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🇨🇦 Thinker, Hoarder. I gather news and current events to outline and identify issues with a Canadian point of view.

runsmooth 13 points 2 days ago

I’m sure it’s not lost on anyone that if one suddenly cuts $40 T from arguably corrupt gatekeepers, there will be immense resistance from said gatekeepers.

This isn’t just about cost savings, this kind of move shifts the balance of power built on top of who can afford just basic US medical care. When the US mixed political power with healthcare, the people were always going to be cooked souls (souls) vide.

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runsmooth 2 points 3 days ago

Can’t have you getting away without claiming any AI use or else the Jensen Wong bubble might pop even earlier.

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runsmooth 61 points 6 months ago

So police did not have to flag the file as AI generated, and don’t prioritize the review of these allegations by an actual human?

Did anyone tell that man he was unlawfully detained and has a civil claim against the government who knowingly and recklessly detained an innocent person?

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runsmooth 49 points 2 months ago

Well this poor bastard (me) will be waiting for the RAM, SSDs, and hard drives to come back down in price.

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runsmooth 35 points 7 months ago

People are still getting detained for what appears to be arbitrary reasons related to their skin colour, and these detentions have led to violent incidents carried out by agents of the state. Even if you survive the initial arrest, the detention centres also appear to be lawless. Detainees are subject to additional violence or sexual violence, and the conditions are inhumane.

Vegas offers to be a honey pot for a conflict zone. Any sane person would rather visit another civilization.

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runsmooth 32 points 7 months ago

A government agent altering a photograph to render an inaccurate image of an accused person will raise serious questions of bias. But also, any defense will likely now include whether the government has also digitally altered any other evidence concerning the matter, and whether that evidence was developed for public consumption or otherwise. to generate bias.

I'd say more broadly this raises concerns about how the White House directly controls or damages the credibility of the Judicial Branch. But, for the world audience, this should raise red flags about the (in)stability of the US in general.

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runsmooth 31 points 6 months ago

Jon Stewart did an excellent interview with Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and they outlined how her country modelled itself with the US system of government. Unfortunately, the Philippines was used as a testing ground for American social media platforms, proving that the collapse of one branch of government did not engage any checks to balance the loss.

In her opinion, the collapse of one branch essentially meant the full collapse of government.

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runsmooth 31 points 9 months ago

I watched the video included with the article. One of those poor, poor seniors was asked whether she was kept informed. She said no, saying she only gets updates from the internet and her Facebook.

I'm not the first to ever say it, but there's a clear lack of infrastructure when someone still turns to the very same company's platform for updates and barely knows what's going on. There's no respect for community here, no involvement of stakeholders, no thought to the people who live there. For what? A corporate installation that may be built on fuddy duddy accounting to keep up appearances for an AI Bubble?

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runsmooth 27 points 4 months ago

This is PR and American propaganda for the real sauce last month where Reddit, Meta, and Google basically assumed the proper position and voluntarily gave DHS info.

They suffered reputational damage, and this is their government compensation package: a promotional up-do.

https://gizmodo.com/...

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runsmooth 25 points 4 months ago

For all the bluster about the US taking down fascism in World War II, it is with ghastly irony that you have these figures within US society, like Karp and Zamiska, who out right advocate for basically racism and fascism. They simply couch their recycled old bigotry into the vague, covert lingo of the modern post-civil rights America.

But, they project what they want in society. They want less regulation upon themselves, they want more military contracts with the US government, they want the public to give more credibility to the power of their surveillance software, they want the draft so their software can go far and wide, and they want the ability to pay people less and to ask them to work more.

Then they go on to make some obligatory comment about how America has brought such peace and prosperity. And, somewhat tellingly, they wax nostalgia for fascist Germany and Japan. They just don't say it in so few words. When the US SCOTUS declared that money can translate into political power, these unqualified persons are the symptoms.

I keep asking what the ASEAN members are thinking when they see this garbage while they're days away from running out of gas and diesel.

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runsmooth 21 points 4 months ago

The US has slowly come alive to the issue of the world cutting them out of the conversation entirely with direct bilateral negotiations with Iran. This is the only way to forcefully inject the US back into the conversation. But as experts already point out, Iran has the home ground advantage. The US navy can maintain that position to block the strait, but antagonizing all of Asia will have consequences.

