Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.https://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mus6wjy2e22eThis is exactly what's happening with the new story about foreign-generated websites being set up to feed misinfo to AI web scrapers about Alberta separatism. Concerted action from Ottawa is essential, now. bsky.app/profile/nati... [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mus6wjy2e22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mus664n3ms2eThese arguments are even more important now that ~82% of Australian teens are accessing age-banned platforms, and the privacy risk of universal age verification to access platforms is so extreme. https://bsky.app/profile/stevebrazill.com/post/3muqxsbkm5k23 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mus664n3ms2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muq2mkxdoc2zThese groups are good people and they're on the side of cross-community solidarity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muq2mkxdoc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mupy4ecvfc2zWould anyone like to channel the ghost of Charles Darwin or some other botanist and tell me why this plant has suddenly started growing two-tone leaves???04 Sep 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupy4ecvfc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3munxgdg7ns2gIdly wondering what the proponents of a trust-based principled framework approach would lose if they honestly told the public "we can't regulate big tech because x, y, z reasons, so this is as good as it gets for supplying commitments we'll all pretend to believe are meaningful". https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-issues-guidelines-for-data-centre-development-evan-solomon/04 Sep 2026 02:51 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3munxgdg7ns2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3munxgdg7ns2gIdly wondering what the proponents of a trust-based principled framework approach would lose if they honestly told the public "we can't regulate big tech because x, y, z reasons, so this is as good as it gets for supplying commitments we'll all pretend to believe are meaningful". https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-issues-guidelines-for-data-centre-development-evan-solomon/04 Sep 2026 02:51 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3munxgdg7ns2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3munuxwwlbk2gSo many questions about what dark powers enable AI and fossil fuel lobbyists to convince Canada's senior officials & leaders. It's not just the lack of internal govt policy expertise that makes balance sheet technosolutionism & inevitable extraction seem so compelling to leaders inside govt. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 02:07 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3munuxwwlbk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3munabhjvn22uPeople will hate the word 'resilient' in short order. It's the new 'sustainable'. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3munabhjvn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mun7gpqhnk2uDark patterns! The Big Tech playbook! Naming the problem does nothing to fix it but it sure sounds cool. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun7gpqhnk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mul227u25s22Also that research in question: not just racist but also methodologically bankrupt. It is fraudulent propaganda through and through. https://bsky.app/profile/alexusherhesa.bsky.social/post/3mukpebjjt22n [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul227u25s22https://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mukiotkfak2kAdmirable poker face by the Canadian to his right. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukiotkfak2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mukg2pyd522kAwful new frontiers in authoritarian democracy-destabilizing disinformation, in this case leading to the deaths of >100 would-be migrants. And It's easy to imagine a similar political-disinformation-fuelled event happening at Canada's borders. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukg2pyd522khttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3mukbft6e5c2kIf you're on this site you probably have thoughts about universities and academic freedom. If you're in Ottawa you should come hear @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social talk about it on Oct. 1. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukbft6e5c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muk7wyo2j226Mindfulness never put to worse use [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk7wyo2j226https://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muir5tork22lOnly Ottawans will understand that this genre is not local transit reporting but malicious provocation, noir existentialism and incitement to civil rebellion. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muir5tork22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muhzvhfsqk26Up today in Think-tank Dunk-tank [righteously deserved] [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhzvhfsqk26https://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muhwv36awk26The Waiting for Godot of ingress/egress [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhwv36awk26https://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muhqlbuins2vCarney's going to be PM for a looong time at this rate. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-us-canada-trade-negotiations-september-1/01 Sep 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:4kil5rtaf3dnc57drqcddcu2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhqlbuins2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nataliebrender.bsky.social/post/3muhl5gquq22aNothing's more important on my radar today than our federal government acting on this: "Google and other big tech companies have made clear that they will acquiesce to American government requests, but they will push back forcefully when the Canadian government tries to set its own rules." 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