Nice to speak to DeSmog to estimate the climate impact of the planned 15.5GW of fossil-fuelled data centres in Canada (wipes out 15 years of reductions). You can see why Canada's gas industry loves big tech so much www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...

Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology. In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI literate, it’s him.

Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Documents obtained by @greenpeaceca.bsky.social: One of the big 'benefits' of AI data centres, according to Carney government, is a bigger market for fossil gas www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...

Padraig Mulholland of NIPSA has said if the attacks on migrant workers do not stop, the Unions will bring the country to a standstill.

The data centres are being built and promoted by fossil fuel interests (Kevin O'fuckingLeary) to provide a demand for fossil fuels.

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

The List underscores how the current trajectory of AI is not inevitable. Resistance is blossoming everywhere, and anyone can shape the future of AI development. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope.

this article thankfully doesn't cite the hype literature that pretends we can 'braid' Indigenous knowledges into AI...and for this I am grateful. As I've said on other platforms, we cannot ethically 'braid, bridge, or weave' to systems/structures intent on the death of Black + Indigenous peoples.

"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.

Canada currently has 1.6 gigawatts of data centre capacity, but the projects in the pipeline would balloon that number to 13.2 gigawatts. Most of those projects are slated for Alberta, where they’d be powered by natural gas — meaning a lot more emissions. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

the list is so long I don't even know where to begin www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fish Futures are AI Free.

You can learn even more about the overall gathering we co-convened here: mediaindigena.com/BFF

The always excellent @mediaindigena.bsky.social just released a new episode from the 'Beyond Fires and Floods' Indigenous climate gathering at UBC last October. Listen to the first half of our panel on water here: mediaindigena.libsyn.com/beyond-fires... Whole series here: mediaindigena.libsyn.com

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

ICYMI: “Can seeing climate change as symptomatic of systems and structures shed greater light on the impacts of ongoing colonial policies and institutions?” 🧏‍♂️ 🍎 HEAR: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

oh, and:

Finally got around to updating my website and linktree. Curious what an anti-imperialist prairie fish scientist-artist and fishy troublemaker gets up to in their spare time? Here's some links. fishphilosophy.org/about/ linktr.ee/drfishphilos...

Please read and share this story. Grateful to @nbcnews.com for running this series on how cuts to Medicaid will dramatically alter how families care for disabled sons, daughters, and spouses. Great work, @mikehixenbaugh.com, and thank you for reporting. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Doug Ford gov't is moving ahead with the consolidation of conservation authorities, but a leaked recording reveals ministry officials don't know the details of how drinking water protections will continue, due in part to cabinet confidentiality New 🍨 by me thenarwhal.ca/conservation... #onpoli

"The investigator wrote that Sim should apologize to Orr, citing the 'grave nature and wide-ranging impact' of Sim’s comments at the news conference as a factor in her decision." vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Waiting for the Federal gov't to issue a policy entitled "Braiding Imperialism -- a reciprocal approach to moving global capital across continents in the name of reconciliation: in this policy we will rollback environmental protections so that the rivers stop flowing and grass is no longer green"

Deep gratitude to IT staff + Educational Excellence Staff for mobilizing support for everyone impacted by sudden Canvas Cloud closure at work. Also, gratitude to Computing Science faculty colleagues for offering up their homegrown Course System that enables me to post materials + use a GradeBook.

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

The Dallas Brodie recall is now listed by Elections BC as approved 👀 The folks behind the recall are www.recallbrodie.com! Check out their site for info & volunteer opportunities!

LPC? More like the Late Liberalism party, amiright

"During the hearing, the judge questioned why consultation wasn’t done sooner, since First Nations have been sounding the alarm over the prospect of separation for more than a year." globalnews.ca/news/1184816...

Every PR piece on this AI data centre cluster brags that it’s “clean”, powered by BC Hydro… But with historic drought, we are now importing coal electricity from US. Taking cue from AB’s Smith, lobbyists have pushed Eby to hook up data centres to LNG, to absorb predicted oversupply by 2030🔍 #bcpoli

As summer approaches and temperatures begin to climb, Victoria city council is preparing to debate whether rental housing should be required to stay below a maximum indoor temperature.

Meantime, those of us who are proudly woke celebrate Lund for putting his own life on hold for months, all in order to fight for an important cause he truly believes in. #cdnpoli #abpoli

We are losing generations of labour that people before us dedicated their lives to — forcing the provinces, territories, and country to actually give a damn about the environment & codify that in law (laws that were already being skirted, distorted, or outright broken before Carney). This is so bad🐟

politely declining a cal invite from my institution to an emergency session on mother's day sun to follow up on a sat aft email re: a shutdown of canvas cloud for the 1500 for-credit courses/15K students in a summer term that starts tomorrow because -in a surprise move- instructure suuucccckkksss 💅

In 2015 @unibergen.bsky.social opted for a self-hosted open source version of Canvas, and so today our student data is safe. But UiB was planning to switch to Canvas Cloud - the hacked subscription service - this autumn, DESPITE it costing more than running it ourselves. jilltxt.net/uib-self-hos...

1/8 🇨🇦 BIG TECH VS. CANADA'S SOVEREIGN CLOUD 🇨🇦 While all eyes are on President Trump's threats, a deeper danger lurks. U.S. Big Tech is entrenched in Canada & Carney’s dream of digital sovereignty may already be dead on arrival. Donald Gutstein reports #BigTech #DataSovereignty #CdnPoli #TechSky

my employer has given us 24(?) hours to extract hundreds of hours of labour off of canvas to pivot to using zoom...but my asynchronous course was commissioned by the employer to meet their reconciliation goals & cannot be exported because everything is in proprietary canvas format. Ask me anything.

The data center isn't getting built in our town!! We defeated it!! I so needed this win right now.

you cannot braid, bridge, weave, ‘influence’, or reconcile Indigenous sovereignty to an AI industry that a) sees First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people as handpicked ‘advisors’ and ‘stakeholders’ rather than rights-holders or b) was always intent on getting its hands on native lands and waters here

(No words, just the sound of my head exploding)

New Theory Says We've Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang https://gizmodo.com/new-theory-says-weve-been-overcomplicating-the-big-bang-2000741777

So corrupt. Remember when John Horgan retired and went straight to the board of Teck Coal? The NDP is run by corporations for their own interests. thenarwhal.ca/bc-teck-lobb...

wrote about colonizers in space for @thewalrus.ca! thewalrus.ca/with-the-art...

Draw your own conclusions, but the president of Palantir Canada sits on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. And the feds also did a deal with Palantir, via a homegrown proxy.

🆕 NEW—Part 0 of "Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes" 📻 HEAR co-convenors @candiscall.bsky.social + @rickharp.bsky.social lay out BFF's origins and objectives, ahead of the series’ first instalment of many to come! podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

On March 24 the AER sent out the final ToR for the environmental impact statement for Northback's Grassy Mountain Mk 2 coal project to all the commenters on the draft. But there was a snag. The AER did not use the bcc function. Today it boldly announces that it has done nothing wrong. 1/2 #abpoli

After lobbying by a mining group, the B.C. government is reviewing conservation measures across the province. Conservationists worry it could water down protections and derail new protected areas. thenarwhal.ca/mining-lobby... #bcpoli