Alternative headline: Big oil wants to externalize costs and privatize benefits. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

They don’t! Investors believe that other investors believe that other investors believe. We’re deep in the Bezzle and everyone thinks they’ll get the timing right.

Carney's AI strategy makes zero mentions of copyright. This is a massive issue at the heart of model training. How does it get completely ignored?

Cutting embassy staff who understand the countries they're working does not help Canada's diversification goal It's just another sign that PM Carney is uninterested in listening to anyone...that's what happens when you think you're the smartest man in any room nationalnewswatch.com/2026/05/20/g...

The new federal artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, has all the trappings of a policy document. But it is, at its core, a declaration of belief. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Any strategy worth the name includes a risk assessment. Carney’s AI strategy completely fails to do that. It doesn’t even acknowledge many of the negative impacts workers are already experiencing.

O&G cos don’t want prices to rise too much too quickly because it speeds the shift to alternatives.

You love to see it.

Q is are the assets going to be managed well or not. State could end up better off if it replaces a rent extracting private company. Or worse off if revenues leak away into patronage or subsidies.

Carney’s AI strategy mentions commercializing of our medical data TWICE.

The Carney government’s use of Sovereign Wealth Fund is extremely Orwellian. What the Government proposes is the opposite of a SWF. A SWF acquires foreign assets. The Carney fund is to acquire stakes in domestic assets. We can argue the two strategies. But that is not a SWF.

A lot of Canada’s AI strategy is based on the competitive advantage of [checks notes] being colder than other places.

Mark Carney is an establishment economist in charge of a country. He’s a former central banker twice over. He’s depending on the undeserved respect of economists to get away with austerity.

Canada has officially entered a technical recession. So, what comes next? CLC's @dtcochrane.bsky.social spoke with CTV about the solutions needed to strengthen our economy, including investing in workers, public services, and communities. Watch the clip below: www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...

Financial savings disguise interspatial-interpersonal redistribution as intertemporal-intrapersonal redistribution.

"The one thing I encourage all scholars to do in his memory, is to read and engage with scholars from the Global South and engage with their findings and their thinking in your own work. Cite them!" 👏

Fed's Hammack: Inflation might need help from policy to reach 2%.

Sneak (leaked?) preview of the federal AI strategy. Not sure when it goes officially public. Lots of details here: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Buying up existing assets is not investment. Someone else sold the asset. The headline could refer to divestment as much as investment. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chattel slavery in the Euro-American sphere was a historically unprecedented horror. The wealth created using that terrorized, enslaved labour is a part of current wealth distribution. It’s in the past. It has not passed.

Don't recommend watching this first thing, but once you've built some fortitude in the day, check it out. And always remember: However horrific and brutal you think the enslavement of Black people as chattel was, it was worse than that.

It’s a modern enclosure more than a new Industrial Revolution.

Who gives a sh!t what this war criminal has to say about anything?

Any resolution between Big Tech and Big Copyright will contradict all the grandiose claims about intellectual property rights. It’s not about protecting and supporting creativity. That’s just cover. It’s about power.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social 1,200 nursing care workers to vote on new contract Employed by CapitalCare, these health care aides and licensed practical nurses could get pay increases and improved health benefits. albertaworker.ca/news/1200-nu...

Carney is Zombie Neoliberalism incarnate.

Here's the video recording from our Centre for Future Work webinar yesterday, discussing our new report on the impacts on Canadians from the current oil price shock: youtube.com/watch?v=ErNI.... Many thanks to @dtcochrane.bsky.social and @atiyactions.bsky.social for joining us! #canlab /2

Do the prediction markets let you bet on the future of prediction markets?

Capitalism has always thrived on cost externalization. AI has cranked that up to 11.

If the NDP leader’s surname had been Jones, do you think Danielle Smith would invoke it now? Yeah. Me neither.

Join me at 1pm for a webinar about the impact of high oil prices on people in Canada from the Centre for Future Work. The always brilliant @jimbostanford.bsky.social will be joined by Atiya Jaffar from @350.org to discuss! centreforfuturework.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Listening to Stop Podcasting Yourself and heard a shoutout to BCGEU!

Big Tech didn’t invent enshittification. Veblen called it sabotage back in 1904.

Powerful corporations are governed as though they are subject to an Invisible Hand. They ARE the hand. And it takes a PhD in economics not to see it.

This is ridiculously useful. Measuring income distribution is far from straightforward.

The billionaires would rather be powerful in a dystopia than equal in a utopia.

I have speculated that Elon Musk is such a caricature of an evil billionaire that he must be fifth column.

Eventually, governments will have to buy back the public assets being mismanaged (read: sabotaged) by for-profit interests. Let’s at least stop selling them off!

wait you can grow rich with debt???

Might as well read “Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canada.”

An incredibly dystopian headline.

This means efforts to get the publishers onside have failed. The publishers don’t consider the AI cos unstoppable juggernauts. The intra-capitalist strife is going to heat up further. Big Tech vs Big IPR Monopolists. A pox on both their houses.

In order to create a just, sustainable, innovative economy we need to make a decisive break with “markets know best” governance.

This point is so important. The wasted talents of the marginalized makes us all worse off. Elites need to suppress those talents to justify their wealth and power.

Mark Carney wants to socialize the risk and privatize the profit. He is capitalism in human form.

Human Centipede is a metaphor for AI trained on AI generated slop.

We can either tax back unearned wealth or we can borrow it. The former reduces power imbalances. The latter exacerbates them.

The federal government doesn’t need to “unlock” capital. It can create the money to build assets. And if it’s worried about too much money in the economy, it can tax back the money being hoarded by the ultra-wealthy. It doesn’t have to be so complicated.

every era makes possible a range of different solutions to different problems, and every era promotes some of the solutions people actually come up with and discards or slow walks others. hence us in an era of multilevel ecological collapse with many of our brightest minds working on digital casinos

Thread on the obscene windfall profits of the oil companies. Carney wants to let them keep that money while funnelling even more subsidies their way.