I am glad to read the head of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association supporting me and taking a stand for academic freedom!

As leaders around the world respond to Israel's illegal abduction of humanitarians carrying aid to babies in Gaza, silence from Canada's @mark-carney.bsky.social
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, and yet they want us to believe this country has moral authority in the world?

Even the UK commented!

Solidarity from law profs down highway 2. That this reprehensible and dangerous action by U of A was apparently triggered by conservative media is appalling. The “protection” rationale trotted out by U of A (see also: forceful takedown of campus protests) is baseless and must be challenged.

Is CAUT @caut.bsky.social exploring the possibility of censure against U of T and UAlberta for punishing faculty for extramural speech and thus violating their academic freedom?

A horrifying case of censorship by @ualberta.bsky.social against a law prof commenting on Kirk's death. University failed to explain or justify why Ashley was removed from class. Explanation (& apology) needed from the uni, & protection for faculty & academic freedom. @caut.bsky.social fyi

It is frankly shocking and embarrassing that the Canadian government is dragging its feet on processing visas for these Palestinian students at risk. Get with the program, folks. www.linkedin.com/posts/pssar_...

I and my co-author @ntusikov.bsky.social offer an answer that question in our book, The New Knowledge (open access). Long story short: the digital tech-driven downgrading of scientific knowledge by the belief that statistical correlation on its own is a superior form of knowledge.

Seriously... Cohere that snuggled up to Peter Thiel and his "Algorithmically Accelerated Killing Machine”? Do better Canada's AI task force and please pay attention to the agenda of your partners: techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/c...

This. Precisely this. Every day of the week.
Which makes it all the more troubling that despite the ever-increasing number of warning signs, Canada's Prime Minister and his Minister for AI have gone all-in on the hype. They're buying at the top of the bubble, and Canada will be worse off for it.

I'm sure Canada's just-announced AI Task Force and Cohere, the AI company tasked with identifying governmental uses for AI, will be all over this report.

A consensus is forming: Israel must be banned by FIFA and UEFA for its ongoing genocide in Gaza.

All of this is a long way of saying that if you want to understand how SV got to Trump, and SV-state linkages, Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski's The Real Cyber War (2015) remains essential reading.

I draw on it heavily for this 2022 oped: www.cigionline.org/articles/sho....

One thing missing from this story, which complicates the narrative US tech & tech activists like to tell about themselves: The US tech sector has always been highly dependent on the US state. Them bending the knee to Trump is no more surprising than, say, Boeing continuing to deliver fighter jets.

The act of recognition is not enough. It will not automatically end Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestine. To accomplish that, recognition must be backed by meaningful economic pressure against Israel, including sanctions. Read our full statement: www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_09_2...

I was taken aback when I first heard the news of this. Good to hear that several MPs did not stand to honour Kirk. One can have their private views on such matters and share them w/ friends & colleagues as you wish, but the Parliament of Canada is no place to honour someone so hostile to democracy.

Utterly ridiculous decision to ban the Irish group, #Kneecap, from #Canada... this is not about dealing with hatred, it's about patronizing and paternalistic restriction of freedom of political speech and artistic expression.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

So much of what @bhaggart.bsky.social says here has been on my mind. Canada can't manufacture and pipeline itself away from what is happening south of the border. And using AI tools to increase public sector "production" is not going to solve things either.

“‘One issue with the current cloud market that we have is that it is highly concentrated. There are only a very few companies offering these services,’ [Guillaume] Beaumier said.”

Genuine question: Why is Telus’ Canadian “Sovereign AI Factory” built with American chips?

It’s unfortunate that “major infrastructure” doesn’t figure innovation-focused digital, media, or cultural infrastructure.

It’s all ressource extraction and energy—as if Canada had undone the 20th century and returned to the 19th.

"A tsunami of AI-enabled disinformation is already upon us, polluting the public sphere and seeping back into the language models that AI systems feed upon. What to do?"

My latest oped in @theglobeandmail.com 👇

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Great oped from @rondeibert.bsky.social from the @citizenlab.ca calling on Canada's new AI minister to stop naively cheerleading & start making policing on AI in today's Globe & Mail. "The Minister of AI should be mitigating these risks, rather than naively championing the tech behind it all."

Russian dissidents denied asylum in the U.S. fear deportation back into the arms of Putin’s security services - unless Canada intervenes.

“I hope that Canada will accept us, because all the world is going crazy and I hope that Canada won’t be.”

My report

This fits really well with Susan Strange’s conception of interlocking forms of structural power. Dominant structures (previously finance, now knowledge/tech) impose their logics on society.
FWIW, @ntusikov.bsky.social‘s and my book, The New Knowledge (OA), outlines the implications of this process.