My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust betakit.com/canadas-new-...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Everyone involved in the abuse of this child should be identified. Let them try to look their kids and their neighbors in the eye after being outed as literal kid-nappers

Doug Ford is destroying Ontario's social safety net, and has been for years

“Basically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.” As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.

It’s incredible and infuriating how little accountability Musk and X/xAI have faced for this.

Data centers add to existing public health burdens. “A recent study by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative found that those living within 1 mile of an EPA-regulated data center were breathing air pollution at levels above the national average.” gizmodo.com/data-center-... 1/

This consultation is a fulfillment of the promise we (the ad hoc civil society working group) made to the Canadian public, in this open letter to the "AI Minister" Evan Solomon, protesting the rushed and biased 30-day "consultation" to form a "national strategy" on AI: bsky.app/profile/cyn-... #PCAI

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

The People's Consultation on AI - launched! We deserve better than an industry focused sprint. We deserve policy and enforceable regs that take our concerns, the need to prevent AI harms and protect our environment seriously. Website (EN): lnkd.in/egcadaSq Website (FR): lnkd.in/epB-Qq2c

Urgent call and crucial read from @dotty-dot-dot.bsky.social and Alex Neve www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... Full article also here: archive.ph/nJT8L

This is a good time to remind folks that EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of EPA’s Environmental Justice grant cancellations on communities. Check out the map here: screening-tools.com/epa-ej-grants

Trump administration announces plans to build AI data centers on federal land thehill.com/homenews/adm...

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*

Corporate Coup in Global Context Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST. We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it. Here’s our unofficial but functional copy: digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...

Listening to this now! So good!