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This is also good advice for emerging scholars and PhD students.

The key to reconciling Google’s previous organize-the-world‘s-knowledge mission with its current heel turn is recognizing that Google (and tech bros generally) has *always* understood knowledge as equivalent to (neutral) data.

The most important change of the past 50 years has been the ascendancy of knowledge as a commodity, ripped from context. It started with IP’s centralization in the global economy and continued with the datafication of everything.

Weather forecasting is a good example of why @ntusikov.bsky.social argues that the US evisceration of its regulatory and scientific agencies means Canada needs more, not less, government to pick up the slack. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts sayAmerican stations have strayed from regular launch times observed around the globe as part of co-ordinated scientific effortwww.theglobeandmail.com

New from @ntusikov.bsky.social and me, in which we argue that Bill C-34 and its "duty to act responsibly" simply isn't capable of dealing with the bad actors that comprise Big Tech. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big TechBill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.policyoptions.irpp.org

This is one half of Mark Carney's strategy. Always left unmentioned is the second half: US appeasement and the pursuit of deeper integration with the United States. And nowhere does he ever, ever bother trying to reconcile them.

To put a Canadian spin on this, in a battle between Carney and Willie, my money’s on Willie.

I think we’re learning that many/most people, including a lot of educators, don’t understand how education works. They just go through the motions of “delivering education“ — in this case an essay — without understanding the mechanism behind the thing.

Evergreen post.

Whatever his intent, Mark Carney’s overall strategy will almost inevitably — a word I rarely use as a political scientist — deliver Canada into a deeper relationship with the United States. This is because its two prongs — diversification and appeasement — are irreconcilable. 1/4

And yet universities and supposedly smart people see no problem in inserting this easily gamed, black-box, privately controlled tech into their research processes and our education systems.

Today the Carney government announced a consultation on AI transparency. This decision makes a mockery of it, as Carney has signalled repeatedly (see: Palantir is a Canadian company) that his digital policy will basically be whatever makes the US tech giants happy.

Imagine the money Carney could save if he simply bit the bullet, shuttered Parliament and outsourced every single policy decision to Trump and his cronies. It's redundant to have a supposedly independent Parliament that's simply going to be overruled by Trump's viceroy if it steps out of line.

This is an epistemological change on the level of science supplanting religion as the dominant form of knowledge. GenAI is making people dumber by the standard of scientific knowledge. But it’s also creating a new standard of oracular knowledge with techbros as the new priests. From 2024.

ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World ViewExpertise with data collection and manipulation has all too often been equated with deep understanding of that area.www.cigionline.org

This is not a dig at this reporter or this story, which is fine, but the Canadian media as a whole has transitioned seamlessly from decades of mostly ignoring and downplaying the climate emergency to ”here’s how to cope with the apocalypse.” It’s infuriating.

Climate anxiety caused her to switch career paths. How this existential angst is affecting young CanadiansExistential eco distress is affecting Canadians’ life decisions, and can spiral into hopeless ‘doomerism.’ Experts share how to manage it.www.thestar.com

Interesting article. However, it — like most articles assessing the effects of AI on the labour market — completely ignores its ongoing disastrous effect on education and its propensity to degrade people’s skills.

This is v cool.