Skylee-Storm
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The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Canadian sovereignty tho
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade | CBC News
Canada's spies subjected Indigenous activists to a series of “Native extremism” investigations for at least a decade beginning in 1988, in what internal documents show was a countrywide surveillance p...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Canadian sovereignty tho
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
bccla.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)
This morning, while I was walking to work, I saw a federal worker outside their office building, and they lit their cigarette with another cigarette.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This morning, while I was walking to work, I saw a federal worker outside their office building, and they lit their cigarette with another cigarette.
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so guess we're just supposed to go die or something
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And there's the same freeze in Indigenous services. So a 10% cut once you factor in population growth.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
so guess we're just supposed to go die or something
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The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.
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Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.
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Bill C-9: "taken together the changes in Canadian law proposed in Bill C-9 will open wide the floodgates for litigation – and will effectively kill freedom of expression in the public square."
example: getting arrested cuz you say genocide is bad... (like in the U.K.)
pacc-ccap.ca/combination-...
example: getting arrested cuz you say genocide is bad... (like in the U.K.)
pacc-ccap.ca/combination-...
Combination of legislative bills strips away Canadians’ rights — Privacy and Access Council of Canada
pacc-ccap.ca
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bill C-9: "taken together the changes in Canadian law proposed in Bill C-9 will open wide the floodgates for litigation – and will effectively kill freedom of expression in the public square."
example: getting arrested cuz you say genocide is bad... (like in the U.K.)
pacc-ccap.ca/combination-...
example: getting arrested cuz you say genocide is bad... (like in the U.K.)
pacc-ccap.ca/combination-...
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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.
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.
“What does it say to Canadians, to international observers and to Indigenous people, that victims of this hideous racism will be sent to jail to serve further time, notwithstanding this misconduct.”
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
'We are the land,' Wet'suwet'wen leader tells B.C. court at blockade sentencing | CBC News
A Wet’suwet’en leader convicted after blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline addressed a B.C. Supreme Court at the end of sentencing arguments on Thursday, telling the judge her land "has never...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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.
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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.
October 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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.
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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...
Indigenous leaders ‘not allowed’ to fully partake in ministers’ meeting on public safety, says national chief | CBC News
The head of the Assembly of First Nations says she’s disappointed Indigenous leaders aren’t allowed to fully participate in this week’s first ministers’ meeting on public safety. Instead, Indigenous p...
www.cbc.ca
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
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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
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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.
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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.
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
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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
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
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Rempel is such a shit. Perfect image of racist white feminism.
Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/08/c...
Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rempel is such a shit. Perfect image of racist white feminism.
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"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...
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...
Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
www.cbc.ca
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"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...
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...
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I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius
September 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius
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"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
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#cdnpoli #fossilfuels #energy #climate
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"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
niche-canada.org/2025/06/21/d...
#cdnpoli #fossilfuels #energy #climate
Me asking older technologists for advice.
September 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Me asking older technologists for advice.
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I’m going to be so pissed if I send out all of these work emails today and the rapture is tomorrow
September 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m going to be so pissed if I send out all of these work emails today and the rapture is tomorrow
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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.
Canada, Australia, the U.K. and France have finally -- conditionally -- joined the many other nations who recognize the State of Palestine.
But today, Prime Minister Mark Carney also once again called for a “Zionist Palestine.”
Here's what's going on:
But today, Prime Minister Mark Carney also once again called for a “Zionist Palestine.”
Here's what's going on:
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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.
Canada and the UK formally "recognizing" the state of Palestine with massive terms and conditions that gives them no self determination is going to be the strongest example of the dangers of centrist attempts at appeasing everyone while appeasing no one; leading to the far right taking over
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cat stares at bug