Normalizing relations with Russia is a tremendous mistake and this Court is likely subject to Russian pressure because there is no way they could rule that the IIHF’s concerns were unfounded. From foreign invasions to hybrid warfare to a long history of blatant doping.
Someone could argue US does some of these. Well, I think there may be a time soon where the US starts getting sanctioned from international events too.
Another one:
https://lemmy.ca/post/73103520
Lewis pushing for nationalization of Stelco to save jobs. And in this case we have admission from the owner it was bought because it was too efficient and was undercutting their own production. So nationalization in this case is a good idea, of a profitable industry important for national security. No other party is pushing for such protection of these jobs. The Liberals are not stopping those losses from happening and law suits against the owners is a slow step. Nationalize like the UK did to steel very recently.
Try are also each engaging in gross human rights violations beyond AI. The fact the Canadian Government is courting them is beyond disappointing.
While all those points are fair the real reason is major players in Europe do not want to water down EU laws and associate membership implied canada would get some of the benefits without the legal obligations which EU fairly is realizing wont work. Canada would need to pursue a Norway- or Switzerland- like deal that gives up on some sovereignty but canadians are not too warm to that idea either. In the end it will probably just mean more trade agreements and not much more.
The Take wasnt about unions. It was about workers cooperatives, which he also advocates for. Not sure you properly read my post or maybe you dont know what workers cooperatives are. Creating more space for alternatives to anti-worker corporations is a good thing.
He was a CBC journalist about 20 years ago. Hes also been a professor and community activist for longer. Not an impressive critique.
Edit: just yesterday the NDP pushed forward a right to strike bill which the liberals and conservatives voted against. This is explicitly pro worker as its through general assembly and strikes we won most of our labour rights.
Huh???
I met him in 2007 when he was repping the Take, which is a film explicitly highlighting worker ownership and inspired me to co-found a workers cooperative. He has authored dozens of works promoting workers rights since them. And now he has a platform dedicated to protecting workers in a digital economy, which is absolutely a good thing, and has worked for decades to expand union rights.
No NDP leader (or any political leader) has as long a pro worker track sheet as Lewis and he has made it central to his campaign.
Makes me wonder where you are coming from. Were you unaware of the above perhaps?
I voted for Layton too and met him and Olivia multiple times in the early days. He was amazing. But check his record during the Dion days. He was more of a centrist than you remember perhaps. He was on the frontlines with unions but voted to make deals with neoliberals. He was winning us over because he was the first genuine attempt at a progressive alternative. But in his time leading the party he did very little to push worker friendly deals. I get it why. That wasnt his job. But its Lewis’.
And amazing in my related work to see CEOs far more unlikely to properly understand genai and their limitations. Its as if we somehow got the dumbest people to lead all industries. They sell and sell well which also explains why they are often sociopathic. But its not a good thing. Being good at selling does not seem to correlate with basic intelligence. All the warnings about the limits of GenAI are right there.
I thinks its because llms let CEOs smell their own farts and they love it. LLMs are sycophantic and please the idiots no matter what they say.
Holy shit this right here. He admitted to buying it to remove competition. So his argument he had to close it to tariffs isn’t true. He always intended to fuck over canadians. Well, fuck this guy. Lets nationalize and then flood the US with competitive steel.
No, canadians punished Singh and as they should have. He was a Rolex wearing pretend progressive. You can ignore that he tanked the party all you want but that’s fine. Also, true progressive and pro worker messages will always take more effort and time as they get attacked on all sides by monied voices. Layton lost a lot of elections before he started winning some.
I appreciate more posts about African politics here, thanks.
This is not true either though. China is rapidly divesting from certain AI portfolios and is not immune to the economics of data centers especially as they are energy vulnerable. You can’t just say something is a public utility (which is good btw) and hand wave away costs or operation.
Im sure you realize Chinese state owned operations have gone bankrupt many times in the past and continue to do so.
The idea of AI as a public utility is pretty cool. But I admit you are an early advocate for this and encourage you to keep pushing it. Edit: my take is highlighting how economically unsustainable the models are under hyper surveillance capitalism, which compliments your take i think.
Ah this old song and dance. Meanwhile reports Putin is making demands Poland demilitarize. Russia has zero interest in walking away from war.
Disagreed. Stiles will lead to another ford win as she rides the centre and it doesn’t work.
Avi Lewis is finally pushing the party back to its worker roots and this is the NDPs only real chance.
Too bad its dedicated to an American company, therefore subject to American intelligence rules, and Anthropic is also a company with deeply worrying financial projections. A main perpetrator of hype and bubble. Too bad we can’t support the development of Canadian or at least open-source models.
Not everyone is AI assisted for every single project.
I know several publishers with strict rules about LLM use. Some folks here write as if LLMs are used absolutely everywhere but there are not.
The cost is increasing as providers are incredibly far off from the profit promises they gave investors. An estimated 6 trillion in productivity is required for the investments to break even, and the reality is things are way off the mark.
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-centers-trillion-capital-time-bomb-bain
Add to that serious problems measuring ROI, public backlash, CEO cynicism.
That planet.
US signatures are signed in pencil as was fairly put by Carney, and noticed by the world.
Are you forgetting he signed the last one?