People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,
The fact that Twitter's take away from an indie-produced movie made under a million dollars paying people up front in what amounts to pocket change by industry standards... is basically that indie films shouldn't be made, rather than how predatory distribution/backend deals are?-
Vancouver is worried FIFA tourists will see public drug use.
At the same time, people are fighting supervised consumption sites that give people a place to use indoors instead of on the street.
If you don't want people consuming drugs in public, why oppose one of the solutions that reduces public consumption?
You can't be against the problem and against the solution.
Make it make sense. 🔥
I really do think we underestimate how many people are hanging on by a single, fraying thread, and how, some days, the only things saving them from the abyss are the small comforts of a TV show that feels like home, a book that tells you you’re not alone, or a pet that needs you.
Mark Carney gutted the social safety net and spent billions on the military and RCMP while abandoning the climate but hey anything for the economy right?
Yesterday I heard someone in the hospitality industry say, " Vancouver should be focused on FIFA instead of focusing on social challenges."
I was homeless during Expo and the 2010 Olympics, and I watched the city of Vancouver try to sweep unaddressed social issues like homelessness under the rug to protect the image of the city.
Now with the World Cup coming, I expect the same thing all over again.
You can move people out of sight, but you don’t solve homelessness by hiding it from tourists and TV cameras. You solve it with housing, mental health support, addiction care, and long-term investment in people.
Mega-events come and go.
The human suffering that existed before them is still here after the crowds leave.
The Pope just dropped the theological patch notes for the entire AI industry:
“Your chatbot can generate a breakup text, a fake Van Gogh, and a VC deck about replacing nurses, but it has never held its mother’s hand in a hospital room, never felt shame, never prayed, never forgiven anyone, never had to live with what it said.”
It can imitate the soul.
It cannot grow one.
This line 😭— “For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change.” — Pope Leo, #Magnificahumanitas
immediate classic. i suspect this is what it was like for people to read the greats in their time. the one thing about everything becoming slop is that something this gorgeously true, elegant, considered hits you in the face like the fist of god
“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.
@voided_signal @_telephonebusy It’s the, “It’s not just A, it’s B” negative parallelism that AI language is known for that is a massive indicator in this example. As for the em dashes in this example I would personally not use them here but to each their own in that case (kind of)