#Türkiye charging #Netanyahu with #genocide is a more than a little hypocritical when the country is not currently a signatory to the Rome Statute (the International Criminal Court / #ICC) because it has been trying to avoid charges of crimes against humanity against its own leadership...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Coming climate inferno ignored in favour of war spending yvesengler.com/2025/11/06/c...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

“We should train novices based on the practices of disciplinary experts who have achieved AI fluency in their discipline. Unfortunately, there aren’t any such experts yet.” www.chronicle.com/article/stop...

As NEOM collapses under the weight of its own ridiculousness, I just wanted to remind folks of what I wrote 18 months ago... #smartcities #platformcities theconversation.com/the-scaling-...

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

The Military Wins and Public Programs Lose in Carney's Budget thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Almost every single aspect of these government job cuts is actually cutting important environmental programs, and replacing tasks with AI with simply assumed cost savings. This is the very definition of false economy. #Carney #Canada

Do tell.

Google to build data centre on Christmas Island www.afr.com/technology/g...

Sofia Menemenlis joins @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast to discuss her article on solar geoengineering - or “solar radiation management" as it has become known. They talk about how the implementation of SRM is imagined and what the potentially catastrophic side effects would be. Uh… geostorm🎬

This week on the 404 Media Podcast we talk all about the $60 mod people are buying to disable the privacy-protecting recording light on Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses. Light is supposed to warn others you're recording. Now, possibly to film without anyone knowing www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmh...

Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs voted unanimously to demand that Canada and Ontario meet with them over the law-defying Bill C-5 and Bill 5. But it's clear they see this as existential. If it's not met at the table, it will be met in the courts and on the land. ricochet.media/indigenous/l...

read the entire thing www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The scope of Big Tech’s surveillance, and its harms, is kept secret. That’s why I appreciate “The Secret Life of Data” by @aramsinn.bsky.social & @jesgilbert.bsky.social - and why in my own work I’m trying to raise awareness. New from me – What data does in secret: buttondown.com/creativegood...

They recycle this bullshit about once every 3 months... #surveillance

Canada's nation-building projects should not also be nation-burning corporateknights.com?p=48315

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

Ring’s face recognition feature raises privacy and legal problems. A senator is rightly calling on Amazon to abandon its plans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.

NEW: NYC's mayor-elect must now grapple with the sweeping NYPD surveillance apparatus that has historically targeted Muslims and other minority groups. @awinston.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/welcom...

@nicolaspalacios.bsky.social and I are cited in this new piece by Emma Whitford in @insidehighered.com, about academics not traveling to the #USA... #AcademicSky www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The LNG bridge is starting to collapse www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Scoop: We obtained vast amounts of European mobile phone location data from data brokers. It was allegedly collected for advertising purposes only, but can be used to spy on high-ranking EU officials & NATO staff in Brussels. The Commission is 'concerned' & issued new security guidance to its staff.

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

"A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.” It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract."

Coming to terms w/ Canada‘s changed geopolitical situation involves recognizing that we can no longer outsource key infrastructure development to the private sector & foreign sovereign wealth funds, & remain independent. Government must get back into the business of building critical infrastructure.

"The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide."

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

It's not often that a students of yours publishes a book while they are still doing their PhD... 🎉

Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid

JUST IN: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship, raising concerns about privacy and accuracy. www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.

We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks. www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

BREAKING: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.

We don’t get more details than this: “the CIA carried out a clandestine cyberattack against the Venezuelan government, disabling the computer network used by Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence service” But this in the article is insane regardless of whether it was entertained or not.

This….

ever wonder if Trump would retain support if he ever admitted to murder? now we know.

Any media platform that reports on the 1X NEO robot without clearly stating that "all the relevant things you might want this robot for are done by remote workers (badly)" or that adds "for now" is doing journalistic malpractice. "For now" in "AI" means "never".

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

#Israel accuses #UN special rapporteur, #FrancescaAlbanese of being a "witch" casting spells against the country... www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