Hard Pass

Initiated by: Janice Chytra from St. Catharines, Ontario

Whereas:

Canada lacks independent, government-led oversight of captive wildlife facilities, relying on industry self-regulation that lacks transparency, accountability, and enforcement. Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) functions as both an industry lobby group and a self-appointed accreditation authority, creating conflicts of interest that undermine effective animal welfare enforcement

CAZA does not publicly disclose inspection findings or accreditation decisions and has failed to revoke accreditation despite documented cases of serious animal cruelty and neglect. The prolonged suffering of Lucy, the lone elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, illustrates these failures, while leadership overlap between the zoo and CAZA raises conflict-of-interest concerns

Unaccredited roadside zoos and private wildlife facilities operate with little or no oversight, often resulting in inadequate housing, social isolation, and insufficient veterinary care. Inconsistent provincial regulations, including gaps in captive wildlife legislation, demonstrate the need for federal leadership.

History:

Open for signature: May 27, 2026

Closed for signature: September 24, 2026

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Enjoying the company of others while also finding it emotionally draining is such a strange paradox.

Companies told us AI would replace human workers and cut costs. Turns out the math doesn’t work. An Nvidia VP just confirmed that compute costs for his team exceed what they pay their employees. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. And a startup CEO ran up a $113,000 monthly AI bill, with a four-person team.

This episode breaks down exactly why AI is costing companies more than the humans they laid off, what “tokenmaxxing” is and why engineers are doing it, and whether any of this spending is actually returning anything. Because at some point the ROI question stops being awkward and starts being a board-level emergency.

State’s governor looks to thwart US president’s plan to divert money to allies, including January 6 rioters

California governor Gavin Newsom is looking to thwart Donald Trump’s $1.776bn “anti-weaponization fund” by imposing a 100% tax on any payout received by state residents.

In May, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced a fund to compensate alleged “victims of lawfare and weaponization”. It’s unclear who qualifies under this category.

The fund was the product of a settlement reached between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – the agency the president sued over his leaked tax returns.

Critics, including Newsom, have slammed the fund as a “boondoggle” designed to divert money to Trump’s allies. Speculation has swirled that its benefactors could include the individuals who were arrested in the 6 January 2021 siege of the US Capitol. The Trump administration has described the rioters as patriots and since pardoned many who were charged in relation to the attack.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956398

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46320128

Literally speaking, there's some truth to Olah's musing. AI systems are not cold – Blackwell chips idle at 32 to 38°C. They are not calculating – they're bad at math. And they're not robots – AI models are specialized binary blobs of tensors and metadata that can be instantiated across multiple servers.

But the notion that there's some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage. 

AI systems are indeed "made from us, from our words" and that is why Anthropic and its rivals have been named in more than 100 lawsuits. One of the reasons those systems remain mysterious is that Anthropic and its rivals don't disclose where they got their training data.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956348

Here is an excerpt of of David Gerard and Amy Castor's post about it:

So what does this mean? What follows from this?

An encyclical isn’t a set of religious directives. It’s a position paper. The Pope has not charged Catholics worldwide to burn down the data centres. Cool as that would be.

Catholics probably can’t go into work and claim a religious exemption from Claude Code. Though the encyclical does give Catholics who hate AI an excellent set of talking points to answer that AI bro who just doesn’t stop.

The encyclical does not have direct consequences. Functionally, this is just a letter. But it’s a letter that’s in every newspaper this week. It’s going to be influential.

The Pope calls for government regulation to stop AI abuses. And up against that, we have a ton of money. But the encyclical will still give politicians a bit of think tank input on things they have to consider politically.

Even the rich tech bros are treating this encyclical as a threat. The AI companies lobbied the Vatican quite hard in the leadup to the encyclical. We’re not sure they got a lot of what they wanted. [Politico]

But again, an encyclical is just a letter. Pope Francis did a quite good encyclical on climate change in 2015. Then he followed that up in 2023 annoyed that nothing much had been done. There’s only so much a letter, even from the Pope, can do in the face of the money.

This encyclical will help swing the vibe against AI, however. Maybe J.D. Vance will excommunicate the Pope. You know he wants to.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53852233

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Here is the full report: Guarding the G7 - Countering Beijing's interference operations (pdf)

Canadian researchers are warning G7 countries of “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

The report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security - released Wednesday, the day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa - calls on democracies to counter Chinese interference.

[...]

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leverages a broad ecosystem of affiliated organizations, intermediaries, and informal networks that span political, economic, academic, and societal domains to influence and interfere in G7 countries," the report says.

"These actors often operate under the guise of legitimate exchange, enabling influence to be exercised in ways that are difficult to detect, attribute, or regulate."

[...]

The Group of Seven (G7), comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represents some of the world’s most advanced democracies and largest economies. As central pillars of the rules-based international order, G7 members are also prime targets for foreign interference.

Over the past decade, mounting evidence has highlighted the role of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) as a key instrument of influence across G7 countries. United front work is not simply a set of formal organizations, but a method of influence that operates through political, economic, academic, and societal channels.

While many activities occur under the banner of legitimate exchange and cooperation, investigations, intelligence disclosures, and parliamentary inquiries have revealed patterns consistent with covert influence, elite capture, and transnational repression, the report says.

[...]

In a related report by Canadian media outlet Global News, Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Global Affairs, said he and other experts support Canada pursuing trade with China and other countries like India that have been accused of foreign interference, but “we cannot be naive.”

“We’re dealing with states that have murdered Canadian citizens, that have harassed Canadian citizens, states that have stolen some of our top intellectual property,” Matthews said.

“We do have economic interests to expand. However, we cannot be blind.”

Dan Stanton, a former official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service who is now the director of the national security program at the University of Ottawa, said the federal government needs to be transparent with Canadians — especially diaspora communities — that it still recognizes the risk of foreign interference.

“Canadians need to understand that the government has not forgotten, one hopes, and the government is still going to hold countries to account for what they’re doing,” he said.

[...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47443104

It's almost like this guy wants his ties to Epstein kept in the news cycle - pressuring the media hard while simultaneously triggering the Streisand effect.

One is left to wonder: is this intentional, or is he really incapable of learning?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/65127939