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RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

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The tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, demands answers and stronger safeguards when powerful Al technologies are involved. Our first priority is the safety of Canadians. Earlier today I met with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAl, to demand immediate steps to strengthen safeguards and accountability in Canada for ChatGPT. During that discussion, I asked OpenAl to take several actions, which Mr. Altman has agreed to do. These include establishing a direct point of contact with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and implementing safety protocols that direct individuals experiencing distress to appropriate local support services. I have also asked OpenAl to apply its new safety standards retroactively and review previously flagged cases, which Mr. Altman confirmed they are undertaking. This will determine whether additional incidents that would have been referred to law enforcement under OpenAl's new safety standards were missed, and ensure they are promptly reported to the RCMP. OpenAl also committed to assess how they would include Canadian privacy, mental health and law enforcement experts into the process to identify and review high-risk cases involving Canadian users. In addition, OpenAl will provide a full report outlining the new systems it is developing to identify high-risk offenders and repeat policy violators. I will ask the Canadian Al Safety Institute (CAISI) to examine OpenAl's model and provide expert technical advice to my office. These steps represent immediate actions to strengthen safety and accountability. At the same time, artificial intelligence presents enormous opportunity for Canada. Canadians must be confident that these technologies operate under clear rules, strong safeguards, and real accountability when risks emerge. Our government is continuing to examine a range of measures to strengthen protections - including stronger privacy frameworks, enhanced protections against online harms, and new transparency expectations for Al systems operatin…

Evan Solomon's latest missive.
Still relying on corporations to police themselves.
Still promising the lightest touch possible.

Ad for a session. There is a black and teal gradient in the back. It reads AWP 2026 Conference How to Resist AI in Writing & Teaching Then three images: A femme with dark hair wearing a black blazer and a dark blouse, looking towards the camera, with an arm up on a table. Below it reads, Carmen Maria Machado. A black and white picture of a man with dark skin, slightly long black hair, and dark stubble. Below it reads, Umair Kazi. A brown trans woman with slightly longer black curly hair, wearing a black sweater, with her arms crossed. She is standing in front of a brick wall. Below it reads, Dr. Alex Hanna. A fourth picture is on the right: a woman with brown skin, shoulder-length black hair, is smiling and looking at the camera. She is wearing a chunky necklace and a black t-shirt. Below it reads, Moderated by Vauhini Vara. Below the images, it reads: Thursday, March 5, 12:10 PM. Room 310. Sponsored by The Author's Guild. The Author's Guild is represented by its logo.

Thursday @ AWP 2026! Join Carmen Maria Machado, Umair Kazi, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and myself as we discuss how to Resist AI in Writing and Teaching. Sponsored by @authorsguild.org.

12:10 PM in Room 310. See you in Baltimore!

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How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation Modified images of strikes circulate as fighting intensifies across the Middle East

Even w/out GenAI fakes, satellite images are vulnerable to the production of state/military narratives, as they are advanced & received as empirical docs.The melding of operational & hypothetical images creates a strategic form of disinformation on the digital warfront.

www.ft.com/content/0bad...

I'll be on a panel talking about this and more next week because if you think Canada's hands are clean in this, you would be very wrong bsky.app/profile/cyn-...

If you wouldn't ask murderers to make their case for why they didn't commit homicide, you should know better than to ask perpetrators of aggression to make the case of whether they violated international law.

It's not for Israel & the U.S. to decide if they violated int'l law 🤦‍♂️

If only I could just avoid using the thing that drives people to suicide, but it’s the future and I can’t be left behind.

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East - bellingcat Bellingcat has been monitoring strikes across the Middle East and has identified a wide variety of weapons that have been used in the conflict so far, including missiles and drones.

Bellingcat researcher @easybakeovensz.bsky.social provides a comprehensive overview of munitions seen in imagery from the war so far at : www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

Iran, Pakistan, Kabul? Grok Maps 3 Different 'Facts' For The Same Viral Video | BOOM Grok hallucinated three conflicting 'facts' about viral video of an Iranian school attack, failing to find its location.

People are now using Grok to «verify» videos of attacks, and as expected, each time Grok delivers different, mutually exclusive but plausibly sounding versions of the «facts.»
And yes, this is essentially the same AI model now being used by the US military in classified operations
#WildForensis

What if people picked up a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh instead of misusing “mindful“

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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....

So glad sthg like this is finally happening, largely thx to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Been ~2.5 years now of layers of disheartenment & sustained moral injury (5 if count covid), and a public discussion focused specifically on Canadian complicity, from a tech /tech law angle, is long overdue.

Dirty Data An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

For months, ~40 journos across Asia, LatAm & EU delved into the environmental impact of data centers w. the Environmental Reporting Collective.

I reported from Thailand, but as a whole, the project shows how unsustainable (and opaque) the AI data center boom's starting to look.

www.dirtydata.earth

In Lebanon people are sleeping in cars or sitting in front of schools, which have opened their doors to displaced, because there is nowhere else to go.

I witnessed one woman begin screaming outside one school who said they had no more place. People sat along the walls or on motorised scooters.

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....

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

‘Not again’: Gaza rushes to stockpile amid Iran war, crossing closures Crossing closures following US-Israel war with Iran spark panic buying in Gaza, where residents fear food shortages.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Vindictive israel finds another way to punish #Gaza - food shipments have ground to a halt causing starvation, panic

The zionist state's institutional cruelty surprises even the most hardened of aid workers

It's sickening & the world awakes to more 🇺🇲🇮🇱 horror

Robin Kelsey wrote a great essay on this: "Reverse shot: Earthrise and Blue Marble in the American imagination" in New Geographies 4 (2011).

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin) Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.

The new fascism is just scams all the way down...

I hope I’ll have time to get into it more, but Hezbollah’s latest decision to join the war has condemned the party for good.

There is no going back now. They are already unpopular. No one asked for this.

I expect serious backlash within Lebanon, which can also get very dangerous.

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor, saying it's just like when horses were replaced by cars. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

they're bombing nonstop this is insane. i'm watching AJ live stream of beirut. i've got friends in the south sending me voice notes of bombs. non stop. this is madness.

The Israelis just bombed Beirut.

Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in the strike on a girls’ school in Iran, officials & state media say. The school is near a naval base that was hit by two other strikes during US & Israeli attacks. With Ephrat Livni, Sanam Mahoozi.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

With the ongoing strikes on #Iran by the US and Israel, and subsequent retelatory Iranian attacks in the region, we've started monitoring the acute and long-term environmental risks from the hundreds of targets using geo-location and #remotesensing

Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor.

From the writers of "It's Mild!" and "Do you Condemn Hamas???" comes a powerful new headline:

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Canada condemns Iran's retaliatory attacks Justin Li Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a statement that Canada "strongly condemns the attacks of the Iranian regime against our partners in the Middle East." Anand further urged Canadians in Iran to shelter in place and said Ottawa will "provide all possible support to Canadians throughout the region." Canada currently has no diplomatic relations with Iran, nor does it have an embassy there.

The United States and Israel have the right to bomb and murder whoever they please.

The countries they attack have no right to fight back.

This is the exact double standard on international law Mark Carney was praised for calling out at Davos, but which he continues to participate in.