The X files are like a PG Epstein files. But when Grok has gotten hold of them they may not be quite so PG. The absolute insanity of where we find ourselves is mind-blowing.

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

Very happy to share my latest writing. "We are analogue creatures. Virtual water will not quench your thirst, digital food will not satisfy your appetite, and AI companions are no companions at all." Let's cherish the analogue, before we damage or lose it. #AIEthics www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

also like, why is this in the irish times? why haven’t we seen comprehensive reports like this in canadian media? it’s like she was sanctioned then they all moved on to the next trump story of the week like lemmings

I wrote this yesterday. It’s my message in a bottle from 2025. May it find you where you are xx open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Ces soins permettent à des jeunes trans de ne pas se tirer une balle. Littéralement. Les études le disent. Les spécialistes le disent. Les parents qui l'ont vécu le disent. Ces politiciens ont du sang sur les mains. Leur but est de faire disparaitre les personnes trans, ça ne s'arrêtera pas là.

Still can’t get over how Mark Carney hates Canada Post so much he’s willing to kill libraries along with it.

🫠 the definition of sovereignty is using infrastructure another country can turn off whenever they want

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...

J'ai été choquée mais, pas surprise par les propos de pspp. René-Daniel y répond dans un décalage temporel prescient.

Avec le salon du livre qui se termine et Noël qui arrive, cet article est de saison. Des livres pour Noël, oui, des livres cheaps vendus à la pharmacie, à l'épicerie, et qu'on achète parce que c'est facile, c'est comme de se faire scammer son histoire du soir, je trouve ça déroutant.

Le journalists Paris Marx nous fournit une liste à ne pas envoyer au Père Noël.

Even the tech bros are getting nervous. But it will be the rest of us who feel the pain when the AI bubble bursts. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports. www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True. That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud. Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

This is a MUST READ:

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

@canadianhammer.bsky.social hey I'm very ltp. I am intrigued, where do you suggest one starts with this universe?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Uber lance un programme où ses chauffeurs pourront annoter des données pour les IA pendant leurs pauses. L'ubérisation de l'ubérisation? «Is this good news? Will workers earn more? Don’t celebrate yet. Data work is performed globally, and no one has become wealthy from it.»

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning? Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder Jared Leto, actor Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a firm called First Wap: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time www.wired.com/story/satell...

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

If it wasn’t already clear the direction AI policy was going under Mark Carney and Evan Solomon, this task force makes it clear. The inclusion of the chair of Build Canada, whose members openly pushed for a Canadian DOGE and Poilievre government earlier this year, is just one of many examples.

This could be Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, they have exactly the same perspective and hope

So thrilled!

Still too soon to say how it plays out, but at this moment there's a case to be made that Big Tech and GOP leaders overplayed their hand on the AI moratorium. The boldness of the 10-year ban mobilized a big and angry coalition against it, where a more modest proposal might just have slipped through.

Back from Tadoussac with this wonderful lady for the English translation of Seeker at the Glassco Residency. Thanks to PWM. The results will be shown at @centaurtheatre.bsky.social in coproduction with Talisman Theatre next spring!

L’actuel directeur artistique du Théâtre Denise-Pelletier est décédé vendredi à l’âge de 69 ans

Immense tristesse ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

So excited to be part of Centaur's new season with my play Seeker!

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

How cool is this. Voyager 1 is coasting in interstellar space, more than 48 years & 25 billion miles from Earth. Its back-up manoeuvring thrusters failed more than 2 decades ago. But @NASAJPL have GOT THEM WORKING AGAIN!!!! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

NOW: A group of faith leaders have linked arms & are blocking the entrance to the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, NJ. “We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏 (🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)

Enshittification as profit-maximizing strategy, they really are geniuses conquering new frontiers of innovation

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist. www.wired.com/story/an-acc...

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe." God, I love Ursula K. Le Guin www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/10/u...

AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer. www.wired.com/story/theres...

youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE @carolecadwalla.bsky.social explique quelque chose de fondamental et qui devrait être en première page de tous les médias.

#HandsOff protests are happening in every single US state, BUT probably won’t get much mainstream media coverage. And footage will get surpressed on other platforms. So share what you can here 👍 #Boston #FiftyFiftyOne

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

A.must read

It is stunning to see how Meta illegally downloaded billions of pages of copyrighted books and articles from Russian pirate sites when training Llama 3. And not only that, but Meta also directly redistributed that copyrighted data to others:

In the 1930s a group sprang up in North America that wanted to merge the US with Canada. Elon Musk’s grandfather was a significant figure.