If we don't help our human, social networks get smarter and able to make better decisions, who will? Interests include getting through this global mess we are in semi-intact. Blogging since 2004. I'm a maxi-vaxxer and the child of immigrants.
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Last Notes npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Never, ever criticize the oil & gas industry or data centres in Canada. It could get nasty. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche My thoughts are with our comrades at CFB Wainwright. In the 1980s Wainwright was my second home at the PPCLI Battle School. Early reports look like it was a major disaster. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche The fact that some political parties are finally leaving the cesspool known as X is rather mute. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 https://openmedia.org/ReformC22-mtd @nprofile…yfp8 npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche In 2023, Google's C4 dataset scraped my blog for 350,000 tokens. I can only imagine how many other LLM have done the same since then. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche We watched the migrating semi-palmated piping plovers just down the road from us. They eat many times their weight in krill shrimp before flying South. Today’s count was about 170,000 npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche «When Rebecca Green arrived for her first appointment with a urologist, she was asked whether she consented to having the appointment transcribed by artificial intelligence #AI npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche I don't use Uber. Or AirBNB. Nor Facebook. Nor IG. So f*ck you Gen Z etc. You do not understand the errors of your convenience. You will when it is too late. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche F*CK CANADA npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Despite over $40 billion invested globally, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) captures and stores less than 0.1% of annual global CO2 emissions, raising serious questions about its efficacy as a climate solution. ... case studies expose recurring patterns of cost overruns, suboptimal capture rates, geological uncertainties, and public liability transfer." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Are you an anti-fascist in Alberta? This is the most-needed accessory npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Glad to see mainstream media catching up on return to work mandates #RTO npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "APR doesn’t run a traditional power plant. It deploys trailer-mounted gas turbines and reciprocating diesel and natural gas engines that can reach full power in under 10 minutes and be installed in days rather than the years it takes to permit and build a fixed plant. The fuel is natural gas and diesel. This is fossil-fuel combustion, packaged to move." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche “The promise of generative AI is that it can think for us. That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking; and so our power is in our ability to think with each other. To generate genuinely new ideas.” —Naomi Klein npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Of course we see the potential of LLMs. Why?" —Ed Zitron npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "An LLM predicts the next word based on all the words before it. That is the whole story. There is no idea sitting underneath. The words are everything. For an LLM, words are the source, & any meaning is just a byproduct that falls out by accident. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Canadian taxpayers are bailing out American companies so they can keep cooking the planet." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Each summer for more than a century, American flags, hot dogs & patriotic songs have filled a small Danish town to celebrate July 4th. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Head to your MP’s office on June 25th npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…xwug The Christian Science Monitor was our best source of unclassified news when I was an intelligence officer npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale" npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Dr Rasmussen sees that threat realized in Canada's loss of measles elimination status late last year. The disease is 'completely preventable', and the vaccine has been safe and effective for more than 50 years. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "You stood by the man credibly accused of raping a 13 year old girl. A child. Let that sit in your mouth for a second. A child. And you shrugged it off like it was a bad Yelp review ... But a meme. A fucking meme. A picture of the spray-tanned foreclosure notice in a red tie sitting next to Jesus, and suddenly the penny drops? Suddenly you’re burning your MAGA caps on TikTok like you’ve just discovered fire and critical thinking in the same afternoon?" npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Dear America: your President is completely unhinged. Do we have to come down and burn your White House again? npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Did you know that a human hit by a car at 30 km/hr has a 90% chance of survival? npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Today, the Public Health Agency of Canada website on #COVID transmission mentions breathing in particles that can linger in the air, a euphemism for airborne transmission. The section on preventing infection includes improving ventilation in indoor spaces, again only useful to prevent airborne transmission (by decreasing the concentration of aerosols). npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "What the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, SecondStreet.org, the Montreal Economic Institute and the Fraser Institute all have in common are direct links to the Atlas Network, the U.S. dark-money coalition of billionaire libertarian ideologues." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Born in 1959. Not sure if I ever had measles. Never had an MMR vaccine, even in the military. So got an MMR vaccination in 2024. If you are a Boomer or Gen X, think about getting it. It may save your life. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche From our government: npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Most major tech companies in Canada are U.S. owned and controlled and subject to U.S. laws. Sixty per cent of cloud capacity is owned by three hyperscalers (large-scale cloud service providers that operate massive data centres to offer vast computing power, storage and networking capabilities to large customers): Amazon Web Services or AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…687k Chamberlain bought the UK a year to re-arm and prepare. He knew the cost of war. