You gonna actually lay out your case for that? Because I’m pretty sure you’re wrong (no shade, I just disagree with your assessment), but it’s hard to say when you haven’t even offered any justification for your argument.

High treason is defined in the previous section;

High treason

46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,

    (a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;

    (b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or

    (c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are. 

This is the guy sent to fix Bovino’s mess.

Somehow, I don’t think he’s gonna manage it.

Is this gonna be another one of those things where he can just order the justice department to settle with him?

Also their terms of service were updated to allow them to sell all your content for AI training. So there’s that.

My bad. Thanks for the correction.

He’s She’s talking specifically about the idea of embedding AI agents in operating systems, and allowing them to interact with the OS on the user’s behalf.

So if you think about something like Signal, the point is that as it leaves your device the message is encrypted, and only gets decrypted when it arrives on the device of the intended recipient. This should shut down most “Man in the middle” type of attacks. It’s like writing your letters in code so that if the FBI opens them, they can’t read any of it.

But when you add an AI agent in the OS, that’s like dictating your letter to an FBI agent, and then encrypting it. Kind of makes the encryption part pointless.

Alberta wouldn’t ever be “independent.” At best they would basically get annexed by the US, same way Russia took Crimea, claiming that the presence of separatists justified their actions.

I assume (or at least, I hope) that they’re basing this on some kind of violent crime rate statistics, hence the cut-off.

Yeah, no arguments there. As I said, you’re absolutely right to be calling out the way this was presented.

You are 100% correct to be questioning the way everyone here is treating a news article as a gotcha. It could literally just be awkward phrasing.

But to answer your original question, it’s hard to have “evidence” in a “hand holding a smoking gun” way where the CIA are involved - that is kind of the entire point of the CIA - but I cannot imagine that they had zero involvement in Operation Gideon back in 2020, which is the big failed attempt that we do know about. Given that US funded coup attempts clearly were happening, I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume the CIA were the ones delivering the orders, if not signing them (given that Opration Gideon happened during Trump’s first term in office, it’s pretty clear who that was).

If you’re asking if the CIA were involved in the recent extraction, it’s more or less impossible that they weren’t. The kind of boots on the ground foreign intel that they provide would have been essential to pulling off an abduction like that. It would literally stretch credulity to imagine a version of that operation that they didn’t have a hand in.

I agree that none of this qualifies as clear cut proof, but I think it’s also OK to make assumptions when any other read of a situation would be significantly less likely. That’s not jumping to conclusions, it’s just excercising our capacity to reason.

I hate it with every fibre of my being.

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Look up “Testicular saline infusion.”

But, you know… Maybe not at work.

Even if you use AI tools for drafting, you’ll want to know enough CSS and HTML to be able to parse the code and make adjustments where needed. Being completely ignorant of how to read the output from AI coding tools is never a good idea.

“Listen, guys, we’re named after the incredibly evil artifacts of unknowable power used exclusively by the villains of the most famous fantasy series of all time, devices so dangerous that merely touching one will scar you for life. I honestly don’t know what you were expecting here? Was the name too subtle? Should we have just gone with Evil Corp like in Mr Robot? I mean, we deal in mass surveillance. You’re clearly working for the bad guys. I genuinely do not understand how you convinced yourself otherwise. There is literally no one too evil for us to buddy up with. The more despicable the better, frankly.”

Blatant cover up. Got it.

I get it. It’s rough out there right now. Sorry if my earlier comment came off a little harsh.

For what it’s worth, try to remember that blind cynicism is no more rational or realistic than blind optimism. Both are a presumption that reality conforms to our biases. Cynicism feels more realistic, but that’s a trap (an easy one to fall into). In reality it’s just that for most people it feels better to expect bad things and be surprised by the good than it does to expect good things and be surprised by the bad. But neither expectation is grounded in fact, only in our psychological need to protect ourselves. Whenever an assumption "feels right’, that’s when we most need to question it.

The day I’m no longer watching the news for early warning signs that America is gearing up to make us their Sudetenland is the day I’ll start giving a shit how individual Americans voted. Until then, every one of them can get absolutely and utterly fucked.

Is that fair? No, it’s not. But it’s also not fair that I’m having to make plans for not getting bombed. I do not owe Americans fairness. Not anymore.

I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.