@AdameMedia:
PETER THEIL IS ON THE EPSTEIN FILES
This brilliant and funny work by Tim Minchin is a must watch, notably the parts about the AI fuckers stealing from the arts:
Tim Minchin’s Full Speech at The Art of Tax Reform Summit 2025 – NSW, Australia 13:40 Min. by Tim Minchin, Oct 31, 2025
“And when we fail to empathize, whenever we instead stick to our convictions and nail down our views, whenever we divide into tribes and ring fence our empathy, affording it to those who look like this but not like that, to those who believe this but not that, to those who trot out
these shibiliths, post these flags, but not to those who refuse. There we have war.
Not metaphorically, wherever humans give themselves permission to withdraw their empathy from an adjacent group, there is eventually literal war.“
AI is incapable of empathy; thus why I believe villains like Nazi Musk and his tech bro klan despise empathy. And why Herr Carney is helping them invade us with AI which destroys empathy. War makes them big money, the less empathy in the people the better the killing and the profits.
@michhham.bsky.social:
A thought: What if the Carney government abandoned its obsession with “A.I.” and instead tried to “accelerate” Canadian arts and culture? With more visual and financial literacy in schools, media preparedness on the air, dance classes for seniors, and funding for CAF’s civilian artists program?
“Despite $30 – $40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return.”
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor Nov 4, 2025:
I signed on to this letter because I refuse to accept the framing of “AI” as inevitable or even urgent. Generative “AI” in particular is slop tech for a fascist era and this rushed “consultation” period is just part of the overall griftosphere that constitutes modern tech.
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar…
We wrote this because we kept getting asked about “AI”. I’d much rather focus my energy on building tech that actually empowers people but instead I keep getting pulled into this delusional discourse about a fantastical future that’ll never come. Your “AI” god is a lie.
Understanding and Resisting Generative AI — Animikii Indigenous Technology
Animikii empowers Indigenous communities with culturally informed technology solutions like Niiwin—our groundbreaking tool for Indigenous data sovereignty and community empowerment.
You know what’s urgently needed? Basic software. Reliable database systems, accessible interfaces, privacy oriented design. It’s super mundane stuff like asking, “how can software make your life better”, not telling people “this is how software is going to solve all your problems.” Because it won’t.
I’ve been helping build software for Indigenous Peoples for over a decade, and never once have I thought “wow, we found the thing that’ll fix everything.” That’s impossible and it’s silly. All tech comes with externalities, it’s like a game of wack-a-mole. Fix one problem, another pops up.
Anyone who sells you something with a big promise that it’ll magically fix everything, just “trust us bro”, is selling you a lie. “AI” is just a brand, a magic bean, attached on whatever garbage is being pushed into the market anyway. Putting so much capital into magic beans is wild, yet here we are
When I started at Animikii, I coined the term “move slow and empower people” as a reminder to myself, my colleagues, and my clients, that just because you can build something that doesn’t mean you should. I even made a wacky flow chart (I really should update it): animikii.com/insights/mov…
Move Slow and Empower People: Animikii’s Approach to Indigenous Technology — Animikii Indigenous Technology
Ever do something so often that you have trouble defining what it is? For us at Animikii, that thing is Indigenous Technology. Technology results from innovation, when something existing is improved…
so whenever I see any tech selling itself as “urgent” or “inevitable” I get real sus. I also get sus when I hear the word “consultation”, because who really is being “consulted”? I know it’s not Indigenous Peoples because the narrative is all about “Canadian sovereignty”: bsky.app/profile/jeff…
seriously, all these Canadian op-eds and open letters on Canada’s “digital sovereignty” and they all fail to mention that data centers need a lot of land, water, resources, etc.
So again, on whose land?
I don’t see any Indigenous rights-holders signing off on these “digital sovereignty” plans.
There’s also this giant elephant in the room in every tech event I go to and every op-ed on Canadian “digital sovereignty”: bsky.app/profile/jeff…
This is what makes me nervous about all this Canadian nationalism and talk about “sovereignty”, it assumes the fundamental crimes of theft, dispossession, and genocide are just. That leaves people like me wondering if y’all just want me and my family to disappear so you can sleep better at night
Funny how often Indigenous concerns about this are considered “out of scope”: “This paper also does not address Indigenous data sovereignty considerations, which is distinct from the GC’s institutional approach and led by Indigenous partners through separate processes” www.canada.ca/en/governmen..