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…jks6 And the alternative to Mr. Milquetoast is ... npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Merry Christmas to all, and to all – who celebrate – a good night npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…2v53 Where can you find these? They are darn cute npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche NB Power is spending $1billion on a methane gas powered generating station that they say will only operate 7% of the time. With that much invested would not the company use it to generate more revenue? The only cost would be to the local environment, water, and air quality which they have already decided have no value. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche “Since innocently redeeming a compromised #Apple Gift Card can have serious negative consequences, we should all avoid buying Apple Gift Cards and spread the word as widely as possible that they could essentially be malware. Sure, most Apple Gift Cards are probably safe, but do you really want to be the person who gives a close friend or beloved grandchild a compromised card that locks their Apple Account? “ npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "We find that aerosol transmission accounts for approximately half of all transmission events. This implies that measures to reduce transmission by contact or large droplets may not be sufficient to control influenza A virus transmission in households." (2013) npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Just to sum it up, we are building the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology that we have ever invented that's already demonstrating the rogue behaviors that we thought only existed in bad sci-fi movies. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "The entire business model of silicon valley is surveillance." —Carol Cadwalladr npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Organized force can only be opposed by organized force. There is no other way." —Albert Einstein npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Hidden in the federal government’s 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a measure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years. " npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Y'all better check which Constitution you are referring to here: npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…s67t We got a good price here on a used 2023 Kona Electric for $27K all-in npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "...unfettered speculation, fuelled by global wealth looking for asset investments, drives Vancouver land costs up so high they erase savings that can be delivered by building many units on a parcel instead of a few. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "... chatbots can produce coherent-sounding but inaccurate or fabricated content, referred to as hallucinations. When humans uncritically use this untruthful content, it becomes what we call botshit." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…s67t Looking at that 368.37 km leg and thinking that my EV has a Summer max range of 425 km would make me worried npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche «Gas companies have tried to present fossil gas, better known as natural gas, as a cleaner “bridge fuel” that can act as an intermediary between coal and renewable energy. However, because of methane leaks throughout the supply chain in addition to emissions from combustion, the climate impact of fossil gas is significant. Current analysis finds ...[that] gas is worse than coal when burned to generate electricity. » npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Twenty countries in the world contain 94% of the world's remaining wilderness. Canada is #2 on this list. We are a major player on the world stage for nature conservation. One in five species in Canada is at some level of risk, from butterflies and sea stars to the iconic boreal caribou. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche A lovely walk during a break in the rain that is the remnants of Hurricane Melissa npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Every time a government in Canada uses the Notwithstanding Clause it is thumbing its nose at democracy, our constitution, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #fascism npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…s67t Just got mine today. Lucky that I can walk to the pharmacy npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Not much is more lovely than Atlantic Canada in the Autumn, especially on a bike npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "– This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors." —Greta Thunberg npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche «The new white nationalist and white supremacist groups are "as virulent and as dangerous and as flagrant" as the Ku Klux Klan was in its heyday, and should not be dismissed, he said. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Some asshole was texting or going too fast and ran over Phil in his fucking car". npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche “The US is on its last legs. They're crumbling from the inside out and they're at their most-dangerous. We should be removing their military bases from our soil, isolating them from trade, and choking them out, not fawning over their fascist leader in the hopes of catching some table scraps. If you embolden bullies, they only demand more.” npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche 7 Simple Ways to Help Birds npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc Since the pandemic? Is it over? npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche My mother, at 14, became one of the 2 million refugees during the evacuation of East Prussia in 1945. Her mother took her 6 children from Kolberg [Kolobrzeg] to Celle, outside Hanover in Western Germany. I am not sure exactly when my mother fled as she did not talk much about it. It was likely during the last week of the war, 80 years ago. I do know that some of the trip was by boat, which was part of Operation Hannibal, one of the largest naval operations in history. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche If you are sharing a link with ? UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) in it then you are enabling tracking and surveillance to those who share or click that link. So please do not do it. Remove that string of crap before sharing the link. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Fellow Canadians: Do not travel to the USA. It only takes one rando police officer to ruin your trip. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Stupid is as stupid does. