Veldon Coburn

@veldoncoburn.bsky.social

Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn Associate Professor - McGill PhD Political Science

It's wild that we're encouraged to embrace 'Indigenous AI', but imagine if I phrased it as 'Indigenous nuclear war'. "Indigenising" is not the same as decolonising or abolishing systems of harm. Fanon (1961) warned us the native/colonized petit bourgeoisie would align with capital + empire.

Rob Shaw is nervous that if the politicians he writes about start fleeing the non-consensual sex image generation website he posts on, his account with 33,000 followers will be useless

Rob Shaw:

"Politicians who won't post on X anymore, but keep posting on the platforms that ban Canadian news organizations (Meta) and contribute to the country's disinformation problem, without doing anything about it.
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Kinda incredible it was only four days ago that the US launched an unprovoked attack on another country, kidnapped its head of state and announced it was now “running” it and there have already been 2 or 3 other crises since then that have bumped it from the top of the news cycle

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.

The leaflets stated:

"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."

British Columbia's newest far-right party has become embroiled in conflict, after suddenly removing its leader. OneBC’s implosion appears to stem from the firing of a staffer accused of posting neo-Nazi propaganda: pressprogress.ca/dallas-brodi...

BC’s newest far-right party, OneBC, entangled in conflict after removal of leader

The party’s implosion appears to have stemmed from the firing of a staffer accused of posting neo-Nazi propaganda

pressprogress.ca