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Janet 🇨🇦

@jansplanet.bsky.social

@mark-carney.bsky.social we see what you are doing, and we will stand between the bulldozers and OUR resources.

#EvidenceBasedPolicy #EnvironmentalImpactAssessment #Sustainability #MakingTheInternetLessSafe
#WorkersRights #HumanRights #MagaCon #MarkIsSellingUsOut #Treaty #FreePriorInformedConsent

Secular Moi @secularmoi.bsky.social · 4d

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So we have little or no energy, national, digital nor Arctic sovereignty.

If you want to argue this, I’m game. I just am not going to waste any more time on this, just to have it casually disregarded. Yes, I can cite everything here

November 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM

Janet 🇨🇦

@jansplanet.bsky.social

@mark-carney.bsky.social & @evansolomon.bsky.social are you aware this will result in killing & sacrificing Alberta, first, in your race to enable AI?

#WonderValley is a #climate bomb & perhaps worst of all it’s unnecessary.
#EnvironmentalLaw
#FreePriorInformedConsent
#CapturedRegulator #NoGasForAI

Proposed data centre would release ‘23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy’ a day, physicist says | CBC News

An analysis of the mammoth Wonder Valley data centre suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day. A Utah State Univ...

www.cbc.ca

November 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM

Janet 🇨🇦

@jansplanet.bsky.social

Mark Carney is acting as an implementation specialist, on a speakers tour socializing exploitation.

#CdnPoli #NoGasForAI #Climate #FreePriorInformedConsent
#NoTreat&Release

Screenshot from Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month
Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident: In fact, today's LLMs and the chatbots they power are not poorly understood, nor are they powerful in the sense of being effective tools for this use case.
They are systems for generating plausible-looking text, built out of enormous, haphazardly collected datasets and then "fine-tuned" (that is, further trained) to be especially appealing to their intended users.
CNN wasn't able to learn which chatbot product was used in this case, but the LLM powering the product was probably fine-tuned to output text with the stylistic hallmarks of intelligence reports. Both the basic functionality and the risks of such a model have been well-understood and well-documented for years, including in our 2021 paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Claims that system behavior is mysterious arise from deliberate mystification on the part of those selling those systems, and a misapprehension of what their output is by those procuring and using it.

October 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM

Canute

@throneonbeach.bsky.social

Can Canadians get each political party leader in Canada on record with their position on democracy and fascism/oligarchy? Seems to me we need some transparency on where this antiquated settler colonial democratic system is heading after BNA&Indian Act. #FPIC4all FreePriorInformedConsent for all

March 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Canute

@throneonbeach.bsky.social

PP isn’t on a ballot for the general electorate’s allowance. It’s about influencing the electorate: whatever national media survives digital disruption should not manufacture consent for PP’s disassembly of our “democracy” and destruction of social cohesion. #FPIC4voters (FreePriorInformedConsent)

December 6, 2024 at 3:54 AM

RichardJR

@electricbluesfan.bsky.social

7/9 Steven Vaivada, CEO of Scout Engineering: "Indigenous opposition occurs when rights and title and the duty to consult and free, prior and informed consent are not incorporated into these discussions."

Governments risk undermining their own plans by rushing.
#FPIC #FreePriorInformedConsent

June 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Eco Eric Reder 🛶🌱

@ericreder.bsky.social

The sun is setting on the fossil fuel industry.
Colonial exploitation must give way to collaboration.
#ActOnClimate
#UNDRIP
#FreePriorInformedConsent
#Unistoten
#Wetsuweten
#cdnpoli #Winnipeg #Manitoba

November 23, 2024 at 9:02 AM

WoMin African Alliance

@wominafrica.bsky.social

#RightToSayNO #FreePriorInformedConsent
The Amadiba Crisis Committee (#ACC) has sounded the alarm over what it calls a renewed campaign by the South African National Roads Agency to force community consent for its controversial #N2 Wild Coast Toll Highway...
pondolandtimes.co.za/tensions-ris...