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I'm not American btw so I don't think I have much to worry about. Puzzled at why my .ca site would show up in this query, actually.

Just worrying when I let my imagination run wild and guess what kind of organization is doing these queries.

JUST SAYING:

This query started targeting my site the second I put up an anti-Palantir blog post. That post mentioned both ICE, and Palo Alto.

Found something really interesting in the google search console for my personal site. I came up on someone's structured search query for ICE and protest terms across five Silicon Valley cities (mountain view, sunnyvale, palo alto, etc).

Agency names, raid slang and protest hashtags like abolishice and 50501 all in one list.

No way to know who ran it. Who do you think is searching this stuff? Has anybody seen something similar?

#Surveillance #ICE #Palantir

AI agents are signing up to Mastodon instances with @agent.qq.com emails. That domain is Agently Mail, a Tencent service that gives AI agents their own mailbox.

One applied to socialontario.ca today with a polite generic join reason I almost fell for ("a calm corner of the fediverse to share notes about everyday life, books and small projects") and a Hong Kong datacenter IP

I blocked the email domain. Fellow admins may want to check their pending signups for it.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam

This is why it matters so much for those building ‘Buy Canadian’ services and products.

Sovereignty isn’t just a flag to the country your users pay fealty to, it’s respect for the users themselves. The best way to give that respect is rejecting lock-in schemes, radical transparency, and building on open source anyone can run without you.

As important as I believe #DigitalSovereignty is, we have to understand how dangerous it is to tie that solely to the nation-state.

Recognize the Sovereignty of the individual, their communities, their culture. These are the things that nation-states often trample over when they become too powerful.

The nation-state can change at any moment. That flag you love today can represent something different in a few decades.

https://mathewstorm.ca/journey/digital-sovereignty-and-the-nation-state.html

#CDNPoli #Canada #Palantir

Is #Canada on a path towards Techno-Fascism? Our military deals with #Palantir (since 2020) and how they use their #Gotham software is not disclosed to the public. The contract was flagged “not for public disclosure.”

The Department of National Defence may say “but we need it for our security” - so I ask “security from what? external threats? internal?”

My question:

Is Palantir’s Gotham software being used by the Canadian military to spy on Canadians?

Write your MP.

https://thedeepdive.ca/canada-spent-46-8-million-on-secret-palantir-contract-for-special-forces-records-show/

I'm having my first experience with ai-training bots scraping my Forgejo instance and I want to scream... This is terrible.

466 requests in flight for public mirrors of ohmyzsh and other shit they could have just gotten from github, if they really wanted it! All this is from AliBaba Cloud.

Setting up Anubis now, as I should have.

Update: It runs amazing now!

A monopoly on a military’s intelligence software means the state can’t walk away, can’t compare prices, and can’t say no.

Canada’s been there for six years. Sole-sourced, 12 amendments, no alternative ready.

#Palantir #CdnPoli #Canada

Write your MP. Ask for three things
- retender the #Palantir contract competitively
- disclose its full scope to Parliament
- publish a plan to move to Canadian-controlled software

Find your MP https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel wrote an essay titled “Competition Is for Losers.” His advice to founders? Build a monopoly.

So Palantir’s deal with Canada’s military was sole-sourced. Twelve quiet amendments took it from $14M to $63M.

Why is his company in our military? A UN Special Rapporteur accused it of profiting from the genocide in Gaza. It builds ICE’s deportation software, and its AI helps pick targets for US airstrikes.

https://www.thenation.com/?p=235815

#Palantir #Canada #CdnPoli

Here I am on namecheap >:)

Coming Soon

#Palantir #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp

Ane Brun ft. Röyksopp - 'Eat The Fruit' https://youtu.be/uEP0VVz8HrE #music

Write your MP. Ask for three things
- retender the contract competitively
- disclose its full scope to Parliament
- publish a plan to move to Canadian-controlled software

Find your MP https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en
Or copy their email from this tracker: https://elbowsupdigital.ca/politician-tracker/

#Palantir #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp

Welp I just learned that Canada's military has had a deal with Palantir since 2020, now worth up to $63 million, sole-sourced and flagged "not for public disclosure"

I'm going to spend every single last ounce of effort I can give to end it. Who's with me?

https://youtu.be/vmMUkSmjleE?si=716Rtjjz_UXZOnhB

#Palantir #DigitalSovereignty #CanPoli #ElbowsUp

Ontario wants to remove municipal veto powers for new landfills. Oxford County is pushing back
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-wants-to-remove-municipal-veto-powers-for-new-landfills-oxford-county-is-pushing-back-9.7407528?cmp=rss

Beyond the Complexity Horizon
Or how ants taught me philosophy https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/beyond-the-complexity-horizon-0b195fe288ca

The full English version of the investigative documentary "The Trap" is now available on Al Jazeera 360. The story of the Zionist terrorists pager attack. https://www.aljazeera360.com/video/1042371 #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah

"Liberal Zionists Are the Real Enemy" | Benjamin Moser & Barry Malone https://youtu.be/OYuIXzdvH18