We don't deserve dogs.

Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... Agentic AI tools: what could possibly go wrong?

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman. Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I’m continuously floored at how corporations were the largest beneficiaries (and scammers) of Covid-era government spend but the tiny amounts actual people and small businesses received were somehow turned into a controversy

re-upping this today -- if you haven't read it yet, it is really worth a look:

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o... If I weren’t an atheist I’d believe in a special circle of hell for the detestable Ontario Tory government destroyers of our environment and wildlife.

My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability

futurism.com/artificial-i... This is so appalling I actually ROFL. Who with a smidgen of sense would buy an AI-powered teddy for a child? Or any LLM-infested toy? FFS!

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

Do you remember when we said we could learn about regulating AI from regulating nuclear? Unfortunately it's going the other way around. ainowinstitute.org/publications... What a parcel 'o rogues trashing all nations. #digitalGovernance

It says it all

I'm searching for examples where companies promised an "AI" product but it's actually humans doing the job. I remember there was a robot delivery company who tried that, also the recent Musk scam with puppeteered robots or builder.ai. Do you know of more examples?

I heard if you leave a cheque for $100 for Doug Ford's campaign fund under your pillow when you go to bed, when you wake up there'll be a Skills Development grant for a million dollars there.

Nearly extinct but saved by #journalism 🌴 @mongabay.com reported that the last Round Island hurricane palm - an endangered species of Mauritius relied on by rare insect & geckos - had snapped during a windstorm Then Rio's botanical garden reached out saying they have some that can repopulate it 💪

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... “UA alone won’t feed 10 billion people. But neither can we afford to ignore it. We need to prevent food wastage, preserve soils, halt pollution, arrest climate breakdown and protect biodiversity, especially pollinators.”

💡 STAY ALERT - Social engineering attacks are getting sophisticated. Be skeptical of urgent requests, verification promises, or threats about account suspension—especially in DMs. 8/10

"The escalating volume of cyberattacks on Android devices in sectors such as manufacturing (up 111% over last year), healthcare (224%) & energy (387%) reflects the fact that mobile devices are proliferating in those industries." The #IOT – always a bad idea. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/mobile-...

A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking. Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Note to everyone else: it's easier to do this *before* they fuck with you.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Tough, eh?

My lecture today was about the AI act in which I also discussed the recent attempt by EC of weakening GDPR and AI act in the form of the digital omnibus package stimulated by the #AI Hype (see also open letter @krisshrishak.bsky.social) These are undemocratic developments that should worry everyone.

Wow. First, this is very interesting sanctions implementation. Secondly, really illustrates weaponized interdependence, but also how the overuse of those powers will erode US soft and corporate power and influence.

Starbucks is not a good employer. It used to be seen as one, tho I don’t know how accurate that view ever really was. (It’s lousy coffee anyway, tho obviously not the point.)

I don’t know if the 1st sentence in this headline is true. Possibly, and it makes sense in the context of the whole article. I do know that the 2nd sentence is true. It ain’t happening and never has.

Nygard, Weinstein, Epstein were all kept aloft by a scaffolding of complicity. Their victims--women and children--considered expendable. Fuel for these men's appetites

I cannot stress enough that you should not in any circumstances be using an AI-generated summary when you are signing contracts of any kind DocuSign scrambling onto the anxiety-fuelled AI slop festival.....

euvsdisinfo.eu/large-langua... “…the Kremlin actively interferes in the information space in order to shape the answers you receive from your AI-assistant of choice.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “Policy should not be driven by a dogmatic faith that deregulation will always and inevitably liberate innovation.”

Don’t you just love the way 🇺🇸American media and pundits insist on soft-pedalling neoNazi Trump’s crimes? “illegal extrajudicial killings” instead of “murdering people you know nothing about in little boats.” 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

New Canadian website called Common Goods to shop for only Canadian items #Canada #BuyCanadian Website link here commongoods.ca

Beyond a doubt the most moving depiction of Canadians at war that I've ever read: I weep with pride every time I read it. Lest we forget. Alden Nowlan, Ypres, 1915. peggyblair.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/a...

AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU. Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI. #digitalGovernance #AIEthics pads.c3w.at/form/#/2/for...

STOP road deaths. Now! NOT accidents; incidents. Rates per capita: • Canada & Australia more than double Sweden, Singapore, UK, Norway. • US: sadly 500% higher rate than those countries, and over 100% higher than Canada or Australia By Hannah Ritchie bit.ly/3WLZPeC

Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level. We must stop this takeover before it's too late.

Every objective good of modern urbanism is ultimately subject to the will of politicians. In today's world, working to improve one's community must take politics into account. Ignoring this reality imperils your efforts, no matter how well-intentioned & logical they may be.

It’s not 11:11 on the West Coast but I’m out early. Sassoon knew his way around both a trench and a pen.

I find this allegation difficult to believe. If it is true, then “indifference to evil” doesn’t cover it: evil is the correct word. (Full disclosure, I detest ppl killing wildlife for sport, too.)

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS. Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

www.thewhig.com/news/local-n... All of this! And *please* take a little time to clear snow and ice off your car properly. So you can see out of every window, but also so all that white stuff doesn’t blow off your car into someone else’s face. Please.

Snow before Remembrance Day this far south in Ontario should be banned. My partner yesterday, walking with ultra caution in the freezing rain on top of snowy sidewalks, “I’m not wearing ice cleats on my boots November f***ing 9th!”

Impressive article about how we could empower & require ethics in tech practitioners. Without legally enforceable oaths like those she describes, codes of ethics like those of the ACM or BCS are merely aspirational. IME talking to tech audiences, most aren’t even aware that these codes exist.

Crackdowns at the beach heighten Syrian women’s fears for their freedoms www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... “But will that actually mean freedom for Syrian women?” was my 1st question on reading that the dictatorship had fallen to Islamist fighters. Sadly, it seems I was right.

To resist AI optimism is often cast as anti-progress or naive luddism. But progress worth pursuing requires refusing the illusion that faster, cheaper and more standardized is the same as better.” There is much to ponder in this thoughtful article.