We protest and reject the deeply misguided and wrongheaded approach to public consultation demonstrated by the government’s thirty-day “national sprint” on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy. pencanada.ca/news/open-le...

ICLMG joins 160+ civil society & human rights orgs, experts & advocates in opposing ISED's “National Sprint” consultation on AI strategy, in open letter pointing to numerous AI-related harms and setting up alternative "People's Consultation on AI" instead: bccla.org/policy-submi... #cdnpoli

Along with numerous orgs and individuals, I have signed on to an Open Letter to the 🇨🇦 Minister of AI raising serious concerns about the government's approach to AI strategy. Details are here 👇 bccla.org/policy-submi...

Anywho, all this is to say that I'm glad to see an open letter of actual substance that I'm happy to lend my name to. Would I like to see more Indigenous people joining in on these discussions? Of course. I know we all got a lot going on, but these things are related, "AI" isn't just a "tech issue".

When I started at Animikii, I coined the term "move slow and empower people" as a reminder to myself, my colleagues, and my clients, that just because you can build something that doesn't mean you should. I even made a wacky flow chart (I really should update it): animikii.com/insights/mov...

We wrote this because we kept getting asked about "AI". I'd much rather focus my energy on building tech that actually empowers people but instead I keep getting pulled into this delusional discourse about a fantastical future that'll never come. Your "AI" god is a lie. animikii.com/databack/und...

I signed on to this letter because I refuse to accept the framing of "AI" as inevitable or even urgent. Generative "AI" in particular is slop tech for a fascist era and this rushed "consultation" period is just part of the overall griftosphere that constitutes modern tech. bccla.org/policy-submi...

Researchers at the Citizen Lab and director @rondeibert.bsky.social sign open letter to the Canadian Minister of AI and Minister of Industry rejecting the “National Sprint” on AI strategy. Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...

So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)

"On the same day that Ring announced this partnership, 404 Media reported that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to Flock’s network of cameras. By partnering with Ring, Flock could potentially access footage from millions more cameras."

Let me be less vague. For a certain type of person: 1) It's safer to argue with Black people than to actually confront white supremacy. 2) It's incredibly threatening to consider that the world might be how Black people say it is rather than what you've always been taught. bsky.app/profile/polo...

Wow this sure sounds like something that was super worth building our entire economy around lol

"Such pen registers don’t allow the government to peep on private communications (which are encrypted), but do allow it to collect metadata on a given WhatsApp account, such as who the target communicated with and when."

"[D]ata brokers like Argyle highlight the political necessity of defining demands for privacy in specific, material terms, rather than accepting the going definition of 'consent.'"

Whoa! Thank you for this shout-out, @the-syllabus.bsky.social!

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

Natl "narratives don't just distort the past—they actively justify the exclusion of Indigenous voices in shaping the present. Indigenous community leaders, legal scholars, and knowledge-keepers [are] rarely consulted in mainstream ...discourses." [email protected] asks, "Whose sovereignty is it anyway?"

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

It's because tech bros, and all the variants of bros, still expect women will do all those household chores for them, so to them, the existence of chores is a problem that has already been solved.

"Can you imagine a better definition of being creatively maladjusted than living outside the consensus reality? Add to that having the audacity not only to envision another world but to act, day in and day out, as if that world is as real as the world other people live in."

What a story to come out while the Senate LCJC Ctee holds its hearings on Bill S-209 (i.e. "age assurance"). Could see this as a kind of privacy version of the heckler's veto by those against such legislation, leaving lawmakers btwn rock and hard place in terms of holistic privacy and safety aims.

So, uh, I normally only get low single-digits level of engagement on here, but within hours yesterday, this article (not by me, by @angryblacklady.blacksky.app!) became the single most popular skeet I've ever posted on bsky. Maybe something for self-ID'd liberals / progressives to read and sit with?

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t... We’re still going! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza

"We were focused on freedom of expression even before Oct 7 because as recognition of Israel's apartheid was growing worldwide, Israel and its supporters were developing additional tactics to silence dissent and silence critics." — Aline Batarseh visualizingpalestine.org/visual/syste...

