDNET)
China installs more solar in 1 month than the total energy the US uses
China installed its highest solar power capacity for a single month in May.
back-of-the-envelope calculations, 71 GW is more power than the entire US uses (on average). This is why our electricity is, on average, 2.5-3 times more expensive. This will lead to advantages in AI, production, etc. Cheap energy = cheap everything else.
#AI #Solar #energy #renewables
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China set a global record by installing 93 GW of solar capacity in May, surpassing any other country's full-year total, though growth is expected to slow due to new regulatory changes.Charles Kennedy (OilPrice.com)
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Today is your last chance to vote NYC. Put an ice pack in your cap and go vote now.
Also: Please do not rank Cuomo.
Several of Apple's iCloud services are experiencing issues at the current time, with the System Status page reflecting problems with iCloud Mail,...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
American public approval used to surge after something like this to show either some real or fake patriotic support, then ebb when reality (and US deaths) roll in.
That Trump has this level of disapproval now is a bad sign for him and a great one for sanity, because regardless of how you feel about the countries involved, he possesses no sanity or demonstrated ability to handle a complex situation.
Warning for Trump as Surprise Poll Offers Harsh Verdict on Iran Strike:
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Are you surprised Trump moved so quickly to try to force a ceasefire? Read this striking new survey data, and you won’t be. Americans don’t trust him to wage a long war.The New Republic
#Firefox Progressive Web Apps sind ne praktische Sache.
Allerdings finde ich die #Installation auf #ubuntu etwas unübersichtlich. Deshalb diese Notiz an meiner Pinnwand mit dem #Workflow, der sich für mich bewährt hat. Vielleicht hilft's auch anderen:
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Russland geht gegen den Messenger Delta Chat vor und nimmt eine Freiburger Firma ins Visier. Die wehrt sich und warnt zugleich die EU.
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Was? Köpfe zur Zukunft von NagerIT mit Interessierten zusammenstecken, solidarisches Geschäftsmodell durchspielen und nichts Geringes, als die Zukunft unserer süßen, fairen Computermaus retten.MYZELIUM eV
Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…
#ColorManagement #Linux #photography
I searched far and wide for standalone calibration tools and they are either nonexistent or extremely hard to use (and typically commandline stuff requiring obscure arcane knowledge). Even...GitLab
‘Ass Backwards’: Canada’s New Legal Posture Post-Bill C-5
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The Senate-bound law would allow Ottawa to stamp major projects approved before their risks are assessed.Zoë Yunker (The Tyee)
A few weeks ago, @joshbressers managed to hook me up to his mic. And then couldn't manage to stop me.
He still managed to get an amazing podcast episode about what it is to be a hobbyist maintainer, why it matters to talk about it and how failing to understand this is why nearly all policies around FOSS fail to move the needle.
You can listen to it and then come tell me what you think
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…
Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist com…Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
@bagder I mean I think a huge part of the problem is that we focus on funding.
We should probably focus on understanding the things that could make it more sustainable and efficient to maintain this stuff on a hobbyist schedule.
Like. Can we stop talking about Rust memory safety and instead talk of the tooling Rust provide and how ergonomic it is.
That funding could go invest in tool for other ecosystem to reproduce that success...
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Maybe there's a curl command for that.
Does his ~car~ motorized computer have an HTTP API?
Alors que les températures grimpent à Strasbourg, l’atmosphère promet d’être étouffante, voire irrespirable, en conseil municipal.Nicolas Kaspar (Pokaa)
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![Hello Daniel.
I am a owner of one of the Opel Astra vehicles in Trinidad
and Tobago. My car has a failure, looking like not have a
gasoline. Is what that say in the electronical gauge in the
car, but the tank is full. And never started when I tried to
do it.
My car is automatic and has a presence key. To start the
engine is pushing the bottom.
This is the serial number for this car [redacted].
Let me know what you recommended to do.
Regards.
[redacted]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/680027 "Hello Daniel.
I am a owner of one of the Opel Astra vehicles in Trinidad
and Tobago. My car has a failure, looking like not have a
gasoline. Is what that say in the electronical gauge in the
car, but the tank is full. And never started when I tried to
do it.
My car is automatic and has a presence key. To start the
engine is pushing the bottom.
This is the serial number for this car [redacted].
Let me know what you recommended to do.
Regards.
[redacted]")
Amelia Bellamy-Royds
in reply to Kyle Sawatsky • • •Ooof, that's really poor reporting from CTV, blithely accepting the survey's definition of "AI literacy" to include "embracing the use of AI in their daily working lives".
Literacy on "AI" should be defined by understanding what the technologies actually are (large language models, generative image models, etc), how they are dependent on their training data, their limitations in how they can generate plausible but inaccurate information, and their social & environmental impacts.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Amelia Bellamy-Royds • • •