Dear my fellow Canadians,
Take this holiday to spend with family and enjoy the end of spring and coming summer. Also, spare a thought for the people subjected to the peak of the “brutal expansion” of the British Empire at the end of the 19th Century including the beginning of the Indian Residential School system and the hanging of Louis Riel all done in Queen Victoria’s name in the new Dominion of Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6090322
#QueenVictoria #Canada #CanPoli
This quote from the NYT today stopped me in my tracks: “Errors can reflect racist attitudes among those encoding the data. In the gorilla incident, two former Google employees who worked on this technology said the problem was that the company had not put enough photos of Black people in the image collection that it used to train its A.I. system. As a result, the technology was not familiar enough with darker-skinned people and confused them for gorillas.” AI scares the s#%t out of me.
algorithm free. hermit. artist. bleeding heart. guardian. ally. she/her. healthcare worker. canadian. stronger than you know. miigwech to all. choose kindness unless you are dealing with nazis.