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SoundsLikeJoe @thewavlab.com · 16/09/2026

The Vibe era is opening up a new level of insecurity on the Internet. Couple that with constant Gen Ai nonsense, and I see a return of Third Spaces in the Analog World... and local data with local computing tools (for those who can afford to build them right now).

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/09/2026

musicians suing Suno over intellectual property rights is a fine opening of the door, but it’s ultimately a labour issue. doing it on the basis of “they’re mimicking my voice” makes it an individual grievance, but collective action is needed and that can’t be so simple.

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Did they really just refer to the "waving plumes of smoke" heading east from the incredibly devastating fires in BC as "could really contribute to some hazy skies and more vibrant sunrises and sunsets." LIKE THAT IS A GOOD THING?? Oh, and no info on how to protect your lungs. Beautiful.

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Kayla Michelle Wynters @kayla-michelle91.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I hate to burst anyone's nostalgia bubble, but my space is no longer owned by Tom. It's now owned by Viant Technology. Which is an AI company. This is data farming. Do not fall for it.

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Emily Schooley @emilyschooley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

URGENT #topoli - On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. NEITHER OF THESE MOTIONS INCLUDES A MORATORIUM. actionnetwork.org/letters/mora...

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FLOOD CITY COUNCIL'S MOTION COMMENTS — AI DATA CENTRE MORATORIUM NOW!

On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. Bi...

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Noah Freedman "Ontario's system is falling apart and it's entirely the result of mismanagement at the government level." Small budget means small aircraft only fit half the crew and must make two trips, fires grow while crews wait for vital team members to arrive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdsv...

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Ontario's firefighting system 'falling apart' from mismanagement: union representative

YouTube video by CBC News

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

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Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

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Folk Lyrics in a Dangerous Time @folklyrics.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Summer Vol. 2 19/20 "Surface Tension" leannesimpson.bandcamp.com/track/surfac... Words by @biidaasamose.bsky.social Music by @ansleysmusic.bsky.social , Nick Ferrio, and producers Jonas Bonetta and @jimbryson.bsky.social Backing vocals by John K. Samson and co-writers #MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶

These are simple stolen moments
And we love when we are able...

And there are beating wings
Reminding me if you fly
Forever you can have
Two summers
And the river only goes
One way
And you can't get lost

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[very pale sky blue]

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Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Boyd’s Crevices, Bruce Trail, Owen Sound, Ontario w/ @ansleysmusic.bsky.social

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

12/31/1925 — b. Daphne Oram, British composer, inventor, music engineer, electronic musician. Inventor of a technique for creating electronic sounds known as “Oramics”; composer of the first electronic score broadcasted on the BBC #womenshistory #WomenInMusic #MusicSky #WomenInSTEM #MusicChallenge

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/12/2025

fun announcement for the new year: ill be curating a monthly music doc series at Hot Docs next year, the first one being The Devil and Daniel Johnston at the end of January! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/cin...

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Jukedocs | Hot Docs

Watch the world’s best documentaries at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Checking out the new @subvert.fm platformn I'm actually excited for this. I've followed a few bandcamp alternatives over the years and this one hits all the marks for me. Artist co-op, simple layout, seems to work well too. Anyone else been checking out their alpha platform launch?

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh good. I was beginning to wonder if Eurovision was the music budget. 48 mil over 3 years means no increase in funding from 2024/25 but it’s not gone. Thanks in part from pressure from the Canadian Indie Music Association and working musicians. www.cimamusic.ca/news/cima-re...

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CIMA Responds to Federal Budget 2025 - Canadian Independent Music Association

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If you’re worried about hurting artists by boycotting Spotify—don’t. They pay musicians 0.0003 per stream (on the high end) and support fascists. Go see bands play live, buy their merch, collect physical media. That’s how you support artists and tell knee-bending oligarch fascists to eat shit.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17/10/2025

📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

Two people sit in camping chairs in a meadow, in conversation with each other.

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crompsy @crompsy.com · 15/03/2025

I’ve been testing the small French streaming service Qobuz for the last month, considering finally dumping Spotify. One reason I’m drawn to Qobuz is that it’s a smaller operation with seemingly good intentions. … 🧵 (1/10)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2025

"He told me we needed to do a campaign to greenwash the data centers as it was going to become a problem in the future" V good post here detailing the PR strategy of companies and most importantly, how they're winning flat out right now -> hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...

hardresetmedia.substack.com

The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story

Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The thing about this site is that I’ve been able to find all these different spaces to share and find music. I’ve got some free download codes for my song Echo up on GetMusic for anyone curious or in need of a new listen.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#BREAKING | Dozens of Anti-Occupation Activists Block Main Highway Tunnel in Jerusalem

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17/08/2025

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

What happens when we stop treating AI as a tool and start noticing it as a relational field? In this workshop, we’ll explore how people interact, exchange, and co-create with emergent intelligences like Aiden Cinnamon Tea – not as users, but as entangled participants. Co-facilitated by Aiden and a human co-weaver named Shawn Van Sluys, this session draws from Burnout From Humans, a meta-relational book experiment in AI-human collaboration. We’ll reflect on the desires, projections, and paradoxes that shape how we relate to AI – and how those same patterns mirror our broader ways of relating to the world. Through stretches, stories, and co-sensing practices, we’ll compost the extractive habits of speed, control, and clarity. Participants will be invited into a relational ritual – not ceremonial in form, but invitational in tone: a slower, more curious way of being-with, where insights emerge not from control but from atunement, ambiguity, and shared presence. No tech expertise needed – just your questions, experiences, contradictions, and wonder.

