Deborah Devine

[Deborah Devine @DeborahDevine_]

@engineers_feed Is this seven octillion?

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

While pouring our public money into more expensive for-profit clinics & hospitals, our local public hospitals have been pushed into deficit by the #dougford gov't & forced to make cuts.

Please come out if you can. Please spread the word. ⬇️

#onpoli #healthcare #protest #ontario

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Health care privatization isn’t about wait times. It’s about dismantling Canadian public health care for profit.

#onpoli #healthcare #dougford #abpoli #daniellesmith #cdnpoli #markcarney #nursing #privatization

[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

Actually, no. the minute we started giving unheard of immunity to one set of particular products’ design is the minute we allowed unimaginable mass depression anxiety and addiction.

[Deborah Devine @DeborahDevine_]

#mercy

[Deborah Devine @DeborahDevine_]

Beside the nature and the horses and the people and the culture, this is... https://t.co/B2ijWxnyrv via @YouTube

[Nina Deeb @deeb_nina]

In order for Ontario’s taxpayers to pay to give away their valuable waterfront to a private foreign corporation - the business group must first take over the education of the real estate sector- Harris’ revolution created private corporation ⁦@RECOhelps⁩ ⁦@OPPNews_⁩

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Doctors, scientists, and public health experts have urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend that healthcare workers wear respirators “in every encounter in all healthcare settings"
https://t.co/Mh3e9UYTxv

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

In 1921, they told Agnes Macphail her nomination was a mistake. That she should step aside and let a man do the job.

She refused.

She became the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons. She helped build the movement that became the New Democratic Party. And in 1951, she championed Ontario's first equal pay legislation.

75 years later, women in Ontario still earn 88 cents on the dollar. Racialized women, 78 cents. Indigenous women, 79 cents.

Agnes Macphail didn't wait for permission. Neither will we.

Happy International Women's Day.

[The Seneca Project @senecaprojectus]

Women’s History Month is more than reflection, it’s a reminder of what so many women fought for and what WE must protect.

From the women who gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 and demanded the right to vote, to those who have organized, marched, and refused to be silenced, every right we have exists because women insisted on it.

This month, we honor their legacy by holding our leaders accountable and continuing the work. There’s certainly no shortage of it. 🗳️

#womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #senecafalls

[Gilly @profesh_baby]

I made a comic about why you should be masking in 2026 (spoiler: it’s to protect yourself and your community)

A thread...

[Deborah Devine @DeborahDevine_]

Leaving this here for no #Olympics2026 reason

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans

The night before I testified in the US Senate in May, 2023, the late philosopher Daniel Dennett sent me a manuscript that he called “counterfeit people”. It was published a few days later in The Atlantic.

It started like this

“MONEY HAS EXISTED for several thousand years, and from the outset counterfeiting was recognized to be a very serious crime, one that in many cases calls for capital punishment because it undermines the trust on which society depends. Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for real in many of the new digital environments we have created. These counterfeit people are the most dangerous artifacts in human history, capable of destroying not just economies but human freedom itself. Before it's too late (it may well be too late already) we must outlaw both the creation of counterfeit people and the "passing along" of counterfeit people. The penalties for either offense should be extremely severe, given that civilization itself is at risk.”

He was right then. Three years later even more so. The need for the kind of law he was calling for – one forbidding “the creation of and ‘passing along’ of counterfeit people” is now urgent.

Two items sent to me this morning make that absolutely clear, a deep fake video you have probably seen of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, and a tool to hook up OpenClaw to voice synthesis.

Scammers will be among the first to adopt these tools. And indeed they already have; a friend who was filming me for a documentary yesterday told me of a Canadian friend of his who was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by a deepfaked video of Mark Carney. Because the tools for counterfeiting have gotten so good 2026 will almost certainly see more deepfaked scams like this than the rest of history combined.

Tell your representatives today, not tomorrow, that we must pass federal laws forbidding machine output from being presented as humans, and that we must develop the means to enforce those laws. No use of the first person by chatbots, and no more deepfakes of living people’s voices and images without their express consent, aside from carveouts for obvious parody and so on. All of this has gone too far, too fast. And we must not let corporate lobbyists thwart efforts to address all this.

Generative AI systems may still struggle to reason, but they were built for mimicry, and their mimicry has gotten to the point where we must do something now.

I will end by quoting from Dennett’s deeply prescient Atlantic essay (and I am sorry that it is paywalled):

[tern @1goodtern]

My posts have been brutally suppressed by Musk this last week.

If you can see this, give me a wave and a retweet. ❤️👋

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Canadians need Mark Carney to demand full transparency on how federal health-care funding is being spent by
Doug Ford and
Danielle Smith.

Because for over a decade, Ontario’s publicly funded health care has been systematically defunded under Doug Ford and now we’re being told privatization is the “solution.”
No.
That money was meant to fix public health care:
• hire nurses
• keep ERs open
• reduce wait times
• strengthen hospitals

Not to funnel care into private clinics while the public system is left to fail.

Public money belongs in public health care.
If provinces are using federal funds, the public deserves to see every receipt.

So the question is simple 👇
Where did the money go and why won’t they show us.

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

This is our parody of "Piece of My Heart" by the amazing Erma Franklin. Our version addresses the current situation unfolding with #Trump and #Greenland, and has rude words - it's called "Piece of Denmark". In solidarity with all fellow Europeans facing tariffs and trauma. #25th

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Even a casual scrutiny of history reveals that we humans have a sad tendency to make the same mistakes again and again. We're afraid of strangers or anybody who's a little different from us. When we get scared, we start pushing people around. We have readily accessible buttons that release powerful emotions when pressed. We can be manipulated into utter senselessness by clever politicians.

Give us the right kind of leader and, like the most suggestible subjects of the hypnotherapists we'll gladly do just about anything he wants — even things we know to be wrong. The framers of the Constitution were students of history. In recognition of the human condition, they sought to invent a means that would keep us free in spite of ourselves.”

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark