On the final Friday of every month I curate a few of the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds. Please ignore final month’s publish 😉
“The [Canadian] Constitution [of Rights and Freedoms] isn’t just a regulation, it’s an expression of Canada’s most simple and deepest values. ‘However’ the Constitution means ‘I don’t share these values’. Any and each politician or authorities that proposes its use ought to face such an excessive backlash that nobody would dare think about it.” —@DavidMitchell
“It’s WILD that we now stay in a time the place my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from ‘be taught cool issues about house’ to ‘attempt to get somebody to carry billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit’” —Prof Sam Lawler
Twentieth-century water therapy packages reworked public well being by just about eliminating waterborne ailments. Air flow, filtration and disinfection present us with the chance to dramatically cut back the burden of airborne diseases. Tuberculosis and coronaviruses would be part of typhoid and cholera as tragedies of the previous, and seasonal flu and customary colds would grow to be uncommon relatively than routine if clear air have been as common and anticipated as clear water.” —Seeing the sunshine
«Lydia thinks that as a former anti-vaxxer, she’s in a singular place to assist nervous dad and mom. “The one manner you may speak to them about it’s if you happen to hear them out first. It form of opens up that dialog,” she mentioned. “However if you happen to shut an individual down … they’re not gonna hear something you must say.”» —CBC 2025-09-22 or — By no means convey a truth to a story struggle
CBC did a sit down with Pierre Poilievre and CTV sat down with Andrew Scheer, who was the one who put the goal on my [Rachel Gilmore] again. Tons of Canadians are talking about this and have been outraged by it. I’m simply shocked that this didn’t appear to return up, until I missed it. However when Pierre Poilievre mentioned that he’s scared for his household’s security, his spouse [Anaida Poilievre] had simply reposted Andrew Sheer’s publish that had put that concentrate on on my again.
It simply looks like there’s a really apparent hypocrisy there. I simply really feel prefer it’s virtually an abdication of journalistic accountability to not pursue that. The entire solutions that I can speculate about simply make me actually unhappy, actually. —Halifax Examiner 2025-09-19
“Propaganda, good propaganda, turns doubters into believers. Propaganda! We solely want propaganda. Of silly folks there are all the time sufficient.” —Adolph Hitler c. 1919, as cited in Goodbye Jap Europe
«BERLIN, Feb. 3 [1939].—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels right now ended the skilled careers of 5 “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Tradition on the grounds that “of their public appearances they displayed a scarcity of any constructive angle towards Nationwide Socialism and therewith prompted grave annoyance in public and particularly to occasion comrades.”» —NYT 1939
Human-Powered AI – A Enjoyable Strategy to Perceive How GenAI Actually Works by @MarkLevison
In a quite simple trend, we demonstrated how GenAI works. It isn’t clever. It selects the following most-likely phrase (or, extra precisely, ‘token’ – a partial phrase chunk) within the sequence. We additionally noticed that GenAI doesn’t be taught and doesn’t have reminiscence. Nothing from the primary spherical of the simulation is carried over to the following spherical.
ChatGPT 4 has a few trillion instances as a lot information as our human-powered mannequin. So it’s not stunning that ChatGPT and different GenAI instruments are higher mimics, as a result of they’ve extra parameters. Nonetheless, they’re nonetheless not clever.
