Solomon: “I’m not aware of the names of these 160" experts who signed the open letter criticizing his Potemkin consultation in October 2025. Not exactly believable. Anyway, here's the letter. bccla.org/policy-submi...

WAIT. HOLD UP. Was no one going to tell me that ETHI actually directly questioned Minister Solomon on our open letter protesting his national AI consultation?!?? Ctee member: "How do you respond to that criticism?" Narrator: He did not. #PCAI www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

Btwn this, the end of Sora, & think I saw sthg about Nvidia /Microsoft /Open AI investment deals unwinding?—looks like the ship HASN'T sailed, you CAN return the genie, and things AREN'T "here to stay". Tech determinism is a self-fulfilling prophecy that only works if enough people fall for it.

TIL that Thorold, ON has a 146MW bitcoin mining data centre "Spanning 100,000 square feet, the facility currently hosts over 20,000 dedicated bitcoin mining computers" www.redjar.ca/non-critical...

The "green" aluminum used in EV frames and batteries is now stuck behind the same geopolitical choke point as the fossil fuels it was meant to replace https://restofworld.org/2026/gulf-ev-aluminum/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1774893663

The contemporary degradation of knowledge doesn‘t begin with technology, but with the particularly US ideological indifference to truth, as reflected in the treatment of Fox News as a legit news and not propaganda outfit; the Money = Speech doctrine; and the view of data as neutral.

I can attest to this first hand. Where I work we are returning to in person interviews because the online cheating is so rampant in technical interviews with AI tools that will 'listen' in and prompt the answers to technical questions.

Thank you for sharing this. In case anyone is interested, Audre Lorde's speech can be read here awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communicatio...

One thing that Tara touches upon but that I want to spend more time on is that the master's tools that are problematic are the *epistemic* ones. Tech has unexamined epistemic assumptions inside of which there is no liberation.

The Enshittification “framing assumes a prior state of genuine service, a golden age of the open internet, that was for many people never particularly golden. The early internet was structured around the assumptions of its architects: predominantly white, male, Western, educated, & abled.” 🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼

CRITICAL AI FOLKS - this initiative is so important. Share, read 👇🏻 this is a grassroots effort to solicit PUBLIC opinion on AI regulation. So many ivory tower conversations about AI reg’l allude to the public having a voice. Well, here’s a successful example of doing the work. 🔥

Would you rather live in America in 1998 or Germany in 1938? bsky.app/profile/jake...

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

Everything — everything — in this thread is spot-on. The social sciences has a real survey problem. Or rather many survey problems. And focusing on AI misses 97% of it.

Strong late 90s Wired vibes from this one. Or, if you prefer, all the mainstream newspaper real estate FOMO articles that preceded the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

One area where government isn’t a hinderance: Food safety inspections. Canada has outsourced a lot of its regulatory responsibilities to the US, which has now gone anti-science and destroyed their regulatory capacity. We need to do more in Canada. Government cutbacks ensure that won’t happen.

Canada is trying to push out 1.5-2m migrants this year and next while aggressively funding the border services, slashing healthcare support for asylum-seekers, and funding new ways to refuse refugee hearings. This being read as a victory breaks my heart. www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

“It’s not a public-service overhaul, it’s a workaround.“ Paul Wells similarly identified Carney’s strategy last summer. The problem is, responding to the long-term US threat requires a better-functioning government, not Jerry-rigged workarounds. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

“The new law, supported by the Conservatives…” Carney’s basically transformed the Liberals into a right-wing party à la Australian Liberals. The Cons under Poilievre resemble the Australian Nationals. Coalition government in all but name. Too bad there’s nobody to play the role of Labor.

“The more you use AI, the more you will use your brain in a different way,” said French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation" This is exactly why we are organizing a debate series around this topic. See my pinned skeet and RSVP. www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

The techs we collectively call AI have use cases, but policy should be about solving problems in the public interest, not identifying ways to deploy specific technologies just for the sake of doing so. Yet that’s *still* how so many of these convos are framed. It’s exhausting. And harmful.

