"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Every school should have one

The most urgent plea I have ever written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Counter point: I'd argue that a lot more horses ended up as dog food and glue (so not a great precedent for human workers)

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

It's U.S. foreign policy that the whole world must serve up our data to the AI giants that are now an arm of the U.S. government. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech). I do not expect them to take it.

cant.stop.laughing

“astrology for men” was too generous

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes. Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates. Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

This is what happens when you take all your parenting advice from chatgpt

i do think if you talk about people like this you should be put in the evil triangle from the SUPERMAN movies and hurled into space

Parce que bien sûr #garbageingarbageout

Woody and Buzz launch the Butlerian jihad.

À quand une politique semblable au Canada @evansolomon.bsky.social ? À quand le retour du projet de loi c-63?

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

A friend of mine asked yesterday, “Is Ryan Reynolds cancelled now?” “What?” I asked, “No, why would he be?” “Oh, I just heard that his wife is kind of a bitch.” “Ahh, the propaganda is working. She’s suing against sexual harassment so here comes the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard nightmare again...” 😡

if you need something, get it now before consumer electronics becomes another sacrifice we make to the AGI gods

It's going to be so hard to explain to everyone else how the collapse happened- 'so you know those illustrious engineers and computer scientists you listened to, up to and including that one you gave a Nobel? turns out they were just math cultists, and they destroyed the hardware industry over it'

Hot take: The doctor shouldn't be the one asking if it's ok if she uses AI to take patient notes. The power differential + patient anxiety + short appointment times means the patient feels pressure to say yes. It should be a question asked during check-in. (I wish it wasn't used at all, but...)

You and I are giving $240 million in taxes to support Cohere, a Canadian AI firm partnered with Palantir 👇🏼

holy shit. hell of an analysis

Wow. Seriously, read it.

À quand votre fameux programme d’aide aux artistes promis durant la campagne électorale @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social ?

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

"I know several teens, including my own college-age kid, who are vehemently AI. They choose not to use AI for environmental reasons, for ethical reasons, for creative reasons, or just because they want to use their own thinking. What do we tell those students? Do we have to force them to use AI?

Shooting dozens of rounds of tear gas and using pepper spray and their batons, the SPVM violently pushed back more than a thousand people who showed up this afternoon to send a message to GardaWorld over their contracts with ICE at their offices and training center in Ville Saint-Laurent. (thread)

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

"The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, award-winning investigative journalist (Democracy Now, 2/10/26)

For the record, I 100% support an Amazon boycott — I personally do not use Amazon, Prime, or shop at Whole Foods. But a consumer boycott can’t be the extent of it. Workers need to organize, speak out. More protests. Power.

this is the question.

This is how our government AI decision making, overseen by Evan Solomon, operates?

Industry-heavy "task force" wants the government to pump billions into digital asbestos firms. You know, before the bubble bursts. This is why we're paying Evan Solomon six figures. (Honest to Zeus, you guys...)

Google will gladly tell on you to DHS. Using Gmail? STOP THAT RIGHT NOW. I've used Fastmail for 11 years, and it has a brilliantly easy migration from Gmail. If you want even more privacy, Proton Mail offers end-to-end encryption and zero-access encryption.

Evan Solomon est un AI Booster de la pire espèce. On s’en va direct dans le mur avec ses conneries. •économiquement •environnementalent •politiquement •securitairement

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK. In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is. 3/

Et notre gouvernement aide à les financer!

Quelle excellente vidéo de résistance au ia!

🎯 Mark Carney owns stock in Palantir 🎯 Federal funding for “AI development” has gone to Cohere, who creates “custom AI models” for Palantir 🎯 Former Palantir Canada head David MacNaughton is now a Strategic Advisor for CIBC 🎯 TD Bank has invested $59 million in the surveillance tech company

🎁 #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

Target is based in Minneapolis and ICE is using their stores. Hilton is lodging ICE officers, and cut ties with a local operator who kicked ICE out. And Enterprise is renting the cars that ICE uses in their raids. Tell their CEOs to stop their cooperation: FreeDCproject.org/ice-out

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social interviews historian Robert Kagan about the end of American hegemony, the EU's need to individuate from the US immediately, and the prospects for MAGA's and America's future. Our crisis is well advanced. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goG...

French MP ⬇️