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Skylee-Storm

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Opinions mine | Enthusiast of Research Methods, IM/RDM, Critical Data Studies, Archives & History | Writer | Fantasy Reader | Kahnawá:ke Newfie tornado 🌪️

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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm grateful to learn from smart and strong people who dedicate their lives to supporting the resurgence of their Nations. I didn't have space to quote them all here, but I have linked their work in the article above.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I contributed an article to Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca One of the most important lessons I received is that “It's all about the land,” and the recent push for ‘Canadian Sovereign AI Compute’ is no different. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
policyalternatives.ca
Beneath the cloud, the land | CCPA
First Nations digital sovereignty is about more than just technical infrastructure
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Explaining his choices at booking
A clip from the office showing Michael Scott in a tight purple dress shirt. The caption reads, “It's a European cut.”
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 14/07/2026
"A DND spokesperson said the government never advertised the contract because it “inadvertently omitted” to post it publicly. Since other potential bidders were not aware of the contract, it was effectively awarded to Palantir directly" 🫠
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Defence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each year
Government says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 07/07/2026
oh I can't wait to listen to this
Meme of Willy Wonka giving a condescending look. The caption says: "Canada won't be a digital colony? Please, tell me more about how colonization works"
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Not THAT Cydd @notthatcydd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I guess southern ontario is now Europe?
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Data centers require vast amounts of energy and water and in a time when climate change is burning the planet how can you market that as something other than planet destroying?
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 29/06/2026
shockedpikachu.gif www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
desmog.com
Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A new toolkit is out on data centre fights in Canada! It is very good! aicivilsociety.ca/ResistingAID... Read on for key info, tactics, and case studies, written by academics and activists in the trenches. #AI #Canada
aicivilsociety.ca
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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah. About whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Not whether some people deserve rights.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 10/06/2026
if anything this just shows that the real purpose of Bill C-9 is about further entrenching who is and isn't worthy of being protected by the state www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
aptnnews.ca
Senate vote against residential school denialism bill sparks outrage
Assemblies representing First Nations across Canada are expressing “profound disappointment" over the vote against a proposed amendment.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/06/2026
There is over a trillion dollars invested in AI, which is another way of saying that there is a colossal amount of money resources bent on making AI seem like an inevitable, benign technology whose incursion into every aspect of our life we should just accept because we “have to.”
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bekka leigh @bekkaleigh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Can we talk about how it is an absolute betrayal that Carney is shilling for genAI after everything that more than likely exacerbated the events that lead to losing our loved ones in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge just 4 months ago?
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 08/06/2026
cool cool cool
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 08/06/2026
"Cohere may not be working with Palantir, but... [i]t has inked contracts with defence firms such as Thales Canada and German submarine maker ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems—both of which are non-Canadian firms whose equipment is used by the Canadian Armed Forces."
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“Palantir is first of all a dehumanizing company. It is a terrifying company because of the amount of political and financial support it has.” Gift link:
readthepeak.com
Why are security experts worried about Canada’s secret Palantir contracts?
Hint: it has to do with data sovereignty.
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Brandusescu...highlighted a deal from 2024 between Palantir and IT service provider Carahsoft. “That's a very boring contract that no one cares about, but that for me is very worrying because that's how it infiltrates in a subtle way.”
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” Wab Kinew in his announcement that Manitoba would not be continuing with the Île-des-Chênes data centre.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.” But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
How about addressing state surveillance that undermines land defence and community action that puts First Nations people in jail and dispossesses them of their land and resources? Oh, right, they need those two things for their ‘sovereign AI’ infrastructure.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I would also like to say that most of the government's emphasis on First Nations and AI (as well as the leading AI institutes) is on education. I think it is paternalistic to imply that distrust of these systems stems from insufficient understanding of them.
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW from @natashabulowski.bsky.social and myself www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...
nationalobserver.com
Canada’s AI strategy includes no new protections for water or climate
A single box in the 49-page document is dedicated to the environmental impacts of AI. It acknowledges that AI data centres require a lot of energy and increase water usage, but does not propose any ne...
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blair @blairaf.com · 04/06/2026
Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
pm.gc.ca
Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/06/2026
This will impact the rights of probably every Indigenous person here, and yet despite all the talk about "reconciliation" and UNDRIP... crickets. They don't even bother with the token gestures anymore, just "adopt it or be left behind". Oh hey where have we heard that before...
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/06/2026
we talked more about "digital sovereignty" here, the recordings are up if you want to hear more nuanced takes on "AI" than what you'll get on the news soundbites tonight aicivilsociety.ca/sched.html
aicivilsociety.ca
Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry
May 22, 2026 — Montréal
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Lots to review, but one overarching philosophical reaction: Believing a technology is “inevitable” and that we should approach it with “humility”, while also crafting a $2.3B government plan to spur development, adoption and use of that technology, is a peculiar combination of views.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@jeff.doctor brings this up constantly, and I do, too, but I want to once again ask whose land this infrastructure will run through? Whose land will these data centres be built on? With whose resources? Who is going to suffer the impacts of resource extraction, water shortages, and climate change?
