Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Finally got around to getting THiCC lab principles (thicc-lab.org/principles/ ) and the Liberatory Tech Project principles up! (liberatorytech.org/principles/) Sites still a work in progress with more life needed. But we outchea, more comin

At an event with Canada's AI minister students called for an arms embargo on Israel (liberals have claimed to oppose tech-facilitated violence.. yet to include military violence) & questioned the focus on AI given the use of AI systems in facilitating genocide ontherecordnews.ca/witnesses-sa...

I wouldn't have expected Vatican City to lead in political clarity in constraining the AI hype-train, but here we are.

I know this is just another brand of hype. But if a manufacturer in any other industry said this of their product…

Zine link not working for me on mobile but found it here anyway 😋 www.patreon.com/posts/resist...

“This zine is for an audience of anyone who wants to think or reflect more on the way that big tech and politics are intersecting in North America.” - @kristenthomasen.bsky.social www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-09...

Thrilled this is out! Particularly fitting that @abeba.bsky.social & Jelle van Dijk's chapter is available as the sample: "Robot rights? Let's talk about human welfare instead"—there should be an Internet-wide bot that automatically links to it any time someone even breathes "AI rights/ personhood".

what a cool book cover. and our chapter is there at the top 🙌🏾 details here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/rob...

Legal Theory Bookworm: "Robot Law," edited by Calo, Froomkin, & Thomasen, buff.ly/qGhj3pU - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Robot Law: Volume II, edited by Ryan Calo, A. M. Froomkin, & Kristen Thomasen.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza say they treated over 100 Palestinian children shot in the head or chest, arguing it’s clear evidence Israel is deliberately targeting minors aje.io/f7key2

Deeply researched article detailing the Trump admin’s “deliberate and targeted attack” on cancer research. Attacks on NIH are compounded by efforts to undermine FDA (causing many cancer drug reviewers to depart) and to patients’ ability to get and retain insurance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

"These technologies are selling worldviews…They're quietly defining who health care is for, and who it isn't."

🔥We are hiring FOUR positions @windsorlaw.bsky.social! An exciting opportunity to join an absolutely fantastic intellectual community. See below for more, deadline is Sept 24.

🔥We are hiring FOUR positions @windsorlaw.bsky.social! An exciting opportunity to join an absolutely fantastic intellectual community. See below for more, deadline is Sept 24.

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

A global push Canada’s border agency plans to use AI to screen everyone entering the country — and single out ‘higher risk’ people www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

another win for the pro-child cancer lobby bsky.app/profile/kati...

What kills me about this story is that Library of Parliament experts wrote a legislative summary and analysis of C-27 for parliamentarians three years ago, and it’s publicly available. Here you go. Ignorance and laziness: a wonderful combination in a cabinet minister. lop.parl.ca/sites/Public...

I’m old enough to remember when Canadians also strongly preferred drone regulation. And now we have some fairly nuanced drone regs.* *can’t help myself: they still need refinement as the tech changes and missions creep. But we have a foundation. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

AI is not the new oil. From a class action standpoint, it may be a ford pinto stuffed with asbestos and doused in nicotine.

In any other year, on any other issue, Solomon's dismissive, ignorant comments about the very subject of his portfolio would be a firing offence. He's not fit for government. If he remains, it will demonstrate the Carney government's lack of seriousness about or understanding of digital policy.

The content of this interview with Canada’s Minister of AI, coinciding with the NYT investigation I reposted below is, to use the lightest term possible, worrying.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Carney & Canada's statements on Gaza are completely vacuous & shameless Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements. Escalate to break imperialist consensus

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

oh no

guess who was in the news bleedingcool.com/comics/polic...

remember there’s always a lucrative position for the seeming critic of the tech industry who doesn’t actually challenge its power and foundational ideas. the prodigal tech bro is one example. there’s a whole industry of academics and journalists who serve in this role too.

TODAY in DETROIT! blackzinefair.org/detroit/

Gaza health authorities say nearly 200 people, including 96 children, have died of hunger, as the WHO warns that 12,000 children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition due to Israel's blockade aje.io/lev0jv

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

I'm begging Canadian media to tie this to Bill C-2, the links are so obvious

I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“Since 2022, thousands of eligible young adults have registered for a little-known program called Books Unbanned, which Brooklyn Public Library in New York created that year to counter efforts to restrict access to certain books.”

This is actually a noob tip:

DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

I wrote about Toronto’s bubble zone bylaw for @canadiandimension.bsky.social TL;DR: it’s bad, but probably not (just) for the reasons you think it is

co-sign

Residents “see the gleaming, futuristic robots rolling down the street, with their spinning sensors and all-seeing cameras, and they ask, Why? Did they consent to taking part in an experiment by Big Tech to see if robots can be trained to be better drivers than humans?”

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

Zine depicting a panel discussion on resisting technofascism.

Check out this zine which captures the key moments from "Resisting Technofascism" - a panel discussion moderated by our senior fellow @cyn-k.bsky.social at U of Windsor's #WeRobot2025 conference last month. See it here👇 www.uwindsor.ca/law/sites/uw...

I only had a chance to take a quick peek but this zine looks incredible. It’s inspiring, informative, and beautiful. I’m going to print out a hard copy so I can enjoy reading it offline. (I find it easier to slow down and savor things that way.)

This was such an awesome event, and this is such a fantastic commemoration of it. Check it out!

Maybe one of the coolest things that's happened to me—being illustrated in a zine! (Not that that's the important part 😅) Much thanks to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social, awesome panelists, & @marcngui.bsky.social for capturing our discussion so well. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/rtfzine #WeRobot2025