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Not at all. They could just take the bus down to Sausalito once in a while.

My choice would be anyone but Freeland. The main surprise is that all four of them are suckers for “AI”.

The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land

The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn’t that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it’s that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

If it does turn out that “racist Dahlia supports killing Palestinian children. 20,000 is not enough she wants even more Palestinian blood spilled” really is the worst that he posted, as the law student suggests, then all the ridiculously slanted reporting about it — which unquestioningly takes the accused at his word — might turn out to be not too far from the truth after all. We’ll find out eventually, I hope.

Yeah I’m going to want to hear the other side of the story before drawing any conclusions about whether or not this noted disseminator of Russian-originated disinformation misbehaved badly enough on twitter that he should be arrested for it. I trust that he will get a fair trial.

Remind me, how was Doug Ford going to pay for that $100 billion highway?

I still have the grant because I changed the title

Fortunately for the research team, their paper titled “Reanalysis‐driven regional big weather trend models over New Zealand: Earthotology and extreme events” was not affected.

For the most part I think it was still the era of everyone wanting phones that were as small as possible, so that might’ve contributed to the reluctance of other brands to go ahead and do it. The Blackberry 8800 was 32% wider than the average Nokia at the time according to phonesdata.com.

Entering text on a phone wasn’t new. Doing it with thumbs wasn’t new. Phones that were computers weren’t new. But using specifically a qwerty keyboard on a phone, yes, that was novel.

I’m surprised there’s a patent for the general concept which seems pretty obvious (as it did at the time) but I would’ve expected multiple patents involving the exact design and manufacturing process that made it practical.

Keyboards exist. And computers with built-in keyboards. And phones. And phones with buttons on them. And mobile computers with keyboards on them. Keyboard on a phone? Totally new invention, let’s patent it.

Liberal by name and conservative by nature, or Conservative by name and rageful extremist by nature. Which will it be, Canada? What a political dilemma. If only there were some kind of third option.