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "In short, the US is becoming a place no one would want to live in unless they had to, & a place they certainly wouldn’t want to move back to. It is unlikely that we will be able to elect someone willing to try to fix the problems we are creating now ... America will be a country where quality of life, quantity of life, and economic opportunity is crippled for decades, & probably the rest of our working lives." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche When a technology’s properties are pushed to its limits there is a potential for unintended consequence. A technology can have more than one. When developing a new technology, or deciding whether to regulate one in our society, it would pay to have some deep conversations about these effects. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "A new study in BMJ Global Health across 13 middle- and high-income countries reveals that 25% of patients reported symptoms of long #COVID after symptomatic COVID-19, and long COVID is significantly more prevalent in participants from less wealthy nations and in patients of Arab or North African ethnicity." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche #Diversity is our secret weapon to deal with complexity and ambiguity. In the book Future Perfect, Steven B. Johnson discusses the work of Scott E. Page who states that, “Diversity trumps ability”. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…dc6s They are studying it I see https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/scientists-studying-impact-painting-wind-turbine-blade-black-reduce-bird-collisions npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…dc6s Just climb up that turbine and paint one of the blades black npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche What is America? npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche “I feel like returning to the US under the current administration would be the equivalent of going back for your hat after escaping a devastating house fire,” says the reader, an Australian citizen who asked not to be named. “I have no wish to be burnt again.” npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Some (most) Canadians wonder if the Conservatives can be trusted. Probably not. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Does this sound familiar: super-rich tech guys connected to a media empire get close with a conservative political candidate and propose to remake society? ... With both Poilievres snuggling up to Canada’s tech and political elites, a Conservative government could look pretty similar to the U.S. administration." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche If you give an asshole lots of money and power ... he is still an asshole npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…dc6s But at least Chamberlain bought a year for Britain to re-arm and go on to win the Battle of Britain and then the war. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…d6r2 My mother, as a child, lived through the after-effects of this npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "The head of Elections Canada says he has been in touch with social media platforms in an effort to address concerns about misinformation as Canada wades into an election campaign." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche «Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the Best of Friends”» npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…dc6s I used to be a small arms weapons instructor. Not sure I want to go back there or if weapons training is the answer to anything. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche It's been a year since I got my MMR booster vaccination. Damn good decision. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc Still does not mean I will go there. I like good coffee npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "The reality became clear: ICE detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche I find it hard to believe that our government is still advising that travel to the USA is safe. Safe for whom? npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche 1.3 million views in two weeks npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche Seen on LinkedIn. A post about generative #AI in education. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "The fake photo was amplified by large accounts outside Canada, including by a French conspiracy theorist affiliated with a conspiratorial media outlet that has hosted Éric Zemmour and figures from his far-right Reconquête party, as well as a media personality from a British far-right conspiracy outlet." npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche OH at LinkedIn, "If your fighter jet can be disabled by a guy with a grudge and a golf cart, it’s not a weapon. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche When will Canadian politicians and government agencies leave the toxic social media platform X? Not soon enough. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "Canada is the largest economy in the Commonwealth, yet it behaves like a passive participant rather than a leader. That must end. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc We hear him every afternoon when we are in Nova Scotia :) npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche My grandfather served 9 years in the Reichswehr in Germany between the wars. He was later drafted into the Wehrmacht after the Nazis took power. He refused to join the party and as a result never got a ration card for his family of 6 children. They fished for eel on the Baltic Sea to stay fed. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc Yeah, I'm leaning toward Freeland. I think Gould is great but would not be able to take on PP and DJT. And I'm a voting Lib npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "[Gen #AI] is being forced on people at scale by corporations desperate to seem futuristic without any real understanding as to why they need it, & whatever use cases may exist for #LLM are dwarfed by how utterly unprofitable this whole fiasco is. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche "But the bigger issue is that they [ #AI CEOs] don’t have to be successful to be dangerous. Because along the way, these companies get to steal our work and sell it back to us, lower our wages, de-skill our field, bury us in slop, and mire us in algorithmic bureaucracy. If the long-term space god thing doesn’t work out, at least they can make a profit in the short-term. npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…d6h6 Lovely photos. I am sorry your experience was so alienating npub1l89c2m5ng7zwexjtd6kv899dsapur5rd3gctedn8mjct90ja0f8st74gd9 Harold Jarche @nprofile…wuyc Racism? Not sure, but we have been so focused on the US relationship that we have lost sight of anything else. But I did buy bell peppers from Mexico today :)
