How can these land defenders be found guilty of contempt when they were on land under Wet’suwet’en jurisdiction? The absurdity of “community service” being handed to 3 people who’s entire lives have been in service to their people. May this entire colonial racist system burn to the ground.

Critical to mobilizing “AI” resistance is understanding that corporations now know that the marketing term “AI,” is becoming toxic. That doesn’t mean they’re going to halt their data extraction & prediction business. It just means they’re getting sneakier about how they’re punching it into products.

oh jeez i wonder why they aren't invited to the meeting that's about how to continue stealing their land www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

I’m guessing the reason OpenAI wants to do erotica is to gather more personal information from users. It will insist on camera access to verify DL and passport photos and use that data to train models. If it can create dossiers and eventually a social graph it can match the advantage Meta AI has

I love how the pro-generative “AI” crowd aggressively insists that it is not all about robot girlfriends and “free” labour, and as time goes on, it seems to be about robot girlfriends and free labour.

Super fun watching the company that made billions claiming “our AI will solve cancer” has pivoted to “our AI will make a bunch of shit that already exists, but worse” and apparently people are still pretending it’s not all a giant grift.

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

Rempel is such a shit. Perfect image of racist white feminism.

"The project faced many obstacles in the U.S., including opposition from environmentalist and Indigenous groups." wow, look at Rosemary Barton manufacturing consent by burying the key legal, moral, and physical resistance to this pipeline (and so many others) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

"Carney’s willingness to buy into oil industry talking points around Carbon Capture Storage raises important questions about the seriousness of both his economic and environmental policies." - @drlorileeoates.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/06/21/d... #cdnpoli #fossilfuels #energy #climate

Me asking older technologists for advice.

I’m going to be so pissed if I send out all of these work emails today and the rapture is tomorrow

Canada, like all settler colonial projects, is very careful about who it "recognizes" and who it doesn't. Always read the fine print, the conditions mean everything. Remember, this is the country that still has an "Indian Act" which demonstrates how this process works in practice.

Surprise, the country that recognizes Indigenous nations within its so-called country, but doesn't give them any actual veto powers, and the country that started it all, makes a half-hearted gesture that doesn't mean anything.

Cat stares at bug

every "tech job creation" message is nonsense, because leaders will bend over backwards to bend the entire economy towards it and it's always 1000 jobs tops in populations of millions.

In a world that made even a lick of sense, anybody w/ a degree in anything like social implications of tech should be able to write their own ticket rn. …But if we lived in a world that recognized, let alone properly valued that expertise, a whole lot of shit would already necessarily be different.

Rage Against the Machine Learning

Recognize Onkwehón:we nations next.

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

I wonder if the Therme Spa will have a reconciliation theme room.

"History teaches us that atrocities are often only recognized after the fact. (...) What is happening today in Gaza follows the same tragic scenario, except that this time, the world is witnessing every moment of the siege and destruction." ⬇️ By Sarah Emad al-Zaq, writer and translator in Gaza

ICYMI: I wrote about Palantir and Cohere and their role in the privatization of governance by AI.

Reading this report should raise some (more) red flags about where things are headed. Just because something is “Canadian” doesn't mean that it is going to have your best interests at heart.

They are already doing that via surveillance technology in our phones and on our streets 🎉

Maybe it’s true that no one in #onpoli cares about @algomau.bsky.social. I do, though, because, of all of Ontario’s universities, it has a very important history & huge potential. #cdnpse needs stability, otherwise we will continue to see stories like this.

Bill C-2 is a deeply flawed bill. It hands the govt sweeping new surveillance powers & threatens Canadians’ privacy. It would even let law enforcement demand info—w/out a warrant—on whether you’ve seen a doctor, psychiatrist, or other providers. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

I warned Indigenous people last year about this: "AI" slop is destroying Indigenous knowledge transmission over the Internet because people won't know what's reliable info, our distinct cultures being further sloppified, this slop is regurgitated as "fact", kinda like OG anthropology / archaeology

"Your AirBnB was my home" Seen in Barcelona

The fanfare of Carney at Mila is a good reminder that Indigenous people are a non-factor to Canada’s “sovereign compute” strategy. This AI partnership is the next stage in colonial extraction and dominance. Regarding “responsible AI,” I ask, responsible to whom?

building a Dyson sphere around the sun is an incomprehensible undertaking. building one around the solar system is simply impossible in even the wildest sci fi projections of the future every statement Altman and his fellow tech oligarchs make is just as preposterous

The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos

"They want a thing they can treat like a person because they are used to people who they treat like things." Read that again.

Saddened to learn today that shíshálh Nation researchers for the St. Augustine's Residential School in BC have, through Survivor testimony, historical research, and archaeological technology, located an additional 41 unmarked burials: shishalh.com/2025/08/15/s...

"I think that they want to keep it quiet, don't want the public and Indigenous communities to know that the working group has an interest in coming to Canada to investigate whether there is enforced disappearances," - Kimberly Murray www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Surveillance and magical thinking ✨

More info on Indigenous workers building the NY skyline... youtu.be/JsSZDhTXS2A?...

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

The struggle of seeing reasonably priced beads for sale and knowing that I already have too many beads.

It's cool how everything that's happening right now was warned about years ago, but anyone with an ounce of power to stop it either didn't care or actively enabled it. The only things people got wrong was that it wouldn't all be *quite* this stupid.

Residential school denialism, in sum: Denialists: no deaths occurred! Nations: confirm additional deaths Denialists: still no bodies! Nations: exhume, confirm deaths Denialists: but no police are involved! Police: confirm additional deaths Denialists: (ongoing loop of hate)

How much you wanna bet Carney copies the U.K.'s announcement in 3....2......

🚨 BREAKING: New report reveals hundreds of weapons shipments from Canada to Israel. In 2024, then Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly claimed that Canada had stopped all arms transfers to Gaza. But the facts say otherwise.

On July 10 Scale AI received $98M from Solomon. Scale partners include the U.S. DOD, Army, Airforce and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) dedicated to maintain “American superiority in threat landscapes.” CEO Doug Beck has said DIU has directly benefited from Israel’s “experience” in Palestine.

“We don't have to speculate about what happens when AI gets twisted into a propaganda tool. We've already seen it in action, and it's terrifying.” “AI doesn't need to be smarter than humans to manipulate us. It just needs to be better at pushing our psychological buttons.” Yep.

I wonder how different our world would be if Canadian media could muster the same outrage over the government’s inaction on the forced starvation in Gaza as we do for foreign interference and government debt levels… Breaks my heart, truly. These are choices.

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

As a scholar of data centers for ten + years, this is playing out in ways that are so ridiculous, and yet there were signs long ago that data centers were always already monuments to these priorities…