“The most consequential election in our country, a choice between Fascism and Democracy, and you sit out? Cowards. Unethical, fearful cowards,” wrote one reader.

Haha, yep.

It was the biggest hack. The best hack. No one’s been hacked like this before. Some say it was the greatest hack of all time

And people will still shrug this off and vote for him… 😥

Pandering to fascists… Not a good look.

Almost like Sam Altman is just another run of the mill tech bro scam guy.

C’mon Canada, let’s do this here!

Yeah, really appreciated that thorough breakdown!

… was laid to rest …

Thanks for sharing. I have to say that the article has a heavy slant towards why we should be concerned with this policy (and we should, there are some very valid questions raised), without addressing the elephant in the room, of Chinese government interference in Canada.

It doesn’t help that the authors get some very easy details wrong, like:

The pushback is in reaction to the New Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern (hereafter New Policy) announced by the ministers of Health, Public Security, and ISEC (Innovation, Science and Economic Development) in January. The policy prohibits research collaboration with Named Research Organizations in Sensitive Technology Research Areas

That should be Public Safety, and ISED.

I take your point, except that it’s the PPS, and not the OPS that have jurisdiction on the hill. According to the article, the RCMP apparently want them to be limited to checking bags for visitors.

It’s a weird take, and a bit of a territory grab.

100%. The Conservative party is currently leading polls here in Canada because of the unpopularity of Justin Trudeau.

The Conservative party are also conspiracy-loving, reality-denying loonies like the Republicans, but since “we’re Canada”, and “it can’t happen here”, they’ll probably form the government next year.

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Good!

If only we could go after the individuals responsible for making the decisions too…

Oh great, just what we need in Canada: Republican culture wars

Thank you!

Excellent! Thank you

Thank you, great advice and good questions.

I guess I really do want barebones. It doesn’t have to have a lot of memory or compute, but I want to be able to stream live audio over Wi-Fi. The audio interface is USB-A, so I need at least that.

Wut?

Abnormal weather… If only there were a term for this.

It’s easy enough to say that (and I agree we have a car problem), but it’s not really realistic to shift from a car dependent to a non-car world overnight, no matter how much it is the right thing to do.

There will, necessarily, be a transition period.