For weeks (and arguably years) Trump and Trump supporters portrayed Harris as a barely verbal idiot. Then she thrashed him so badly he refused to debate her again. This says something about why diversity efforts matter and why the right opposes them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Anyway, now that it’s there, I doubt there are any concessions that Canada or Mexico could offer to get rid of these expiry clauses. Ideologically, the US is no longer a free trader. Politically, it’s too powerful a weapon. It permanently weakens the smaller country’s hand. That’s our new reality.
Back in 2018 I highlighted how the USMCA’s expiry date would reduce Canadian policy autonomy. And that’s exactly what’s happening. (Trade agreements and policy autonomy was the main focus of my dissertation and my first book, Copyfight.) theconversation.com/make-no-mist...
The USMCA, if ratified, will fundamentally alter North America’s political and economic structures, increasing American dominance over its neighbours.
Canadian pundits slowly realizing that the USMCA’s expiry clause is a time bomb that leaves US with a veto over any policy that the US doesn’t like. Their suggestion — total capitulation to preserve free trade — won’t work b/c the free trade era ended in 2018. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
For Canada, whose economy is completely dependent on North American free trade, an expired agreement would be a disaster
If you wouldn't hire a Stephen Glass or a Jayson Blair, why would any newsroom go anywhere near a tool that is "known to fabricate information"? Do Microsoft and other companies running these products get a pass on basic standards because their personal involvement is laundered through a chatbot?
Tackling such questions as (direct quote): "How do you edit journalism that is produced by a tool that is unpredictable and known to fabricate information?" If the answer isn't, don't use the broken tool in the first place, what are y'all even doing here?
Losing IA is a lot like the burning of the Library in Alexandria, except IA is not a library and they lit the torches themselves. They chose to challenge copyright law instead of sticking to what they did best, or even attempting to negotiate with publishers, and now we're at risk of losing it all.
Thoroughly enjoy Brat (the album). Am baffled by Brat (the summer).
"Evidence already suggests that the entanglement of algorithms with policy solutions leads to the arbitrary scaling of unfairness and cruelty" [1/n]
My new post for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - 'Public policymaking: from AI to decomputing' www.jrf.org.uk/ai-for-publi...
AI seems to offer many benefits to public policymaking, but it can't address the tricky structural issues that impede actual change.
I would love for a Canadian government agency -- any agency, any Crown corporation, anyone -- to do anything as inventive on digital policy as the Australian government seems to do on the regular. Please. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/a...
Llama2-70B failed to capture "complex context," but updated models might do better.