Page 168 of the federal budget:

WE WILL GIVE $2 BILLION TO GROW THE AI INDUSRTY!
WE ARE GIVING OUT $200 MILLION IN TAX BREAKS FOR ANYTHING AI RELATED!
$100 GAZILLION TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY WITH AI!
...oh yeah, and $50 million to assist workers displaced or impacted by AI.

Ferdinand Eckhardt may have been a Nazi.

But check out this article from 1967... he was a real asshole.

Just publicly slams a grade 12 art student 😲

While enjoying my funemployment, I'm taking time to learn stuff. And I've been learning about pair programming with LLMs.

Basically, using AI language models to help you write code faster in a coding environment like Colab.

I wrote about it here:

robertorocha.info/pair-programmi…

Ouch!

Thread: 1/ Another episode in Adventures in FOI/FIPPA, and an example of a wide-ranging exemption: I applied a few years ago for polling the Manitoba government had done on privatizing liquor. #mbpoli cc
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Winnipeg's Portage and Main intersection is back in the news cycle.

Using 2018 referendum data, here is the relationship between how far voters live from the intersection and the proportion of 'No' votes among their neighbors. #wpgpoli #mbpoli Dan Lett

It's hard to convey how batshit evil Google's position is on regulation. Here's their lawyer basically telling the Supreme Court that digital services that addict kids or encourage teens to commit suicide are a protected First Amendment activity the government cannot regulate.

facebook.com/marketplace/it… Bottled in Middlebro, Manitoba

A stunning live TV moment showcasing the reality of America today: Parents of Parkland victim, Joaquin Oliver, were on-set to talk to CNN about their gun reform work...their interview derailed by breaking news of Kansas City shooting.

'Not surprised at all,' the father says.

Your attention:
Canada's census data wrangler King has Tweeted.

Time to snag you username on what is likely to fill the void left behind by the demise of Twitter. techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/blu…