How AI serves us, fools us, and needs a scorecard | K Krasnow Waterman | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-09 16:42
So, I've always been fascinated by the idea of context, the idea that we understand the meaning of things by how they relate to the things around them. And I want to talk about AI from that perspective. And by AI, of course, I'm talking about what we're all a buzz about, generative AI, large language models, and agentic AI.So, starting with a little context, we love tech, right. We all love tech. We love it so much that we don't mind that it's a little broken, right.We're years into web calls, but how many ...
Salmon runs: a pathway for reconciliation | Bob (Galagame') Chamberlin | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-09 16:42
[Applause] [Music] healer. [Music] He do the new now. [Music] I will I will gee my traditional name is gilagam.I'm from the quasutinuk and the kwapmse peoples of the muskamaga. I've recognized that we're on the unseated territories of the luangan people and that we're going to golaposa which means we're going to lock arms and we're going to get strength from one another. Maybe I should put this away first.So that song um it's a yellow and I composed it in the 1900s. I let okay let's be honest I started sing ...
Suspect's butt-dial leads to charges in Texas woman's murder
NBC News· 2025-09-09 16:42
It's been torture. An investigation into Naz Nofall's missing sister, Ra Noal, now a homicide case. Dennis Day, Nofall's roommate, in custody and charged with murdering the flight attendant.According to an affidavit, Day said Noal was videoing him and threatened to call police. He said he snapped and strangled her. Day told police he used his friend Joanie Thomas's truck to drive to Buouie where he said he threw Nofall's body over a bridge.Thomas now joins her friend behind bars. Police say they found a see ...
Trade Tracker: Stephanie Link sells KKR
CNBC Television· 2025-09-09 16:42
Let's spend a moment talking about the banks too. We did mention it a moment ago. They have been trading as you know uh at record highs.Goldman Sachs today reiterated overweight at Wells. Bank of America overweight also at Wells. Stephanie Link has that name.There's been a lot more optimism around the deal market and M&A. Private equity hasn't traded well though. One of the spots that you would say, well, if there's more optimism around deals, why wouldn't private equity be right in the mix.Blue Owl over on ...
From polar bears to phytoplankton: stories of connection | Sunniva Sorby | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-09 16:42
What happens when we meet the extremes or when the extremes meet us. I have spent a lifetime exploring the edges of our planet and the edges of who I am and what I'm capable of. Changes we're experiencing today are extreme.And here we all are literally in the eye of the storm. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem collapse a reality for all of us. It's overwhelming.Asking, "What can I do?" is the best question to participate in the greatest adventure of our time. It's an understanding and explori ...
How redistricting efforts could impact who controls the House in the 2026 midterm elections
NBC News· 2025-09-09 16:41
Right now, the Republicans have the majority in the House, but it's a very narrow one. They can afford to lose no more than two seats in next year's midterm elections or they lose the House. That's where this whole redistric thing comes in.Started in Texas. Republicans blowing up the maps. They're trying to draw new district lines that will get them more seats out of Texas.So, currently there are 25 Republican seats in Texas, 13 Democratic. Now, the new map Republicans have drawn could could, depending on h ...
French government collapses after lawmakers vote to oust prime minister
NBC News· 2025-09-09 16:41
Lawmakers on Monday voted to to oust Prime Minister Francois Beu, leaving France without a government and in a political crisis. Beu was booted following his move to push through an unpopular 51 billion austerity plan that involved cancelling two public holidays and freezing government spending. President Mcronone will name a new prime minister in the coming. ...
What silence taught me about speaking up | Leah Wang | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-09 16:40
11 years ago, I couldn't speak. Not just in public, at home, too. Not even to my own parents.It's not like I didn't have anything to say. I did. I just didn't know how to say it.Now I'm here, 15 years old, skipping school and standing on the TEDx stage. That's Thank you. That's a sort of ripple that I never thought I'd ever be able to create.Here's why. First of all, I grew up in a multilingual household. That may sound a little bit impressive, but honestly, it felt a lot more like an overlapping ven diagra ...
Israel carries out strikes against Hamas leadership in Qatar
NBC News· 2025-09-09 16:39
There have been several explosions heard in the capital of Qatar Doha. Israel said that it carried out a targeted strike against senior Hamas leaders that it claimed were directly responsible for the October 7th massacre almost two years ago. It didn't say exactly where the strikes took place, but the Qatari foreign minister issued a strong condemnation, saying that Qatar strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack that targeted residential buildings that housed senior members of the political office of H ...
Slower thinking for a faster world | Erfa Alani | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-09 16:36
It all started with sex and a sandwich, a spreadsheet and a scream. My water broke two months early at work in the middle of a tense negotiation. I was mortified.The team sprang into action. Sweatpants from the trunk of somebody's car. One person to drive me.Another to follow in my car. My husband had one job. Wait for us out front.He wasn't there. We all waited together. Half an hour later, he turns up, freshly showered, clean shaven, wearing a suit.I wanted to look nice for the first time the baby saw me. ...