I think it's supposed to be a variation on the gun violence artice they repost every time there's a mass shooting.

Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi would pour a drink out in your honor

Interesting! There have been similar measures made in Ecuador, New Zealand, and a proposal in Mexico.

All of those examples though intersect with indigenous rights rather than a pure environmental/conservation effort. They're also all limited to particular regions, so they might still suffer the weakness that the authors identify with the UK and EU: having a patchwork of rules with lots of exceptions rather than a single coherent framework.

I literally said that Meta was firing people for protected leave, disabilities, and medical issues. What I was denying is that they were firing people on the basis of "pre-diagnoses." All the complaints in the lawsuit are based on diagnoses that employees disclosed to Meta. I think that's shitty and illegal, but I don't think there is evidence that Meta is acquiring undisclosed medical information about their employees and using that for layoffs.

Alright, if you look at this story from a more reputable source (Reuters), it's quite a bit different. Meta isn't accused of using AI with people's medical information to make early diagnoses and lay them off. Instead,

According to the complaint, Meta used a number of internal AI-assisted systems to score and rank employees ⁠on a ​termination list. Those included "Metamate," a large language model assistant; an employee-trained "second ​brain" that tracked workers' communications and documents; and a productivity score drawn from scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history, according ​to the lawsuit.

The 26 plaintiffs, who ⁠filed the lawsuit anonymously, are accusing Meta of violating federal and state laws that ban discrimination or retaliation against workers who have disabilities, take medical leave or are ​pregnant. They also claim that Meta failed to test its AI systems for ​bias in ⁠violation of recently adopted California and New York City laws.

So it's still shitty workplace surveillance and discrimination but not the same kind of surveillance and discrimination alleged in the Twitter posts. Meta is using AI to try to rank workers' productivity (on a bunch of shitty metrics) in a way that may discriminate against people with disabilities or who take medical leave or who are pregnant.

Speaketh for the self, for this one does not

I don't think this is even a good example. "Self" is usually treated as a reflexive pronoun, although I'm not sure if it still counts as one if you say "the self." And "this" is a demonstrative pronoun. And "one," as it used in this sentence is an indefinite pronoun.

In 2019 Quebec passed a law prohibiting public workers who are in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. The law violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly rights around freedom of religion and expression. But there's a fancy little mechanism called the "notwithstanding clause" that allows you to pass unconstitutional laws under some circumstances, which Quebec invoked and allowed the law to pass and withstand court challenges.

Love those birds! Got to see one earlier this year.

Thanks! But it was nothing fancy. A Canon T3i with EF-S 10-18m lens. I mostly got lucky with the bird staying very still, while very close to me, while I somehow managed to have a steady hand.

Stupid sexy panorama

Why use many word when few word do trick

See also the use of the word "compute" as a noun, which is ubiquitous in the AI discourse.

DTG St. Louis

Down To Gawk St. Louis, amirite?