I hope the rest of Canada isn’t just annoyed at having to hear about Doug all the time. This might just be more of an Ontario (and Toronto) problem right now, but it shouldn’t be ignored just because it is contained in that province.

Speaking as an ethnic Sri Lankan (but Canadian national), Doug Ford and his ilk remind me very much of the political dynasty that Sri Lanka fell victim to. Sri Lanka saw rampant corruption for decades, followed by a devastating economic crisis and government overthrow. It will take them years to recover, and the political family responsible might still get away with it.

Keep an eye on the Ford family. Aside from the Rob Ford dumpster fire, his nephew Michael Ford was previously the Ontario minister of citizenship and multiculturalism, briefly attempted to run in the Toronto mayoral race, and is now a registered lobbyist at Toronto City Hall.

I think Doug is a bit smarter though, and his political cronies and business pals are probably going to benefit much more than his family, but that doesn’t make it any better for the people of Ontario or Canada.

Archive link: https://archive.is/zXQRP (Yes, I’m aware of the problems with archive.is, but I think it’s important to let people bypass the paywall in this case)

I suspect the problem is that there are many developers nowadays who don’t care about code quality, actual engineering, and maintenance. So the people who are complaining are right to be concerned that there is going to be a ton of slop code produced by AI-bro developers, and the developers who actually care will be left to deal with the aftermath. I’d be very happy if lead developers are prepared to try things with AI, and importantly to throw the output away if it doesn’t meet coding standards. Instead I think even lead developers and CTOs are chasing “productivity” metrics, which just translates to a ton of sloppy code.

Why is this so downvoted?

Here you go. It’s very short:

In their recent Comment article, Eddy Keming Chen et al. argue that current large language models (LLMs) already display human-level intelligence, based on behavioural evidence (see Nature 650, 36–40; 2026). I suggest that this framing obscures a fundamental asymmetry.

The authors treat human minds and LLMs as two comparable systems: effectively, two black boxes that are evaluated by their outputs. But this symmetry is fictitious. Human intelligence is a natural phenomenon, from which the very concept of intelligence is reconstructed. The generative mechanisms of the human mind are not yet fully understood. By contrast, LLMs are systems that are designed and built. Their operating principles — statistical optimization of token prediction — are known, even if internal complexity makes it difficult to retrace the steps that produce the outputs. LLMs are complex, but they are not inherently mysterious black boxes.

When we attribute intelligence to humans, no alternative explanation for their cognitive behaviour is available, nor is it needed. But there is a sufficient explanation for the behaviour of LLMs, which does not infer understanding or intelligence: the known generative mechanism itself.

This does not mean that artificial general intelligence is impossible in principle. But establishing it would require evidence that the cognitive behaviour of a system cannot be fully accounted for by its known generative mechanism alone.

Here’s the vid: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GAMkRJdu9j4

“Multi-account containers” is an extension built by Firefox themselves, but you need to install it manually. It allows you to open tabs that are effectively separate “profiles” so that you can sign into sites with different accounts. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

I uncheck “Show search suggestions before browsing history in address bar results” under the Search settings. I almost always want to visit a site that I’ve visited before, and disabling this setting makes it so much easier to do that. I think it would make most users’ experience much better, so I have no idea why it’s enabled by default.

What? The article doesn’t mention weapons even once. It’s entirely about energy.

The lessons I took away from both Chernobyl and Fukushima are that human mismanagement was the cause of both of those disasters. Also that the aftermath of Fukushima was managed very well when competent (non-corporate) agencies were brought in. So please don’t take those cases as examples of typical nuclear power operation. They are the exception. Nuclear very safe when managed properly. People have to screw up really badly for it to go wrong.

I’d be happy with increased solar, wind and hydro, but those are very dependent on geography. If the choice is between fossil fuels and nuclear, I’d go with the nuclear energy option 100% of the time. Canada has been operating reactors since 1968, and we have around 15 in operation at the moment. They are safe because we are good at operating them safely.

I’d recommend watching a documentary called “Pandora’s Promise” it talks about older generations of environmentalists who were very anti-nuclear but then reconsidered their views when they realized that their stance simply lead to significantly increased fossil fuel use, which translates to far more harm for both us and the planet.

Yeah, I can certainly see those kinds of cases, but at that point she’s just describing the plight of any low-wage worker in Canada, immigrant or not. I would think that people in those situations have a bit more opportunity to escape the trap in Canada compared to other countries, but it really does depend on personal circumstance and luck.

Good points, but I’d want to add that your last point about immigrants applies more to newer immigrants, rather than people who have been here since the pre-Trump years.

If Carney wants to make Canada an “energy superpower”, I would much rather he do it with nuclear than more fossil fuels, and I hope he doesn’t face opposition from environmentalists who have been irrationally scared about nuclear energy.

Context: https://www.them.us/story/netflix-continues-its-transphobic-comedy-spree-with-ricky-gervaiss-supernature

I don’t quite understand the concerns in the comments here. The original blog post seems reasonable: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/#what-waterfox-is-in-2026

Looks like the maintainer burned out. Maybe give them some time to recover.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

Good points. I agree the Buy Canadian movement is still pretty strong, and it’s not just on Lemmy. You can see it in the maple symbols on grocery shelf price tags (even if that system is flawed), and in the news reports of American cities complaining about fewer Canadian visitors.

I still think the majority of people still use American products and services within Canada (Netflix, Instagram, Starbucks, Amazon), but the boycott is significant and sustained.

The irony of this being in /c/Marketing

Here are my (hot?) takes:

• America’s greatest export is culture
• People love capitalism and they love consumption. People love celebrity, fashion, and wealth. People want to be seen holding a Starbucks cup while face-timing on their iPhones, talking about the latest Marvel movie. Truth is, most Canadians want to be at least a little American, and some Canadians want to be very American.
• A lot of people aren’t political
• “Canadian” has always been a fuzzy concept
• Americanisms became entrenched before America became a dirty word
• Companies (especially tech companies) are designed to lock people in through various mechanisms
• Inertia is very difficult to overcome

I had to remind myself about the details surrounding Annamie Paul. Based on this article, there’s a good chance that the party is still pro-Zionist, which makes it a no go for me unless a newer leader puts an end to that.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/07/20/The-Man-Who-Upended-Canadas-Green-Party/

The last time I looked at the Greens, they seemed anti-science with their anti-nuclear leanings, and Elizabeth May’s pseudoscience tendencies. There was also that whole mess with Annamie Paul that revealed some infighting. Looks like May at least tried to pass the party on to a newer generation with Pedneault but that failed too.

I’d love to see a competent Green party, even if I wouldn’t necessarily vote for them, because I would hate Canada to turn into a two-party system like the US. The more serious contenders, the better. Hopefully leaders like Emily Lowan can turn things around for them.