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

You could travel from Lviv to Lahore, and find nowhere in between fully at peace. As the connections between conflicts grow, could a world at war become a world war? My (worried) analysis

Reminder that we had federal and provincial (Ontario) inquiries after SARS 1. The recommendations were not implemented with SARS 2. SARS 1 led to the creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada. Carney has just slashed their budget.

What is Canada's exposure to a trade war and US tariffs? Smaller than advertised! www.cigionline.org/articles/sma...

Exactly a year ago, Policy Options published our call for a Royal Commission on Securing Canada's Future. It was signed by 100+ academics and policy practitioners. Other notable colleagues made similar interventions, before and afterwards.

The DST repeal was in the budget bill, which cleared the Senate today. Killing the tax was a big strategic blunder for the PM. It bought Canada ZERO goodwill with Trump, who is now aiming for the Online News Act and Online Streaming Act as Canada waits for #CUSMA review invitation. 🙄

Where we are right now is the future that the founders & most early writers of wired were pushing us towards all along, even if they didn’t know it.

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Not just failing. It already has led to at least one death. It’s a replica of Australia’s Robodebt scandal. Predicted and predictable, because governments in Canada are thoughtlessly incorporating algorithmic decision-making into their programs. All in the name of efficiency.

Financial speculation itself is a problem, an inefficient use of money that should go to productive investments. Prediction markets are straight-up gambling. Treating them like “investments” is absurd. They should have no place in Canada’s financial system.

We discussed this contradiction in our graduate course on Canadian foreign policy. Penny wise, pound foolish.

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

"Fact check: Pierre Poilievre’s misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast disrespects Canadian" theconversation.com/fact-check-p...

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

This scandal only happens as the result of willful ignorance by the Trudeau and Carney gov'ts. In thrall to the siren song of predictive analytics and generative AI, and focused only on economic opportunities, they both effectively ignored and sidelined critical (expert) opinion. This is the result.

This is utterly bonkers, and simultaneously completely unsurprising, entirely foreseeable, and long warned about by experts (and common sense) in Canada and around the world.

If they are properly confirming the information, then it would take the same amount of time as just doing the thing without AI, but the only way they can justify the use of AI is by it taking less time, which means not properly confirming the information... 😵‍💫

I mean, including everyone who made the decision to integrate this heinous technology into the already profoundly dehumanizing process of immigration vetting. This should be a government-altering scandal and no one will even notice it happened.

AI deployment is at the heart of Carney's economic policy and his government cutbacks. The problem is structural. Firing a minister or civil servant won't make much of a difference in the long run. The government needs to abandon its current AI policies or we can expect more bad outcomes like this.

Tomorrow I'll be giving a keynote address at Brock's Two Days of Canadian Sovereignty. I'll be discussing Mark Carney's US strategy and proposing a realistic alternative approach that would actually strengthen Canadian sovereignty. Stop by if you're in the area!

This is a microcosm of one of the major issues with AI: it actively makes people lazier and dumber. Surely its not that difficult to spend five minutes on google / a provincial tourism site to plan a trip?

I think the answer to this question lies in Carney's approach to int'l institutions. From his actions, he sees international trade agreements as sufficient to create the needed middle-power capacity that would serve as an counterforce to the US and China. From this POV, few bureaucrats are needed.

"It's not without growing pains, as several obvious errors appeared in the bot's answers in its early days of operation. The company that created it said this is to be expected at the start and is easily fixable." Remember when organizations ironed out the kinks before unleashing their products?

Susan Strange saw global finance as a casino back in the 1980s and inspired Ann Pettifor's new book 'The Global Casino' as she explains here... www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8dd...

Actually existing AI is making people's lives measurably worse: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada’s securities regulators are getting into gambling. Swell. Remember when financial markets were about raising money to fund actual productive economic activity? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...