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Lorax Horne

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Editor and writer. Tech critic. Since they are Canadian, would not rule out treachery. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights. Donate to: chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-…

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 5h
The transcribed zine (in US Letter & A4 for printing) of the interview with @sabot.media & @CrimethInc on the implications of the sanctioning of #AutisticiInventati by the Trump administration, some history of the hosts of NoBlogs and some paths forward Check it out at tfsr.media/zines/#Septe...
zine cover of our interview "The Situation with NoBlogs (featuring Sabot Media and CrimethInc) | The Final Straw Radio - September 2, 2026" featuring a cartoon of a hacktivist coveredin keyboards, mouses, circuit boards, strapped with cables and phones, cracked computer monitors stuffed with other tech and a circuit board between their mouth as they run, cables dangling behind, image taken from an earlier version of the A/I book "+Kaos"
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 29/09/2026
Today, charges against DULF's founders were tossed out by a BC Supreme Court decision Yesterday, we covered how docs in trial evidence show Vancouver police pushed to bring those charges — even when a Crown prosecutor questioned whether it was in the public interest
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 29/09/2026
Canada’s drug policy violates its Charter, BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled on Tuesday, by making it de facto illegal to run a compassion club providing tested illicit drugs. Read the full breakdown of her decision, by @godfrey.work: www.defactomedia.ca/breaking-dul...
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BREAKING: DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge
Justice Catherine Murray applauds Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, declares a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I said yes to too many things now I'm very anxious no one ask me to do anything til January including punctuate
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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 27/09/2026
I’ll read this soon but I assume the tl;dr version is “no”.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trans moose murdered in Canada 🥲 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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West coast N.L. hunter harvests 7-point bull moose only to find it has ‘no male parts’ | CBC News
Longtime hunter Jason House got a surprise when what he thought was a bull moose turned out to be a rare case of a female moose with antlers in the province.
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Shawn in Montreal @shawninmontreal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Canadian Food Inspection Agency didn't tell us
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Data centers are not going to preserve your old growth forests, the lungs of the planet. Data centers are not going to protect your water sources and agricultural food systems. When your politicians sell out your ecosystem for a data center, they have betrayed you and the next generations.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨follow your dreams✨ www.gofundme.com/f/river-get-...
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Donate to River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation, organized by River H
Sex change! Gender reassignment! Vaginoplasty! ✨Pussification ✨ Call it w… River H needs your support for River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*snort*
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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us online today (1:30pm CEST - link in first reply) to co-create a collaborative, multistakeholder emergency response mechanism to protect Internet access in conflicts and crises! This online session is part of @rightscon.org Continues @accessnow.org @apc.org @7amleh.bsky.social
Screenshot of the event's banner, mostly repeating the title and speakers for this event
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/09/2026
Stephen Harper’s biggest mistake was not running as a Liberal
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It would be fun if at the end of Pointless, they made the last two contestants fight each other and winner take all of the prize money.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 21/09/2026
New investigation: an Israeli app that allows political campaigns to feed supporters AI-generated arguments to use on social media has arrived in Canada. It's being used in the highest profile mayoral campaign in Canada, @rorywh.bsky.social reveals.
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Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI is already killing people.
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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
let’s hear it for Paula Clarke, BA’92
Paula Clarke, BA'92, is thrilled to announce the finalization of her divorce in 2026 after 20 years of intensely draining marital life.
Paula's upcoming plans include financial independence, a firm commitment to personal autonomy, mental peace and no longer needing to sleep with earplugs.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This fundraiser is stalled, I don’t know if any trans allies follow me? We live in a fucked up world where basic services for trans people, like body changes, is stuff we have to do ourselves because cis people designed public health, for themselves, not for us: www.gofundme.com/f/river-get-...
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Donate to River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation, organized by River H
Sex change! Gender reassignment! Vaginoplasty! ✨Pussification ✨ Call it w… River H needs your support for River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Lancet: DOGE is responsible for millions of deaths. WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
OPINION • COMMENTARY
DOGE Works. Let's Keep It Going
A cadre of gifted, creative and patriotic thinkers can uncover wasteful spending and reduce federal debt.
By Tyler Hassen
Sept. 16, 2026 12:29 pm EDT
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
inb4 Mark Carney takes credit for this idea
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love to Myanmar
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Adam Watts @adamwatts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wednesday evenings require perfection
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Associate membership of the European Union feels a bit like the FIFA Peace Prize.
