This story is horrific, and basically confirms every one of the fears we had back in October when we knew the IDF was using AI—it's error-prone, there's scant human oversight, and it facilitates the mass rubber stamping of targets, of mass killing.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

And the Canadian government is currently trying to pass legislation that would exempt privately developed AI technology under the direction & control of the Dept of National Defense from regulation and oversight.

social media companies have 'knowingly and/or negligently disrupted and fundamentally changed the school, learning, and teaching climate by creating and sustaining prolific and/or compulsive use of their products by students” 👀

thestar.com/politics/provi… via @torontostar

Since the 19th century, police have share w/ other countries the best way to surveil & pacify working/minority populations in their cities and colonies. It’s why we have fingerprinting. We really need a watchdog who keeps an eye on these international police entanglements.

Women in Gaza giving birth without enough painkillers, clean water or food cbc.ca/news/world/wom…

It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war.

They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration.

These are some of their stories.

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BREAKING: Today, the Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld the constitutionality of Bill 21 in part.

Muslim women will still not have the right to live and work in the clothing of their choice in Quebec.

Come work with us! CIPPIC invites law students to apply to our summer internship program. We offer paid internships to🇨🇦law students, and unpaid ones to international students with their own public interest funding! cippic.ca/articles/cippi…

This is unquestionably one of the most significant feminist issues in this time, I wish I saw more Canadian fem orgs responding 'In every famine - whether human-made or climate-driven – children and infants, pregnant women and the elderly are the most vulnerable to malnutrition'

In few short weeks, the CRT issued the first orders on distributing intimate images without consent

And many people are receiving victim supports & information from the Intimate Images Protection Service.

Please spread the word -there is help available

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

This is a perfect example of the problem of emergent behavior for law. My work on that topic here. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… AMA

The six million dollar question is what *this* was trained on. If copyright battles are promising to be fiery right now, wait till we find out that this was trained on Hollywood film footage

TLDR; today Privacy Commissioner OPC found Charlie Angus complaints on RCMP internet surveillance tools (based on my The Tyee reporting) “well-founded” for a myriad of reasons

… and “unresolved” as RCMP already committed to NOT fixing it

priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions…

Within the article, you find out that Air Canada was trying to get out of a bereavement fare reimbursement. Gross. Air Passenger Rights