Alison Hearn
@alisonhearn.bsky.social
Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice. Co-director @starlingcentre.bsky.ca Exhausted but still feisty.
Students, once again, are the voice of reason, while uni administrators get high on AI hype…
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 4d agoPrinceton Students rock: "We think it is clear that AI is not academically necessary to a large portion of the student body and may have destructive consequences." www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
Another heartening message from US midterms: you can spend millions, bombard people with ads all you want, most people are now immune. For the most part, if you give them 10 years, they’ll know shit when they see it…
NDP leader Avi Lewis proposes tax on wealth over $10M This money would be used to fund 1. social housing 2. public grocery stores 3. More money for Pharmacare, Dentalcare, and Medicare
Absolutely wild list of results for data centre ballot measures in the US "that's 28 measures across 25 localities, all opposing data centres" - EVERY SINGLE LOCALITY VOTED TO OPPOSE DATA CENTRES WILD RESULTS + A CLIMATE WIN 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21177...
Cohere is just maple-scented Palantir. Peter Thiel wrapped in a Hudson Bay blanket.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2w agoPrime Minister Mark Carney is positioning Ottawa’s C$1.6 billion investment in Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere as a downpayment on his country’s national security.
Shame! Liberals voted against the NDP bill to protect the right to strike. Even so-called “progressive” Liberals fell in line. The Carney government continues to put the interests of foreign investors over the rights of workers. Here are the receipts:
“I’m frustrated, and it hurts very much to look at these government things and saying that ‘we’re going to pass all these bills, like it or not,’” Chief Adam said. “Our lives are at stake. We didn’t deserve this, and we’re definitely not going to take it.”
“We understand that you are scared because the future is so uncertain right now,” said Cedar Iahtail from the Assembly of Seven Generations. “But pushing unethical bills forward without proper due diligence is not the answer. Uncertainty breeds fear, and fear breeds hatred. Hatred breeds fascism.”
Here’s Chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en Nation: “To Prime Minister Carney and the politicians studying Bill C-39, I have a message for you: our rights are not yours to bargain away.”
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm not sure most Canadians realize what's happening right now with Indigenous folks and the Carney government. All morning there has been voice after voice from Indigenous leadership, youth, from across the country, telling us they're gearing up for a fight for their rights. This is big!
We're so thrilled @melhogan.bsky.social will join @starlingcentre.bsky.social for a special screening November 5th! If you're in #londON join us!
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 3w agowww.eventbrite.ca/e/film-scree...
The CRA doles out $300 million in bogus claims - and doesnt even notice.
CRA knew of tax ‘scheme’ before paying out millions in bogus refunds, court documents reveal | CBC News
A fifth estate investigation has found that groups of so-called “sovereigns” following debunked conspiracy theories have successfully duped the Canada Revenue Agency into repeatedly handing over milli...
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As @jameswsthomson.com noted already, the sheer audacity of Carney to begin his oil pipeline announcement by mentioning a wildfire that almost levelled the town. WHAT IS EXACERBATING THE WILDFIRES MARK???? MARK???
I know the world is f**ked and there are far bigger issues, but please, when will Taylor Swift go away?? I can’t take much more of the banality…
"I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT. Also, that it was IN RETROSPECT A GREAT IDEA TO PUT EVERYTHING ON COMPUTERS."
We Must Create the Shit Machine - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...
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"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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Hey Mark Carney- how’s that pipeline coming?
Toronto’s air quality ranked world’s worst as wildfire smoke settles in | Globalnews.ca
Toronto's skies turned orange Wednesday due to smoke from forest fires in northwestern Ontario that plummeted the city's air quality to the worst in the world.
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Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt’s a national holiday, but I’m working — because Prime Minister Mark Carney made what I’d argue will be one of the most consequential announcements of his time in office yesterday. Canada, under Carney, is abandoning major goals in our fight against the climate crisis. Here's what's going on:
Canada’s AI strategy is all about fossil fuel growth. Of course.
Federal Adviser Says Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas | The Tyee
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, says internal government document.
thetyee.ca
Could he crawl any further up Trump’s ass? What an embarrassment.
PM Carney says he’s seen tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal, calls conflict ‘worth it’
After the U.S. and Iran say they’ve reached a tentative deal to end the war, Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling the conflict 'worth it.'
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