Just Uncomplicated Socialist Tech

Yes, probably, but you know what, even if the DEI was performative, it had a real positive impact for tens of thousands of employees and the culture set by the media empire they control, and now we don’t even have that.

Reminder that Disney owns a metric ton of entertainment and media: https://www.titlemax.com/media/every-company-disney-owns-13_pageversion.jpg

What really gets me about this news is that the article lists initiatives they supported in previous years under DEI, and they’re the most reasonable good things for a company to do, for example:

• Executive incubator program and creative talent development program designed to engage the next generation of creative executives from underrepresented backgrounds
• Heroes Work Here, an initiative to hire, train and support U.S. military veterans
• Over 100 employee-led groups, which represent and support the diverse communities that make up our global workforce
• Innovative learning opportunities, which spark dialogue among employees, leaders, Disney talent and external experts
• The Disney Look appearance guidelines, which were updated to cultivate a more inclusive environment that encourages and celebrates authentic expressions of belonging among employees
• Established six pillars that serve as the foundation for our D&I commitments — transparency, accountability, representation, content, community, and culture

This feels a lot like US border patrol intimidation. Sad to see it in Canada

You and I are not at odds, friend. I think you’re assuming I want to ban the technology out right. It’s possible to call out the issues with something without being wholly against it. I’m sure you would want to prevent these deaths as well.

A friendly human spell checked me and probably used less than a peanut worth of energy.

Whoops. Fixed, thanks.

I didn’t intentionally limit myself to north america, but it’s possible my searches are implicitly limited to north america. It could also be that the average north american has had more access to ChatGPT than the rest of the world, or that suicides are hard to link to ChatGPT, or they go unreported or unlitigated in other parts of the world

Went ahead and registered the domain anyway. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks, I agree most normies wouldn’t use the term LLM, but I did want to be specific. If I were to use the aideathcount domain, I’d want to collect a broader list of news articles first, but that may be difficult to search for.

Pesky word-wrapping got me on narrow screens. Thanks for the QA. :)

Ah, I think I’ve fixed it now?

Huh, thanks for letting me know. I’m not able to repro though. Could you give me more info? Phone OS/browser/model/resolution?

Yeah, it was a bit rough to get through, but I managed to get the information I needed about the candidates. I don’t think you can really blame the NDP for how it ended up. The event was run by the CLC.

The next leadership event is a debate on November 27, though it’s going to be in majority French. https://www.ndp.ca/news/canadas-ndp-announces-date-first-leadership-debate

Looks like it was a private report. Not sure if it will be released publicly. Financial Times has some more direct extracts: https://archive.is/4eqHn (https://www.ft.com/content/59133fa3-3071-47b4-8761-c6922d07c34e)

I appreciate the philosophy recommendation especially, thanks!

Good call. This reminded me of the Australian TV channel SBS. Looks like they have a decent selection of podcasts: https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcasts

Great recommendations! Cheers!

I’m glad options exist to give YouTube less money, but I guess I’m more interested in reducing their dominance, both at large on the Internet, and also in my life. People go to YouTube because it’s where their favourite creators are, so if we signal to creators that we’re moving away, creators will choose to publish elsewhere too. Of course, I’m under no illusion that this will happen quickly, but hey we’re on the Fediverse, so we already know that :)

I’ve heavily relied on YouTube for my media for years, so I definitely get the reluctance to ditch it, but the human rights censorship has forced me to rip the band-aid. I’ll have to deal with Gmail at some point.