patatas
@its.small.patatas.ca
he/they
Craftsperson, artist, labourer in #HamOnt
Luddite & tech tinkerer
Blog:
thedabbler.patatas.ca
also:
blundervalley.ca
social.patatas.ca/patatas
Signal: @smallpatatas.01
Craftsperson, artist, labourer in #HamOnt
Luddite & tech tinkerer
Blog:
thedabbler.patatas.ca
also:
blundervalley.ca
social.patatas.ca/patatas
Signal: @smallpatatas.01
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Sand Castles
the hollow, market-based politics of AI and Canadian Liberalism
thedabbler.patatas.ca
I could've probably saved some time and just said "yep, that's capitalism all right" but instead I sweated over this blog post that I've been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli
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“…I’m so glad that we didn’t elect a Conservative government who would’ve given corporations near legal immunity…”
This is what I’m talking about when I say Carney’s government is paving the road to fascism. #cdnpoli
This is what I’m talking about when I say Carney’s government is paving the road to fascism. #cdnpoli
Huh, also, probably not at all related, super cool how Bill C-15 would allow cabinet ministers to exempt companies from any law (except the criminal code) www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws - CCPA
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any indiv...
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 27, 2026 at 3:23 AM
“…I’m so glad that we didn’t elect a Conservative government who would’ve given corporations near legal immunity…”
This is what I’m talking about when I say Carney’s government is paving the road to fascism. #cdnpoli
This is what I’m talking about when I say Carney’s government is paving the road to fascism. #cdnpoli
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Paving the way for fascism
Huh, also, probably not at all related, super cool how Bill C-15 would allow cabinet ministers to exempt companies from any law (except the criminal code) www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws - CCPA
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any indiv...
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 26, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Paving the way for fascism
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LinkedIn is such a gold mine for learning about these freaks:
RBC Senior VP John Stackhouse posted an image of his own book in a weird 4th of July post, and look what's on the shelf to the left of it - a book arguing for the merger of Canada and the U.S. 👀
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-s...
RBC Senior VP John Stackhouse posted an image of his own book in a weird 4th of July post, and look what's on the shelf to the left of it - a book arguing for the merger of Canada and the U.S. 👀
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-s...
July 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
LinkedIn is such a gold mine for learning about these freaks:
RBC Senior VP John Stackhouse posted an image of his own book in a weird 4th of July post, and look what's on the shelf to the left of it - a book arguing for the merger of Canada and the U.S. 👀
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-s...
RBC Senior VP John Stackhouse posted an image of his own book in a weird 4th of July post, and look what's on the shelf to the left of it - a book arguing for the merger of Canada and the U.S. 👀
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-s...
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Easy. AGJ
I love navel gazing CEOs discussing shit that will never happen so this content is right up my alley! youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?...
FULL DISCUSSION: Google's Demis Hassabis, Anthropic's Dario Amodei Debate the World After AGI | AI1G
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Easy. AGJ
So in other words, our values and principles are now market-based; subject to negotiation on an ad-hoc, per-issue basis. Anand (and Carney, at the WEF) may as well be saying "fuck the UN" #CdnPoli
Today, I outlined pragmatic implications of Canada’s foreign policy in 2026. Listen here to an excerpt and for full excerpt:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTo...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTo...
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 AM
So in other words, our values and principles are now market-based; subject to negotiation on an ad-hoc, per-issue basis. Anand (and Carney, at the WEF) may as well be saying "fuck the UN" #CdnPoli
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seems kinda newsworthy to explore the connections between Canada's darling Cohere and Palantir 🤷
bsky.app/profile/404m...
bsky.app/profile/404m...
Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. @josephcox.bsky.social breaks it down.
Watch our latest episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-QH...
Watch our latest episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-QH...
January 22, 2026 at 3:22 PM
seems kinda newsworthy to explore the connections between Canada's darling Cohere and Palantir 🤷
bsky.app/profile/404m...
bsky.app/profile/404m...
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“Longer-term, this is a good thing for the Western Hemisphere. It’s a good thing for the US. It’s a good thing for the Bank of Nova Scotia."
Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business
Financial data suggests Canadian banks are poised to profit if Donald Trump’s plan to takeover Venezuela’s oil industry comes to fruition.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM
“Longer-term, this is a good thing for the Western Hemisphere. It’s a good thing for the US. It’s a good thing for the Bank of Nova Scotia."
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I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a “lie”
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a “lie”
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Very happy to see that #BlackSky has their ATProto AppView up and running (staging.blacksky.community) while backfilling all those terabytes of data. I'm using that and/or deer.social in my browser, and I've deleted the Bluesky app from my phone.
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Blacksky
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
staging.blacksky.community
January 22, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Very happy to see that #BlackSky has their ATProto AppView up and running (staging.blacksky.community) while backfilling all those terabytes of data. I'm using that and/or deer.social in my browser, and I've deleted the Bluesky app from my phone.
