Wednesday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada:  Trudeau’s dystopia.  An outbreak of diversity in Toronto (JW).  The menorah is back.  Today a tearful Justin burns jet fuel to Montreal with his teddy bear.

Save The Planet Scam News:  Where’s the beef?

Dementia Joe’s America:  A Trump freakout.  Joe’s email account.

Woke Britain:  The damage of Net Zero.  Another history lesson with Neil Oliver.  A conversation with Konstantin Kisin.

Your morning meme.  A cartoon.

Polling for Dollars

It shouldn’t surprise anyone who financed this opinion poll. The questions are absolutely geared to reinforce the prevailing narrative. It’s not much different from “elections” in the Soviet Union in which the communist party candidate would get 98% of the votes.

92% of Canadians agree they feel confident in the food safety and animal welfare standards used in dairy, chicken, turkey and egg farming in Canada because of supply management. 94% of Canadians also prefer their dairy, eggs, chicken, and turkey products to be produced locally and in Canada under supply management.

How It Started

How it’s going.

Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday.

The compromised data included users’ ancestry information as well as, for some users, health-related information based on their genetic profiles, the company said in an email.

Privacy advocates have long warned that sharing DNA with testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry makes consumers vulnerable to the exposure of sensitive genetic information that can reveal health risks of individuals and those who are related to them.

Experts.

The Fruits of Post-Modern Education

Several media outlets are currently running stories regarding the continuing lackluster performance of Canadian students in the field of math, but only a few can articulate the actual reasons why the problem is getting worse instead of better.

International math test scores from the OECD show a steady decline among 15-year-old Canadian students from 2003 to 2018.

To explain away the documented deterioration of math education, those responsible have employed two strategies. The first, undertaken by staff at the Toronto District School Board’s math department (among others) has been to denounce standardized tests as a manifestation of racial bias and white privilege. It is a bizarre claim, a clear grasping at straws. The second is to hide the decline of educational quality with grade inflation, which has now reached stratospheric levels.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

So, you’ve hard at work building artificial general intelligence. Yay you! Now, explain to me how you’ll keep it from going nuts.

Amazon’s Q, the AI chatbot for workers its cloud division unveiled on Tuesday, appears to have a few issues.

Employees using the chatbot said Q could potentially reveal confidential information — including the location of AWS data centers or unreleased features — according to leaked internal communications obtained by Platformer, a tech newsletter.

The bot is also “experiencing severe hallucinations,” a phenomenon in which AI confidently spits out inaccuracies like they’re facts, the employees said.

Whathisname’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the British remember what they used before candles.

People are being encouraged to make sure they have emergency supplies at home to help them cope in the event of extended power cut

People must buy battery-powered radios, torches and candles to boost their “personal resilience” in the event of a national crisis wiping out digital network or power supplies, the government has said.

Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, has given the first of what will be an annual update to MPs on the government’s national risk and resilience strategy.

Guidance to be issued next year will help people to prepare for different emergencies.

He said that members of the public needed to be more “personally resilient” as he suggested they have become too reliant on devices powered by the internet.

A new “resilience website” will contain advice on how people can ensure they are prepared for being left without power for the gadgets they rely on.

… And the horse you rode in on: Sask on Guilbeault’s emissions cap

Guilbeault’s latest application of a knee to the neck of the oil and gas industry in Canada:

Canada proposes new methane emissions rules for oil-and-gas sector

To which Saskatchewan responds:

‘A production cap by default’: Sask gov’t reacts to Guilbeault’s proposed methane regulations.

Ever hear about the Output Based Pricing? It’s basically a third form of carbon tax. Well, we’re going to use its proceeds to build reactors.

Saskatchewan to use Output Based Pricing to fund small modular reactor

In related news, in case you missed it Sunday night because I messed up my scheduling, a great column on Saskatchewan telling the feds to FU on the carbon tax on home heating:

Brian Crossman: I am Spartacus! I am Duncan!

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