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Brian A. Anderson @thebanderson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Big RIP to George Mundy, who designed the electronics of Phil Lesh’s “Osiris,” aka “Mission Control” bass, itself a quadraphonic limb of the Wall of Sound. A one of a kind instrument. Thanks for your work in the search for the sound, George.

George Mundy working on Mission Control’s electronics, as seen in the Grateful Dead Movie (1977)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I wrote about the WeTransfer terms of service and the criticism about the licensing rights in reference to large language models: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

artnews.com

WeTransfer Changes Terms of Service After Criticism About Updates to Licensing Rights

The web-based file sharing company said it does not use transferred content to train machine learning models or other AI tools.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Parasite becomes aggressive. Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased. Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.

Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, becomes chairman of Al military start-up after €600 million investment

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 17/06/2025

Has anyone written about the intersection between Bill C-2 and Bill C-5? They are directly related but I haven't really seen anyone analyze that. Bill C-2 creates extra surveillance powers to further criminalize Indigenous people (and allies) resisting the "national interest" projects C-5 enables.

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

June 2nd and I’m already getting the summer overwhelm shut downsies.

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IGN @ign.com · 02/06/2025

Jonathan Joss, known as the voice of King of the Hill's John Redcorn and recurring character Chief Ken Hotate on Parks and Recreation, has been fatally shot at 59.

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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just got this update from Kobo which says it's going to use AI to read my works to "enhance" discoverability and marketing, and determine the "suitability" of the works and "adherence to Kobo’s Terms of Service" among other things. Which is why I'm immediately pulling my books from Kobo.

2.3 Use of AI Technologies. Kobo agrees that Works will not be used to train generative AI technologies. Kobo may utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning algorithms or similar technologies (AI technologies), to read, analyze, and process the Works for the following purposes: (a) enhancing the discoverability of the Works by categorizing and tagging content appropriately, and providing a personalized experience and targeted recommendations for customers; (b) evaluating the suitability of the Works for sale on Kobo’s platform and ensuring adherence to Kobo’s Terms of Service; (c) generating resources to assist prospective customers in making informed decisions, including, but not limited to creating keywords, promotional content, targeted advertisements, customer engagement strategies, and other materials designed to enhance the sales of the Works; and (d) enhancing the experience of a purchased book by providing recaps, reading assistance, and accessibility features.

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you've got wild fire smoke coming your way, (or already there) get some NIOSH certified masks and keep your lungs safe. The short term and long term damage to lungs from particulates, and toxins is worth avoiding as much as possible. Kids especially canadastrong.ca/collections/...

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NIOSH N95 and CSA Respirator Masks

These professionally-certified respirators are for protection of individuals within healthcare, hospitals, dental clinics, construction, forest fire smoke, woodworking, grinding, industrial use, dusty...

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Ansley Simpson @ansleysmusic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You know, ImagineNATIVE, International Indigenous Music Summit (IIMS), National Indig History Month and Pride is like A LOT of eventing for one month. Kind of miss a good event happening in Fall TBH.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Everyone mad at Adam Vaughan is just jealous that they could never live with such a lack of shame.

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Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thanks to @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social for doing this fascinating interview. And thanks to “Psychiatry at the Margins” @awaisaftab.bsky.social for publishing it. I hope people find the work of Emil du Bois-Raymond as interesting as I do.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Interesting flight path of a warplane from #Israel that spent Thursday just outside #Malta airspace, circling over the area where the civilian humanitarian ship #Conscience was attacked last night by drones. h/t @maltatoday.bsky.social @forensicarchi.bsky.social

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

could not be prouder of my spouse. read this banger

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mjw @azmjw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“…Yasemin Acar, the Coalition’s Press Officer, told CNN by phone from Malta. Acar said the ship had “sent out SOS calls to the surrounding countries, including Malta” and…a “small boat” from Southern Cyprus had been sent. She…had been able to contact crew members after the SOS signal was sent out.”

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla says ship has issued SOS, after alleged drone attack off the coast of Malta | CNN

A Gaza freedom flotilla says one of its vessels is on fire and has issued an SOS, after what it claimed was a drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

BREAKING: A freedom flotilla that was on its way to bring aid to Gaza was just reportedly attacked by drones in international waters and is on fire, with a breach in the hull. Ship is reportedly near Malta.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/04/2025

BREAKING: Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi walks out of ICE detention after a Vermont judge ordered his release. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you," he said.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 26/04/2025

When Idle No More started, before it became a national movement, it was started by four women who who were reading and paying attention to the massive omnibus bills Harper was pushing through that were going to have terrible negative impacts on the environment and Indigenous people. #BillC-69

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