On the last Friday of monthly I curate some of the observations and understandings that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Please disregard last month’s message;-RRB-
“The [Canadian] Charter [of Rights and Freedoms] is not simply a regulation, it is an expression of Canada’s many basic and inmost values. ‘Notwithstanding’ the Charter indicates ‘I do not share these worths’. Any type of and every political leader or federal government that proposes its usage ought to deal with such a severe reaction that no one would certainly risk consider it.” — @DavidMitchell
“It is WILD that we currently reside in a time where my work as an astrophysics teacher has gone from ‘discover great things about area’ to ‘attempt to obtain somebody to hold billionaires responsible for dropping spunk on us from orbit'” — Prof Sam Lawler
Twentieth-century water treatment programs changed public wellness by practically getting rid of waterborne conditions. Ventilation, filtration and disinfection supply us with the possibility to drastically lower the concern of air-borne health problems. Tuberculosis and coronaviruses would sign up with typhoid and cholera as misfortunes of the past, and seasonal flu and acute rhinitis would certainly come to be unusual instead of regular if clean air were as global and anticipated as tidy water.”– Seeing the light
“Lydia believes that as a previous anti-vaxxer, she’s in an one-of-a-kind setting to assist worried parents. “The only way you can speak to them concerning it is if you hear them out initially. It kind of opens up that conversation,” she stated. “Yet if you shut an individual down … they’re not gon na listen to anything you have to state.”” — CBC 2025 – 09 – 22 or– Never bring a reality to a narrative battle
CBC did a sit down with Pierre Poilievre and CTV took a seat with Andrew Scheer, who was the one who placed the target on my [Rachel Gilmore] back. Tons of Canadians are discussing this and were outraged by it. I’m just amazed that this didn’t seem ahead up, unless I missed it. Yet when Pierre Poilievre stated that he’s frightened for his family members’s security, his spouse [Anaida Poilievre] had just reposted Andrew Sheer’s message that had actually placed that target on my back.
It simply feels like there’s a really evident pretension there. I just feel like it’s practically an abdication of journalistic duty to not pursue that. Every one of the responses that I can guess around just make me truly sad, truthfully.– Halifax Examiner 2025 – 09 – 19
“Publicity, good propaganda, transforms skeptics right into followers. Publicity! We just require publicity. Of dumb people there are constantly sufficient.” — Adolph Hitler c. 1919, as cited in Goodbye Eastern Europe
“BERLIN, Feb. 3 [1939]– Propaganda Preacher Joseph Goebbels today ended the specialist occupations of 5″Aryan” stars and cabaret announcers by eliminating them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture because”in their public looks they displayed an absence of any kind of positive perspective toward National Socialism and therewith created severe inconvenience in public and especially to celebration comrades.””– NYT 1939
Human-Powered AI– A Fun Way to Understand How GenAI Actually Functions by @MarkLevison
In a very easy fashion, we demonstrated just how GenAI functions. It isn’t intelligent. It picks the following most-likely word (or, extra accurately, ‘token’– a partial word portion) in the series. We also saw that GenAI doesn’t find out and doesn’t have memory. Absolutely nothing from the preliminary of the simulation is carried over to the following round.
ChatGPT 4 has about a trillion times as much data as our human-powered model. So it’s not shocking that ChatGPT and various other GenAI devices are better mimics, because they have more criteria. Nevertheless, they are still not smart.
