I think the Overton window has become much easier to slide around with social media influence campaigns. If someone powerful wants something -- even if it's against everyone else's interests -- it's now much easier for them to drum up popular support for it through underhanded tactics. Remember that Brexit started as a joke.
Are you trying to compare an emergency vehicle -- which is there to save someone's life -- with someone blasting a train horn outside your house to harass your neighbourhood as a deliberate political tactic? Are you looking to imply that all noises, for all reasons, at all hours, are equal, and therefore what they did is beyond reproach?
As a follow-up question -- were you impacted by this event? Were you there, even momentarily?
Can you explain what these illegal orders were, within the purview of Sloly's role as police chief? Also, who is the second Ottawa police chief you're talking about? For that matter, who is the third one? Furthermore, on what grounds are you claiming that Sloly resigned over illegal orders, when most sources agree it was over failure to perform?
Generally, governments in Canada are voted out in roughly 9-year intervals. Trudeau took office in 2015, so nothing unusual there. Moreover, Trudeau is exiting with approval ratings just a percent below his predecessor, Stephen Harper (22% vs. 23%, respectively). So, in a wider sense, this is not so unusual. But we're facing a trade war with the States and less-than-joking threats of annexation, so it's a bad moment to have our leadership in a shakeup.
Makes sense. Maybe this was a "see-what-happens" experiment that caught more attention than they expected?
I can't imagine it came from Instagram having a shortage of content.
e: Like, the quality and relevance of the content is the main value proposition to users in an old school social network like Instagram. You can't really mess with that in service of some other goal without undermining the product's raison d'etre.
I don't understand why Facebook would want to debase the value of their content by mixing in obvious AI slop. It's a sharp contrast to their past strategy of keeping the network as 'authentic' (their words) as possible.
> AUTHENTICITY
We want to make sure the content people see is authentic. We believe that authenticity creates a better environment for sharing, and that’s why we don’t want people using our services to misrepresent who they are or what they’re doing.
I'd love to hear how this happened, and what kind of rationale they could possibly have for doing it. It's very, very bizarre from an outsider's point of view.
How does this fit into a North American context, where many cultures at the point of European contact (i.e. Haudenosaunee, Algonquin, Inuit) practiced communal property? It seems they stayed egalitarian long after the extinction of local megafauna, and in the case of the Haudenosaunee, long after the adoption of agriculture (the Three Sisters).
The promise of future value from a captive audience. The idea that no competitor could succeed because everything worthwhile is already on Twitter. A self-reinforcing network effect.
IMO, this sort of held up, even with Musk's hijinks. There has been no mass migration to Bluesky, Mastodon, or Threads. The problem is, people are just moving shortform expression to video-based networks, like TikTok or Instagram.
Ah, I wish this product could have panned out. I hope it doesn't become a bugbear for future experiments with hardware user interfaces + AI. I'm still of the Bret Victor school of thought that we can do better than just tapping and swiping at glass rectangles.
This happened in Toronto last year and knocked out the system entirely for four months. It seems that libraries are a big target for these actors. I wonder who they are, and what their agenda is?
YMMV, but I try to drink a bit of water, maybe do some pushups if I'm at home, fix my eyes by looking out the window for 20 seconds, maybe munch on something. Basically, all the sensory and bodily stuff you don't do when you're coding. It's also a good time to top up your coffee, if that's your thing.
This seems a lot like the 70s-80s auto market, a period you'd think would be burned into Detroit's institutional memory. Back then, companies like Toyota outcompeted companies like Ford by offering an affordable, reliable, no-frills product. Companies like BYD seem very well positioned to do the same thing.
Yeah -- you're right, this has been a long time coming. I just think the closures and layoffs these past few months have finally closed the chapter on the style of journalism and tastemaking they built.
Is this actually as dramatic as the title implies? The email says "we will no longer publish content on vice.com." That doesn't necessarily mean they'll pull vice.com offline.
Either way, between this and Pitchfork winding down, it really feels like we're entering new times culturally.
What about Markov chain babble? It would be interesting to see Bard learn to mimic people going far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like.
I think forums could make a comeback over the next 3-5 years. Big platforms like Reddit, Discord and Facebook have been testing their userbase's loyalty for a long time now. If you look at Mastodon, HN, and even Tumblr, you can see a viable number of people are fine with smaller communities, as long as they are genuine and quality. Forums -- especially specialist forums -- have always been great for that.