Tuesday, March 10, 4pm. FREE. "how can concerned observers broaden their resistance to Canada’s contributions to ICE in order to mitigate and prevent complicity in violence around the world?"

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

"And the Republicans...didn’t want Iran to release the hostages before the election. They wanted Iran to wait — to keep fifty-two Americans in captivity — until Ronald Reagan had won. In return, the arms would flow once Reagan was in the White House."

The main lesson the ruling class seems to have taken from Gaza is that they don't even need to bother manufacturing consent anymore.

evergreen, alas

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA

i hate this timeline

If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work: bsky.app/profile/benp...

I fell to my knees in public

“The fact that Meta’s legal team appears to have come to this hearing in a trial over the dangers their systems cause equipped with invasive glasses that put jurors and others in the courtroom at risk is a bit on the nose.”

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

"...officials behave as if the future is foreclosed. They rush toward evil in every form: genocide, eugenics, the replacement of humanity with artificial intelligence. They are part and parcel with the predators they were supposed to expose and condemn and prosecute. They always were."

Clearview AI lost in the BC Court of Appeals today. They tried to argue that the Personal Information Privacy Act was constitutionally inapplicable to their practice of scraping the internet for facial data. This is a win for all British Columbians. Link: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/2...

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

“The emails shed light on their ideology, showing how billionaire backers of the early IDW had a vested interest in convincing the public that women who accuse powerful men of sexual abuse are liars, and spent millions bringing a right-wing movement that discredits victims into the mainstream.” 1/

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The dystopia has arrived. “ai can't touch grass. you can. get paid when agents need someone in the real world.” @edufuturist.bsky.social

As I wrote for @policyoptions.irpp.org, as the US guts its regulatory agencies, Canada must step up & expand-not cut-regulatory capacity. AI cannot replace experienced experts in food safety & disease surveillance. We're going to see more illnesses & deaths. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/trum...

“If this technology had existed in earlier decades, it would have been used to track civil rights activists, LGBTQ+ patrons visiting gay bars, women trying to vote, or enslaved people escaping bondage. None of those acts were considered “legal” at the time.”

‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’ By @mattseybold.bsky.social

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

A Swedish city's one-year project is testing how various public services would function in the scenario of a digital blackout theconversation.com/europe-wants...

Many contributed to making the #PCAI a reality, and it's supported by a broad range of orgs across Canada representing different issues & communities, seen in the site endorsements and press release statements here (& here: ccla.org/press-releas...) via @bccla.bsky.social @cancivlib.bsky.social

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

"Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition."

It needs to be said that it is extremely telling of what role ICE is ultimately playing in society that schools respond to it as though its a horde of potential mass shooters.

In honour of Dolly Parton’s birthday, here she is handing out safer sex advice in the 1980s. Watching her laugh somehow makes you feel everything is going to be ok. #DollyParton

Oh Jesus Lord, the thing was in response to a simple request to talk about tariffs.

As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. What appear as isolated historical “debates” are part of a coordinated strategy to erode confidence in Indigenous testimony and survivor truth.

Coretta Scott King’s vision shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics and the broader freedom struggle, says historian Jeanne Theoharis.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

In a forthcoming paper, legal scholar Spencer Overton says the Trump administration's AI policy is another critical arena for its efforts to advance ethnonationalism, ensuring that problems such as algorithmic bias and discrimination are encoded into the systems that will shape the future:

thread about X’s new TOS. tldr is musk can now sue users for any reason in a TX court he basically owns, so he’ll almost certainly win. and this is a platform politicians and journalists largely refuse to leave.

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

this is a worthy read...but PLEASE, journalists, can you frame AI articles without conflating Generative AI with 'cancer cure' AI devices?

This ties into what I wrote earlier today about how the war against Democratic cities reflects the shift under Trump II from liberal peacemaking to authoritarian conflict management, where military victory rather than reconciliation is the goal.

I got a lot to say about this study and no time to say it, but any time someone thinks using AI is helping students learn writing it is likely to be the opposite and rooted in a view of what learning writing is like that must be challenged and revised. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

"...we must take away the money (and thus the power) of America's oligarchs. We start down that path by changing the international laws – passed at the insistence of the US over the past 25 years – that ban foreign tech companies from modifying America's tech products"

One interesting thing about this is how few articles covering this mention OpenAI’s coming move to integrate ads, which merged with people’s health data, presents a wide range of predatory scenarios.

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

I'm sure the U.S. press will handle this story well and not engage in weird false symmetry that helps authoritarians obscure the truth about murdering a woman in broad daylight

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.