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PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Finally combed every inch of this interactive explainer & highly recommend. The researchers patiently unpack each networked aspect of the AI kill chain, while exposing the range of data that humans are reduced to, where this info is found & how targeting decisions are made. ai-killchain.airwars.org
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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Petition to replace “wrote” with “prompted” in any discussion about the use of AI in generating papers. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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"Giving the middle finger, it's not what will give you a ticket," Mayor Martinez Ferrada said before the council meeting. Let's just be honest. There's bigger issues in terms of the attitude of some citizens." Meanwhile SPVM just beat a journalist covering a protest. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Montreal city council adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees | CBC News
Montreal city council has adopted a bylaw to ban people from insulting police officers and other municipal employees.
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Sky-Hero ranges from "tactical ground vehicles and drones to cameras that are designed to 'accelerate data acquisition and improve surveillance.'The City of Montreal’s procurement entry only specifies “purchase of a robot,” with no mention of the exact product acquired." theijf.org/brief/montre...
Montreal police spend $20,000 on Axon bots over 5 months
Two robots are joining SPVM’s tactical intervention unit
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I don't ever want to touch my fridge like this. Also, AI slop. www.androidauthority.com/samsung-acci...
Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
Some Samsung smart fridge owners in Korea have reported that their fridges stopped working after a SmartThings update.
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"The changes at US Central Command [..] focus on three key areas: refining processes and workflows for refreshing and vetting planned targets, adding new open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement, and making dozens of upgrades to Maven Smart System" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
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"Almost a week since the protest, Wilson says he still has trouble writing, reading and speaking, and is concerned about the long-term consequences of the concussion." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'He targeted me': Journalist says he was beaten by Montreal police at anti-AI protest | CBC News
Press groups are calling for an investigation after Montreal police allegedly beat a freelance journalist while he was covering an anti-artificial intelligence protest in the city's downtown last week...
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NEW: US Central Command has made multiple changes to its lethal targeting process and boosted how it uses AI to help vet intelligence following a deadly strike against a school in Minab, Iran, according to US officials and people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
bloomberg.com
“It would have been a struggle” for the US to conduct so many strikes so quickly without Maven, said Cameron Stanley, head of the Pentagon’s digital and AI office, describing more than 13,000 targets hit within 38 days of Operation Epic Fury as “really a revolutionary number.”
I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2d agoThe federal government tabled new legislation Monday to make sweeping changes to environmental and labour rules, in Mark Carney’s latest effort to remove what he sees as barriers to development in pursuit of his pro-growth agenda.
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike By Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social
Katrina Manson@katrinamanson.bsky.social · 2d agoFull story at this gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For all those romanticizing Carney as some heroic leader
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · yesterdaySeniors are being arrested protesting Mark Carney's complete capitulation to the oil and gas industry. They're wearing pictures of their grandchildren
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
Judy Trinh@judytrinh.bsky.social · yesterdaySeniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
The anti-abortion crowd gets why this book is a threat (and are writing badly about it). Would love to see the pro-abortion crowd take the evidence, arguments, and perspective of this book and use it in their work!
Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End
A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...
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I'm just at a loss. Please exercise caution when searching her name on the internet
"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own" www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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This is why it is important to push back on the idea that these models can think and reason just like a human, it leads people to think this is both possible and a good idea Stop huffing farts in the philosophical debate and look at what is actually happening
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago“Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a ‘copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.’” 💀
Thrilled to announce that the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, co-edited by @ulises-mejias.bsky.social , @jasminemcnealy.com, and yours truly, is now out! 33 chapters, 50+ authors, and a wide range of perspectives on power, policy, methods, case studies, and resistance.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
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et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.
I have a question for Corsi-Rosenthal people and air-quality experts. I read that an activated carbon filter is required to filter VOCs -- can I build a Corsi box with a carbon filter? @drsmith.bsky.social Would you know?
I appreciate this story, and encourage everyone to read it, but the purpose of this system is absolutely not to prevent people from dying.
The U.S. spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
SPECIAL REPORT | DYING ON CAMERA When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it
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"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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The first mission offered coins for posting a pro-Bradford comment on Instagram: “It's honestly a relief to hear someone actually say what most of us feel – this city could be so much better. Glad you're not pretending it's all fine like the rest.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/21/i...
Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
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I went to the International IDEA site to reference the Global State of Democracy 2026 study and along the way traversed the "Cookies Policy" page, which had a tab labelled "Email Tracking." I guess "advancing democracy worldwide" begins with surveillance.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 5d ago"The USA experienced declines in Free Political Parties, Effective Parliament, Access to Justice, and Judicial Independence, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, and Economic Equality. US scores on most of these measures are at their lowest levels since 1975" www.idea.int/publications...
"Hoy tienen una escala más planetaria y, por consiguiente, una dimensión más existencial y apocalíptica." elpais.com/ideas/2026-0...
El fascismo del fin de los tiempos: hacer negocio hasta que llegue el apocalipsis
El mundo asiste a la emergencia de un nuevo fascismo. La gran diferencia con la pesadilla que vivimos en el siglo XX es que los monstruos de aquellos tiempos engañaban a las masas con la promesa de un...
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We are at the stage where EU-funded boats hunt down asylum seekers in the Mediterranean and force them back to Libya while making it harder to rescue people from drowning
Survie - Ensemble contre la Françafrique !@survie.bsky.social · 7d agoEn Méditerranée, l’UE ne sauve pas des vies : elle finance ceux qui traquent les exilé·es, les refoulent vers la Libye et les entrave les secours en mer : www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...
"... Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada's administration, proposes fines of between $350 and $1,000 for citizens who intimidate, harass, threaten, verbally abuse or insult municipal workers. It also proposes doubling the fine for second-time offenders." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Montreal city council to discuss controversial bylaw banning insults against police officers | CBC News
Montreal city council is expected to vote this week on a controversial bylaw that would allow it to issue fines for insulting police officers and other municipal employees.
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