Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026

Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.

freshwaterfishfutures.ca

Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026

Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.

freshwaterfishfutures.ca

The Undercurrents exhibit is now open! Visit www.freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrents-exhibit to view. @zoestodd.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026

Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.

freshwaterfishfutures.ca

SFU Indigenous Studies@sfuindg.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, founded by Zoe Todd, is launching an online art exhibit, Undercurrents, curated by Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban and Courtney Chetwynd, on July 29, 2026. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/indg/news-ev... @sfufass.bsky.social

A devoted partner and caring father who spent nearly three decades volunteering his time to rescue strangers has died while mountain biking in Squamish. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. man who devoted nearly three decades to rescuing strangers dies in Squamish | CBC News

Michael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.

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Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

Clouds have weight. The geological, temporal, imaginary, and epistemic substrates of AI are where power concentrates and where it can be contested. This issue emerges in part from, PLATFORM, a special theme year at the Institute of Advanced Study: www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

PLATFORM

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I return to the concept of "algorithmic agnotology"--the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability and selective transparency. Platforms don't just hide labor and data flows. AI platforms add geological and epistemic layers of concealment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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What's consequential about generative AI isn't the interface, it's what lies beneath: cobalt mines in the DRC, lithium fields in the Andes, gas turbines burning methane in Black communities in Mississippi, workers in the Global South rating outputs for dollars a day. limn.press/article/plat...

Platform Obscurantism - Limn

ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...

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"[T]here is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms."

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.

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First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

APTN News Brief: Critics question PM's pick for sr. advisor infamous for inflammatory comments after 2016 shooting

Our lead story: some First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor, citing inflammatory comments Scott Gilmore wrote following a tragic 2016 shooting ...

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1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

"There is no cloud. Only Earth."

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · last wk.

TIL about the Earthkeepers: "Every server. Every algorithm. Every line of code is built on the territories, the labor, and the knowledge of the communities who have always tended life. There is no Cloud. Only Earth. And those who fight every day to keep it thriving."

The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...

The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World.

Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some of which were global, while others were local and emerged from pre-existing Anti-slavery laws in pre-colonial Africa that sought ...

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“If we really want to end the violence and depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever. [If not,] the least we can do to help is to send them a backhoe as they keep digging graves.” Scott Gilmore, now part of Team Carney

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

First Nations commentators are reacting to Scott Gilmore being appointed as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s senior advisor after inflammatory comments he had made after a tragic shooting in La Loche, Saskatchewan back in 2016.

Camels are dying from heat stroke. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

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Saying, then living, "we are not afraid" (despite fear!) is world-changing. Sometimes the scale of change is tiny. But sometimes, as with the students in India now and the freedom rider in the US who gave us that verse, it is not small at all

The 'Land Grab' That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07... Awesome article. Questions that need to be ask for similar reasons coast to coast to coast. Unlike AB & east, BC doesn't have the same history of treaties. Not that they were honored

The ‘Land Grab’ That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron | The Tyee

A new exhibit spotlights the ‘grant’ made without First Nations’ consent 140 years ago.

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Some might say it all started here...

If you're a gardener and this resonates with you, you belong in our free regenerative gardening community at LearnDirt.com 🌱

This is the shit I’m talking about. They’re just blatantly lying about their resource use. And they are going to break whatever rules they can until somebody forces them to stop. These things need to be stopped at the planning stages.

Nick Feik@nickfeik.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two recent data centre stories: - in NT, company obvs lying about gas - in TAS, caught lying about water plans Govts and AI companies are planning to deceive until it’s too late to stop them

Important under-the-radar story Via Zoe Mason - Essentially, the UCP are eliminating citizen-involved boards that might criticize the govt's anti-environmental agenda. The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta's Environmental Protection via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta’s Environmental Protection | The Tyee

For two decades, government advisory groups have forged consensus. Now they’re being shut down.

thetyee.ca

Cory Doctorow recently wrote that being against AI is being against 'statistical inferences', which is 'weird'. But if you're from a nation/people about whom sloppy statistical inferences from questionable data have been made for centuries...it's not weird to question the newest statistical grift.

Reaction is pouring in after Ontario’s Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Jill Dunlop, was pulled from a CBC interview by a staffer, leading to an on-air exchange between the staffer and the program’s host. #OnPoli nowtoronto.com/news/ontario...

When AI replicates systematic racism, it is not a glitch; it's a feature.

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 2w ago

Thanks to an AI program, Black prisoners in Ontario jails are being put in maximum security. @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals how the province is using an automated program that critics say is racially biased. youtu.be/s1HaG1p9p9g

Congratulations to SFU INDG's @zoestodd.bsky.social on being awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to support research titled "The Implications of Canada's National Sovereign AI Compute Strategy for Freshwater Fish Futures and Indigenous Governance."

SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences@sfufass.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are pleased to share that seven @sfu.ca FASS researchers were awarded Insight Development Grants by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca to launch new projects in their area of expertise. Learn more about these projects at: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/20...

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, founded by Zoe Todd, is launching an online art exhibit, Undercurrents, curated by Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban and Courtney Chetwynd, on July 29, 2026. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/indg/news-ev... @sfufass.bsky.social

Happy to share we secured a $100,000 SSHRC Insight Development grant to examine "The Implications of Canada's National Sovereign AI Compute Strategy for Freshwater Fish Futures & Indigenous Governance". Really looking forward to working with a brilliant team to address material impacts of AI compute

The good news is this is a sign AI is near the end of its life. The story at the end of every technogrift has been "we can't make money from rich white guys, let's market it to marginalized groups." Crypto did it, NFTs did it, the metaverse did it