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It is really amazing the lengths people will go through to confirm their victimhood identities. And of course, the CBC will highlight how awesome it is to use AI to ‘make the internet a safer place for Indigenous people’.
Good lord. If the bad internet is hurting you…turn it off. But rather than make an adult decision, let’s do this:
“A new tool aims to use artificial intelligence to help make the internet a safer place for Indigenous people.
The project was given the name wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which translates to “kind energy” in Cree.
“We’re trying to make the internet a kinder place. We’re trying to change the trajectory of the internet towards discriminated people,” Shani Gwin told CBC’s Radio Active.”
On the internet you are (with certain measures) essentially anonymous. What you say on the internet will be taken at face value (in theory).
“Being developed in collaboration with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMii), the tool is dual purpose, intended to help both Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Canadians reduce racism, hate speech, and online bias.
The first function of the program is to moderate online spaces like comment sections. While the internet has been a tool used by Indigenous people for advocacy, it also can frequently be an unsafe space for communities that are discriminated against, Gwin said.
Gwin said that all it takes is one comment for online spaces to fester.”
If people want to pillow-up a spot on the internet, they are more than welcome to do so. Usually though, this sort of anti-free speech mechanism escapes from its hug-box confines and is loosed into the wider ecosystem.
“The tool flags hateful comments, and then provides sample responses, while also documenting these instances for future reporting.
The second function of the tool is designed to serve as a writing plug-in for your computer — similar to Grammarly. Intended to help general Canadians understand their bias, it will flag any writing that may be biased against Indigenous people, provide an explanation, and a suggestion for how to reword the sentence.”
Wow! It is like having your own personal Big Brother making sure that you are engaged in ‘right-thinking’ at all times. Plus offering real time suggestions on how to neuter your speech as to not risk offence to others.
“AI right now is designed through the lens of Canada’s dominant culture. And I would say that across the world that without input from racialized communities, including Indigenous people, AI cannot analyze and produce culturally safe and respectful content,” Gwin said.
“Every piece of infrastructure in Canada has been developed from the white patriarchal lens,” she said. “So more racialized people, more women need to get involved in the development of AI so that it doesn’t continue to be built in a way that’s going to harm us again.”
Whoops! Did you catch the turn into Marxist Critical Theory? I certainly did – That damn AI developed through the lens of ‘dominant culture’. Beginning with a conclusion and then looking for evidence based on your assumptions almost always leads to bullshit results.
Just no. AI was developed by a diverse body of people from across the world, let’s not shoehorn your ‘critical perspective’ into this.
“AI bias revealed itself in training, Qroon said, adding that at times when experimenting with the AI, it would try to minimize the tragedies that Indigenous people went through.
“And that’s why it was very important for us to integrate the Indigenous community into this process and get their perspective and get the instructions from them.”
The AI making the decision to not follow a trauma informed narrative? Huh. Well that will need to be fixed ASAP.
“Gwin said that her hope for the project is that it helps take the emotional labour of education off Indigenous people — and free them up to do things besides moderating comment sections.
“I think there might be concerns that people think that this AI tool will take jobs away from Indigenous people, but it’s not, that’s not what it’s for. It’s there to do the work that we don’t want to do.”
Yes, censorship is such an emotional labour. Much better to let a machine – an entity with even less capacity for nuance – take the reins.
“But it also means changing the internet and Canadians’ hearts and minds about who Indigenous people are.”
You mean changing minds in a positive way, right? Because this just looks like social and emotional manipulation in service of maintaining a oppressed/oppressor narrative that benefits no one in Canada.
As it is with most cult ideologies the majority of what they say is bullshit. The suicide myth is particularly pernicious as it is used to coerce parents into consenting to have their children surgically mutilated in a misguided attempt to solve their mental issues.
“There is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found.
Professor Louis Appleby was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to examine the data following claims made by campaigners of a rise in suicide rates since puberty-blocking drugs were restricted at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in 2020.
Prof Appleby’s review concludes “the data do not support the claim”, and he added the way the issue had been discussed on social media was “insensitive, distressing and dangerous”.
This is the truth that the people who advocate for this transgender social contagion do not want you to know.
“That was recommended in the Cass Review, published in April, which found “remarkably weak” evidence on the use of the treatment.
In response to their claims, the new health secretary launched an independent review led by Prof Appleby which analysed data from NHS England on suicides of patients at the Tavistock clinic, based on an audit at the trust.
Covering the period between 2018-19 and 2023-24, he found there were 12 suicides – five in the three years leading up to 2020-21 and seven in the three years afterwards.
