we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

At the core of international law constraining the death penalty is that it should never be used discriminatorily. This new law could not be more discriminatory if it tried. Grounded in the racist belief that Palestinian lives matter less.

The political context I was missing!!!

ICYMI: "Technical Collaborators” recording is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Sb... Listen to these brilliant speakers unpack ways folks can resist technology-facilitated global violence. @jcyliew.bsky.social @jamesyap.bsky.social @jeff.doctor @cjpme.org @cyn-k.bsky.social @jroselkim.bsky.social

very depressing to learn that every camp is the same, and this kind of centrism is built on racist and sexist assumptions about people raising valid and urgent concerns as "naive" / "too sensitive" / "hysteric"

For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this: Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here: uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495

Even if you didn’t intend to hurt people, even if you didn’t have control over it, why not feel sorry that people were hurt? I think I am fundamentally confused by this allergy to empathizing enough to want to apologize and say I’m sorry you were hurt

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

The People's Consultation on AI launched today! Whether you have in-depth expertise in AI issues, or don't consider yourself an "expert" but have firsthand experience with AI or its impacts and want to have your say, this is for you. Participate by March 15, 2026: www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca

Something I hope happens more in the discourse about AI-enabled harms and violence is disrupting the notion that we need AI at all, or that using AI is inevitable. Part of the problem is the overbroad use of the term that has rendered it meaningless/mystified.

every day is a mix of parenting-related exhaustion and guilt that I get to experience such mundane reality of life as the world crumbles and fascism takes over

A senior Gaza official warns toxic materials from Israeli bombardment may be seeping into groundwater, worsening the besieged enclave already devastated water system. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gw1h2

NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...

For orgs & indivs who wanted to sign the original joint civil society & human rights letter protesting Min. Solomon's "national sprint" pseudo-consultation on AI strategy, but didn't get a chance or otherwise missed the deadline, we've re-opened it for signing here: tinyurl.com/AIcivsochuma...

A national AI strategy is too important to "sprint" through in 30 days. I've signed an open letter alongside 160+ civil society & human rights groups, academics, experts, and advocates, protesting Minister Solomon's "consultation" and demanding a re-do: bccla.org/policy-submi...

*stares jealously from Toronto*

Not sure if anyone reads my updates (skeets?) anymore, but here is an essay I wrote recently for @theglobeandmail.com on watching my (once strict) parents becoming gentle grandparents & what I learned from it:

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

No words.

I guess we are just openly being eugenicist now, cool!

The "second-generation cut off" has been described as a genocide “in paper form;" as "an evil that threatens our very existence;" as an act of "retaliation;" as discrimination, and, as assimilation. Yet it remains a part of Canadian law. Why? My latest ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.

I keep reading stories like this and then want to scream like the one clip I watched where someone just says, what happened to just having a think?! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urba...

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

Montreal in the summer is truly glorious, and Villeray feels like what the Plateau was 20 years ago?

It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)

Canada currently has almost 40,000 climate refugees, and it's only June. Manitoba: 18,000 Saskatchewan: 15,000 Ontario: 2,300 Alberta: 2,700 (~38,000, and growing daily)

Update — It’s been 15 hours since the Freedom Flotilla Coalition last saw or heard from their friends on board the Gaza Aid Flotilla. They have not been allowed any contact with them. Their exact statuses are not known.

I'm one of the 412 lawyers, academics, human rights advocates and other experts who have signed an open letter to PM Carney demanding that Canada do everything in its power to stop the genocide in Gaza and support efforts to bring those responsible to account www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...

"Canada must do everything in its power to stop these atrocities and support efforts to bring those responsible to account. This is what our signatures on the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court demand." www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...

every group photo I take is a reminder that I slouch like a gremlin

I recently read Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir about her time at Facebook, which raised a lot of questions about how we should talk about capitalism & politics of memoir as a genre: thinkingforpleasure.substack.com/p/we-should-...

Wow, amazing to see such high turnout of eligible Korean voters from abroad—over 80% in most places

This is a huge massive mistake. Almost two years ago I rounded up all the data we have - and we have A LOT - on why COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy protects both the parent and the child. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

The student who named the genocide was a young Black trans man. Educators need to support him now, and in the coming days. www.them.us/story/gallat...

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

#Gaza: The Gaza European Hospital, in Khan Younis, the last facility providing cancer-treatment across the Strip, is now out of service after Israeli forces struck it on May 13. This was one of the last remaining lifelines in Gaza's shattered healthcare system.

Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the Kanyinda case in 2 weeks. I'm honoured to act as counsel for @fcjrefugeecentre.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & @madhucentre.bsky.social in their joint intervention. We argue the Canadian Charter must meaningfully protect substantive equality of migrants.

Day 2 of the Kanyinda hearing at the SCC. LEAF will be making submissions later today on why refugee claimants with valid work permits should be entitled to subsidized childcare programs. www.leaf.ca/news/leaf-to...

Lots of interesting discussion happening on day 1 of the Kanyinda hearing on whether immigration status should be an analogous ground & what evidence is needed to prove discrimination. LEAF (w/ 22 other interveners, including 4 AGs) will appear to discuss s. 15 tomorrow.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

Tomorrow, @jendagsvik.bsky.social & I rep intervener Canadian Council for Refugees #SCC in Dorsey & Salah re habeas corpus & security classifications in prisons. We focus on how imm status informs classifications. Read subs here: www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossie... #SCC #law #habeascorpus

Another comfort woman from Korea, Lee Ok-Sun, has passed away. There are now 6 comfort women who remain alive (out of 240 who are officially registered)

i’m tired of researchers that still give big tech benefit of doubt. what more evidence do you need to accept the industry is only interested in profit maximisation, market domination & power accumulation at any cost (including human, societal and environmental)

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the pressures of capitalism + scarcity mentality mean we only see education as a means to an end (profit/results), disincentivizing the process

This news will contribute to pressure on the Canadian govt to address the current patchwork approach to addressing deepfakes--while pressure always tends to be on harsher criminal law, we need a multi-pronged approach to change attitudes & ensure support for survivors. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

the price of my favourite kimchi from a local Korean grocery store chain went up by 30%...

I have been asking myself lately whether the choices I've made were worth it (and what "it" is, exactly), so I wrote about why I might be fixated on this question: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...