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jon greig @jgreig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Law enforcement agencies in Norway are investigating whether Norwegian telecom Telenor aided crimes against humanity through its work providing customer data to the brutal military regime currently governing Myanmar therecord.media/norway-inves...
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Norway announces investigations into telecom Telenor’s work with Myanmar junta
Oslo-based Telenor potentially enabled crimes against humanity and violated sanctions in its dealings with the military regime that took over Myanmar in 2021, Norwegian authorities said.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
is anyone out here trying to live slower? like the idea of AI helping me do everything faster is so ick
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘I’ve lost everything – my child, my house, my money’: how Israel’s war on Gaza has changed men The impact of the conflict on Palestinian men is a largely undiscussed topic. Four civilians talk about their lives and relationships www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘I’ve lost everything – my child, my house, my money’: how Israel’s war on Gaza has changed men
The impact of the conflict on Palestinian men is a largely undiscussed topic. Four civilians talk about their lives and relationships
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children. Call it what it is, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: GENOCIDE.' @mhdksafa.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Some people will never be happy. Identify who those people are, and avoid them at all costs, lest they suppress your ability to be happy as well.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you hate TERFs, donating to River is a really good way to get back at them. www.gofundme.com/f/river-get-...
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Donate to River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation, organized by River H
Sex change! Gender reassignment! Vaginoplasty! ✨Pussification ✨ Call it w… River H needs your support for River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 04/09/2026
Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.
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Carney government accused of burying climate report warning of worsening impacts
The report, which analyzes the impacts of climate change in Canada, was posted to a government website with no fanfare on Thursday evening ahead of the Labour Day long weekend.
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you hate TERFs, donating to River is a really good way to get back at them. www.gofundme.com/f/river-get-...
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Donate to River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation, organized by River H
Sex change! Gender reassignment! Vaginoplasty! ✨Pussification ✨ Call it w… River H needs your support for River needs YOUR HELP to have a sex change operation
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hakan @hatr.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In this weeks newsletter, @jls.bsky.social describes how to process 100,000 photos without looking at them. No graphic material is included, but the theme may be unsettling. I‘m always amazed by Jan, and if you read this, you’ll know why buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...
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Edition 8 - Dealing with 100,000 horrible pictures for the Damascus Dossier
Hi! This newsletter is a bit different, because it will also published as a blog post over at DARC, Jan's company. So whenever it says 'we' just imagine it...
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hello new followers. I am Lorax, I help to run a helpline for migrant workers in Canada. Every day, I hear stories that don't make it into the news, because Canada and many other countries are running slave labour schemes exploiting vulnerable workers. I think a lot about capitalism, tech & humans.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 29/08/2026
I have a very close friend in Gaza, a mother of three children, who has lost everything and is in need of donations for her family. Please give if you can, and help others. No amount of donation is too small. There are many Gazans in need. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1981...
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Help A Mother in Gaza Protect her Children
Hello, my name is Lucy and I've set up this campaign to rasie funds for my friend in Gaza, a mother who is relying on donations to provide for her family at the moment, and needs your help.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
I recommend thoughtfully populating an RSS reader with newsletters you’d like to keep up with, and yes this works for substacks
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/08/2026
if you're a normal person please do not play the fucking strip mahjong game. do not let the fun and friendly appeal of something as inoffensive as pornography trick you into playing a game as evil as mahjong
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hi, I do not care about Milo.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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This Mysterious “Astroturf” Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger
In text messages, the newly formed “Neighbors for Strong Communities” boosted reported threats by CEO David Ellison to move Paramount out of California.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Rachel Reid is doing a fundraiser for the Annapolis Valley libraries on September 12! At Acadia University in Wolfville. ISO carpool
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026
These people literally got the genocide they have been wanting for decades and not only are they STILL not satisfied, they still say THEY are the oppressed ones. You cannot reason with fascists.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026
"Israelis who don't vote for Netanyahu are antisemitic" - The Jerusalem Post, unironically
Why Israel's right-wing voters feel the system is stacked against them – opinion
Right-wing voters justifiably fear living under institutions that have been contaminated by rigid ideologiesThat grudge only increased as the electorate perceived a very pronounced anti-Right prejudice, which only became more pronounced as the “anyone-but-Bibi” camp developed.

One could have presumed that white, Ashkenazi, secular liberals who vote Left in Israel would have learned the lesson by now, especially as they claim for themselves a status of the more enlightened and cultured element in Israel’s society.
Seemingly, they haven’t.
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