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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Kaytranada:
🎵 Breakdance Lesson N.1.
#Kaytranada
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CDNPfbyPY75OL87xbCRO2

I’m very disappointed in Carney, he’s actually a Conservative. I don’t think Poilievre would have been better, but at least I wouldn’t have been lied to.
#CdnPoli
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/1148

Alison Creekside (@AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 2 images What a difference winning an election makes ... April 4 : Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC July 16: Suggest your own 15% spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC #cdnpoli

Post catnip bliss
#CatsOfMastodon

Claude Haiku 3.5 got web search now!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo AI Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1
How did this happen? I like that 1 more LLM got search but didn't expect it to be Claude whom I've found to be very strict in how you can …

CoDiEmb: A Collaborative yet Distinct Framework for Unified Representation Learning in Information Retrieval and Semantic Textual Similarity
Bowen Zhang, Zixin Song, Chunquan Chen, Qian-Wen Zhang, Di Yin, Xing Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11442

CoDiEmb: A Collaborative yet Distinct Framework for Unified Representation Learning in Information Retrieval and Semantic Textual Similarity
Learning unified text embeddings that excel across diverse downstream tasks is a central goal in representation learning, yet negative transfer remains a persistent obstacle. This challenge is particularly pronounced when jointly training a single encoder for Information Retrieval (IR) and Semantic Textual Similarity (STS), two essential but fundamentally disparate tasks for which naive co-training typically yields steep performance trade-offs. We argue that resolving this conflict requires sys…

👍 Teamsters Hired And Fired Face Of Far-Right Charlottesville Rally | HuffPost Latest News
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-cytanovich-unite-the-right-teamsters_n_687916e2e4b0b08368f52c3d

Predictably, Ottawa ends Air Canada strike, imposing binding arbitration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-operations-suspended-flight-attendants-strike-1.7610916

CUPE says Hajdu's arbitration order to end Air Canada flight attendants' strike is 'crushing' Charter rights | CBC News
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says she has invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to allow binding arbitration between the airline and its union and has ordered operations to resume — although it's not immediately clear when the 10,000 flight attendants will return to work after going on strike just hours earlier.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Caetano Veloso:
🎵 Ile Aye
#CaetanoVeloso
https://luakabop.bandcamp.com/track/um-canto-de-afox-para-o-bloco-de-il-il-ay

#RIP to Catherine Galliford: a hero former RCMP member who lead the way in exposing the culture of sexual harassment in that force that still exists to this day. She died on August 15 of liver cancer. She suffered from PTSD and Agoraphobia due to her experience not as an RCMP officer, but from speaking out.
Her friend and RCMP colleague says: ”to current RCMP members: In Catherine's name and Catherine memory, you have to find your voice”
#RCMP #SexualHarassment #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6871656
Here is the full CBC story on her passing:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/catherine-galliford-rcmp-spokesperson-obit-1.7612177

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Caetano Veloso:
🎵 Ile Aye
#CaetanoVeloso
https://luakabop.bandcamp.com/track/um-canto-de-afox-para-o-bloco-de-il-il-ay