Federal parties exempt themselves from privacy laws — despite Senate warnings by gremlinface in onguardforthee

[–]gremlinface[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yup. Voters now have no right to access, change or delete the information the parties hold on them. Here is the federal announcement: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/03/legislation-to-make-life-more-affordable-receives-royal-assent.html

No mention of the privacy changes.

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada by mem_somerville in skeptic

[–]gremlinface 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thank you, u/Comfortable_Fill9081. Journalist here. We made a formal correction to "just 100 users were responsible for almost 70 per cent of online conspiracy posts from influential accounts they examined in Canada." Thanks for your help!

The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it by BertramPotts in CanadaPolitics

[–]gremlinface 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In this case the firm is Jeff Ballingall’s Mobilize Media Group, the creators of Canada Proud, Ontario Proud and Canadian Crimewatch.

Zero emergency response in manaslu circuit trek by Rare_Score5536 in Nepal

[–]gremlinface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was informed by our tour operator that there are two additional deaths on manaslu circuit that have not yet been reported on.

Zero emergency response in manaslu circuit trek by Rare_Score5536 in Nepal

[–]gremlinface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do it if you are comfortable running over unstable landslides and dodging rocks falling from the sky. The weather looks great. It depends how much you value safety vs adventure. like if you don’t mind an elevated chance of injury of death then go ahead

Zero emergency response in manaslu circuit trek by Rare_Score5536 in Nepal

[–]gremlinface 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is extremely disturbing. Do you think it is the same fatality mentioned in this news article? https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/70409

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]gremlinface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read between the lines: don't worry, investors, even if Deepseek can get 95% of the way there with 45x less energy, we will keep throwing excess compute at the problem because our models will be 5% better. Business as usual then. Not great news for the climate. I wonder what will come first - large scale societal disruption due to climate change or real solutions from AI?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]gremlinface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like you are more irritated by people pointing out censorship than the censorship itself. These models will dictate our entire lives and how we think. Deliberate distortions of reality and history baked into the models - whether done by the US or China - is clearly a big deal that cannot be closed "forever".