Sarah Brouillette

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI | CBC News The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to prompts from the shooter related to violence.

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

xo

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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

y'all !!!!

I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️‍🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

sorry climate crisis you’re not even in top 5 catastrophes happening right now

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

meanwhile

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

They should invent a way out that isn't through

Iran and AI on the battlefield | CBC Radio The role of AI-powered warfare in the U.S-Israeli attack on Iran, and the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon.

useful episode focused on Palantir & Anthropic / Claude

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

Seminar: “Sexual Trouble on Triton and the Problems of Utopianism” Monday March 23rd, Carleton University, Dunton 2017 or online, 3-5pm M. E. O’Brien will dialogue with Alexis Shotwell on their respective engagements with Samuel Delany’s science fiction novel Trouble on Triton. O’Brien’s paper, entitled “Some, Each and All: Sexual Difference and Communism” is forthcoming in Pinko. It uses Delany’s work to consider the difficulty of sexual satisfaction in the dialectic of revolutionary communism, turning to Lacan’s formulas of sexuation to trace the non-dialectical, non-resolvable character of sexual difference.

2026 Myron Rusk Lecture in Civil Liberties: “Trans Freedom and the Utopian Horizon” Tuesday March 24th, 7-8:30pm The Grove, 280-18 Louisa St, Ottawa ON and online M. E. O’Brien will lecture on the relationship between gender freedom and capitalism. She will begin by identifying the current fascist assault on trans rights across multiple national contexts. After briefly tracing varying current strategies of trans survival, organizing and flourishing, she will turn to the role of trans futures and utopian longings in movement work. Drawing on her work in science fiction, family abolitionism, and her conceptual framework of “insurgent utopianism”, O’Brien will identify the kernel of revolutionary desire evoked in trans life. Trans freedom, she argues, necessarily includes a push against and beyond the private family, state regulation of gender and sexuality, and the generalized market dependency of capitalism.

save the dates and arrive early, Ottawa people -- M.E. O'Brien is coming to town later this month, and my superfan students & their crews are going to take up all the seats

(h/t Alexis Shotwell and @genderhorizon.com)

People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together ‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once...

My most recent piece on the @lrb.co.uk blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

IPE Socialist Seminar The Genocide in Palestine: A socialist anti-imperialist perspective with Hassan Husseini Friday 6 March 2026 1-3pm Carleton University DT 1524

join us Friday

The image shows a Washington Post article. The headline reads **"Anthropic's AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud"**, with a subheadline describing advanced AI technology identifying and prioritizing targets in support of U.S. and Israeli military operations. The article is dated today at 5:00 a.m. EST and has a 6-minute read time. Below the headline is a photograph of a smoky, hazy sky over a city skyline at dusk or dawn, with the caption noting it shows smoke rising over Tehran after an explosion amid U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. The byline credits Tara Copp, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Ian Duncan.

Bad news for anthropic stans: your fav tech company is doing target selection for illegal US/Israeli imperial wars.

archive.ph/cX0GH

dang that must suck that someone else used what they created without them allowing it

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

"Cancel ChatGPT" goes mainstream after Sam Altman takes the U.S. department of war deal Anthropic refused — in surveillance of U.S. citizens and autonomous weapons.

www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i... #chatgpt #openai #samaltman #apocalypse

Book cover of Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction by Amy De'Ath

Behind Our Backs is out!

"In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization."
—Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

https://ow.ly/IJRh50YgW1o

"How the book came to function as a key representative of Canadian settler exceptionalism" -- a new study by my brilliant colleague Jody Mason
www.mqup.ca/Books/B/Book...

Beyond the Wage Relation – Spectre Journal Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.

Wrote this for @journalspectre.bsky.social in response to Vivek Chibber and the broader resurgence of economistic materialism. Drawing on the concept of fetishism, I suggest such approaches revive errors Marx had already sought to critique
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🚨 If you're in Montreal for #ACLA, come see this outstanding seminar! On Saturday at 4:00, I'll be talking about the secondary school's fascination with dystopia in a paper called "The Individual vs. Society: Doublethinking High School English"!

I'll DM you

I assume you meant "Sarah when are we hanging out?"

Doing a mini east coast book tour, starting this Friday:

Montreal: Friday 2/27 at Librairie l’Euguélionne with @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social (6pm)

Brooklyn: Monday 3/2 at The Word is Change with @downevent.bsky.social (6pm)

Baltimore: Tuesday 3/3 at Red Emma’s with @keegancf.bsky.social (7pm)

The eternal push and pull of their doomed yearning Rax King on "Wuthering Heights"

Hell World's Chief Jacob Elordi Correspondent @raxkingisdead.bsky.social writes about Emerald Fennell's “Wuthering Heights.”

"It seems to me she’s less interested in creating a mood of genuine eroticism than in detailing every possible type of goop that can drip out of a person."

Nearly all my thoughts about AI I’ve gotten from the three volumes of Capital and the Grundrisse and it’s helped make sense of it all so far.