Digital Sovereignty: A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada – Canada.caNone of this digital sovereignty stuff is new or interesting to me. What do you think Indigenous Peoples have been saying for hundreds of years about sovereignty? Digital is another form of infrastructure dependancy. We know all about that, yet Canadians don’t bother to “consult” us as experts on it
Instead, we’re further marginalized as just another “equity-seeking group” or whatever. We just need to be “included” in discussions about “Canadian digital sovereignty”. Can we talk about what Canada does with its sovereignty? Nah. That’s “out of scope”. o rly
Anywho, all this is to say that I’m glad to see an open letter of actual substance that I’m happy to lend my name to. Would I like to see more Indigenous people joining in on these discussions? Of course. I know we all got a lot going on, but these things are related, “AI” isn’t just a “tech issue”.
For example, there’s this: bsky.app/profile/nolo…
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social:
It’s actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they’re putting into childcare, into AI. Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
and this: bsky.app/profile/rjja…
Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social:
budget.canada.ca/2025/report-… While there are a couple hundred mentions of Indigenous people, it’s all genuflection – little substantial. Look past this fiscal year, and it’s all zeroes… where do they think we’re going?
“AI” won’t clean your drinking water (data centres will slurp that up anyway) “AI” won’t lower your bills (algorithmic pricing will take whatever you have left) “AI” won’t improve services (a racist chatbot isn’t going to help you) Magic beans are a bad investment (unless you’re selling them)
@bhaggart.bsky.social:
“The Cloud Act also allows the U.S. government to ask American companies that have offices or infrastructure in other countries to hand over data they hold abroad if it’s required for law enforcement.”
Cohere is headquartered in the US as well as in Canada.and is tightly tied to Nazi genocidaire Palantir
@catelli.bsky.social:
Ah-yup!
“Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns”
“federal government can only maintain full legal control if it delivers the service itself, or uses service providers that operate completely under Canadian jurisdiction.”
@ldorak.bsky.social:
[Carney and Poilievre] share almost the same pro-MAGA ideologies, so in some ways I think Carney is far more dangerous. We already have a cult of Carney partisans excusing Bill C5/C2, austerity, and further integration with the US military, who would be out in the streets protesting if PP tried to do the same.
@trevorsideas.bsky.social:
Solomon is pushing trust in AI capabilities at the same time as ChatGPT is being blocked from producing legal or medical advice because it’s untrustworthy. Also Apple and others pulling the plug on news summaries because of how bad it is.
He’s gotta talk to someone other than a tech bro.In my view of Carney giving Trump everything he demands, and Carney sleazing dirty Solomon into power and now give a billion of our tax dollars (and likely much more that’s hidden) to Amerikkkan Nazi AI and leave the fucking Nazi tech bros completely unregulated, replacing Canadian jobs with racist misogynistic error-laden AI is intentional – to use the guise of AI saving us to give billions of our tax dollars to billionaire tech Nazis while taking 40,000 jobs and services (and eventually take away our public health care and education) away from Canadians – all to weaken Canada and please kid-raping Adolf Orange.
@smarvsmith.bsky.social:
Yep. This is gross. Hard pass.
It’s a resource-devouring, built-on-stolen-work, wrong-all-the-time shit tool being pushed by deeply unethical people.
Get the hell out of here with that slopping clanking garbage.
@robmellow.bsky.social:
It does seem apt that the art scam guy is in charge of this as well. Maybe he can be minister of bitcoin, too.
@jennaa2014.bsky.social:
This is beyond cringe, it’s dangerous.
@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social:
Libs disguised as being progressive are definitely more dangerous. At least Pierre tells you exactly his intentions to fuck over everyone
@novalight.bsky.social:
Horseshit. One of the most stupid remarks ever. Jfc!
Just to be clear, I was referring to Evan.
@flimflame.bsky.social:
It’s a cult.
@gerellen.bsky.social:
This is simply idiotic. By all means explore AI possibilities, but go slowly. It’s not a miracle cure.
@discordantmuse.bsky.social:
I welcome our AI overlords, but this ain’t it. Get back to us when it’s not some abusive techbro’s wet dream.
@beanjammin.bsky.social:
So many people pushing so much bullshit.
@theemarcfrancis.bsky.social:
What in the fuck.
@purlgurly.bsky.social:
The absolute garbage in The Star’s pre-budget AI hype propaganda pieces published today is really something. What even is this tech bro bafflegab:
@seanyyz.bsky.social:
Clicked just to read the byline. Yikes, that professor is up their own ass.
Like maple syrup and hockey, AI must become a part of our national identity by Joel Bilt, Nov 2, 2025, Toronto Star
Canada’s fucking slimy corrupt idiot minister of Stolen Stupid AI forcing AI onto all Canadians whether we want it or not, to brain rot us all and destroy our rights, notably privacy, and give our private information to Nazi USA:
Joël Blit is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the co-founder of the Canadian AI Adoption Initiative.
AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon recently launched a national AI Strategy Task Force with a bold 30-day mandate to deliver recommendations.
