Rosel Kim
@jroselkim.bsky.social
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Working outdoors? Child at outdoor day camp? Anyone outside for 6 hours today in Southern Ontario will be effectively smoking three cigarettes during that time. More if you're active. Twelve cigarettes over a full day. map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
Great post re: how we let terms like “AI” take on more power if we allow the mystification to continue
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
I helped a little bit with this, and while it's written for a settler audience it's still useful for Indigenous Peoples too. If there's interest maybe we can do a version that's more focused on Indigenous perspectives / rights / concerns etc. In the meantime I'll keep an eye out for other stuff
Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · last mo.A new toolkit is out on data centre fights in Canada! It is very good! aicivilsociety.ca/ResistingAID... Read on for key info, tactics, and case studies, written by academics and activists in the trenches. #AI #Canada
The Walrus invited me to share initial impressions, alongside the awesome Starling Centre crew (eg Alissa Centivany, @jredden.bsky.social, @lukestark.bsky.social) & others. "AI for All" seems less an optimistic promise than a threat. The real slogan is: "AI will be adopted until morale improves." 🧵
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 2mo agoCanada has unveiled its long-awaited national AI strategy, but experts say key questions around regulation, privacy, and accountability remain unanswered. Can Ottawa translate its AI ambitions into public confidence? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan/
we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org
At the core of international law constraining the death penalty is that it should never be used discriminatorily. This new law could not be more discriminatory if it tried. Grounded in the racist belief that Palestinian lives matter less.
‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed
theguardian.com
ICYMI: "Technical Collaborators” recording is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Sb... Listen to these brilliant speakers unpack ways folks can resist technology-facilitated global violence. @jcyliew.bsky.social @jamesyap.bsky.social @jeff.doctor @cjpme.org @cyn-k.bsky.social @jroselkim.bsky.social
Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond
YouTube video by Windsor Law
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Kristen Thomasen@kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 5mo agoFor anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this: Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here: uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495
very depressing to learn that every camp is the same, and this kind of centrism is built on racist and sexist assumptions about people raising valid and urgent concerns as "naive" / "too sensitive" / "hysteric"
Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt actually rules to watch LLM centrism develop in real time. "Ok yes, tech bros are taking things way too far but LLM skeptics are just as silly, surely we can all agree that it's a transformative new technology and we all need to get onboard" and like, bro. Bro. We know who's side you're really on
For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this: Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here: uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495
Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....
uwindsor-law.libcal.com
Even if you didn’t intend to hurt people, even if you didn’t have control over it, why not feel sorry that people were hurt? I think I am fundamentally confused by this allergy to empathizing enough to want to apologize and say I’m sorry you were hurt
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · 6mo agoSpeaking in simply factual terms: AI generated artwork seems to just be part of the public grieving process now.
The People's Consultation on AI launched today! Whether you have in-depth expertise in AI issues, or don't consider yourself an "expert" but have firsthand experience with AI or its impacts and want to have your say, this is for you. Participate by March 15, 2026: www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca
Something I hope happens more in the discourse about AI-enabled harms and violence is disrupting the notion that we need AI at all, or that using AI is inevitable. Part of the problem is the overbroad use of the term that has rendered it meaningless/mystified.
every day is a mix of parenting-related exhaustion and guilt that I get to experience such mundane reality of life as the world crumbles and fascism takes over
A senior Gaza official warns toxic materials from Israeli bombardment may be seeping into groundwater, worsening the besieged enclave already devastated water system. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gw1h2
Children among the dead as Israel kills 30 Palestinians in Gaza
More than 300 people in Gaza have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire with Hamas began on October 10.
aje.io
NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles
A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.
futurism.com
For orgs & indivs who wanted to sign the original joint civil society & human rights letter protesting Min. Solomon's "national sprint" pseudo-consultation on AI strategy, but didn't get a chance or otherwise missed the deadline, we've re-opened it for signing here: tinyurl.com/AIcivsochuma...
Cynthia Khoo@cyn-k.bsky.social · 9mo agoSo many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)
A national AI strategy is too important to "sprint" through in 30 days. I've signed an open letter alongside 160+ civil society & human rights groups, academics, experts, and advocates, protesting Minister Solomon's "consultation" and demanding a re-do: bccla.org/policy-submi...
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
bccla.org
Not sure if anyone reads my updates (skeets?) anymore, but here is an essay I wrote recently for @theglobeandmail.com on watching my (once strict) parents becoming gentle grandparents & what I learned from it:
As I watched my strict mom and dad soften as grandparents, I was reminded that the world does not treat parents gently
My parents’ gift of intergenerational childcare for my daughter taught me that people have the capacity to change – but that they need to be freed to be their full selves
theglobeandmail.com
Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.
I guess we are just openly being eugenicist now, cool!
LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · last yr.Let the blowback happen bc it bloody needs to.
The "second-generation cut off" has been described as a genocide “in paper form;" as "an evil that threatens our very existence;" as an act of "retaliation;" as discrimination, and, as assimilation. Yet it remains a part of Canadian law. Why? My latest ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Indian Act's ‘second-generation cut-off’ poses an existential threat to treaty people in Canada
Thanks to the Indian Act’s ‘second-generation cut-off,’ First Nations people face a baffling and offensive equation when it comes to their status rights.
winnipegfreepress.com
Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.
I keep reading stories like this and then want to scream like the one clip I watched where someone just says, what happened to just having a think?! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urba...
The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"
AI may be fueling psychotic delusions in a phenomenon known as "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT psychosis." New research explains the risks.
psychologytoday.com
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
Montreal in the summer is truly glorious, and Villeray feels like what the Plateau was 20 years ago?
It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · last yr.Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated.
