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"A DND spokesperson said the government never advertised the contract because it “inadvertently omitted” to post it publicly. Since other potential bidders were not aware of the contract, it was effectively awarded to Palantir directly" 🫠

oh I can't wait to listen to this

I guess southern ontario is now Europe?

Data centers require vast amounts of energy and water and in a time when climate change is burning the planet how can you market that as something other than planet destroying?

shockedpikachu.gif www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...

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

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah. About whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Not whether some people deserve rights.

if anything this just shows that the real purpose of Bill C-9 is about further entrenching who is and isn't worthy of being protected by the state www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

There is over a trillion dollars invested in AI, which is another way of saying that there is a colossal amount of money resources bent on making AI seem like an inevitable, benign technology whose incursion into every aspect of our life we should just accept because we “have to.”

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"Cohere may not be working with Palantir, but... [i]t has inked contracts with defence firms such as Thales Canada and German submarine maker ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems—both of which are non-Canadian firms whose equipment is used by the Canadian Armed Forces."

“Palantir is first of all a dehumanizing company. It is a terrifying company because of the amount of political and financial support it has.” Gift link:

Brandusescu...highlighted a deal from 2024 between Palantir and IT service provider Carahsoft. “That's a very boring contract that no one cares about, but that for me is very worrying because that's how it infiltrates in a subtle way.”

“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” Wab Kinew in his announcement that Manitoba would not be continuing with the Île-des-Chênes data centre.

Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.” But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:

NEW from @natashabulowski.bsky.social and myself www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...

Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

This will impact the rights of probably every Indigenous person here, and yet despite all the talk about "reconciliation" and UNDRIP... crickets. They don't even bother with the token gestures anymore, just "adopt it or be left behind". Oh hey where have we heard that before...

we talked more about "digital sovereignty" here, the recordings are up if you want to hear more nuanced takes on "AI" than what you'll get on the news soundbites tonight aicivilsociety.ca/sched.html

Lots to review, but one overarching philosophical reaction: Believing a technology is “inevitable” and that we should approach it with “humility”, while also crafting a $2.3B government plan to spur development, adoption and use of that technology, is a peculiar combination of views.

and on any major public platform if you dare to point out how fundamentally fucked this entire "AI revolution" is (lol) you'll be deemed a heretic, burned at the stake by the fires of the righteous who maintain the faith that "AI" will "save us all".

I am once again asking on whose land is all this "AI" infrastructure gonna be dependant on? ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

I found this enormously informative — a close reading of the encryption and metadata provisions, and implications of the Cloud Act agreement on the way. Thanks @cyn-k.bsky.social, @kate-robertson.bsky.social, and @digitalprivacy.ca!

A selection of ads at the Ottawa International Airport featuring AI, mines, and weapons manufacturing.

I feel like David Lynch would have loved the Backrooms.

“As political scientist David B. MacDonald would later put it. Indeed, Indigenous peoples are the ones who have born the expense of the political compromise of “multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,” the ones who have been consistently excluded by it.”

“I’m seeing Palantir infiltrate Canada in a way that we’ve just ignored it, and we keep ignoring it." I argue that the federal government should refuse to deal with the company, citing multiple examples of human rights abuses.

. @kate-ro.bsky.social critique of Canada's Lawful Access bill #C22 highlights its many flaws AND why protests from US big tech firms that they could leave Canada are crocodile tears given how it could facilitate lawless executive power in the US... thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-... 1/

ahem

Me in the bi-monthly forest fire evacuation protocol in 2039

oh jesus bsky.app/profile/read...

Your democratic rights exist by virtue of Treaty allowing you to live in Alberta. The National Post is not a real newspaper.

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...