feisty jenn

privacy, identity, technology, gender (and anything else that catches my fancy)

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Do Americans really know how much the world hates us? - Salon.com

The global romance with America turned sour years ago. Now the world's ready for a divorce

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After you upload your data to the cloud, where does it go? The challenge of dual-use technologies

Data sovereignty is not just a technical issue — it is a collective challenge that all Canadians need to start taking seriously.

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As Calgary’s poet laureate, I’m interested in poetry as a form of civic listening

Poetry will not fill potholes. However, poet laureates can help cities attend to memory, grief, language and a sense of belonging.

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Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Feels So Broken | The Walrus

The Enshittification author says today’s digital misery is the result of deliberate policy choices

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The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust | The Walrus

Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threat

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Britain's Facial Recognition Boom Runs on Police Policy, Not Statute

The act of constant observation, even if only by an automated system, surely changes those being watched, writes James Ball.

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Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI

The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices o

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Psychopathy: some experts now say it doesn’t exist – here’s why we may be looking at it all wrong

Could psychopathy be something we’ve just imagined because it’s convenient? Some experts believe so.

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Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Zap Hate Speech | The Tyee

Deciding which words are toxic in different online worlds is complex. This engineer cracked the code. A Tyee Q&A.

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Talking about trauma doesn’t always help. Brain scans show one reason why

Therapies aimed at reframing negative thoughts may not work for some people with PTSD. New research shows it may be because their brains wor

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When Urban Planning Works Too Well | The Tyee

The conditions that make it effective are not always the ones that make it democratic.

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The Ford Government Is Failing to Meet Its Own Long-Term Care Inspection Goals | The Local

Exclusive analysis of more than 17,500 long-term care home inspection reports reveals a provincial inspection regime failing to meet its own

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DuckDuckGo Installs Spike as Google Moves to Replace Search With AI

Many netizens are looking for an alternative to Google's recently announced AI Search redesign, with installs of DuckDuckGo soaring.

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Opinion: What does a ‘leave’ vote in a secession referendum mean?

There are questions about what role parliamentarians would play after a successful secession vote

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The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy

A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by

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‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought

The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing back

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Ontario court bars Waterloo region from removing encampment residents

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice barred the regional municipality of Waterloo from removing encampments on Thursday. The court held tha