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“The CRA is consulting individuals, community organizations, academia, and the tax filing industry to help shape the future of automatic tax filing in Canada.” h/t @bluesky.sboots.ca @lisafast.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/revenue-a...

"For the past 7 years, I led a team at the City of San Antonio responsible for evaluating emerging technologies, with a particular focus on AI for public sector use. What we discovered was sobering. Many AI systems simply were not designed for the realities of municipal environments"

"...a coalition-driven approach to AI contracting has the potential to flip the script – where public authorities set the terms and use their purchasing power to demand performance standards and quality control." www.techpolicy.press/cities-need-...

"...free flu and COVID-19 shots will be available to Ontarians as of Oct. 27 at participating pharmacies, some public health units and doctor's offices" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here is a link to the Resisting Techno Fascism zine: www.uwindsor.ca/law/sites/uw...

Zine link not working for me on mobile but found it here anyway 😋 www.patreon.com/posts/resist...

“The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web. 🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone' www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

“This zine is for an audience of anyone who wants to think or reflect more on the way that big tech and politics are intersecting in North America.” - @kristenthomasen.bsky.social www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-09...

I finally did it and organized my thoughts on Bill C-2, C-5, 5 etc. into a concise(ish) narrative. There's many threads to navigate through below if you wanna spend your day / week going down all the rabbit holes I did. I made a more accessible version in this article: jeff.doctor/blog/my-summ...

new from @anabrandusescu.bsky.social looking at generative AI as a force for increasingly privatized governance re: 1. exploitation of workers + the environment; 2. defence partnerships + human rights abuses; 3. concentration of power through foreign acquisition balsilliepapers.ca/bsia-paper/c...

A big shout out to @biancawylie.com, whose piece "Automating Summation — On AI and Holding Responsibility in Relationships" has stuck in my head. It has influenced how I approach my work and my understanding of the value of what may seem inefficient and dull. biancawylie.medium.com/automating-s...