Analysis by @sanjanamv.bsky.social on Israel’s use of white phosphorus in Lebanon and the dangers it poses to public health and the land, with a reference to @baydoun.nl's visual database documenting its use and commentary from @wammezz.bsky.social. .

It's bizarre that 'transparency' remains part of Responsible AI narratives. This is the most mask-off moment in decades; the technopolitical hegemony is very transparent about the fact that we & the rest of the biosphere are disposable accessories to their desire for domination.

Listening to Peter Mansbridge’s Good Talk and the segment about AI is painful. Bruce Anderson is saying COVID conditioned us to fear the worst rather than imagine the best, and feel powerless instead of powerful. He says this is reflected in how young people approach AI as a subject and…oh my god.

Who could have foreseen this (aside from every single professor who has had to mark AI-generated essays)? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/car...

As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks

Join our next data center training on June 10th at 1pm ET. We’ll map the industry players driving data center development - from private equity and Big Tech to developers and utilities - and break down their tactics to push this buildout onto communities: bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series

"This is such a Western framework that bears no resemblance to the lived realities of other people, this idea that the only person who can help you heal is a trained professional in an office setting. As if we didn’t have our own traditions that are hundreds of years old."

This isn't a new technology. It's old now. All the extra fossil fuel plants they're speed-building to run new capacity isn't making the product any less awful. This is it folks.

I love having a prime minister who completely buys into the tech industry’s framing of AI, such that he’s throwing billions of dollars at AI companies and pushing more Canadians into relying on their shitty products. To him, the core issue is “engagement and adoption,” regardless of the drawbacks.

He had frostbite on his hands but appeared to be in good health, and was quickly carried down to safety & given food & water. A rescue helicopter flew him to a hospital in Kathmandu, where his wife and daughter, who had already begun funeral rituals, were waiting. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This was a super informative webinar. A report worth reading and saving.

REPORT now available - May 20 event Emerging expert @nyeinnta.bsky.social has authored a post-webinar report based on the discussion w/ Taras Fedirko & @wammezz.bsky.social. Check it out now and share. www.forumarmstrade.org/blog/hybrid-...

By saying he doesn't know about the leaked document we got saying Microsoft wants to "make people addicted" to its new AI, CEO Satya Nadella shows he 1) does not know how to read or 2) does not know what is happening with some of the company’s highest-profile products www.404media.co/satya-nadell...

I don’t know how to tell people that the only way to win, to truly win, is to have principles and bring people along to rally behind advancing those principles. Electoral politics is no exception to this truth. If you elect someone who does not adhere to, or advance, your principles, you cannot win.

google has injected its gemini AI bullshit into our google docs and i just highlighted an article i wrote and told it to "refine" to see what it would do and it deleted the entire thing

"Indigenous partners" tho 🙃

AI, the great democratizer. 🙄 "Canadians must have confidence that AI is being developed and deployed safely, transparently, and in ways that reflect our values." Because AI is renowned for safety, transparency, and reflecting the very best of values. 🤡 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

This is condescending and, most importantly, completely ignorant of the actual, real and material reasons communities object to data centre developments (primarily: environment and resource concerns, which they genuinely understand very well and can explain with specific, accurate detail)

My new article speaks to how the global trade union movement tried to reconcile diverging regional interests in the 1970 and 1980s as countries industrialized or deindustrialized. One country’s runaway factory was another’s runaway development. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Like the tech industry doesn't see us all as guinea pigs or lab rats.

"As a human guinea pig boldly going where no human had gone before, did she get lonely? “There was no moment to be lonely, because I was talking to a chatbot that never would be quiet,” she says. “It’s always there, right?” UGHHHHHHHHH, this whole article. 🫠 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My Toronto Star Op-Ed last week pointed the finger at physician thinking & physician culture to explain why they just won't let go of certain beliefs even when drowning in evidence to the contrary. Today the Globe and Mail provided a tragically shining example, quoting Dr. Srinivan Murthy ... 1/10

“Such struggle is what researchers term productive friction—the cognitive resistance one encounters with sufficiently complex tasks. And it is through such friction that individuals perform the labour that blossoms into competence, expertise, and occasionally mastery.”

Israeli soldiers entered homes in Beit Lif, staging belongings to fabricate claims of weapons. Then, they blew up neighborhoods, leaving families displaced and watching their homes turned into military propaganda. Riyasa Ismail’s home was one of them. thepublicsource.org/blog/lebanon...

I mentioned this in an interview yesterday. Much of the case for the push for AI in Canada rests on a productivity argument. And so far that argument is largely built on faith.

Amgad Abdelgadir and myself will be presenting our Bellingcat investigation which revealed a disturbing trend of Sudanese child soldiers going viral on TikTok. The event will be hosted at Kings College London on 16 June. Free tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

What a great opportunity for someone - applications open now for a post-doc in Irish Studies in Otago.

Bellingcat's @koltai.bsky.social spoke to PBS News about non-consensual deepfake pornography and authorities' struggle to deal with them www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"The paper describes a four-day “combat trauma surgery skills course” offered to 'forward surgical teams' in the Israeli military — units that operate close to the front lines.During the training, the donated bodies were “reanimated” using a method called perfusion" www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...

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And all three are scams lol

businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY

This piece asks the question & answers it: a massive, generational, unforgivable failure of journalism.

This is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The goal is to have always on “supersensing” cameras. “The idea here is that, with a constant stream of visual information, the smart glasses could be a kind of ambient virtual assistant that remembers where you left your keys or other vision-based reminders.”

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

This article calls this a new belief, but it's not. This kind of Longtermism Transhumanism stuff has been the guiding philosophy of VC/SV tech world for a while, and it's appalling. If you, an AI Engager, are frustrated with AI Haters Being So Polarized, look no further to this for why.

TODAY: We talk about the future of media as AI continues to flood the internet with low-quality slop. Join us: www.lapl.org/whats-on/eve...

Really sucks how so many headlines now are just eugenics Mad Libs.

Mainstream media discovers TESCREALism without crediting the people who did the defining work. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @xriskology.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

“In Toronto, 26.1% of those aged 25 to 39 lived with their parents in 2021.” “If a 32 year old accountant lives in their parents’ basement because they are priced out of the Toronto market, they are counted as living in an owner-occupied household.” The 66.5% stat is deceptive.

“Nearly all aspects of the accounts appear to be AI-generated — from the “person” in the video to automated responses to comments, which in some cases attempt to mimic African American vernacular — and experts warn scams like this are growing every day.”

Israel bombed a 900 year old castle from the crusader era