«As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.»
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

You don't say.

Rumors Rumors are that Mitch McConnell, who's not been heard from in weeks, is deeply incapacitated. No idea if true.

But there is no 25th Amendment for Senators. The only way he can be replaced while living is by resignation (which requires his cooperation) or expulsion (requiring a 2/3 vote).

So if he's indeed incapacitated but living, his seat becomes effectively frozen for the rest of the term. (He has no way to resign and expulsion would require Dem cooperation).

“Why don’t we cut out the middleman and just have Canadians send their tax dollars directly to ExxonMobil? There is no private sector proponent for these pipelines because there is no business case in a world where electric vehicles and heat pumps powered by wind and solar energy are cheaper, cleaner and faster to deploy than the fossil fuel megaprojects that are fuelling heat waves and wildfires” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-ontario-propose-new-pipeline-to-sarnia-ontario/

It's so frustrating. Alice and Bob do not have real problems. Sheez Louise

The globe and mail has this long running series of articles that are all the same and they go like this: "Alice and Bob have a fully paid off house that has quadrozoopled in value every four months for two decades. Can they afford to retire at age 50 despite being slightly less rich than Mansa Musa?" accompanied by a photo of Alice and Bob with their faces obscured by lampshades or garage doors or something

Pwei had the right idea about fifa

Turns out that letting Microsoft acquire Bethesda, iD, Obsidian, Activision, Double Fine, Arkane, Ninja Theory, Mojang, Compulsion and other game studios wasn’t actually good for games, the people who make them or the people who play them.

What’s more surprising is that it seems like it wasn’t very good for Microsoft, either?

Just love* it when Americans get all Pikachu face as to why Canada is pissed at them. Whatever could be the reason. Get fucking Barnaby Jones on the line, we got a Voynich Manuscript level conundrum over here.

*do not love
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/provincial-restrictions-us-alcohol-bill-republican-tenney-9.7260027

Boy its sure a great thing that a million normie Dems went to bat for Platner despite five billion red flags huh

TIL there's a whole DIY community around repurposing crypto mining e-waste (BC-250 boards) into budget Linux gaming PCs and that honestly rules

640k ought to be enough right?

"With a $78,000 funding increase this year, an additional 30 public libraries will be able to join the program, meaning all First Nation Public Libraries and four additional rural libraries will be fully reimbursed for the costs of providing public internet access, ensuring free and reliable connectivity within these communities." #libraries #ontario

🔖 Ontario Expanding Internet Access in First Nations Libraries
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006558/ontario-expanding-internet-access-in-first-nations-libraries

Imagine coming to the #Fediverse and demanding that nobody post pornography. Just think about that for a moment. Utterly untenable logic.

Man, I still miss AIM. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/aols-instant-messenger-was-the-unsung-hero-of-the-early-aughts/

Hoping that some of the anti-ai crowd who are embracing the "slow" movement eventually pick up on the decades-old critique of it being a very privileged outlook

"I'm selling all 70 of my rental homes because of the renters reform bill" - Good.

You can think it's gone to far, but if you own dozens of rental properties and can't afford to comply, you're a crap landlord providing inadequate housing. You're the reason the bill exists.

I know I look like a fucking dork on the scooter, absolutely, but ... ok I care a bit. Not a lot, but a bit.

gonna take a wee joyride at lunch

I have not lived there since I was 12 years old and have seen the house with my own eyes exactly once in the intervening time YET I AM AFFRONTED

I recently looked at my childhood home on google maps and someone took away the tree in the front yard and I'm irritated. also the door is painted a different colour