You can do this. You can do SOMETHING.

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem

still seeing a lot of chatter about grok and not a lot on how to deal with being targeted. i wrote this last year and it has details on how to document abuse and who to go to for help removing images. 19thnews.org/2025/05/take...

There is a long history of runaway shops. If the right to collective bargaining means anything, companies must not be able to shut down in response to unionization without massive penalties. Amazon (in Quebec) and Ubisoft (in Halifax) make enormous profits. www.ign.com/articles/ubi...

I'm going to do this tomorrow and I hope you'll do it as well.

Time for a timeline cleanse. I just discovered the Cool History Bros account on YouTube. 😁 #history #china #asia

So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it. www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...

Meanwhile closer to home 😬

He absolutely wants to invade more countries.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

The right to data portability will be examined by the CJEU for the first time.

INVESTIGATIONUsing easily accessible advertising data, Le Monde was able to pinpoint the identities, home addresses and daily routines of several dozen people working for sensitive official entities. www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar... #adtechharms HT @wchr.bsky.social

On one hand I’m worried about the snacks cabinet and on the other hand I’m worried about WW3. I don’t even have hands

I gotta find a way to spend less time paying attention to what's going on because all of it is completely insane and I can do very little about it

Sorry boys; still not nearly as stylish as obelisk cut stone, and that’s heck of a lot cheaper.

This should be very obvious at this point, but if you consider yourself an artist don’t post that art on X.

Our updated PIA guidance helps institutions assess privacy risks in line with Ontario’s laws and best practices, before new initiatives get underway. It’s a practical resource to turn to whenever you’re planning or implementing a new project. https://ow.ly/V8Uy50XRWEi

He was one of the greatest athletes to come from Nova Scotia. The first Canadian-born boxing champion and the first-ever Black athlete to win a world championship in any sport. His name was George Dixon. This is his story. 🧵1/10

how is it only tuesday

My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along. Just sayin'.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

This so much. There’s a lot of problems going on that make more sense when viewed through decades of education & literacy cuts.

Late 2026 resolution - act with more confidence. If there are billionaires and world leaders who can act without a thought in their brain, surely I can take what I do have and fake the rest.

So this should probably be raising more alarms, no? Even if US authorities only gain access to data of EU travellers (a worrying prospect on its own), who will attest that they are indeed travellers? US authorities? I hope we'll not just take them by their word.

I don’t need another teapot… I don’t need another teapot…. #toocute

The user expresses frustration with current security tools providing an overwhelming number of alerts without context, making it hard to discern actual threats. They seek solutions that identify risk directly tied to sensitive data exposure rather than highlighting every potential issue.

There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨

Pacific Rim 1 soundtrack. Out of curiosity, what’s the Canadian forces policy/ status around Jaegers?

“Yes, a lot of people in tech are burned out and struggling with the direction of industry too; here are some tips to make yourself indispensable to the fascism machine before the next time it feeds a layoff of workers into the wood chipper”

Malware doesn’t always crash your PC, sometimes it hides in plain sight as a “useful” browser add-on. TL;DR 🧠 150+ extensions, 1 switch ⚡ 4.3M installs surveilled 🎓 Auto-updates are a trap www.bgr.com/2061288/cybe... #CyberSecurity #Privacy #BrowserSecurity #Chrome

I've seen others claim that "the internet is destructive… because it destroys the social fabric that binds society and civilization together," but that's a ham-fisted approach to an extremely broad tool. We don't get rid of screwdrivers because pointy/sharp sticks are also used for stabbings.

All the responses in this thread. ❤️ #history

Now would be a real good time for the PM to issue statements on Canada sovereignty. Preferably using the cast of 22 minutes with an official made in Canada sketch, since television is the only thing that orange actually listens to.

Icon.

I weigh in on the prospects for digital ID in Canada, and share my incredible hot dog-fried rice recipe, in the @cba-news.bsky.social's National magazine. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

Remember when they said that age ID would protect kids Fun times

Good year for my eye exam to be up for renewal.

The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.

The only New Year’s resolutions you need are to read more books, eat more burritos, and to finally become the terrifying horror who scares folk away from the ragged edge of the forest.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

A broad interpretation of India's new data privacy regime reveals a troubling reality: it would dramatically enlarge the volume, granularity and sensitivity of retained metadata, heightening risks of pervasive monitoring, Rudraksh Lakra writes.

The “make them afraid to be visible part,” or blame them for everything when they are, is so key.

Heck yes.

Drinking black tea tonight & hoping I haven’t screwed up my sleep schedule.

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

TMJ is such a nuisance: “actually I took all that stress and shoved it in your jaw muscles, waiting until you relax to release it all. Enjoy.”

Trying a new recipe. Pretty sure you can kill vampires by breath alone from this dish. #food

At least in They Live you had to put on the glasses to see the dystopian messages.

It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...