If you wonder why Carney surrounds himself with so many white men, this is his milieu. This is the water he has swam in for most of his working life. It's normal to him. It seems right. Scotia Global Banking & Markets is standout bad but this is how it would've looked for Carney at Goldman Sachs.

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Public money in a private company, decided without competitive procurement or published consultation results. And for the sake of argument, Augure has Quebec French integration and isn't currently storing data on (US) Google Cloud. 🙃

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Fox: Why are you here this morning? Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.

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Observation after hearing from colleagues today: even if you explicitly state in your syllabus that students may not use GenAI, the students are attuned to the institution's AI boosterism - often framed as "responsible uses of AI" - and that institutional messaging overrides faculty's stated policy.

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I had assumed that Carney creating a Minister of AI was about his creeping militarization, but of course it's about surveillance. I should have known.

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