John Wunderlich

Status Go vs. Status Quo We’ll never have civilized life in the digital world while people have no way of their own to signal and enforce their privacy preferences and requirements, as they do in the natural world wi…

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Endorse Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter! 🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today!

🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today! openmedia.org/DigitalChart... @openmedia.org

Mark Carney has endorsed the US/Israeli war on Iran. Tell the Prime Minister to condemn this effort to balkanize Iran in service of US imperialism and genocidal Jewish supremacy.
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AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu This Me, Myself, and AI episode features MIT professor and Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu and host Sam Ransbotham.

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KITCHI-MANITO-WAYA (Kakee-manitou-wata, Kamantowiwew, Almighty Voice, Jean Baptiste) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography In 1895 the Cree hunter Kitchi-manito-waya, called Almighty Voice (d. 1897), was arrested for killing a cow. He escaped and murdered a North-West Mounted Police sergeant who had been sent after him.…

The life and death of Almighty Voice illustrate the priorities of the Canadian state in the late 19th century: opening up the west for white settlers, preserving the peace, and keeping Indigenous peoples confined to their reserves...who would gradually be assimilated... buff.ly/iqjyBhG

License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data | ACLU Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected

License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data | ACLU buff.ly/klo0QRk

Time for the Government to Fix Its Political Party Privacy Blunder: Kill Bill C-4’s Disastrous Privacy Rules - Michael Geist Just weeks after last year’s election, Mark Carney’s government committed not one, but two privacy blunders in rapid succession. First, Bill C-2 - literally the first substantive bill of the new…

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‘A big f*ck you to big tech’: New Jersey residents defeat AI data center “It’s time to build communities, not data centers,” said one local activist.

‘A big f*ck you to big tech’: New Jersey residents defeat AI data center buff.ly/UQnFM9g

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt ilo.im/16anlc

Exclusive: The end of Canada's public healthcare on the horizon Alberta is set to either have a massive confrontation with the government, or to break open a dam that can't be fixed.

Exclusive: The end of Canada's public healthcare on the horizon buff.ly/IWxVvAO

US economy: jobs and AI The US economy expanded only at an annualised 1.4% in Q4 2025, well below forecasts of 3%, the advance estimate of real GDP showed. And over the whole 2025, the US economy expanded 2.2%, or below t…

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The tiny technology that rules the world Watch now | The global economy hinges on this fingernail-sized silicon chip.

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It's Very Possible To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed Reading by Tim Foley:

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You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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How a 150-year-old Japanese workshop survived the age of slop and distraction A lesson in attention from a place where speed has never been the point.

We live in a time when very few people are allowed — or encouraged — to pursue mastery in a deep, patient sense. buff.ly/iSwvY22

Imagine that Customers Had Their Own Relationship Management Tools — DataPal …In fact any relationship that has a digital component benefits from both parties having their own relationship management capabilities. As peers. Not the current model in which one party has the…

Imagine that Customers Had Their Own Relationship Management Tools — DataPal buff.ly/9u92qqh

What’s a “State Endorsed Digital Identity” and Why is Utah Creating One? Utah is introducing a State Endorsed Digital Identity to modernize trust online. Explore how SEDI works and why it’s a model for privacy-first digital ID.

What’s a “State Endorsed Digital Identity” and Why is Utah Creating One? buff.ly/UYM814z

The NDP and the parliamentary illusion Parties are a necessary tool for connecting individuals and transforming shared interests into collective power. The left will not win by simply electing better politicians, but by forging a…

The NDP and the parliamentary illusion buff.ly/czJTYfR buff.ly/9BYg08r

New AI Medical Scribe Guidance Issued by Ontario and BC Privacy Commissioners The Ontario and British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioners each released new AI medical scribes guidance on Privacy Day (January 28, 2026).

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

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AI Companies Should Have Information Fiduciary Duties Nita Farahany (Duke Law) recently made a great point: “Your doctor has a fiduciary duty to you.

AI Companies Should Have Information Fiduciary Duties

NDP leadership committee blocks Bianca Mugyenyi’s candidacy The three person leadership committee accused Mugyenyi of not running as a fully “independent” candidate.

The NDP continues to throw every obstacle they can to prevent themselves from broadening their appeal.

6 Privacy Tips for the Generative AI Era Data Privacy Day, or Data Protection Day in Europe, is recognized annually on January 28 to mark the anniversary of Convention 108, the first binding international treaty to protect personal data.…

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AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive Do not include words like a, and, for, the, etc.

A solid scientific use of AI with no privacy implications. Sadly a rare use case. buff.ly/X6etisr

I Was Looking for Digital Public Infrastructure. And I Found Something Else.

I Was Looking for Digital Public Infrastructure. buff.ly/0oeaNnt

Autonomous Drone Patrols Start to Become a Thing | ACLU The technology and regulatory structures are ripening for police-drone dystopias

Autonomous Drone Patrols Start to Become a Thing | ACLU