@madmackley.bsky.social
phd student in information policy @ university of toronto
thinking through public data governance
thinking through public data governance
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It is still important to fight for public infrastructures that don't create surveillance that makes criminalized people more vulnerable. Dignity and autonomy shouldn't be a paid service, or only available to those lucky enough not to be scapegoated.
www.publicbooks.org/imagining-in...
www.publicbooks.org/imagining-in...
Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation - Public Books
We are in a moment that makes clear that the border—as a regime of enmity—can make intruders of us all.
www.publicbooks.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It is still important to fight for public infrastructures that don't create surveillance that makes criminalized people more vulnerable. Dignity and autonomy shouldn't be a paid service, or only available to those lucky enough not to be scapegoated.
www.publicbooks.org/imagining-in...
www.publicbooks.org/imagining-in...
Carney: let's cut out the middleman (deloitte) and go straight to the source (DOGE fanboys)
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Carney: let's cut out the middleman (deloitte) and go straight to the source (DOGE fanboys)
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
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Councillor Vince Crisanti says the increase to the land transfer tax on homes for more than $3 million is a "forced redistribution of wealth" and "insulting" to people who can afford homes in that range. "The wealthy already contribute to the economy in so many ways," he says.
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Councillor Vince Crisanti says the increase to the land transfer tax on homes for more than $3 million is a "forced redistribution of wealth" and "insulting" to people who can afford homes in that range. "The wealthy already contribute to the economy in so many ways," he says.
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Holyday closes his speech opposing a hike to the land transfer tax with an extended analogy about a group of friends going out for drinks, and then one of the friends gets charged more for their drink because they're wearing nicer clothes. He says that'd be wrong. Okay then.
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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hoping, praying, pleading that Chow's luxury home tax is approved in Toronto
"There was some scoffing about somebody who might have a $20 million house and 23 parking spots and marble and so on. You know what, though? They earned it! What's wrong with that?" wonders Holyday.
He doesn't think the "government should come and take it away and give it someone else."
He doesn't think the "government should come and take it away and give it someone else."
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
hoping, praying, pleading that Chow's luxury home tax is approved in Toronto
today I saw 2 moose
“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
today I saw 2 moose
have been using this image to discuss the different stages of completing my dissertation proposal defence (which I passed, today!)
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
have been using this image to discuss the different stages of completing my dissertation proposal defence (which I passed, today!)
i hope my iphone mini will last forever <3
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
i hope my iphone mini will last forever <3
a few months ago i started cancelling monthly subscriptions to platforms like Spotify etc. and began diverting those funds into recurring donations to Skipping Stone
A good time to donate to Skipping Stone, an organization that supports trans folks of all ages in Alberta.
Donate — Skipping Stone
With your support, Skipping Stone leads the way in providing affirming care to trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families.
www.skippingstone.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
a few months ago i started cancelling monthly subscriptions to platforms like Spotify etc. and began diverting those funds into recurring donations to Skipping Stone
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Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
great work by the cool & effective ai haters!!
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
great work by the cool & effective ai haters!!
me, on the job market: yes I <3 AI
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
me, on the job market: yes I <3 AI
oh hell ya!!!
Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team:
“I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”
“I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
oh hell ya!!!
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This is a labour *movement*. Solidarity with teachers in Alberta!
Unbelievable. Chills.
Tens of thousands of teachers converging downtown just outside where Danielle Smith is addressing an audience.
I’ve never seen anything like this.
Time to listen up, Premier.
Time for a fair deal.
We stand with teachers.
❤️✊
Tens of thousands of teachers converging downtown just outside where Danielle Smith is addressing an audience.
I’ve never seen anything like this.
Time to listen up, Premier.
Time for a fair deal.
We stand with teachers.
❤️✊
October 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is a labour *movement*. Solidarity with teachers in Alberta!
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The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
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I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._
Hormone vending machines lfg drive.google.com/file/d/1pMQh...
June 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._
i am currently in the process of "de-googling" - super easy to switch browsers (right now, mozilla+duckduckgo search) and email (proton)! still looking for a replacement for google docs & sheets for easy & secure collaboration...
I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going!
No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.
No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.
Getting off US tech is no easy task
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort
www.disconnect.blog
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i am currently in the process of "de-googling" - super easy to switch browsers (right now, mozilla+duckduckgo search) and email (proton)! still looking for a replacement for google docs & sheets for easy & secure collaboration...
thinking about this in QC, AB's recent book-ban & wave of anti-trans legislation.. really emphasizes the need for local journalism and opportunity for CDNs who are appalled by Skrmetti to mobilize& respond 2 bad govt (e.g., ppl who are not 'typically' 'politically engaged' or unaware of policy dev.)
For Canadians paying attention to trans rights: bad news in QC for incarcerated trans people! Seems to come via the Comité des sages report.
(The answer is no prisons, not trans-affirming prisons, I know, but this will hurt people NOW so it's worth fighting against!)
www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
(The answer is no prisons, not trans-affirming prisons, I know, but this will hurt people NOW so it's worth fighting against!)
www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
June 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
thinking about this in QC, AB's recent book-ban & wave of anti-trans legislation.. really emphasizes the need for local journalism and opportunity for CDNs who are appalled by Skrmetti to mobilize& respond 2 bad govt (e.g., ppl who are not 'typically' 'politically engaged' or unaware of policy dev.)
high stakes data breach! over 62 million students across the US and Canada from the past three decades! what will PIPEDA do!!!
The TDSB's PowerSchool platform promised months ago that stolen student data had been deleted — now it is revealed that the data was not destroyed, despite a ransom being paid, and the TDSB is now receiving new extortion threats.
May 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
high stakes data breach! over 62 million students across the US and Canada from the past three decades! what will PIPEDA do!!!
three years ago, i signed up to join the waitlist for a tennis club in Toronto. Today, I finally made it..
May 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
three years ago, i signed up to join the waitlist for a tennis club in Toronto. Today, I finally made it..
reading up on critical policy theory/methods and going: hell ya!!!! [am clearly in the throes of thesis proposal writing]
March 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
reading up on critical policy theory/methods and going: hell ya!!!! [am clearly in the throes of thesis proposal writing]
developing a MLM scheme but it’s for promoting the library
February 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
developing a MLM scheme but it’s for promoting the library
great news for the secretly conservative who like to claim “social liberal but fiscal conservative”
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
great news for the secretly conservative who like to claim “social liberal but fiscal conservative”
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I've obtained 328 pages of government records about the drafting of Canada's AI & Data Act through an access to information request.
Breakdown of what's in the release package: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to read & download the full release package in the replies 👇
Breakdown of what's in the release package: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to read & download the full release package in the replies 👇
Inventory of Records from ATIA Request - ISED AI Legislation
docs.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I've obtained 328 pages of government records about the drafting of Canada's AI & Data Act through an access to information request.
Breakdown of what's in the release package: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to read & download the full release package in the replies 👇
Breakdown of what's in the release package: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to read & download the full release package in the replies 👇
