Federal Court of Appeal rules against Ezra Levant's Rebel News in its challenge to a CRA ruling that it was not a qualified journalism organization and not eligible to receive tax credits because most of what it publishes isn't journalism decisions.fca-caf.ca/fca-caf/deci...

ICYMI: The Trump administration pushed other governments not to participate in a European conference on disinformation because of a panel that was focused on whether the US is now a threat for foreign influence and manipulation in Europe.

Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics

Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.

techpolicy.press

So, just connected the dots on Trump's embrace of "superintelligence" over AI and see that the phrase pops up in the tagline of Zuckerberg's childish, "The Future is for Everyone" memo. Everybody else except me know this? www.politico.com/news/2026/10... www.meta.com/thefutureisf...

Trump says anyone who does not refer to AI as ‘super intelligence’ is ‘THE ENEMY'

The threat comes a week after Trump signed an executive order renaming AI to “super intelligence.”

politico.com

Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

theguardian.com

I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli

Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons

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difficult decisions who could have foreseen what could have possibly been done alas

Skydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full Memo

Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing.

variety.com

Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade censorship, says it will leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form.

Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill

Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country

theglobeandmail.com

This looks terrific. Fwiw, I'm deeply ambivalent about Horkheimer & Adorno, esp their "culture industry" chapter in DoE (it's empirically empty, misses the political potential of the time & view of media effects overwrought) BUT their critique of the triumph of instrumental reason is spot on wrt AI.

Scott Richmond@scottrichmond.me · 5d ago

Published today! "The Critique of Instrumental Reason Circa 1976: Seymour Papert, Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence, and the Frankfurt School": quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... Finally, my first scholarly work on Papert is in the world!

Tweets by Matt Jarbo about David Ellison firing Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy from Paramount-Warner Bros. merged company aka Skydance. Source: x.com/mjarbo/statu... x.com/mjarbo/statu...

After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.

“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined. “.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said. $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."🔥

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Zuckerberg's slush fund is equal to all of Meta's revenues in Canada. Yet, his company refuses to abide by the Online News Act and bans the distribution and sharing of news in Canada on its Facebook, Instagram and Thread services. Oligarchs untethered from the democratic rule of law is nfg!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

Sharp words on the rot & corruption in the Trump regime, its corporate lackeys, & gutless US media coverage of both: "The corruption & regulatory capture are disgusting enough, but it’s positively grotesque that the U.S. lacks an establishment press that’s capable of explaining any of this...".

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · last wk.

This week's announcement of an "AI accord" was lazy extraction class performance art, designed to pretend corporate oversight still exists in a country increasingly too corrupt to function

Zuckerberg's slush fund is equal to all of Meta's revenues in Canada. Yet, his company refuses to abide by the Online News Act and bans the distribution and sharing of news in Canada on its Facebook, Instagram and Thread services. Oligarchs untethered from the democratic rule of law is nfg!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

The 0.1% own 15% of all the wealth while 50% are basically broke. That is how societies die. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider

The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.

wsj.com

Musk, on bended knee, mouthing Trump's new words for AI.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Elon Musk corrects himself: "I think it's worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI -- SI, pardon me. I think by far the most likely outcome is major abundance."

The remedies in the Google ad tech case "stopped well short of actually preventing future abuses of monopoly power," writes Public Knowledge senior policy advocate Patrick Gallaher, who argues the ruling shows the need for the bipartisan AMERICA Act.

Google Ad Tech Remedies Show Need for Legislation

The AMERICA Act is bipartisan legislation that gets at the heart of the problem of monopolistic digital ad tech, writes Public Knowledge's Patrick Gallaher.

buff.ly

Great essay by @eduardoporto.bsky.social on the tech lords who have become fed up with democracy and now seek to jettison it as an unnecessary fetter on technology and their power to shape it and society in their image. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI

‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’

theguardian.com

The latest from Cowards Row: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

hollywoodreporter.com

A super concerning meeting of white nationalists in advance of Truth and Reconciliation day cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...

Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday

TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...

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A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

Streisand the fuck out of this thing

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Free speech for me, snort tech titans, not for thee!

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.

Yes and a lot of the people in the simcluster who should know better keep falling for it.

Anna Gifty@itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The CEO of Mistral AI believes American tech giants are using [AI-apocalypse] rhetoric to control and close off the market to their advantage.” lol, I rest my case.

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evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2w ago

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

Call me old fashioned, but I think sitting legislators shouldn't use the chatbots that are built on theft and environmental destruction, are controlled by American tech bros who are all firmly wedged up Trump's ass, and that cause psychosis.

Castanet.net@castanet.net · 2w ago

MPs split on whether AI should be used in House of Commons (Canada)

The charlatan rightwing press outed. It's not just "Daniel Robson" who's a fraud but Western Standard itself and agitprop "media" such as True North bankrolled by execs at Shopify.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2w ago

Ruh roh: All of the "Daniel Robson" articles on the Western Standard have suddenly 404'd!

People writing on the political economy of gen AI like @nsrnicek.bsky.social @asad09.bsky.social lean on a 4 layer AI stack model. What if we add a 5th that splits the distribution/bundling chokepoint (Layer 4) b/w the LLM layer (3) & apps (5) to get at incumbents’ existing gatekeeping power? 1/