The misunderstanding of embodiment such that social and cultural groundings are excluded (in addition to the often narrowly invoked views of the physical/affective) remains so problematic and seems to only be getting worse at the uncritical expansion of systems such as LLMs

My friend, Dan Breznitz, begins talks about innovation by asking “What exactly do we want from innovation?” I follow up with “Who gets to be part of the “we” in that conversation?” Here’s our pal, Tom Goldsmith, offering a good answer to both.

Little Zine Revolution curates and distributes anti-colonial zines. lzr.life

"Public servants in the department will use [Cohere's] North for 'search, summarization, drafting, decision support, and task automation,' Wall said." Welcome to the deskilling of the public service. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

“Dr. Faith Harper pointed out… ‘The discomfort of an imperfect process is what people are trying to avoid. But the discomfort is the most important part of our growth as creatives. We're not only not thinking, we're not maturing as people.’”

I couldn’t help but wonder, is this narrative of ”spread around the AI wealth for all” coming back now, so they can just as easily spread around the AI debt to all?

Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is cutting funding to the Canadian Space Agency by 33%.

"In her letter, Woodhouse Nepinak expressed concerns that the Carney government's focus on major project development could put First Nations at risk of similar methods today." such as Bill C-22 for example www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Weird NHL playoff matchup coincidences: 1. The Cursed Battle of ex-Reimer teams 2. The Battle of Pennsylvania 3. The Battle of impressive mammals endangered by colonialism 4. The Battle of the recent expansion teams and 5. The Battle of maybe the only two teams with forest green in their emblem

trying to post through it rn

S.T.O.P. is thrilled to see two Syracuse lawmakers introduce a citywide bill banning biometric surveillance, "ensuring that emerging technologies are deployed in a manner consistent with transparency, accountability, and civil liberties." Read more. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

heated chivalry

Reminder that Alligator Alcatraz is a money maker for Canadian company GardaWorld. There should be a ban on Canadian companies profiting from American fascism, but Carney won't do that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One issue with many attempts at AI regulation has been lack of specificity. Like, AIDA proposed to regulate “AI” but lacked clarity on which tech it actually regulated AFAICT this was a much needed exception having clarity re: tech & legal problem Could have been an easy win for the Minister of AI

The Mikisew Cree First Nation says the missing data is essential to prove a link between industrial contamination and rising cancer rates in the northern Alberta community. By @sonalg.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com

When people tell you that change is impossible, remind them, anything is possible with the letters A and I.

Check out Yuki's important paper on how the GDPR will grapple with AI-generated personal information 👇🏻🤖

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

The first (I think?) policy from the new leader of Canada’s federal left-wing party is: Calling for specific and well defined anti-surveillance AI regulation. 🍿👀

"In 2024, the New York Times reported that Israel had deployed mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza that relied in part on Corsight’s facial recognition technology." ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

My colleague @kate-ro.bsky.social @citizenlab.ca spoke to CBC re alarming new "AI"/facial recognition-integrated body cams program that Edmonton Police Services is piloting. Always a reassuring sign: "EPS has declined multiple times to answer questions from CBC News regarding the [FRT] project..."

Millions in tax breaks to the AI industry while librarians are removed from prisons in order to save tax money (op).. This is exactly the OPPOSITE OF AI SAFETY. This is AI making the world shittier. This is AI increasing harm.

Mark Carney is giving $925 million in tax breaks to the AI industry

Check out Jen’s fantastic paper ⬇️ This was such a fun panel with @teresascassa.bsky.social as discussant

I am very proud and excited to share that a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology featuring We Robot 2025 conference papers is now published and fully open access, with thanks to funding support from @windsorlaw.bsky.social: digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol23/i...

Can confirm as a parent to 2nd graders. The kids hate AI.

Monsieur Mixalot:

academic reviewers (and tech evangelists) who reject work for "only pointing out problems" are basically saying "please clean up the mess big tech created and profits from before we can take you seriously"

if anyone's interested in sharing, i'm looking for fun stories of individuals & communities pushing back against AI in various forms. examples on my mind already: - DeFlock - anti-data center movements/successes - blocking/neutralizing Waymos stuff like that. suggestions welcome

We found every data centre in Canada thelogic.co/news/the-big...

What I am really pushing for is a resistance to the uncritical adoption of AI as a bandaid solution to cover up the consequences of austerity politics in the legal system. That is hard to put in a headline, so I'll let the quotes speak for themselves: windsornewstoday.ca/windsor/news...

And… youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ?...

A beautiful statement: "meaningful safety comes from your neighbors having what they need." Of course today I am thinking of global neighbors as well as local neighbors. What if we actually tried to take care of each other, instead of police and punish and dehumanize?

'AI as safety' is a sales pitch even for rich folks: More video = more opportunity for 3rd-party hacking Corporate surveillance of daily life = opportunity for companies & employees to abuse access Enabling surveillance networks = enabling systemic violence that *surprise* can also hurt rich folk

Whatever country you’re in, this is as good a time as any to demand a halt to all arms trade with the US. In canada, Liberal MPs just refused the first step of closing the Israeli arms trade via the US. *Call your MP now* Don’t think about it: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

But here’s the thing: killing begets killing & genocide more genocide. Israel & US (under Democrats) partnered to wipe out Palestinians using these same “radical” justifications, so why are we shocked they’re doing the same to Iran under this monster?

This is a declaration of genocide phrased like a reality-TV commercial - “Find out tonight at 8pm...“ Language horrifyingly dissociated from meaning.

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

Tapping the sign

Every time I see garbage like this I become more committed to never using AI for anything

What value this mission provides: -- PR for Lockheed Martin, whose weapons have been used for the genocide in Gaza -- Learning how to fly to the moon in this way -- Preparing for a future mission to land on the moon -- Advancing prep for commercialization and militarization of space -- PR for US 🔭

Yeah that’s cool

✨ An updated link for the recording of this fantastic panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NGr... Stay tuned for more in this space. 😉

Canadian digital sovereignty tho

WAIT. HOLD UP. Was no one going to tell me that ETHI actually directly questioned Minister Solomon on our open letter protesting his national AI consultation?!?? Ctee member: "How do you respond to that criticism?" Narrator: He did not. #PCAI www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

New #PCAI update! We have fwd'd submissions from the People's Consultation on AI to the Canadian government, specifically the Ministers, staff, & House of Commons & Senate standing committees listed here: www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/news-updates/ (p.s. Also [esp?] for non-critical AI folks :D)

The brother of the Heated Rivalry casting director is now leader of Canada’s left party.

Zootopia 2 calls for a Free Palestine and Hoppers shows abolitionist politics in action. Something is cooking over at Pixar.

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."