When you're simultaneously running seminars on Mideast diplomacy and philosophy of time.
[nodding vigorously from the non-criminal pacifist knife-edge of anti-AI extremism]
Thinking of Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit'
I think this is the greatest 'bad poem in a paper' I've ever seen, and I've looked out for these on social media for years. It defies all your expectations of what can be done in a poem. It's made my day.
More kudos for pithy writing--resoundingly not AI-generated--to @cyn-k.bsky.social for her summary of the federal AI Strategy:
“[T]his document is not a strategy. It is perhaps a few notches above a coercive vision board, and the vision presented is bleak.”
A coercive vision board, exactly right.
Big kudos to all the experts weighing in--especially to @vassb.bsky.social for this pithy comparison showing where Canadians place trust in responsibly governed, safe products and where we won't:
Just finished this & am convinced that in this moment of autocratic 'AI for All' steamrollering of the national policy agenda, public governance is essential for the well-being of Canadians & our democracy. Hope @petermacleod.bsky.social & Johnson are strategizing how to get us there.
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