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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Canada cannot bet on AI for economic reform" argues @balsillieschool.bsky.social's Madison Lee in analysis for Perspectives Journal No. 6 🤖 perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberal-ai-growth

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

EEK! So glad to have my article published! Please check it out if you have a sec! If you’re concerned about how Carney’s AI aspirations are playing out, this article is for you!

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In Canada, the wealthy can use lawsuits to silence critics and avoid public scrutiny. Most of us can't afford to fight back. That needs to change. I just added my name to demand better protections for everyday Canadians. Will you join me? app.sosha.ai/s/y2I8dpZn

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Very cool research-related update. CityNews reached out to me for an interview about Canada's National AI Strategy. For a more in-depth recap of the interview, check out my LinkedIn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQk... #CanadaAI #NationalAIStrategy #CarneyAI

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National AI strategy sparks criticism

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/05/2026

gasp, you don’t say! the most obviously predictable thing happened when the lying machine was rolled out in healthcare?

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"Canada cannot bet on AI for economic reform. The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers." 🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-ai-economic-growth/

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Canada is Betting on AI for National Economic Growth: Here’s Why Working-Class Canadians Lose | Perspectives Journal

The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers.

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Today I had the honour of meeting my idol, @parismarx.com 😭 Tech Won’t Save Us has been such a significant inspiration for my PhD research. Thank you for taking the time to chat. I can’t wait to read your upcoming book this fall!

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So grateful that I had the opportunity to contribute a chapter to this very timely book! In this chapter I critically examine discourse that suggests AI can be used as a tool for achieving the SDGs. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 24/02/2026

Today, February 24th, is publication day for my latest book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social youtu.be/_Y7YLX-ASGY?...

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THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 18/02/2026

“Why does the left hate technology” is not the right question. Instead we should be asking “why do most people hate the capitalist technologies sold as ‘innovations’ and forced onto society by a handful of mega billionaires and their toady sycophants?”

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Happy to share that an opinion piece I wrote for the Broadbent Institute has been published today! I call into question the Carney government’s heavy investment in AI, and argue that its corporate-centred approach is reminiscent of neoliberal trickle-down economics.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The Canada Revenue Agency's chatbot mostly generates wrong answers and is expensive. "The agency says the bulk of cost is salaries ($13.67 million), though that doesn’t include costs related to employee benefits and travel. Another $3.21 million was spent on IT consultants for the project."

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The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time

The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/11/2025

Canadian "sovereign AI" project: Look at this sovereign computing facility we're building in Canada! There will be so much sovereign Canadian compute here! Facility hardware specifications: Dell, Intel, Nvidia

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/06/2025

Canada Post wants to create a new class of flexible, part-time worker that will better compete with Amazon and implement “dynamic routing” so delivery routes can be changed on the fly. It’s a good example of how Amazon degrades workers’ rights even beyond its walls. Workers are right to push back.

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Inside the Long, Hard Battle Between Canada Post and CUPW | The Tyee

After 18 months of bargaining, the sides are still far apart.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"Governments have a role in regulating AI to ensure that accountability is not subordinate to market incentives, which could include worker exploitation. AI legislation also requires a bottom-up approach, in which data can be leveraged through unions."

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Having a Charge Spring in the Slay-Offs before a second brat summer #ottawacharge #pwhl #charge #brat #boofrost @pwhlcharge.bsky.social

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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 17/05/2025

OTTAWA ADVANCES! @pwhlcharge.bsky.social will make their first PWHL Finals presented by Scotiabank appearance!

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The only thing harder than getting my PhD is being a Leafs fan. I hope they don't completely embarrass us again in Game 6 🫠

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hunger and starvation stalk in Gaza as food is more scarce and prices have increased by up to 1400 percent compared to during the ceasefire "Essential ingredients are up to 60 times more expensive than before the war" www.ft.com/content/89cc...

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Prices in Gaza soar as supplies run out under Israeli siege

World Food Programme warns that some items have risen 1,400% since January’s ceasefire

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I am delighted to share my final working paper, "Big Tech, Venture Capital and Shaping Innovation in Canada’s Tech Start-Ups," written for the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) 's Digital Policy Hub. www.cigionline.org/publications...

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Big Tech, Venture Capital and Shaping Innovation in Canada’s Tech Start-Ups

This working paper explores how US-based big tech corporations use their corporate venture capitalist arms to heavily influence the development of emerging technologies by shaping which innovations re...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/04/2025

Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

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Meta's reality check: Inside the $45 billion cash burn at Reality Labs

Meta's Reality Labs division has lost nearly $50 billion in the last five years. Yahoo Finance spoke to several former employees about what's happening inside Mark Zuckerberg's virtual world.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/02/2025

Tech billionaires demanded Donald Trump use the power of the US government to pressure other countries not to crack down on them. Now Trump is pulling out of a global tax agreement and threatening tariffs against countries that pass digital services taxes targeting multinational tech companies.

disconnect.blog

Silicon Valley is enlisting Trump in its war against higher taxes

Trump wants to stop digital services taxes and a global minimum corporate tax rate

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 20/02/2025

Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s DOGE has infiltrated the US government and begun dismantling pieces of it. This week @makenakelly.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the threat DOGE poses to government services and everyone who depends on them. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/264_...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 06/02/2025

Read now: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

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Google is ready to work on AI weapons now

The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is now available in the US and globally with @politybooks.bsky.social The book charts how digital and AI interventions in humanitarian settings harm some of the world's most marginalized people www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/01/2025

They plagiarized our trillion dollar plagiarism machine!?

General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove on the telephone with a concerned look

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/01/2025

The Canadian government is threatening to reassess its contracts with Amazon unless the company reverses its decision to close all its warehouses in Quebec, not long after workers formed a union at one of the facilities.

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Amazon Layoffs Prompt Canada to Review Government Deals

Canada’s industry minister said Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to shut down all warehouses in Quebec and cut more than 1,900 jobs would prompt the government to examine its current deals with the e-commer...

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 23/01/2025

A tech oligarchy has formed behind Donald Trump to implement an extreme right-wing agenda to protect their own power and wealth. This week @gabydvj.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to talk about Trump’s inauguration and what tech billionaires want from him. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/260_...

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Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I am excited to share that my second working paper from my fellowship at CIGI's Digital Policy Hub has now been published! It provides a foundational look at the adoption of Industry 4.0 technology in Canada. There is still so much to explore on this topic! www.cigionline.org/static/docum...

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway. Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

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AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model

By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Mar...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/12/2024

After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies. I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”

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Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty

A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future

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