Jeff Doctor
@jeff.doctor
Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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The same pattern is playing out at universities around the world. IT units parrot industry talking points oblivious (or defiant) of scholarship. Cushy platforms, speaking gigs, and political capital for those who push uncritical adoption, and abundant marginalizing tactics against critical scholars.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo agoPlease see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo agoFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
No AI-positive institution is deploying responsibly. If they say they are, it means they aren't checking or are silencing the people who are. Read Nik Suresh (hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...) or listen to this interview, then read the lawsuit from the Mayo Clinic's director of research operations 👇
Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis
Today we have an interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this on Monday. Nik’s advice when your boss loves Claude a little too much: ‘Just let the money r…
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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 4w agoThis sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.
Taxpayers subsidizing O&G to increase wildfires. What the Hell? “This project defies common sense,” Lewis said. “This is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.”
Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · 4h agoControversial West Coast pipeline one step closer to being fast-tracked www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/04/n...
for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Tonight on APTN National News: A First Nation in British Columbia grapples with over 200 homes destroyed by out-of-control wildfire. A First Nation in Ontario under evacuation orders is concerned it may be lifted while the community is still at risk.
APTN National News: August 4, 2026 – Over 200 homes destroyed, Concerns over evacuation orders
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Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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Jeff Doctor@jeff.doctor · last mo.5 bucks says carney and co are going to blame Indigenous people when this pipeline boondoggle costs canadians their retirement savings and melts their children
again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
New: Microsoft has introduced new limits to how much its engineers can spend on AI tools at work and told employees that maximizing AI use internally is not the company’s goal, according to an internal Microsoft email obtained by 440 Media. www.404media.co/microsoft-te...
Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’
Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.
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meanwhile www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. wildfires force thousands from homes amid 'explosive and extremely dangerous' conditions | CBC
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National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · yesterdayOttawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/o...
Every single Liberal MP who hasn't left the party in disgust should be ashamed of themselves. But they won't be. You need to have pre-existing ethics and morals to actually be ashamed of yourself for breaking them. I cannot believe how shitty our leaders are right now. It's beyond belief.
National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · yesterdayOttawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/o...
Age verification is surveillance by another name. They won’t stop until they’ve age-gated everything that transmits over the internet. Including your streaming and messages.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
I first learned of that watchlist about 20 yrs ago when I was working on the criminal defense of people arrested at protests. A few records of VGTOF hits were mistakenly turned over by ADA's. We were all 👀 What's the Violent Gang Terrorist Organization File? Why is our v. nonviolent client in it?
Two more examples of surveillance and tracking techniques in court cases (or just for surveillance) where information is left out/removed/not provided to opposing counsel or the court. Stingrays/IMSI Catchers are devices that mimic cell phone towers to eavesdrop/spy/locate/track cell phones
Riana@riana.bsky.social · yesterdayThis happened with Stingrays too - usage was left out of court filings or obscured as “confidential informants”. Judges didn’t like that.
Third example, GPS trackers Police also used GPS trackers but somehow didn't mention them in the paperwork for criminal cases provided to the defense in discovery.
Call Me The Brie-ze@briesmith.xyz · yesterdayThis is the same playbook cop shops were running in 2009 when I wrote about how they were dropping GPS trackers on cars without warrants: don’t admit it, pretend you got the info other ways It was only when defense attorneys started asking that they started being honest
These techniques, whereby key evidence is withheld about the initial impetus for an investigation/search, are called "parallel construction" by the federal govt. They deny the defense the chance to challenge illegally obtained evidence. Article is from 2013 when these methods was less well known.
LettuceHater@lettuce-hater.bsky.social · yesterdayAnother case of evidence laundering / parallel reconstruction. www.reuters.com/article/us-d...
Like how local cops/DAs are told to handle hits on the huge terrorist watch list "KST" (formerly VGTOF). 🤫 When a license is run thru NCIC, simultaneously, KST is checked. If there's a hit, driver isn't told AND if there's a criminal charge, the record of the hit isn't turned over in discovery. 🤐
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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This happened with Stingrays too - usage was left out of court filings or obscured as “confidential informants”. Judges didn’t like that.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
From what I’ve learned about how Canadian Reddit works, the moderators either work for PR firms, political parties, and/or lobby groups And everyone’s working overtime to suppress critical reporting #cdnmedia
Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 5d agoAny ideas on why the moderators of r/UCalgary would remove this story from the feed by two different posters two days running? breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
I went to the encampments at UBC to deliver supplies and interview the students and they were incredible brave and articulate on the subject. Willing to risk everything to do whatever they could to try and stop the genocide. Disgraceful they would be treated like criminals
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d agoA new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
"....in Alberta, the secretly-coordinated effort, which would culminate in militarized raids at multiple universities, would involve not just police but also an official from Danielle Smith’s UCP government."
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d agoA new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Amazing reporting from @breachmedia.ca Canadian universities running a secret surveillance network, keeping tabs on students opposing genocide Vile The top brass of all these institutions should apologize & resign immediately #cdnpoli
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d agoNew reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
"using amplification devices to make public statements that advocated for the detestation and harm against members of [xyz] community" So they gonna arrest politicians, journalists, themselves? They do this shit all the time - oh wait no, they get to define who is a "Terrorist Group" 🙄
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)@iclmg-csilc.bsky.social · 2w agoDetails are still limited, but based on reporting so far, this charge points to a troubling escalation in Canada's use of anti-terrorism laws. Statements alleged to advocate harm against any community warrant investigation... (1/2) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6feb710...
Details are still limited, but based on reporting so far, this charge points to a troubling escalation in Canada's use of anti-terrorism laws. Statements alleged to advocate harm against any community warrant investigation... (1/2) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6feb710...
Toronto police charge man with terrorism over alleged conduct during pro-Palestinian protests
Police allege that Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad acted on behalf of Hamas when he used a megaphone to call for harm to members of Israeli and Jewish communities in 2024
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