I'm on the board of a group that got 1200+ fake "donation" attempts over the weekend, which jeopardizes our ability to accept Giving Tuesday donations - after staff and volunteers put in tons of work on the campaign. And we might be on the hook for transaction fees on top of it all.

That was my thought, too. They're talking about more policing of transit stations, when the most pressing issues with our transit system are cost and reliability.

His new facelift is creepy, but as a child I worshipped the OG Woody as the benevolent and festive elder god that he was.

Canada is facing an existential, geopolitical crisis that only seems to exist when the government needs to pass conservative legislation. When a private corporation stands to make a profit, suddenly everything's fine again and it's business as usual.

Not just you! I work with a structured gap-year program in Canada, and this year's students are blowing us away with their openness and enthusiasm.

Yesssss

Like any tool, GenAI is only useful if you know what it's for how to use it, and how to protect yourself from its hazards. I fear there are too many people who see it as a magic box of knowledge and are going to get badly burned.

Lawyers have screwed up their careers by using the Bullshit Generating Machine to create legal documents and not catching the bullshit before it became hugely consequential. You, a non-lawyer, are even more vulnerable to an LLM's failings.

An LLM doesn't know whether a clause that's commonly used elsewhere is illegal in your jurisdiction, and it doesn't know whether including that clause will cause the clause itself to be severed from the contract or invalidate the enture contract. /

ChatGPT doesn't know the difference between the legal and casual definition of key terms, or the potential devastating consequences of using a term the wrong way. /

The cardinal is enthusiastically stripping all the flower heads off my caraway, and I think I'm just going to let him.

*dystopian