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.

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

🚨 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

Excited to share a new co-authored pub from me and Jeremy Kellen, hot off the press at the TWAIL Review. TLDR: we place the hype around AI ~magic~ as part of a longer historical arc of imperial and colonial obfuscation & moves to innocence. Please give it a read ✨ twailr.com/wp-content/u...

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Extremely dubious distinction.

"Marilyn Slett, chief of the Heiltsuk Nation on the B.C. coast, said in a news release, 'This pipeline project will never happen.' The B.C. AFN said it stands with the coastal First Nations and wants 'all governments to abandon this pipeline project.'" www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

If I were a politician, I don't think I would adopt an anti-affordability, anti-Sabrina Carpenter platform. But I'm just a country law professor.

Excited to share a new co-authored pub from me and Jeremy Kellen, hot off the press at the TWAIL Review. TLDR: we place the hype around AI ~magic~ as part of a longer historical arc of imperial and colonial obfuscation & moves to innocence. Please give it a read ✨ twailr.com/wp-content/u...

💯 all while claiming their tech can’t be regulated because some day it could cure cancer.

💯 all while claiming their tech can’t be regulated because some day it could cure cancer.

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

Abandoning democratic responsibility, but make it “trailblaz[ing]” and “the next logical step” in AI. globalnews.ca/news/1154415...

Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”

BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it

Also….. Deloitte is the claims administrator for the $23.3B First Nations CFS and Jordan’s Principal settlements. They’re in charge of processing claims, managing payouts, etc. And they’re out here using AI to generate a provincial health plan.

"$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months"

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

Statement: CJPME is urging Canada to halt the export of military goods to the United Arab Emirates amid concerns that it may be diverting Canadian weapons to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries in Sudan.

Two pages apart in the @thestar.com : 9 year old killed by driver of SUV jumping curb, and Ontario bans speed cameras. Yes they are related, because Doug Ford inculcates a culture that the world is made for drivers, but kids and cyclists? Too bad.

The City of Vancouver’s new budget proposed major cuts to its Climate & Sustainability department. The CCJ co-directors, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, wrote an op-ed in Canada's National Observer expressing their criticism of the budget proposal. Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl

"How I use Signal (and Why)" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/11/11/h... This blog post is part of a larger series that might be of interest: librarian.aedileworks.com/tag/howandwhy/