"There are so many Arabs/Muslims who have left journalism; they've said what they can, & now they have had to ask themselves 'Do I stay in an industry that is directly complicit in the extermination of 2.2 million people, or do I get out now to save what I can of my soul?'" @sanasaeed.bsky.social

"The greatest tragedy is a press that voluntarily enmeshes itself w/ the interests of the state & the state itself without any coercion. Even with their freedom, they are still willing to do that... I don't think there is a greater example than what American media has done." — @sanasaeed.bsky.social

"Pitching Palestinian stories to American media often felt like pitching UFOs. Like, "Prove it. Verify it. Then let us know why we should care." "Explain to us why they're human like the rest of us." There is no self awareness, all free speech posturing fizzles away." — Eman Mohammed

"'Look at these sad babies who are brown, but don't name their killer; don't name the perpetrator; don't name why they are being starved.' You don't name the doer. It does the work of the occupier. It strips agency from the people of Palestine & accountability from the Zionist regime."—Eman Mohammed

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I've also compiled a list of resources on Bill C-2: jeff.doctor/resources/bi... I focused on C-2 because I don't see it mentioned much in Indigenous spaces and I'm trying to change that. It'll have sweeping implications on our privacy and data sovereignty if it passes, none of it good.

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...

"Ignorance isn’t always innocent. A lot of the time, it’s strategic. ... White ignorance doesn’t persist bc there’s a lack of information—it persists bc there’s a refusal to engage... once you admit you knew & did nothing... you’d have to admit you were fine with it. You have to admit complicity."

📢Join us for Killing the Story, a virtual event on Oct. 7, 1pm PT/4pm ET! Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists give firsthand accounts about how media manufactures consent & silences dissent as we approach 2 years of the Israeli-imposed & U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. tinyurl.com/killingthest...

It's been two years. Are we there yet?

"[D]ays after the massacre of 7 October, I warned of revenge that would achieve nothing but yet more violence and suffering. I feared the unbridled Israeli response I knew would follow, but even in my worst nightmares I did not imagine it could amount to such systematic, calculated annihilation."

It is so, so vital to understand and internalize that the Gaza Genocide has been waged in key part at the behest of tech and surveillance oligarchs who beyond cruelly test their violent technology on Palestinians in order to determine how to apply them here. Palestine is a laboratory.

Why not a consistent moral position against any loss of human life? Well, that's easy: because they don't think we're human.

Our politicians have accepted that Palestinian lives are worthless, so an infinite number of us can be butchered. Two years on, they still act as though there is no greater tragedy in the modern age than October 7, when much worse, on a much larger scale, has been done to Gaza.

"How dare I entertain nihilism when Bisan daily stares down death in Gaza? ... How dare I entertain complacency as this Palestinian storyteller outruns a genocidal Israeli regime, armed and funded by the most powerful country in the world, determined to annihilate her people?"

If you only knew how much of tech's energy is devoted to building better tools for abusers

Anyway. I'm not an expert in human behavior or anything. I'm just saying, if you're in a situation that calls for some level of expertise, and maybe there were some warning signs you passed a mile back, and maybe there are experts shouting at you? Please. Listen to advice. Admit you might be wrong.

...and I know. I just described a lot of the people running this country right now. And other countries. And a lot of the people leading major tech companies. And editing our newspapers. A whole lot of people are driving this world up Black Bear Pass in a rented Kia right now. It's a little scary.

And this situation is emblematic of a problem that arises in so many other circumstances. Wild overconfidence untempered by any experience and capped off by a complete inability to listen to advice or admit any error...it's a /really/ toxic combination that gets people killed.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Others have drawn these links already, but: colonialism, rape culture, and AI /big tech are intertwined. It all comes down to a deliberate unwillingness to respect consent. Whether land, sex/bodies, or data—if those driven by white supremacist patriarchy want it, doesn't matter if someone says no.

"Something needs to be done differently. We are stuck in a loop expecting something different. I do not think engaging with a performative, pre-determined public consultation process is it." 💯 That the govt is forcing a "sprint" precisely where there is the greatest need to slow down, says it all.

Strongly agree w/ @anabrandusescu.bsky.social. There’s not much reason to engage w/ a government that’s not really interested in listening. This is a long-standing problem in Canadian digital policy. It’s getting worse under Carney, who’s not even pretending to be interested in balanced AI policy.

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

Four-hour delay on Via Rail so still en route to Ottawa, but it was time well spent as I finally had a chance to read this cover to cover. What a tour de force, both comprehensive excavation and mobilizing detailed blueprint. Absolutely mandatory reading for anyone purporting to work on AI issues.