Author: Blazingcatfur

Canada Needs to Hurry on A.I. Oversight, Experts Warn

Two of the three godfathers of A.I. are professors based in Canada. One of them, Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, recently left his job at Google in order to speak more frankly about the risks of artificial intelligence.

The other, Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, echoed the sounding of that alarm in a recent open letter urging a pause in the development of increasingly powerful A.I. systems.

He’s among the several high profile names, including Elon Musk and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who believe it’s time to pump the brakes, if only for six months.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Players and fans turn on Just Stop Oil protesters as Premiership Rugby final interrupted

The Premiership final was interrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters as yet another showpiece sporting fixture was hijacked by environmental groups.

At least three protesters entered the pitch with just 20 minutes on the clock between Saracens and Sale Sharks, unleashing orange paint which marked the playing surface.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada Day virtue signalling shows how far we’ve fallen

The recent wave of cancellations embodies Canada’s derailment from the tracks of common-sense decision making and good governance

Another day, another Canada Day cancellation. In the last two weeks, three major cities scrapped celebrations of our country’s national day. First, Calgary, then Toronto and Vancouver.

Each municipality had its reasons and, in each case, those reasons embody Canada’s recent derailment from the tracks of common-sense decision making and good governance.

A lot of faces need exposure in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Former Conservative leader informed he is being targeted by Chinese government

Canada’s spy agency has informed former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole that he was targeted by Beijing during his time as party chief and remains a target because of his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

A source close to Mr. O’Toole said the Conservative MP was briefed Friday by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and he is still considering how best to reveal details to the public in a manner that balances Canadians’ right to know with national-security concerns about classified information.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Dear Elon, please don’t destroy the world

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Elon Musk’s company Neuralink approval to begin human trials on brain chips.

Twitter and SpaceX’s billionaire owner took to social media this week to congratulate Neuralink on the news. The company has been striving for this moment for six years, but the FDA issued some warnings that Neuralink will have to address ongoing concerns, including the safety of the lithium batteries contained within the device.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

The hypersonic missiles sending chills down the spines of military strategists

Blindingly fast and manoeuvrable, this new breed of weapon poses a tough challenge to defend – and they’re only just getting started

It was supposed to be the missile that no one could stop. The hypersonic “dagger” that Vladimir Putin could slip into Ukraine – and Nato’s – chest, like an assassin wielding a blade so fast that the lethal blow is just a blur. Dead before you know it.

But then this week Ukraine claimed to have destroyed half a dozen KH-47M2 Kinzhal “Dagger” missiles using anti-missile systems widely assumed to be Patriot batteries loaned to the country by America. Suddenly the assassin’s blade was apparently being parried, deflected and destroyed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

US and Mexico sound alarm over cosmetic surgery-linked fungal outbreak

US and Mexican authorities are urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a public health emergency over a fungal outbreak linked to cosmetic operations in Mexico.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said two people who got surgeries involving epidural anaesthesia have died of meningitis.

Almost 400 people in the US and Mexico are being monitored.

Two cosmetic clinics in the Mexican city of Matamoros have been shut.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Iran’s Nuclear Program: Does the Biden Administration Have a Policy?

Biden is in charge of tapioca

The Biden Administration’s reluctance to enforce existing sanctions on Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, according to the State Department in 2021 — looks suspiciously like total appeasement of Iran’s ruling mullahs.

Since 2021, the Biden Administration has been cozying up to Iran in a way that has often seemed agonizingly embarrassing to entice it back to the disastrous 2015 “JCPOA” nuclear deal of the Obama Administration. Mercifully those efforts did not succeed: the new deal would still most likely have enabled Iran, after a few years, legitimately to have all the nuclear weapons it liked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

StatCan report casts clouds on claims of a widespread labour shortage in Canada

OTTAWA – A new report is casting doubt on the idea that Canada is facing a widespread labour shortage and bolsters the arguments by some labour economists that high job vacancies aren’t due to a shortage of workers.

The Statistics Canada analysis finds there are no labour shortages for jobs that require high levels of education, suggesting other factors, such as a mismatch in skills and pay, might be to blame for a high number of empty positions.

Trudeau is a lying bastard shilling for the corporate class. Stupid, greedy and evil people run this country and they profit from the pain mass immigration inflicts on you and your family.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

New Yorkers Shout At AOC Over Border Crisis, Ukraine War During Chaotic Town Hall

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced a handful of enraged constituents during a Friday night town hall in Queens.

Some New Yorkers in attendance took issue with the congresswoman’s soft stance on illegal immigration, raising the debt ceiling, and her support of seemingly endless U.S. funding for Ukraine. One man wearing a shirt with a Cuban flag on it and holding an American flag in his hand got up and walked toward the stage, shouting “American citizens before migrants!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressives

NDP missteps enough to predict a UCP majority in Monday’s election

OK, I get it. Albertans don’t have to be New Democrats to think Premier Daniel Smith spent too much time during her first months in office re-fighting pandemic battles.

From October through January, I wrote several columns urging her to drop her fights over lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine passports, and to move on from her close associations with the loopiest elements of the pandemic protest movement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta