Bryan Carney
@bryancarney.bsky.social
Main Geek @thetyee.ca & contributor there and elsewhere
was @bpcarney on the now musky smelling app
https://muckrack.com/bryan-carney/articles
Collecting material for last touches on book,
"The Internet Was Great but It's Time to Shut It Down"
was @bpcarney on the now musky smelling app
https://muckrack.com/bryan-carney/articles
Collecting material for last touches on book,
"The Internet Was Great but It's Time to Shut It Down"
Does a word make a meaning if it falls in a forest of no click rate ?
June 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Does a word make a meaning if it falls in a forest of no click rate ?
I guess time will tell if it comes back online in some form …
June 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I guess time will tell if it comes back online in some form …
Reposted by Bryan Carney
Wait a minute, though
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware - United States Department of State
This Joint Statement was originally announced on March 30, 2023, at the second Summit for Democracy, with an inaugural group of eleven likeminded partners. Since then, it has been updated to reflect a...
2021-2025.state.gov
June 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wait a minute, though
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Reposted by Bryan Carney
Especially because we @citizenlab.ca discovered that Ontario Provincial Police are customers of Israel-based Paragon spyware used to silently hack phones of targets (and which is now implicated in government surveillance abuses in Italy 🇮🇹)
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t...
citizenlab.ca
June 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Especially because we @citizenlab.ca discovered that Ontario Provincial Police are customers of Israel-based Paragon spyware used to silently hack phones of targets (and which is now implicated in government surveillance abuses in Italy 🇮🇹)
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
Way to go Amanda :)
June 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Way to go Amanda :)
Reposted by Bryan Carney
"The [Liberal Party] platform... suggests Solomon will have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy and with national security considerations."
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada now has a minister of artificial intelligence. What will he do? | CBC News
Canada has its very first minister of artificial intelligence in veteran broadcaster and newly elected Toronto Centre MP Evan Solomon. So what does that job exactly entail?
www.cbc.ca
May 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"The [Liberal Party] platform... suggests Solomon will have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy and with national security considerations."
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It refers to how you have to boil bitter sappy crap for 60 years to get one year of good/sweet
May 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It refers to how you have to boil bitter sappy crap for 60 years to get one year of good/sweet
The WCC board still would require a few more restaurant options actually open at both domestic & international YVR
May 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The WCC board still would require a few more restaurant options actually open at both domestic & international YVR
Your failure to grasp this is a bit trying, but I’ll help you one last time:
It doesn’t matter if Carney was a politician or not yet, it matters if Solomon had access because of his role.
The scandal was Solomon’s ethical breach and it was always an issue and remains one 👋
It doesn’t matter if Carney was a politician or not yet, it matters if Solomon had access because of his role.
The scandal was Solomon’s ethical breach and it was always an issue and remains one 👋
May 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Your failure to grasp this is a bit trying, but I’ll help you one last time:
It doesn’t matter if Carney was a politician or not yet, it matters if Solomon had access because of his role.
The scandal was Solomon’s ethical breach and it was always an issue and remains one 👋
It doesn’t matter if Carney was a politician or not yet, it matters if Solomon had access because of his role.
The scandal was Solomon’s ethical breach and it was always an issue and remains one 👋
You’re describing the Internet.
Now, less ironic mass-scolding and more coming up with bluesky - scold puns,
“More like BlueSkold” or some such ?
Now, less ironic mass-scolding and more coming up with bluesky - scold puns,
“More like BlueSkold” or some such ?
May 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You’re describing the Internet.
Now, less ironic mass-scolding and more coming up with bluesky - scold puns,
“More like BlueSkold” or some such ?
Now, less ironic mass-scolding and more coming up with bluesky - scold puns,
“More like BlueSkold” or some such ?
“Not in politics” lol … he was the governor of the Bank of England after a long term as bank of Canada and there were many whispers of his future here
May 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Not in politics” lol … he was the governor of the Bank of England after a long term as bank of Canada and there were many whispers of his future here
If you are in a position of power because you are a journalist & you personally profit from connections that affords you…
(One of those connections was our current Prime Minister whom he brokered an art deal to)
most journalists I know would call that an “ethics violation”. Thx for your opinion
(One of those connections was our current Prime Minister whom he brokered an art deal to)
most journalists I know would call that an “ethics violation”. Thx for your opinion
May 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you are in a position of power because you are a journalist & you personally profit from connections that affords you…
(One of those connections was our current Prime Minister whom he brokered an art deal to)
most journalists I know would call that an “ethics violation”. Thx for your opinion
(One of those connections was our current Prime Minister whom he brokered an art deal to)
most journalists I know would call that an “ethics violation”. Thx for your opinion