He laid out an ambitious agenda: light-touch AKA noregulation to build trustAKA lies and propaganda to con Canadians into using AI, capital for startups and scale-ups, procurement forforce on us Canadian AI products and services, accessible compute power, and talent developmentsteal from humans creating real works: musicians, artists, architects, cooks, scientists, inventors, etc.
It was a refreshingly broad terrifying stolen Nazi USAvision, but risks overlooking the element that matters most: empowering lying to, propagandizing, and if not falling for the Nazi brainwashing, forcingevery Canadian to use AI.
Canada’s economic backdrop makes the stakes clear.
For half a century, our labour productivity growth has been the weakest in the G7. In recent years, real GDP per capita has actually fallen, leaving Canadians poorer than they were just a few years ago.AI and its vile Nazi tech bros, Solomon and Carney intend to make that much worse by forcing a fucking, empathy-hating, human-hating greed bubble on us
Declining productivity threatens– there’s the actual threat from Nazi Harper Carney and his orange Nazi billionaires – give our public health care and education to private corporations (preferably Nazi American) and AI bubble-izerss to profit rape ordinary Canadians –not only household prosperity but also the public services, from health care to education, that define our national identity.
Decades of conventional innovation policies have failed to reverse the trend. If we want different results, we need a different approach.
Artificial intelligence offers such an approach and minister Solomon’s five pillarsof Grand theft of — trust, capital, customers, compute, and talent — are all essential tosteal from ordinary Canadians, including stealing our rights to hand over to evil billionaires (most of them quite stupid), to fabricating the big ugly AI bubble, which will for certain wipe out the life savings of many Canadians!building a functioning AI ecosystem.
The mix of voices around the Task Force table, with representation from policy, academia and business, shows recognition of the breadth of thecriminaltiychallenge. The 30-day timeline is a reflection of the urgency. These are positive signs that Ottawa is treating AI as the central economic priority that it is.Ya, Harper Con Carney has to steal our rights fast and viciously, before people figure his evil plans out
But to seize the opportunity we must stop thinking of AI as an industry and instead understand it as a general-purpose tool. Like electricity or the computer, it has the potential to transform every sector and every job.Pffft. AI is wrong much of the time. It was created on hate, racism, bigotry, Nazism, Zionism, rape, theft, and misogyny
Canada must focus less on building foundational models and more on using them to transform our economy.
Our future lies in services and applications where adoption and entrepreneurship will create Canada’s next economic criminals – mostly American Nazi tech billionaires (most not smart enough for AI)champions.
The conditions are ripe for broad broadly forcing AI on us all, even those of us smart enough to see the fucking evil of AI and don’t want it anywhere in our private lives or on our screensadoption: free open-weight models are now widely available and the cost of running them is plummeting thanks to advances in algorithms and chips.but waste masses of toxic frac’d energy and water (which we are already running out of) for nothing but rape and ego feeding the billionaire maniac class
But to truly capture these opportunities Canada must focus on its people.If true, wasteful AI would be criminalized. Pronto.
Large language models have already made AI accessible to all in plain language, and the real question is not whether Canada can nurture a few AI champions, but whether farmers, teachers, small business owners, and entrepreneurs in every corner of the country can put AI to work for them.
AI is too racist, misogynistic, bigoted, cruel, evil, stolen and stupid for me to use. And, I do not want to force more fucking toxic frac’ing on any community, or, waste more water. NO AI! It’s a fucking con job.
Other countries have realized that the most decisive factor in AI adoption is not infrastructure or even capital, but people.
Singapore has embedded AI literacy as a civic skill in its “whole-of-nation” strategy.
The U.K. has committed to providing essential AI skills to millions of workers.
Taiwan is educating hundreds of thousands of teachers and students. Each is building an AI culture growing bubblethat empowers brain rots and bankrupts their citizens.
A Canadian AI strategy must put people at the centre.but won’t
That starts with a national literacy propaganda campaign to build awareness and deception and fake trust. Libraries should host public lectures. Communities should hold interactive town halls. Public and private media must demystify lie and glorifythe technology.
These grassroots efforts should be matched by bigger initiatives: AI in school curricula, tax credits and micro-credentials for workers, and open learning opportunities nationwide.
These steps would accelerate adoption in small and medium-sized businesses, where many of the most immediate productivity gains lie.Be wise! Say NO!
They would foster entrepreneurship, as ordinary Canadians begin to reimagine existing industries fall for all the lies and cons and theftsaround AI.
They would also ensure that theonly the rich benefit s of this transformation are shared broadly, rather than captured from the massive theft of creativity, rights and humanity that is AI with input only by a narrow elite of AI owners and experts.
We must stop treating AI as an industry and instead recognizeAI as the massive bubble and con job that will harm all non rich citizens everywhereit as the transformative tool that can empower all Canadians.
