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PEI has one commercial airport, and only like five daily flights only to Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. Almost everyone I know here has been on a flight with a premier or a member of Parliament.

Trading primarily with the United States instead of building other trade partnerships has been our weakness since the Avro Arrow was cancelled. It’s about time our leaders started trying to do something about it.

If you’re using one of the clients that supports piefed (Interstellar does, not sure about others) you can use piefed’s /r/random feature to find new communities. I can’t figure out how to do it in the app, but https://piefed.social/r/random should work.

I mean, you train your LLM on search engines that inject ads into everything you look up, it’s going to learn to inject ads into everything it vomits out too.

Well gee, that doesn’t sound like a nightmare of a Ponzi scheme at all

The Chipmunks Movie, not the live action one but the animated one from the mid-80s. I had nightmares for years about a scene where their hot air balloon gets blown around by a hurricane, which I watched I guess around the same time as Hurricane Hugo.

It’s also very possible that my brain invented the whole thing.

Why not set up a Polymarket bet for how Polymarket is going to handle this? Or whether they face any kind of legal repercussions at all.

Definitely not a waste to keep your skills sharp. You will be needed when the inevitable crash comes and nobody knows how to even troubleshoot, let alone code a fix.

These memes remind me of my high school religion teacher (I went to Catholic school in Canada, “religion” was what you would call Civics) who introduced the political spectrum. He wrote the usual line across the chalkboard with left/center/right labels, and explained what they were. Then, he extended the chalk line to the right, off the board and onto the wall, and continued past the corner onto the next wall. He was about half way to the back of the room before he started writing down names of any of our political leaders at the time. I don’t remember most of the names from 30 years ago, but Conrad Black was on the back wall.

This used to come up a lot in meta-fedi talk on Mastodon. The general feeling (from my own observation) is that a central authority for user accounts would defeat one of the big advantages of decentralization: that one service going down does not bring the rest of the network down with it. If all logins have to authenticate to a central service, then if that service is offline then nobody can log in anywhere.

There is capability for federated login in ActivityPub, though, it just doesn’t seem to be very widely adopted. Pixelfed has a “sign in with Mastodon” login option, where you can use your login on a Mastodon instance to authenticate to Pixelfed, and then presumably you can use Pixelfed with your Mastodon account instead of having a separate Pixelfed account. My masto instance doesn’t seem to support it so I don’t know what it looks like.

I believe that was the point. The examples people keep giving for how AI is revolutionary are examples of things we’ve been able to do quite reliably for years already. Hundreds of years, for both of these examples. The first published weather forecast was 165 years ago, and we’ve known how to forecast the sunrise longer than we’ve known how to write things down.

I mean, they’re still an idiot. When the fire alarm goes off you get the hell out of the building, not start a group chat on Slack.

The company I work for uses it to transcribe meetings. Every time I’ve reviewed its notes on a meeting where I’ve spoken, the transcription is reasonably accurate, but the summary is always wrong. Sometimes it’s just a little wrong like it rounds off a number in a way that I wouldn’t have, but sometimes it writes down that I said the literal opposite of what I actually said. Not great for someone working in finance.

I make note of it in my performance reviews, anticipating that someone in management will rely on one of those summaries to make a horrible business decision and then blame me for what the summary said. I’m positive it’s going to happen eventually.

Not with that attitude