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🤖 The pitch: AI will do your job. 🪟 The reply: Can Windows do its own first?

In 2003 DARPA wanted to log every human life. Congress balked, so they cancelled it. Then Jobs sold it to us at retail, and now there are no jobs. lifelog.felineunion.org

In 1998 Canada formally declared that the prohibition on blinding weapons, where it can apply in peacetime, “shall be observed at all times.” At all times has never once meant a street in Canada. https://atalltimes.felineunion.org/

Eight named operations in fifteen years, under a doctrine its own strategists call mowing the grass. https://theinquiry.fyi/paired-waves/#waves

The Schedule — who is named in the First Nations Fiscal Management Act https://theschedule.felineunion.org/

J7 was formed on 25 July 2023 by organisations in seven countries. Seventy-four days before 7 October. The joint statement lands on the day itself. https://theinquiry.fyi/paired-waves/#standing

I scored 5/5 on today’s Lunch Bag: Replicated Commons Protocol. Can you beat it? https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/

In 2010 Toronto found the 90 officers who removed their name tags by reviewing 22,000 hours of its own CCTV. The police record was intact. The public's had been degraded at source. https://network.policedata.ca/unfilmed/

Eight ledgers. Seventy-two capability rows. Not one of them asked whether anyone checks who used the system. https://network.policedata.ca/unwatched/

It reads fine. It runs cold. The unemployment rate looks calm while the hires rate sits near its record floor. https://thefreeze.felineunion.org/

Le loyer moyen d'un studio au Canada a augmenté de 82 % entre 2015 et 2025. L'aide sociale a augmenté de 29 %. L'équation ne tient plus dans aucune province. https://theshrinkingsafety.net/fr

LAND BACK isn't just land.

LAND BACK → JURISDICTION BACK → LAW BACK → GOVERNANCE BACK → AGENCY BACK.

Wastewater surveillance counts everyone who flushes — tested or not, symptomatic or not. One sample at a treatment plant is a census of tens of thousands of people who never volunteered for one. https://covid.felineunion.org

En 1978, un journaliste écrivait, à propos des dossiers d'aide sociale et des détecteurs de mensonge : lentement, subtilement, humainement, la science abroge la Constitution. À lire à côté d'un bracelet électronique. https://lifelog.felineunion.org/

A Québécois round from the 15th century has the wolf, the fox and the hare dancing. Change one word so they vote, and nothing else in the song has to move. https://thelaundering.felineunion.org/editions/the-same-song.html

I scored 5/5 on today’s Lunch Bag: The Freeze: the job market reads fine and runs cold at once. Can you beat it? https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/

34 countries sit behind both walls — 13.8% of humanity, 56.2% of world income. The 2009 Walled World map laid over a 2026 enforcement index. https://enforcementindex.felineunion.org/walled-world/

"We are going to use AI to file public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to reply to the public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to write news stories about the public records, which will be read by more AI. No action will be taken." #civictech
https://hachyderm.io/tags/civictech

A term has travelled a considerable distance when ideological opponents can use it descriptively while attacking what its practitioners propose.

"mutual aid group"
https://seattlered.com/seattle-red/jason-rantz-opinion/stone-soup-crew-cal-anderson-paid-stewards/4120541