ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

Federal AI minister raises concerns over OpenAI safety protocols after Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC News Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he is raising concerns with OpenAI and other such platforms about their safety protocols, after the tech company confirmed that the account of the teenag...

Canada’s AI minister says he’s “deeply disturbed” by the reports and has reached out to OpenAI about their safety protocols.

This should finally push the government to take action on the harms of generative AI, but I don’t have high hopes when the minister is so deep in the industry’s pocket.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.

The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Carney promises billions for Canada military gear in pivot from U.S. Mark Carney said Canada will invest hundreds of billions of dollars in defence over the next decade as it diverts away from the US. Read on.

No money for healthcare, education, public transit, green transition / renewables, food security, public services or any other basic needs, but an unlimited budget for the military-industrial complex, war and imperialism. Carney the warmonger. financialpost.com/news/economy... #CDNPoli

One hundred percent here for a Restored Island Rail future...and excited about the prospect of it being done in a way that respects sovereignty of local nations.

Everyone told me not to get my hopes up about fast ferries and Hullo is knocking it out of the park....

why is colonial white possessive play-acting so effective at tricking colonial institutions? It's because, as Vine Deloria, Jr. pointed out almost 50 years ago, despite the quantum revolution, colonial institutions remained Newtonian. And classical measurements favour the superficiality of fraud.

Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud) “Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…

I've been doing a lot of work on Indigenous conceptions of quantum indeterminacy, which actually helps me immensely in making sense of how colonial society falls for classical/possessive/linear frauds.

Maybe some day I'll write that out into a longer form inquiry.

zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...

Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees.

In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power.

Rest in peace

The Deeper Picture: State of the Nation and Prospects for the Future [Ottawa – January 5, 2026] The pace and depth of transformative change in Canada over the past several years have been nothing short of breathtaking. For analytic clarity, these shifts can be under…

The quiet crisis Canada faces is bounded on one side by the collapse of middle-class progress and the hyper-concentration of wealth, and on the other by the accelerating power of AI-driven, algorithmically amplified disinformation
@voiceoffranky.bsky.social

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The Carney government has cut the only funding program for community archives, cut funding for access to information, and cutting 56 jobs. Harper made very similar cuts in 2012: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012... @thetyee.ca

the white possessive grinds ceaselessly, reconfiguring everything as it sees fit. He's 'braided' into their logics now. 😭

The Prizewinner's Speech In her speech, Meredith Whittaker warns against the power of the tech industry and explains why it is worth thinking positively right now.

Oil, coal, fossil fuels as weaponized fossil kin? yes. Plagiarism machines fomented by technocrats who are trying to replace us so they can further enrich themselves and destroy the planet? I don't have to make kin with their capitalist nightmares.

www.helmut-schmidt.de/en/news-1/de...

I have written about how fossils can be considered ancestors. But I will go on the record as saying I emphatically disagree with logics pushing us to 'make kin with the machines' when these specific machines are built on necropolitics (Mbembe), imperialism, and white possession (Moreton-Robinson).

Home Story Métis scholar Dr. Zoe Todd tells the story of their return to their homeland in Alberta, Canada and what this journey revealed about their relationship to family and homeland in their work to hold oil...

I can't stop thinking about this essay by @zoestodd.bsky.social . It has enlarged my world.

humansandnature.org/home-story/

Now you may ask yourself, "How did i get this land?"

And you may tell yourself, "This is now my beautiful land"

a black background with white text. it says ALLOW YOURSELF TO FEEL

www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-c...

In Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun control After the Dunblane massacre in Scotland left 16 students dead, parents organized to make sure it could never happen again. What can the U.S learn from them as we struggle to combat gun violence?

The horrific tragedy in Tumbler Ridge evokes the 1996 tragedy in Dunblane that mobilized the UK to take a strong stance on gun control.

www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1...

Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...

Very grateful to have joined this today!

Thanks to @tazhii.bsky.social, @candiscall.bsky.social, @kimtallbear.bsky.social (and of course, @zoestodd.bsky.social) for just the latest in thought-provoking conversations!

another day, another group having to sue the feds in order to force the Government of Canada to implement key species at risk legislation. Shameful.

Title descriptions of the four most recent episodes of MEDIA INDIGENA, from a five-part series on 'The White Possessive'

4 all-new MEDIA INDIGENA episodes created in just under a month? I may need to slow down a bit here lol 😅

▶️ LISTEN podfollow.com/mediaindigena

Canadian Companies Must Cut Ties with ICE, Say Protesters One BC firm backed down when faced with a consumer boycott. Advocates call for more action.

"Hootsuite and Jim Pattison Developments are not the only Canadian companies doing business with ICE."

"GardaWorld, a [..] security firm." "Roshel, an armoured-car maker." "JSI, [..] provides wiretapping tools."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #USA #Technology #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

BREAKING: Calgary City Council votes NO to asking province to close the city’s only supervised consumption site for the second time in sixteen months.

BC’s Drug Response Isn’t Following the Evidence: Former Coroner | The Tyee The province is neglecting safer supply and housing, which are proven to reduce harms, says Lisa Lapointe.

B.C. is “doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations,” said Union of BC Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip in a statement.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

A reminder, this guy came to Vancouver and filmed people on the downtown east side, spread misinformation about safe injection sites and lied about crime here.

I still believe this assisted the cancellation of the decriminalization trial - which the NDP cancelled without showing evidence.