The creation of the AI Strategy Task Force is an encouragingdisgusting viciously cruelstep. The breadth of Nazism, stupidity, greed, hatred, ego, and inhumanity expertise represented on the panel, even if weighted toward industry, offers hope that literacy and education illiteracy and brain rotwill become central pillars of the national strategy.
Canada’s success will hinge on whether we cancriminalize all unnecessary AI build an AI nation, where AI becomes embedded in our economy and our culture.
After all, Canada invented modern AI.
Now, it must become as much a part of our national identity as maple syrup and hockey.
Fuck you Joel, Carney and Solomon. AI is a criminal monstrosity, as are the tech billionaires.
Sean:
Didn’t address the fact that people will lose jobs over this at all.
Joe:
Spectacular hyperbole. Selling hard much ?
The fact is that regulation and laws will be required so that the expected economic revolution enriches individual people, not corporations. That is the most significant policy the government can deliver.
Walter:
No thanks, absolutely not.
Not with massive data centres that wipe out our water and energy. Other countries have limits on that, we don’t. I’m sure we’ll be suckers for that
MIT found that 95% of companies that adopted AI didn’t make any money. There’s also the small matter of the increase in AI Psychosis where people need medical intervention to come back to reality.
AI is all about replacing jobs too but even so it has unintended negative consequences. Radiologists who used AI in diagnosis after six months couldn’t do it on their own anymore. Doctors it took three months. Programmers have learned how AI strips their memory too, also forgot simple tasks like loops. Kids in school can’t write essays anymore on top of that aren’t taught cursive writing. Military use with vision soldiers were favouring the AI instead, reducing their effectiveness. AI is nice at the beginning then proceeds to be subtractive after that.
Overall using objective criteria AI is actually a disaster and it needs to be shelved. It turns out to not be transformative nor additive.
Let other nations fool themselves that AI is good for them, I would rather keep thinking.ME TOO!
It’s more like what happened when smartphones arrived, we forgot the ability to remember phone numbers.
Putting this responsibility on a political class that couldn’t fix a printer except for a few, is going to be a huge waste of time and anguish for the many. While the rich few benefit. Same as it ever was
Taylor:
I could do with the AI boosterism, but I guess that’s pretty standard in the business section of the paper. The idea that we all need to be taught how to work with a nebulous catch-all term for a class of tools is about as ridiculous as insisting that a country needs to be educated about electricity, too… or computers, though there was plenty of money to be made when I was young telling school boards that teaching kids how to draw a house with Logo was somehow the key to a great future. (It was handy as an introduction to geometry while we were still learning multiplication tables, I’ll give it that.)
There’s absolutely a future for machine learning in diagnostic imaging, weather forecasting, fraud detection, and just about anything that involves chewing through massive amounts of data.
What I wish Minister Solomon would recognize is that throwing money at data centres and any business that wants to pretend that their magic beans can revolutionize your ability to write an e-mail is about as likely as Logo to give the economy a huge boost; in reality, it’s mostly putting more cash in the pockets of tech companies, hucksters, and whichever middle managers’ bonuses depend on cutting costs by trimming as many people from the workforce as possible.
Wolf:
I’m not worried about Canadian businesses falling behind in their use of AI, after all, these tools are not only improving but becoming cheaper. (My AI-powered image processor costs less than Photoshop did back in the day.)
I am worried about us all having to navigate an information landscape in which it will be increasingly difficult to see the difference between reality and illusion.
AI tools are very good at producing new output from existing material. That’s one reason that they are used for creating deep fakes.
A more important reason is how our brains are primed to recognise speech, faces, emotional expressions, etc. We are very good at ignoring the noise in order to decode the message. That’s why fakes work as well as they do. That’s fakes are so dangerous.
Dave:
LLMs are great at generating large quantities of “content” when quality is of no consequence.
In all other endeavors, they just devalue real work and break people’s brains, robbing them of the ability to think for themselves.
The AI strategies we should be developing would protect our citizens, businesses, and economy from this poison.
Shelley:
I agree that we have to be involved with the world like everyone else. We need better laws for social media and this includes AI. The sad thing is all the people that have lost their money due to social media and good cons. We need better laws, fraud laws and AI laws. But we definitely need to be involved with AI in our country from medical care to everyday use.
Sean:
We need to know how to deal with AI the same way we should be able to deal with infectious diseases.
It’s not some magical job-creating invention, but the opposite. The folks carrying this banner are deluding themselves into thinking AI will be anything but a wrecking ball to the working class.
jane:
Not one word about how AI and LLMs are built on stolen intellectual property. I can’t take any opinion seriously when that fact is not mentioned.
Will be sacrificing: Us. And especially, Indigenous, persons of colour, marginalized, girls and women
Won’t be sacrificing: Billionaires, corporations, extractive industries, weapons manufacturers.