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Carrie Cutforth retweeted
One case involves a man who had MAiD suggested to him by a psychiatrist during a mental health assessment and then was later picked and driven to his MAiD appointment by the MAiD provider who euthanized him.
Remember these are the ones we know about.
apnews.com/article/canada-eu…
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
Wayback Machine (web.archive.org), Archive-It.org and blog.archive.org resumed / others coming.
Please come to our events next week:
Escaping the Memory Hole, and
Go Behind-the-Scenes at the Physical Archive. blog.archive.org/events
Pls donate. paypal.com/paypalme/internet…
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).
I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.
Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.
I open my original photo.
No bra showing.
I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...
Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨
Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)
He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.
He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.
She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.
AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯
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FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
🧵 I'm in Ricochet this week highlighting students across Ontario universities who are begging for masks to return to the classroom. Why are our leaders letting a virus *that harms our ability to think* to run rampant on our campuses?
ricochet.media/justice/healt…
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
Never forget that we had all the scientific evidence we needed to act on global warming over 50 years ago, but the fossil fuel industry spent millions to spread disinformation and block climate action.
Global warming isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia
2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
404media.co/the-editors-prot…
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
The Made for TV Movie turns 60 today! NBC premiered the globetrotting thriller See How They Run on October 7, 1964. Journalists called this premiere "A New Era" in television and an "Exciting Experiment." Audiences loved the idea of seeing new movies at home and a medium was born
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
Come hang out with me at Patreon lots to check out. 1$+ per month gets you all access. Coming soon expanded offerings.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
THIS CRISIS IS ONGOING IN FORT CHIPEWYAN: Leaders in Fort Chipewyan held a press conference this morning to announce high levels of contaminants such as heavy metals, uranium, hydrocarbons well above legal limits around the Big Dock and shores surrounding the small community in Northern Alberta. Fort Chipewyan leaders state Transport Canada has known about these contaminants since 2017 but did not tell the community- instead they found out via a third party. “This is environmental racism. This is deadly,” said ACFN Chief Allan Adam. The source of contaminants is believed to be linked to Alberta oil sands upstream, naturally occurring bitumen & other industrial activities. Story to come with @ricochet_en
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
People keep saying "post-pandemic" when they really mean "post-public health".
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
I grew up in a small town where working at Canadian Tire was the dream for every person under the age of 25. The pay was good enough. The adults who worked there had their careers in the store.
In one generation, that's been replaced by exploiting foreign workers.
The owner of a Canadian Tire store in Toronto is under investigation for allegedly mistreating and financially exploiting employees hired through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Story by @VanmalaS theglobeandmail.com/business…
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
cops protecting food rapidly rotting in powerless stores from people who just lost everything pretty much sums up the role they proudly, violently occupy in our society
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
Can't believe we just sent 8 billion dollars to fund a genocide meanwhile the entire southern portion of the United States is being destroyed by climate change because we've funded no initiatives to prepare for these bigger & bigger disasters
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
Get together with your family, in-person, with all phones/Alexa/etc in another room, and establish a password. If the “voice” doesn’t give that password on a distress call, hang up.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
UN human rights chief declares pager attack a war crime, violating prohibition on boobytraps and an act designed to “spread terror.”
The backpedaling on “oh my god this is just like James Bond, how stunning, how clever” will be starting very soon.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
This brings the total to 7 Indigenous People who’ve been killed by police or in this case while in custody since August 29. That’s 7 Indigenous people dead in 19 days via Canadian policing system.
Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit is investigating the death of a 52-year-old man who died while in Winnipeg police custody over the weekend. youtu.be/lLb3nClFWn8
Carrie Cutforth retweeted
In the last 11 days in Canada FOUR Indigenous People, including a youth, were killed by POLICE- the latest killing happened yesterday:
-August 30 Hoss Lightning, 15, shot and killed by RCMP
-September 3, Tammy Bateman, struck (with cruiser) and killed by Winnipeg police
-Sunday, September 8, RCMP shoot and kill Elsipogtog First Nation man, N.B.
-Also on Sunday, an unnamed man from Atahkakoop Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan died in hospital after being shot by RCMP.
I’ve been reporting on this crisis for years. Indigenous Peoples are being systematically murdered in various ways and the police are at the helm of one of them.