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I would have been more impressed with Carney’s speech if he hadn’t used it to crow about his grubby little neoliberal tax cuts.
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I would have been more impressed with Carney’s speech if he hadn’t used it to crow about his grubby little neoliberal tax cuts.
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There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
January 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
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Counterpoint to the speech today.
Canada considers the US to be a safe country for asylum-seekers. www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States
Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
www.wired.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Counterpoint to the speech today.
Today the brave hero Mark Carney told asset managers around the world that it's time to diversify their portfolios a bit, maybe it will work as well as his climate strategy did
January 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Today the brave hero Mark Carney told asset managers around the world that it's time to diversify their portfolios a bit, maybe it will work as well as his climate strategy did
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Just two examples of why I'm not going to get excited about his tough talk at Davos.
If Mark Carney wasn’t full of shit we wouldn’t be exporting F-35 parts and building vehicles for ICE
January 20, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Just two examples of why I'm not going to get excited about his tough talk at Davos.
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If Mark Carney wasn’t full of shit we’d have seized and nationalized US-owned assets in Canada by now
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM
If Mark Carney wasn’t full of shit we’d have seized and nationalized US-owned assets in Canada by now
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More context: Canada is a leading worldwide abuser of human rights through its management of more than 60% of extractive mining projects in all continents (and also domestically)
white people discussing the future of non-white people is always from a colonizer eugenicist framing.
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
More context: Canada is a leading worldwide abuser of human rights through its management of more than 60% of extractive mining projects in all continents (and also domestically)
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"Carney's actions aren't in line with his words" is a sentiment I completely agree with.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of people.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of corporate interests, the actions make more sense.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of people.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of corporate interests, the actions make more sense.
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Carney's actions aren't in line with his words" is a sentiment I completely agree with.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of people.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of corporate interests, the actions make more sense.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of people.
When viewed as prioritizing Canada as a nation comprised of corporate interests, the actions make more sense.
Carney cheered the attack on Venezuela just 3 weeks ago, absolutely fuck off with this BS
Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos by far. He understands the situation with clarity while others prevaricate, appease, and send late-night “Dear Donald” texts or call him “daddy.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Carney cheered the attack on Venezuela just 3 weeks ago, absolutely fuck off with this BS
The last time Carney made a big speech on the world stage it resulted in a decade plus of pretending to do something about the climate crisis while blunting opposition to 'business as usual'.
By "middle powers", I assume he means neoliberal states, because he cheered the attack on Venezuela.
By "middle powers", I assume he means neoliberal states, because he cheered the attack on Venezuela.
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The last time Carney made a big speech on the world stage it resulted in a decade plus of pretending to do something about the climate crisis while blunting opposition to 'business as usual'.
By "middle powers", I assume he means neoliberal states, because he cheered the attack on Venezuela.
By "middle powers", I assume he means neoliberal states, because he cheered the attack on Venezuela.
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I love when Americans post Canadian politicians talking cause all the liberals cream their jeans meanwhile he's steamrolling Indigenous rights, beefing up the police state, militarizing the country and materially supporting the US.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I love when Americans post Canadian politicians talking cause all the liberals cream their jeans meanwhile he's steamrolling Indigenous rights, beefing up the police state, militarizing the country and materially supporting the US.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
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"These exemptions just have to be justified as being “in the public interest” and “encourag[ing] innovation, competitiveness or economic growth,” concepts so vague that they could be invoked for virtually any law. "
Extremely troubling.
Extremely troubling.
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada. #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws - CCPA
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any indiv...
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"These exemptions just have to be justified as being “in the public interest” and “encourag[ing] innovation, competitiveness or economic growth,” concepts so vague that they could be invoked for virtually any law. "
Extremely troubling.
Extremely troubling.
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I could've probably saved some time and just said "yep, that's capitalism all right" but instead I sweated over this blog post that I've been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...
Sand Castles
the hollow, market-based politics of AI and Canadian Liberalism
thedabbler.patatas.ca
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I could've probably saved some time and just said "yep, that's capitalism all right" but instead I sweated over this blog post that I've been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli
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Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, I believe most Canadians will agree that it is in Canada's best interests if you cancel all of Palantir's contracts with the Canadian government. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
January 15, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, I believe most Canadians will agree that it is in Canada's best interests if you cancel all of Palantir's contracts with the Canadian government. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I could've probably saved some time and just said "yep, that's capitalism all right" but instead I sweated over this blog post that I've been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...
Sand Castles
the hollow, market-based politics of AI and Canadian Liberalism
thedabbler.patatas.ca
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I could've probably saved some time and just said "yep, that's capitalism all right" but instead I sweated over this blog post that I've been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-c...