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/06/2026
and on any major public platform if you dare to point out how fundamentally fucked this entire "AI revolution" is (lol) you'll be deemed a heretic, burned at the stake by the fires of the righteous who maintain the faith that "AI" will "save us all".
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Economic reconciliation” aka hush money.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/06/2026
I am once again asking on whose land is all this "AI" infrastructure gonna be dependant on? ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...
ised-isde.canada.ca
Canada’s national Artificial Intelligence strategy: AI for All
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Convenience and technological reliance are not measures of our society’s civility. I will not let any corporate mouthpiece tell me otherwise.
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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I found this enormously informative — a close reading of the encryption and metadata provisions, and implications of the Cloud Act agreement on the way. Thanks @cyn-k.bsky.social, @kate-robertson.bsky.social, and @digitalprivacy.ca!
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Do not become enamoured with convenience. Do not become complacent as the government agrees to hand over your data to corporations, backed by vague promises of health and security. Do not become second-hand thinkers. Your ancestors have the answers.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I'm not disappointed because I had zero expectations that this government would do the right thing, but I'm convinced we all need to be as loud, disruptive, and annoying as possible. Don't let them take your agency or your humanity. These are your inherent rights.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In the strategy, First Nations are mentioned twice, once as a group vaguely consulted, then again as a group being served by health AI research. To be clear, all submissions made in the development of this strategy (not consultation) were analyzed by AI. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
pm.gc.ca
Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A selection of ads at the Ottawa International Airport featuring AI, mines, and weapons manufacturing.
Add for Cohere AI that says: 
Your data.
Your infrastructure.
Cohere keeps it that way.An ad for Cohere that says: “Own your AI. Prenez le contrôle de votre IA.”An ad for Vale that shows a mine and a data centre that reads “Critical today, accelerating tomorrow; providing mineral security to a world transition”An ad for Lockheed Martin Canada showing an Arctic naval fleet with jets flying over into the northern lights.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I feel like David Lynch would have loved the Backrooms.
static.klipy.com
Agent Cooper Enters Twin Peaks' Red Room
Alt: Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks is walking through the Black Lodge, a space with white and black floors and curtain walls that lead to more rooms that look similar.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“As political scientist David B. MacDonald would later put it. Indeed, Indigenous peoples are the ones who have born the expense of the political compromise of “multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,” the ones who have been consistently excluded by it.”
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Gotcha! Sorry, I've been working away without time for bluesky ✨
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I agree we need to protect people. What does real Canadians mean? Who are they?
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I do agree that I'm not nuts about the NDP using this issue as a springboard without sufficient collaboration with Indigenous peoples who have valid concerns about trusting law enforcement.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hi there, I work in RDM and IM, and I understand metadata quite well. I agree that people need parts of this for safety. However, as someone from a group of people (First Nations) who the RCMP has covertly surveilled for asserting sovereignty in their territories I would like to see limits.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another little announcement is making me think about data collection and who it gets shared with. I wonder what training data they will use for this research? mila.quebec/en/news/cohe...
mila.quebec
Cohere and Mila Partner to Advance Quebec French Language and Cultural Context in AI | Mila
Cohere and Mila today announced plans to enter into a new academic research collaboration focused on advancing the science of multilingual and multicultural AI evaluation, with an initial emphasis on ...
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
More about Cohere, Canada’s ‘sovereign AI’: thewalrus.ca/cohere-is-ca...
thewalrus.ca
Cohere Is Canada’s Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? | The Walrus
The company touts homegrown roots but leans on US hardware and partners
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
thestar.com
Ottawa’s latest deal with U.S. data giant Palantir raises warnings
The Department of National Defence quietly inked a $3.7-million contract last year with American data giant Palantir, newly released documents show.
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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thinking about C-22 in combination with a new article from The Toronto Star about the Department of National Defence quietly entering a $3.7-million contract with Palantir last year. The federal government also gave $240 million to Cohere, which is also quietly working with Palantir.
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I’m seeing Palantir infiltrate Canada in a way that we’ve just ignored it, and we keep ignoring it." I argue that the federal government should refuse to deal with the company, citing multiple examples of human rights abuses.
thestar.com
Ottawa’s latest deal with U.S. data giant Palantir raises warnings
The Department of National Defence quietly inked a $3.7-million contract last year with American data giant Palantir, newly released documents show.
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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"AI development is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy how could this have happened?????" [spidermen point at each other dot jpg]
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
. @kate-ro.bsky.social critique of Canada's Lawful Access bill #C22 highlights its many flaws AND why protests from US big tech firms that they could leave Canada are crocodile tears given how it could facilitate lawless executive power in the US... thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-... 1/
thewalrus.ca
Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him | The Walrus
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
ahem
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