Alison Hearn
@alisonhearn.bsky.social
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Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice. Exhausted but still feisty.
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Paris Marx
1 day ago
when satire is reality
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AI: Experts hate it.
thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-pl...
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Canada Finally Has a National AI Strategy. Experts Hate It | The Walrus
We asked researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy analysts to read the plan so you donât have to. They found plenty to worry about
https://thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan/
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Can confirm.
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9 days ago
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Good lord. Forget post-truth, we are post-shame.
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21 days ago
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Pipelines, data centres, axing environmental assessments, replacing the public service with bots, refusing to fund pharmacare and daycare⌠The evidence is mounting quickly that Mark Carney is a disaster for this country.
28 days ago
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Paris Marx
28 days ago
Mark Carney quoting Marc Andreessen to push data centre projects. This country is in for a rough few years.
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James đ¨đŚ
28 days ago
âTheyâre cutting things that affect public safety like Weatheradio and also radar science ..." Nothing says Nation building like cutting things that affect public safety while offering Billionaires tax cuts
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Environment Canada disbands radar research team amid cuts to weather services
Reductions could hamper Canadaâs ability to track severe weather events, experts warn
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-environment-canada-disbands-radar-research-team-amid-cuts-to-weather/
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Tabatha Southeyđ¨đŚ
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Every generation gets the Spadina Expressway fight they deserve. This is ours. Toronto needs to defeat this. Please sign this petition, please share it:
win.newmode.net/nojetsto/sav...
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librarypunk
about 1 month ago
Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say âwe are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine spaceâ
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No great satirist, critic, filmmaker or writer, not Swift or Atwood, Bunuel or Orwell, could ever, in their most wildest imaginings, ever, come up with a scene as twisted as thisâŚ
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AIâs gonna replace diplomats.
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disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...
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The Ends of AI
Sycophancy and psychosis
https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/
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All the worldâs a wager and all men and women merely sites of speculation waiting for a pay offâŚ
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Prediction market bets on Iran strikes stoke insider trading, ethics scrutiny
Bets on the potential death of Iran's âSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei drew fresh scrutiny of prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi, and sparked threats from U.S. lawmakers to outlaw ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/prediction-markets-scrutinised-over-iran-bets-2026-03-02/
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So much for the âmiddle powerâ doctrine. Carney likes it on his knees.
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Carney says Canada supports U.S. Iran attacks, but doesn't envision combat role
Canada supports the attempt to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons and urged Canadians in the country to shelter in place.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-supports-u-s-attack-on-iran-and-urges-canadians-in-the-region-to-shelter
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Ben Phillips
4 months ago
I donât know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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CE (Catie) Murphy
4 months ago
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
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Happy Winter Hump Day to all who celebrate. Feb 15 is officially the Wednesday of winter. Over half way through!
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taylr
4 months ago
brass solidarity band performing âstand by meâ in the streets of whittier next to alex prettiâs memorial. the crowd started chanting âthe people united will never be defeatedâ so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Life right now: The US has a degenerate, deranged fascist dictator with a nuclear bomb who is sanctioning the murder of his own citizens and extorting his allies for territory, but hey, thereâs a sale on at Target!
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
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Social Media Lab
5 months ago
đ¤"Carney to accept Trumpâs offer for role on Gaza planâs âBoard of Peaceâ"
www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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America is run by degenerates.
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Americans, Please get the off your asses!
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5 months ago
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Hey Americans, Renee Good was doing something about your countryâs fascism that threatens the whole world. Why wonât you?
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Hypervisible
5 months ago
We heard that poison is making you sick. You know what you need? A different flavor of poison.
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Twitter and Pinterest founders launch app as antidote to social media
Biz Stone and Evan Sharp raise new funds for âTangleâ as they assess the âdevastationâ caused by online excess
https://www.ft.com/content/6a33af09-99a3-49c2-be50-4cc47656903f
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As a Canadian, Iâd like to determine my âsphere of influenceâ and get the demented rogue imperialist off my goddamn doorstep.
5 months ago
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The mealy-mouthed responses of Canada, the UK and EU is what imperial domination looks like.
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USA officially shithole country run by dictator.
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Charlie Angus
5 months ago
Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
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Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada
Make no mistake, the attack on Venezuela by the Trump regime is not about removing a rogue leader; it is a deliberate attack on international law.
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-lesson-for-canada
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No country or world leader is safe from this unfettered, demented war criminalâŚ
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Sasha Costanza-Chock
5 months ago
Well I never. Imagine my surprise!
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads
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Dog names heard at dog park: Irwin, Gary, Alan, Kevin, Donna and Vicki. What the f is happening?
5 months ago
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I made delicious chocolate shortbreads and now Iâm screwedâŚ.
6 months ago
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Dan McQuillan
7 months ago
If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.
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Other people are annoying.
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Government shutdown indefinitely, a paid private army in the street, masked men kidnapping people and keeping them in concentration camps. Reichstag in slow motion.
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Pentagon accepts anonymous $130 million donation from Trump 'friend' to pay military
The Trump administration has accepted an anonymous $130 million donation that it plans to use to pay military members during the government shutdown.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/24/trump-130-million-anonymous-donation-pay-military-government-shutown/86884357007/
8 months ago
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"Modern market and economy-driven societies did not become "post-democratic" at some point; their ground plan and architecture have always been defined by the limitations of the scope of popular sovereignty and democracy." Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment, p. 15
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Prof Anna Watts
8 months ago
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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Anti antifa=fascist. The president is holding a meeting for fascists.
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8 months ago
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Gee, I wonder what all those troops in the street and ICE goons will be doing come election time?
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Alberto Cairo
8 months ago
"AI will forever be devoid of self-creation and self-extension so long as it lacks the capacity to imagine a world different from that which weâve codified and fed to it. AI remains a dead-metaphor remix machine, with an emphasis on dead and machine."
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We are the song death takes it own time singing
In the sweetness, in the bitter
https://open.substack.com/pub/buildcognitiveresonance/p/we-are-the-song-death-takes-it-own
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Jason Read
9 months ago
I think one way to understand the present is that the ruling class discovered that rule by ideology was too difficult to maintain and switched to rule by agnotology, by the production of ignorance.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/03/the-...
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The Production of Ignorance: Ideology or Agnotology?
http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/03/the-production-of-ignorance-ideology-or.html
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
9 months ago
Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end
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Julia Carrie Wong
9 months ago
this exists it is called thinking
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Luke Stark
9 months ago
You'll be next, folks
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Only the streets are left now people. No one is coming to save you.
9 months ago
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Timothy Wilson
9 months ago
Wow. Cancel culture, anyone?
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmelâs show âindefinitelyâ after remarks about Charlie Kirk
Disneyâs ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmelâs late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirkâs suspected killer.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/abc-yanks-jimmy-kimmels-show-indefinitely-after-remarks-about-charlie-kirk/
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This whole Kirk thing, the self-censorship, the crazy fawning, elevating a white supremacist, queer-bashing patriarch even by liberals, shows how totally and completely cooked the US actually is.
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Joshua Erlich
9 months ago
so ezra gets his dogshit take today and then a column about the bluesky reaction next week. i do admire the laziness. itâs something i really aspire to.
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