Kristen Thomasen
@kristenthomasen.bsky.social
Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || #HamOnt kid in Windsor || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
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Excited to share a new co-authored pub from me and Jeremy Kellen, hot off the press at the TWAIL Review.
TLDR: we place the hype around AI ~magic~ as part of a longer historical arc of imperial and colonial obfuscation & moves to innocence.
Please give it a read ✨
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TLDR: we place the hype around AI ~magic~ as part of a longer historical arc of imperial and colonial obfuscation & moves to innocence.
Please give it a read ✨
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DTE is building a data center in the Detroit suburbs that will tie up resources. When asked to share contract details, DTE and it's clients broke the law and redacted most of the it.
January 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
DTE is building a data center in the Detroit suburbs that will tie up resources. When asked to share contract details, DTE and it's clients broke the law and redacted most of the it.
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Good thing then that the EU condemned this unequivocally lol
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Good thing then that the EU condemned this unequivocally lol
It is not possible to successfully pander to a war machine.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
It is not possible to successfully pander to a war machine.
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PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey is an anti-GenAI, satirical, millennial-coded masterpiece
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
And according to the credits it was sponsored by Canadian and Quebec tax dollars soo .. you’re welcome 🥹
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The 60 Minutes reporting on CECOT, with video recorded straight from broadcast (not multi-part phone recording off tv), now on Internet Archive.
Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is:
archive.org/details/60mi...
archive.org/details/60mi...
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The 60 Minutes reporting on CECOT, with video recorded straight from broadcast (not multi-part phone recording off tv), now on Internet Archive.
Heated Rivalry and now this - it’s a big month for Canadian television
Canadians have leaked 60 Minutes’ banned episode investigating Trump’s illegal actions in direct defiance of CBS censorship.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Heated Rivalry and now this - it’s a big month for Canadian television
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I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
Security of Self | Research and innovation
Cybersecurity needs a new understanding to enable societies and individuals to thrive in the digital context. A manifesto for a holistic and collaborative approach, The Security of Self invites a para...
www.uottawa.ca
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
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Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks
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The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep.
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers
By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes: “Tech critics become...
www.policyready.ca
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep.
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
Security of Self | Research and innovation
Cybersecurity needs a new understanding to enable societies and individuals to thrive in the digital context. A manifesto for a holistic and collaborative approach, The Security of Self invites a para...
www.uottawa.ca
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
Who do I know who has seen Zootopia 2 and wants to dissect it’s anti-colonial, anti-landlord, anti-billionaire storyline with me??? 🐰
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Who do I know who has seen Zootopia 2 and wants to dissect it’s anti-colonial, anti-landlord, anti-billionaire storyline with me??? 🐰
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Very pleased to learn that skating will be part of the resistance.
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Very pleased to learn that skating will be part of the resistance.
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There are striking similarities between the AI market today and the dot com bubble of the 1990s that imploded in 2000, resulting in massive losses for investors and the collapse of major companies, with the U.S. economy eventually entering an economic recession in 2001.
The US Economy Is Becoming Highly Dependent on a New and Untested AI Industry
Some AI companies are using techniques and financial products seen in the run-up to the great financial crisis of 2008.
truthout.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There are striking similarities between the AI market today and the dot com bubble of the 1990s that imploded in 2000, resulting in massive losses for investors and the collapse of major companies, with the U.S. economy eventually entering an economic recession in 2001.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Wishing peace to those processing yet more mass shootings
December 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wishing peace to those processing yet more mass shootings
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The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.
Maturing is realizing that…
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.
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“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
My 7yos of the roblox and 6-7 generation mercilessly mock AI generated videos. The industry is cooked.
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My 7yos of the roblox and 6-7 generation mercilessly mock AI generated videos. The industry is cooked.
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Oh FFS
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources
The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Oh FFS
Friendly neighborhood remind that you don’t have to buy or use a Ring. It’s actually neat that we can collectively decide to make this specific nightmare useless.
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Friendly neighborhood remind that you don’t have to buy or use a Ring. It’s actually neat that we can collectively decide to make this specific nightmare useless.
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"AI is America's next Manifest Destiny, and we're ensuring that we dominate this new frontier,” Michael said in the press release, referencing the 19th century American belief that God had divinely ordained Americans to settle the west at the same time he announced a new chatbot."
ok then
ok then
this holiday season, the Pentagon is promising to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior'
the secretary of war wants YOU to make AI slop
the secretary of war wants YOU to make AI slop
Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'
The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"AI is America's next Manifest Destiny, and we're ensuring that we dominate this new frontier,” Michael said in the press release, referencing the 19th century American belief that God had divinely ordained Americans to settle the west at the same time he announced a new chatbot."
ok then
ok then
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