Erin M

organizing for a better world 🤍 (she/her)
hater of Big Oil, Big Tech, & Billionaires
all views my own

[Erin M @erinmackey_]

disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest 🇵🇸 @UofT

[Erin M @erinmackey_]

I’m graduating from @uoft today on the last day of graduation and they pulled me out of the procession line to search my bag and took my banner 🤪

#freepalestine

[Investigative Journalism Foundation @IJFMedia]

The NDP is taking aim at the federal government after the IJF revealed it spent tens of millions on a secret contract with controversial tech company Palantir.

https://t.co/vX9sHyrgin

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.”

But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Huh i wonder of this information could be be used by the cops who are also accused of being involved in organized crime!

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate.

There's also no real data sovereignty in an AI ecosystem dominated by U.S. tech giants. Telus may be Canadian-owned, but it has already transferred 14 petabytes of Canadian data onto Google Cloud as part of its AI strategy.

This is a technology that will bring sweeping changes at a scale and speed never seen before. Canadians deserve real oversight and a robust regulatory framework before we rush ahead.

That’s why we’re calling for an immediate pause on the construction of any new AI data centres until strong federal guardrails are in place.

We can’t sit back and let Big Tech billionaires decide our future for us.

https://t.co/FFYBrZnc4G

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

“Newsrooms integrating AI” is going about as well as you would expect

[David Madden @davidjmadden]

Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

we don't want one hour shipping, we want the workers to have one hour for lunch instead

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I’ve become convinced that the left needs to make the betterment of civil society, culture, art, sports, etc a real priority, and not just on the context of taking on capital. To build social trust and a happier America we need to invest in things that give us joy and community.

[kevinm @KevinMDaBess]

would rather go 0-162 than ever see this tweet again, leave our fuckin city out of your mouth

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“Capitalism breeds innovation,” and the innovation is dynamically price gouging people based on how much they need something.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

in my lifetime we will see an end to this

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This war in 7 days has cost 20 years of NPR/PBS funding.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here’s why.

[Maya Menezes @MayaLillianM]

The Toronto Police budget is now well-over $1 Billion while every public service starves. Doug Ford is sending cops to bash kids heads-in with skateboards while they protest the gutting of public education. This kid could have died - remove funding for the toronto police

[Benjamin Dictor @BenjaminDictor]

This is awful. America should have the best-paid teachers in the world. We should be investing in education — our future — instead of spending trillions of dollars on endless wars all over the planet.

[Zachary D. Carter @zachdcarter]

Data centers are war machines https://t.co/Ub4sBA7cIl