Here’s a blog post by Stross from late last year which describes why he thinks CEO’s are adopting it so heavily. A good read.
From his own comments below the post: “internally all corporations ultimately turn out to be Stalinist command economies” lol
Like Stross I don’t think LLMs can do the automation needed. I’m curious about a planetary model that builds bespoke complex algorithms for a business, though.
Yeah as someone who has done a lot of workflow automation I think we need to automate out the corner offices. We need frontline workers and maintenance only for fully automated businesses.
But then I am reminded of Stross’s Singularity series, where the characters connect to an alien network as a kind of First Contact and what comes through is alien Business A.I. and is definitely a Boss fight.
Oh, just the one time this week, but fortunately Voyager app has a nice tagging feature, so it doesn’t happen much and I don’t have to worry about blocking.
Hope that helps!
URL structure is a clue, and of course a Shop Pay icon.
cf. “Gilead”
Politicians, too. Investment housing becomes a conflict of interest.
Anyone who hosts websites can check the logs and see the bots hammering away at wp/admin primarily, even if you are not running any WordPress. Low hanging meat? Fresh fruit?
Monal (on a mac)
Marketing, sadly , actually works… plus network-effects
Rhymes with Sunday and pronounce the first Y.
On behalf of all the ashkenazis and victims of colonialism in my family tree, that attitude and ideology are toxic and harmful, and I hope you find a kinder, safer way in the world.
Yeah we are pretty anti colonial around here. Zionism is a colonial project that attempts to subsume Jewish culture and identity and is itself also antisemitic in that principle, as it tries to redefine Jewish as something vile to many Jews. At least you are up front about it.
I actually said not to watch al-jazeera for information about the Levant. Your response ignored that and stated that you are pro-Jew, in a way that implied that you are a zionist.
In my family and our other Jewish friends, zionists are seen as antisemitic and make us feel unsafe, especially when they equate jewishness with zionism. I am not jewish but I respect their arguments and very real anxieties.
CHEK is employee owned and has an app for TVs. Decent news service but Victoria. Also there are some good investigative journalism shows on outlets like TVO (Ontario), just not as timely.
For international news, DW, France24, Al Jazeera, and other state media apps like the BBC all have their strengths. DW can be good for African news, for instance, but terrible on anything about israeli genocide. Al Jazeera can be great for perspective on the USA or Asian news but suspect about the Gulf States or the Levant.
As always, follow the money.
Hm, what country has the longest coastline in the world? Bordered by adversaries and target of smugglers and scammers corporations.
What country has recently been the target of threats and undermining by superpowers?
Honestly, a stronger Coast Guard needs to happen as well.
Great article, but glosses over some of the very clear and persistent effects of structural racism.
For instance, in Essex County, which is the southernmost point of Canada and former lake-bottom, thus incredibly rich agricultural land and great for corn, etc., the Homestead Act requirement of 5 year deadlines for clearing land was available to whites but enormous work, so they gave 10-year leases to black farmers who cleared and developed homesteads, but were evicted at end of lease, with none of the assets.
Most of these evicted farmers were refugees from slavery, or their children.
If you can’t buy Canadian, as with most textile goods, then buy nobody-else and thrift it. A recent visit to a big thrift store got us two nice fabric shower curtains for under $20.
Black Press Media is a near-monopoly in small-town BC.
BC newspapers are primarily owned by USA oligarchs. No foreign influence here to worry about, nope.