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Software Engineer, interested in AI/ML, modern languages, likes sailing, fan of Nintendo consoles and games (Metroid and Zelda in particular) 🇨🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺 * fosstodon.org/@kfet * threads.net/@kalinf * github.com/kfet
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Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that thebeaverton.com/2025/06/cana...

"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections" is an excellent new paper that provides six design patterns to help protect LLM tool-using systems (call them "agents" if you like) against prompt injection attacks Here are my notes on the paper simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/...

How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper Blog https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-energy-usage #AI #energy

The illusion of "The Illusion of Thinking" https://www.seangoedecke.com/illusion-of-thinking/ (some interesting points) #AI #reasoning

Bulgaria to adopt the euro as ECB and European Commission give green light | Euronews https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/06/04/bulgaria-to-adopt-the-euro-as-ecb-and-european-commission-give-green-light

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

Risky post! (This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)

For Handmaid’s Tale fans.

Happy Sunday!

Resist

Tim Hortons - no longer Canadian owned - has pulled out of the Toronto annual PRIDE parade due to the United States' anti-woke movement.Disgraceful.Email headquarters and let them know this will not stand in Canada and BOYCOTT BTW: Blenz Coffee much better anyway and they are truly Canadian #canada

Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Finnish countries have a different relationshio with Trump too! “It’s because we have a relationship with the truth.” youtube.com/shorts/adhHj...

London's robot conference is going crazy over it! Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community. => discord.com/invite/jsvMR...

Canada welcomes the U.S. Court of International Trade’s decision on the United States’ tariffs. It confirmed what we’ve always held: that the American tariffs against Canadian goods are unlawful and unjustified.

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

Full interview here youtube.com/watch?v=_jT3...

CTV Fails Canadians In Interview With Mark Carney youtu.be/QIPuc8rZaHk?...

Estonia eschews phone bans in schools and takes leap into AI https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/26/estonia-phone-bans-in-schools-ai-artificial-intelligence #AI #education

The wackiness doesn’t stop with the abstract. Keep reading: it turns out that if you remove the super weight, *the model can only produce stopwords*. How did we not know this? What else don’t we know?

There never was an argument. Pretending there was two sides to this has been a total failure of journalism.

"The pro-European Union candidate in Romania’s critical presidential runoff has won the closely watched race against a hard-right nationalist, nearly complete electoral data shows, in a tense election rerun that many viewed as a geopolitical choice between East or West" […]

Human excrement.

Beneath contempt.

Протест срещу жителите на София Случващото се в София в момента е наказание за софиянци, че посмяха да гласуват за някой различен от поставено лице на Борисов, който да продължи схемите. Затова Вълкът сега се включва, че ще спира извозването на боклука. Впрочем данните от СПТО показват, че именно…

No AI, this is a real photo taken by Percy’s engineering cameras of astronomical twilight on #Mars! You can see Deimos in the sky too. I worked pretty hard to plan, execute, and analyze this image, and it came out beautifully! A bit noisy, but it was very dark out after all. #astro #planetary

When dozens of Katie Pasitney's 400-odd ostriches started dying in mid-December, the Edgewood, BC farmer, never imagined that her herd would become a front in a far-right movement’s battle to sow mow mistrust in government institutions.

I wish all Canadians, and especially Albertans would read and grasp the details in this article. It is long past time to put this myth to rest . Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta's Oil Industry via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Post by @charlieangus104.bsky.social brings up a ghost from the past mentioning Jim Keegstra was mayor of Eckville for many years. What wasn’t mentioned was he was a high school teacher for many more years teaching his anti-semetic holocaust denial racist views to generations of children. 1/

Here's the full workshop handout plus annotated slides from "Building software on top of Large Language Models", a three hour tutorial I presented yesterday at PyCon US #PyConUS https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/

Here's the full workshop handout plus annotated slides from "Building software on top of Large Language Models", a three hour tutorial I presented yesterday at PyCon US #PyConUS simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/...

Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics https://bloom.bg/4jYABDI #AI #DataCenters #climate

thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...

Canada has a new government. No matter how you voted, we are in your service. Together, we will build a stronger, more united Canada.

This and

GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️

Conservatives, this is the lowest of the low. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Spreading doubt where there is none, undermines trust. Trust is essential to democracy. Despicable is the only word for this. But it does confirm one thing for certain - Conservatives are untrustworthy. Shame.

This is how a real president behaves.

Reminder to everyone that it isn’t safe to travel to or within America because ICE might arbitrarily decide to send you to a concentration camp and certain death for literally any reason because we have Nazi stormtroopers in the US called ICE now. ♥️🤍💙 and they just hate foreign names and due process

Replies to criticisms of my ChatGPT posts https://andymasley.substack.com/p/replies-to-criticisms-of-my-chatgpt (worth reading with so many good points) #AI #climate

Imagine the petition to kick Danielle Smith out of the country gets more signatures than the petition for Alberta Separation? That’d be hilariou And YOU can make it happen Canada! Sign here! chng.it/PYJKR8x5xP ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️ #canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #cdnpoli

Can Danielle Smith of this week arrange a chat with Danielle Smith of… A whole six months ago? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I love how Poilievre spent two years and an election trying to enrage Canadians into fury over how much they spend on taxes but then loses the election and his own seat… and charges Canadians taxpayers $1.38M to run in a byelection instead of resigning.

Published some notes on Microsoft's phi4-reasoning model, an 11GB download (via Ollama) which may well overthink things... it produced 56 sentences of reasoning output in response to my prompt of "hi" simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/p...

Claude can now connect to your world https://www.anthropic.com/news/integrations #AI #Claude

I spoke with Prime Minister Luxon earlier today. Canada’s close relationship with New Zealand is founded on our shared values. We’re strong  partners in international trade and security — and I look forward to building on that success, together.