iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pol Comm Tech Lab @polcommtech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️ In the latest episode of Wonks and War Rooms Elizabeth Dubois chats with Christelle Tessono (@christelle.bsky.social) to unpack what AI governance really means. www.polcommtech.com/post/season-...

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town." www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

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Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee

Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

NEW: AI Minister Evan Solomon is expected to table legislation next week to modernize Canada’s privacy laws. The bill will make privacy a fundamental right, protect children and curb misuse of personal information, including for surveillance pricing.

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I am thrilled to announce that I will begin my PhD at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto this week. I’ll be building on my previous work in AI governance while expanding my focus to trace and explore the broader landscape of technology policy challenges in Canada ☀️

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris "We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."

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AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press

The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Excited to co-present AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure alongside @blairaf.com @christelle.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium in Paris on Feb 8 @ Sciences Po. Join us!

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Notion

Join us for an independent symposium, taking place online and in-person, organized to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on...

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/12/2024

a timely reminder that deep neural networks ≠ neurons

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 20/12/2024

Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster "throttle" access to e-books by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both.

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'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News

More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"The shortfall could cause blackouts during peak demand periods in both countries, and will be worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries and hybrid resources to the grid, according to NERC." www.ft.com/content/7c24...

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AI poses threat to North American electricity grid, watchdog warns

Surging demand from tech sector could overwhelm generation capacity, report says

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"Under the old system, an inspector could use discretion on which plants needed more attention [...] 'The problem with the current system where everything is totally algorithm-based is it doesn’t allow for inspector judgment'” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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An algorithm was supposed to fix Canada’s food safety system. Instead, it missed a deadly listeria outbreak

Five years ago, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency began letting manufacturers increasingly police themselves under a new system of oversight. Now three people are dead and many more have been harmed...

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Is AI really a game-changer for Canadian productivity 🕵🏾? At the @daistmu.bsky.social, we conducted a study which found no conclusive evidence of a strong positive or negative relationship between AI adoption and short-term productivity improvement. Give it a read and lmk what you think!

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada have formed a coalition to sue OpenAI, in a joint statement they say that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

annotating a book you’ve been meaning to read for months with pens and markers >>>>>>>>>

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

hi, it’s me, christelle. your friendly tech policy researcher currently doing ai governance research at the university of toronto’s faculty of information. just wanted to re-introduce myself 🫶🏾

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/04/2024

in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditch…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

The Canadian government introduced its landmark Online Harms Bill (Bill C-63) in parliament on February 26. @cjten.bsky.social and @heiditworek.bsky.social ask, was the legislation worth the wait? And what did Canada learn from other jurisdictions? www.techpolicy.press/what-lessons...

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What Lessons Did Canada Learn Before Creating Its Online Harms Bill? | TechPolicy.Press

Chris Tenove and Heidi Tworek ask, was the legislation worth the wait? And what did Canada learn from other jurisdictions?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/01/2024

the most effective approach to "AI for social good" is to not use any AI

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

This Thursday, I will be testifying on Bill C-27 and its AI and Data Act (AIDA) for Canada’s House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Tune in to the meeting on December 7 starting at 3:30pm EST: www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

🎙️New podcast! I spoke to Karen Hao, contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of a forthcoming book about OpenAI, about the drama that led to Sam Altman's ouster and return, and what it should signal to policymakers:

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The Saga at OpenAI: Lessons for Policymakers

A conversation with Karen Hao, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and author of a forthcoming book on OpenAI.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

"Digital rights advocates and academics say the federal government’s proposed artificial intelligence law is too narrow to properly tackle the technology’s harms, and would respond to violations with a watered-down enforcement system."

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Digital rights advocates say Ottawa’s AI law still needs work—or a do-over - The Logic

Narrowly focused act neglects risk of collective harms, say critics

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2023

“Why did we get PredPol? I guess we wanted to be more effective when it came to reducing crime...I don’t believe we really used it that often, if at all. That’s why we ended up getting rid of it.” -Captain David Guarino of the Plainfield PD Read this scathing investigation into predictive policing:

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Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 02/10/2023

"Technology is not a substitute for community engagement and holistic crime reduction measures. The more police departments rely on technology to dictate where to focus efforts and who to be suspicious of, the more harm those departments will cause to vulnerable communities." @mguariglia.bsky.social

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Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to

Special thanks to Yael Grauer for additional writing and research.In June 2020, Santa Cruz, California became the first city in the United States to ban municipal use of predictive policing, a method

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

so much misinformation around Beyoncé’s Renaissance rollout…i hope someone is studying this 😭

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Update: I recently completed my 2-year fellowship at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. I’m back in Canada to pursue graduate studies at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, where I’ll work on AI governance with particularly generative AI.

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

“To date, there have been six reported cases from the Federal Court of individuals challenging the use of FRT to revoke their refugee status in Canada. All the cases involve Black people…” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

“After being charged in court with robbery and carjacking, Ms. Woodruff was released that evening on a $100,000 personal bond. In an interview, she said she went straight to the hospital where she was diagnosed with dehydration and given two bags of intravenous fluids.”

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

"The provisions require an individual to prove they were personally affected by an AI system, but harms can be collective, @christelle.bsky.social said. And unlike the EU’s AI Act, it doesn’t outright ban uses “inherently discriminatory or simply flawed,” like live facial recognition technology."

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

i wanna live in DC, its so beautiful over here

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

bunch of new ppl joined us this week, so lemme re-introduce myself!

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Zig 🪩 @zig.computer · 02/07/2023

to understand why bsky crashed today, check out the signups chart and despite being offline for hours, we had the most posts today of all time vqv.app/stats/chart

Signs up chart for Bluesky, with a spike on July 1st

Posts per day on Bluesky, with a spike on July 1st

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

the bear s2 is AMAZING, i highly recommend if you’re a fan of restaurants and family dramas that make you laugh and cry under 30 minutes

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

Wrote an essay for this platform governance project! I argue legislative strategies that focus on protecting personal information cannot address digital harms + propose solutions www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work…

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

Hi everyone! PSA: Your N95s and KN95s will block a lot of the particulate matter that makes you feel real shitty during bad wildfires. Even cloth masks and bandannas help. Sorry if this is already obvious to everyone, I would rather be tediously repetitive than not say anything in this case

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

not liking this blade runner type of vibe

Map depicting the US northeast’s air quality index levels. Princeton NJ at 185.

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Christelle @christelle.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

fighting techno-determinism one deadline at a time 🥲

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