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blair @blairaf.com · 09/02/2026

My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust betakit.com/canadas-new-...

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Canada’s new AI strategy is off to a bad start | BetaKit

Canadians already have low trust in AI. Exclusionary and unclear public engagement methods aren’t helping.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Everyone involved in the abuse of this child should be identified. Let them try to look their kids and their neighbors in the eye after being outed as literal kid-nappers

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Doug Ford is destroying Ontario's social safety net, and has been for years

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/01/2026

“Basically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.” As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.

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Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment

Interview: 'What we are finding is that people hate AI'

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/01/2026

It’s incredible and infuriating how little accountability Musk and X/xAI have faced for this.

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Data centers add to existing public health burdens. “A recent study by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative found that those living within 1 mile of an EPA-regulated data center were breathing air pollution at levels above the national average.” gizmodo.com/data-center-... 1/

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Data Center Project Cancellations Quadrupled in 2025 as Locals Fight Back

A win for advocacy!

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This consultation is a fulfillment of the promise we (the ad hoc civil society working group) made to the Canadian public, in this open letter to the "AI Minister" Evan Solomon, protesting the rushed and biased 30-day "consultation" to form a "national strategy" on AI: bsky.app/profile/cyn-... #PCAI

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Joanna Redden @jredden.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The People's Consultation on AI - launched! We deserve better than an industry focused sprint. We deserve policy and enforceable regs that take our concerns, the need to prevent AI harms and protect our environment seriously. Website (EN): lnkd.in/egcadaSq Website (FR): lnkd.in/epB-Qq2c

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is a good time to remind folks that EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of EPA’s Environmental Justice grant cancellations on communities. Check out the map here: screening-tools.com/epa-ej-grants

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EPA EJ Grants — Data + Screening Tools

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump administration announces plans to build AI data centers on federal land thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 09/02/2025

Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/02/2025

Corporate Coup in Global Context Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST. We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it. Here’s our unofficial but functional copy: digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...

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Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.

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Joanna Redden @jredden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Listening to this now! So good!

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