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John Wilson grew up as a renter before his biotech company took off. Now he wants to help people struggling after Operation Metro Surge.

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Federal programs aimed at addressing climate change are facing significant cuts as the government shifts to artificial intelligence (AI) and slashes thousands of jobs, according to recently released departmental plans.

In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs

When you cut jobs, the workload doesn't go down. How are you going to continue maintaining a quality service to Canadians?" asked Alex Silas, PSAC's national executive vice-president.

"That's the big piece that's missing out of this, and the big piece that the Carney government's not taking into consideration."

Silas also raised concerns about a "lack of transparency" by the government, saying the departmental plans are short on detail about how services will be delivered in the wake of significant job cuts.

For example, Employment and Social Development Canada will have 15,629 fewer public servants in 2029 than it had last year.

The department says it will be "leveraging artificial intelligence to automate internal processes and streamline operations," and plans to merge program delivery "to lower administrative costs."

Please appreciate this handwritten translation of Union Dixie to dunk on the confeds :c

Mark Robinson, who ran for North Carolina governor in 2024, tells podcast he had ‘obsession’ with porn and sex

Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it's currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of (bad) contributions. >99.9% of them are invalid for other reasons anyway. Maybe a good solution will emerge over time.

Related full tweet:

If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Source

Giving out an ultimatum to blow up civilian infrastructure is a war crime right

https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666