Asia's countries face serious shortages of gas and diesel - which is well known. If the US presents itself as not just the cause, but now the enforcer of this very precarious position, many US allies will be forced into a terrible choice: Loyalty or survival.

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/...

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runsmooth 20 points 13 days ago

I often wonder as well because being a news reader makes me assume others are also following the news more closely than myself. When I test this theory by talking to people around me, I learn that maybe I’m more alone than I thought.

At least with social media I get to follow the news with all of you, my fellow nerds

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runsmooth 19 points 9 months ago

For what it's worth, the Mayor doesn't have to defend anything. She's only being criticized for sharing what experts say.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, already concluded genocide:

Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.

https://www.ohchr.org/...

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runsmooth 19 points 6 months ago

A cynic in me suggests that this may be a move to push people off the system and disenfranchise them entirely, or the new rationale to create a second class of people who are forced to live with increased digital vulnerability while a new class of numbers can be generated with different privileges.

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runsmooth 18 points 4 months ago

He [Lt. David Collins] said CoreCivic “did not request our involvement” for any cases last year.

“Because no criminal investigations were initiated by the Sheriff’s Office, no reports were forwarded to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of charges,” he said.

Outsider Canadian here, but is this not your red flag - among many red flags - that the private prison facility is now a lawless zone and perhaps the Sheriff's office and prison operators are now shockingly open to criminal and civil liability? Under what authority would a Sheriff's office have to enter an understanding with a private company as far as who is responsible to investigate crimes?

In some jurisdictions, the police would act as basically an office holder when they decide when a piece of legislation was violated, and to lay charges against an individual. Police are agents or employees of the state when they are not exercising this special authority to charge people with offences. When the charge is laid, the prosecutors take over the file. But now you're saying that the police no longer want to use that special function - the reason why they exist - and they hand it to a private company with their own interests beyond the Justice System?

This isn't the Justice System any longer, this is collapse.

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runsmooth 17 points 9 months ago

Almost sounds like fintech similar to what one might see in Singapore in their NETS system. I think this Konek system is designed to give Canadians an alternative payment system independent of Visa and Mastercard, while offering businesses and customers reduced transaction rates.

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runsmooth 16 points 5 months ago

In all, ShinyHunters claims to have stolen close to 1 petabyte of data belonging to the company and many of its customers, many of whom use Telus Digital as a BPO provider for customer support operations. BleepingComputer has not been able to independently confirm the total size of the stolen data.

The threat actor shared the names of 28 well-known companies allegedly impacted by the breach. However, BleepingComputer will not disclose the names of these companies, as we have been unable to independently confirm whether they were impacted.

The threat actor says that much of the data for these customers relates to BPO services provided by Telus Digital, including customer support and call center outsourcing, agent performance ratings, AI-powered customer support tools, fraud detection and prevention, and content moderation solutions.

I believe Telus also handles healthcare data for Alberta and beyond. Do we know if that's impacted?

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runsmooth 16 points 9 months ago

I still say this is part of the larger American scam for AI. AI's just a tool, and certainly not autonomous as the stuff of movies. US companies are just using the concept of AI to layoff workers, and they're trying to lock in their AI services contracts before the bubble bursts.

This article falls into the scam pile for me.

Plus I'm fairly certain Zuckerberg should be charged for Crimes Against Humanity, but that seems to be an issue for another day.

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runsmooth 15 points 6 months ago

Canada is harming its relationship with the US?

Are we talking about the Americans electing a criminal felon as President, who appears to be facing allegations of decades long pedophilia, and seems to be part of a global scale honey pot and blackmail operation that targeted people around the world? Did that damage trust and credibility? And did we mention the Americans who seem involved in the debauchery, death, trauma, and abuse from trafficking vulnerable underaged girls around the world for this operation for decades are also not facing any justice? Instead, they all appear to be closing ranks and maintaining an iron curtain of silence?

Oh, and world leaders and dignitaries have to grapple with the knowledge that these same Americans remain in positions of power and gatekeeping positions throughout the US government system?

Plus this same US President is extracting wealth for his billionaire friends? Wealth that the Western powers created a rules based order together to generate?

By the time the Americans manage to uncollapse their justice system, and maybe codify some laws to avoid the total collapse of their society in their legislative branch, it will be decades.

Canada is not throwing a hissy fit, we're literally working around a gasping goon where an ally should be, and we're trying to keep the lights and the heat on for the rest of us until this blows over.

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