Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

You are willingly turning away from the violence of your colleagues in other facets of their professional life.

I'm in the privileged and awkward position to be a full time student who is soon turning 40. I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.

"But there’s a place for businesses selling whiz-bang products at a ludicrous markup, or ones that simply don’t work: government contracts. OpenAI could join the likes of Palantir, TransDigm, Boeing, and all the rest fleecing the taxpayer in the name of national security."

I'm in the privileged and awkward position to be a full time student who is soon turning 40. I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.

❤️🖤🤍💚

anyway good night

Robert Filliou. Man Carrying his Own Sun on a String, 1973

ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.

narrator: no, it cannot

No, no it cannot. Looks like we need to re-up our paper @jevan.bsky.social

okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting

I will be advocating for a Digital Sanctuary City everywhere.

"Achieving algorithmic justice against a backdrop of state sponsored injustice will require coalitions that are polycentric, flexible, durable, and multifarious." 🎯🎯🎯

"The lesson for Canada is not smug exceptionalism but urgency. If a similar swing arrives here, procedural guarantees must be hard-wired into how AI is procured, deployed and contested. Build for the rainy day, not the sunny press conference." @vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report

Remember when people were looking forward to an AI commissioner? 😏

what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?

Things are grim but writing this piece forced me to think of a silver lining. "2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

I most recently wrote about Palantir in Challenging Privatization in Governance by AI:

As an amateur birder and a Wikipedia lover, I am so in awe by the intersection of this work. Incredible!

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation. montrealethics.ai/state/

How can we address algorithmic justice challenges when we are faced with unreliable and malicious governments? My new article "Algorithmic Justice vs. State Power" confronts this question. Read here: montrealethics.ai/state-of-ai-...

The new State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) published by the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is out! I am one of the 58 contributors, with a short essay on yet another reason to question the use of AI in monitoring/harming gender minorities in the US. Available open access: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-7-...

"A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.” It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract."

Happy Halloween, 🎃

Tiny demon kitten wishes everyone a happy and safe #Halloween ! 🧡🖤🎃 #kidlitart

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

AI governance is grifter heaven for a reason.

Part of this work is realizing tech policy is more empire building. Time to do it differently. That may mean doing work outside of tech policy altogether.

"embrace datacenters or face federal intervention" fucking called it

and make it make sense that THAT is then used as if it's a rationale for "we need more 'AI'" losing my mind seeing that faulty reasoning in spaces for human care. no one can make that make sense because it doesnt

Can you* please finish my dissertation for me? It is too depressing. *anyone 🥲

The crux of the problem.

"And it's not like the agency's artificial intelligence tools are doing much better. The CRA's chatbot, Charlie, which can answer basic tax-related questions online, provided accurate answers only a third of the time, according to the AG [auditor general]."

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

tell everyone

the best way to encourage students to resist the temptation of ChatGPT is to help them feel like real writers & take pride in their voice. I tell my students to start writing “morning pages”—three handwritten pages on anything they want to write about.

"There are a multitude of ways to derail authoritarianism. We need all of them. Pro-freedom folks need an expansive political imagination, one that can anticipate the tyrant’s next move and understand its logic without obeying it."

anyone working on documentation (compiling some kind of inventory database) of use of llms within government bodies and for public service use, particularly in europe?