“This is essentially no difference,” Prof Appleby says in his report, “taking account of expected fluctuations in small numbers, and would not reach statistical significance.”
He adds: “In the under 18s specifically, there were 3 suicides before and 3 after 2020-21.”
The patients who died were in different points in the care system, including post-discharge, suggesting no consistent link to any one aspect of care, Prof Appleby noted.”
Make note this is what evidence based medicine looks like.
“Dr Cass’ review found there was insufficient evidence to show puberty blockers were safe for under 18s which is why the NHS has already stopped their routine prescription for children with gender dysphoria.
“We are committed to ensuring children questioning their gender receive the best possible multidisciplinary care, led by expert clinical guidance. That is why we are reforming gender identity services.”
So, when will Canada return to actual medical practices instead of the gender activist quackery that it is currently following?
Traditional religion might be fading in the West, but new ones have cropped up to take their place. Be very wary of any set of beliefs that asks you to deny objective reality.
Children are being harmed because medical practitioners are either ideologically captured or too scared to speak out against the grotesque medical experimentation undertaken in the name of transgender ideology.
The transgender debate revolves around thought terminating clichés being flung at people rather than actual arguments based on facts and evidence. “No debate”, “TWAW”, and of course “you don’t want trans people to exist!” are all meant to emotionally manipulate and coerce people into agreement or at least silence on the the matters of gender affirming care specifically, and transgender health care in general. This is why (trans) activists almost always take this route because the facts (and medical evidence) DO NOT support their position and said evidence often indicates a risk of significant iatrogenic harm for children and adults.
When talking with the gender religious another dodge they will use is puberty blockers are just being used in a small number of cases. Replace ‘puberty blockers’ with lobotomies or thalidomide treatments to see how well this argument holds up…
This tragic medical scandal is what happens when we allow medical decisions to be made on the basis of feelings and activism, as opposed to evidence based medicine.
GAC is being halted in the UK and across Europe – Canada needs to get its head out of the sand and rejoin the medical community that follows evidence based medicine instead of the strictures of transgender activism. Children’s lives are being ruined because of this quackery and it needs to stop.
The article quoted below by Maria Maynes describes the content of the study. Read the full article here.
“A new study has suggested that damage done by puberty blockers is permanent, casting doubt on claims by trans campaigners that the hormone drugs simply “pause” puberty and provide time for children who question their gender.
The preprint study from the Mayo Clinic, a world-renowned leader in medical research, found mild to severe atrophy in the testes and sperm of male children on puberty blockers. The authors of the groundbreaking study have expressed doubt about the “reversibility” of such blockers, a claim made by campaigners who promote the use of the drugs for gender dysphoric children.
Scientists at the world-renowned clinic who carried out the study found that puberty blockers can lead to fertility problems, withering testicles, and even cancer among children who take them. Authors found that puberty blockers hurt the development of testicles and sperm production in ways that cannot be fully reversed, with problems including impacting users’ ability to have children in adulthood.”
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“The recently published preprint came ahead of the long-anticipated Cass Review in Britain, released on Wednesday, with the independent review warning that healthcare professionals felt afraid to discuss their views on transgender services for children. The report also found that there was no evidence that puberty blockers or hormone drugs “buy time to think” or reduce the suicide risk in children suffering from gender dysphoria.
The publication of the review by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass has confirmed the NHS in England’s shift away from the medicalised treatment of children struggling with their gender, to one focused on talk therapy and support.
The Mayo Clinic preprint, although not yet peer-reviewed or published, suggests that some of the effects of puberty blockers on testes and sperm may not be reversible, sparking concern from leading medics.
Prof Ashley Grossman, a University of Oxford endocrinologist, has pointed to the study as proof that there is ‘no good evidence’ showing puberty blockers help children.
The endocrinologist highlighted the study, saying that the drugs are too risky to be given to the “greatly increased” number of adolescents who identify as transgender.
“Routine puberty blocking treatment for this use has not yet been adequately studied, and many of these children may have other problems for which they need help,’ he added, hinting at a growing body of evidence showing gender confused youngsters often have other, underlying mental health issues,” he said, as he pointed to the early data released by the Mayo Clinic in the preprint last month.
The UK last month joined the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Norway in a growing list of European nations to have either placed restrictions on or banned medical interventions for gender dysphoric children.”
We need to act now to stop this reckless experimentation on our children.
North America is still in the full denial phase. We need to move that along.
A link to the systematic review mentioned (Cass Review) in the tweet.
I’m not sure that people who support GAC are aware of what they sound like. There is nothing ‘kind’ about what they are doing to children. Affirming mental illness is not the answer.
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