Before Canadians get all smug as they usually do, just remember how often things like this happen here and get very little, if any, media attention. Police, and "civilian", settlers here shoot Indigenous people all the time and usually get away with it. www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...

This should be a standard by which any new online harms legislation is judged.

I've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I understand calls to ban X but there’s an important goal that‘s not met by banning one social media site Call for our Ministers to aggressively regulate companies that carelessly distribute tools that make sexual violence easier & scalable. Legal consequences for disseminating violent technology.

The hypocrisy is notable and gross, if unsurprising. Honestly though, I don’t want to see this interest convergence with law&order conservative politics. I don’t actually want this government in the business of banning social media sites. But they can stop frigging using the CSAM site omfg.

Canada isn't banning X and its ministers continue to use it. Ok. What are the consequences of creating child sex abuse material and deepfake porn? www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

The thing I hate about ‘AI governance‘ is that it’s empty. We actually have to care about kids & want to end misogynistic and white supremacist violence if ‘AI governance’ will ever be for the people & planet. The political norms in this country rn care most about building more AI in Canada.

The thing I hate about ‘AI governance‘ is that it’s empty. We actually have to care about kids & want to end misogynistic and white supremacist violence if ‘AI governance’ will ever be for the people & planet. The political norms in this country rn care most about building more AI in Canada.

This is embarassing. @evansolomon.bsky.social is Canada’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. And @marcmillermp.bsky.social – my MP – is Minister of Canadian Culture and Identity. He is responsible for the Carney government’s overall approach to social media platforms.

Whoa Tucker Carlson is on the brink of understanding the concept of imperial boomerang

(regarding the “minister of AI“)

The minister of digital asbestos is committed to doing the absolute least possible about regulating deepfake porn/CSAM machines.

Every university, politician, and government department should abandon X and state explicitly why. It’s an easy political win with financial consequences for a completely unrestrained company. And then Attorneys General should contemplate public nuisance tort litigation. IMHO.

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

I know most of my followers on here are because of my podcast Public Health is Dead. I also know a lot of you are white. If you are surprised by the horrifying murder in the streets in Minneapolis, or my reposts about it, I challenge you to listen to the other podcast series I made a few years ago 👇

Anti-ICE pastups seen around NYC

The Danish high command clarifies that Danish forces have standing orders to use lethal force to repulse any military attack on Greenland, including one by the United States. Denmark will invoke article 5 of the NATO treaty calling on other NATO members to assist it in repelling the invasion.

Minneapolis.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Canada has a literal Minister of AI in @evansolomon.bsky.social and so far crickets. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

DTE is building a data center in the Detroit suburbs that will tie up resources. When asked to share contract details, DTE and it's clients broke the law and redacted most of the it.

Good thing then that the EU condemned this unequivocally lol

It is not possible to successfully pander to a war machine.

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹

The 60 Minutes reporting on CECOT, with video recorded straight from broadcast (not multi-part phone recording off tv), now on Internet Archive.

Heated Rivalry and now this - it’s a big month for Canadian television

I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀 “Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell. Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks

The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep. www.policyready.ca/policymaking...

I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀 “Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell. Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Who do I know who has seen Zootopia 2 and wants to dissect it’s anti-colonial, anti-landlord, anti-billionaire storyline with me??? 🐰

Very pleased to learn that skating will be part of the resistance.

There are striking similarities between the AI market today and the dot com bubble of the 1990s that imploded in 2000, resulting in massive losses for investors and the collapse of major companies, with the U.S. economy eventually entering an economic recession in 2001.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Wishing peace to those processing yet more mass shootings

The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

My 7yos of the roblox and 6-7 generation mercilessly mock AI generated videos. The industry is cooked.

Oh FFS

Friendly neighborhood remind that you don’t have to buy or use a Ring. It’s actually neat that we can collectively decide to make this specific nightmare useless.

"AI is America's next Manifest Destiny, and we're ensuring that we dominate this new frontier,” Michael said in the press release, referencing the 19th century American belief that God had divinely ordained Americans to settle the west at the same time he announced a new chatbot." ok then

ugh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The entrepreneurs of the AI apocalypse have discovered a perfect formula... The future becomes a hostage to present accumulation, and we’re told we should be grateful for such responsible custodians." sounds familiar

THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

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🚨 A Canadian company just signed a deal to rush military vehicles to ICE — the agency committing violent, racist raids, tearing families apart. The contract isn’t fulfilled yet. We have time to stop it. ACTION: Tell PM Carney to block the deal: leadnow.ca/campaigns/no... Thanks! #cdnpoli