Teaching Assistant Professor @MUNSociology. @SSHRC_CRSH IDG Project Lead for Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Lori Lee Oates
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In addition to installing AI in institutions like the CRA, where already poor reliability will likely worsen, Carney's also embedding AI deep within our national security apparatus, entrusting Palantir with Canada's most crucial national security data. 4/
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I have a new piece out on The Imperial and Global Forum regarding Mark Carney's speech at Davos.
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And it’s killing our fresh water supplies. People don’t realize how much water it takes to cool these machines. They should not be draining our Great Lakes to do this. #AIIsKillingOurPlanet
Please avoid using it if you can.
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The Department of National Defence quietly inked a $3.7-million contract last year with American data giant Palantir, newly released documents show.
It’s the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day. Of course I’m republishing my Bobbie Gentry article!
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Carney delivering the address at the World Economic Forum, 20 Jan. 2026. Dr Lori Lee OatesMemorial University On January 20 of this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech at the Wo…
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"The most important thing about the election is not that Trump was proclaimed the winner, but that he was allowed to run."
I wrote that in 2024. I'm disgusted by those who ignore the institutional rot that enabled Trump and blame everyday voters instead.
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AI lies and steals. It creates fake versions of real people and fake quotes and fake photos. This article details some of the problems but I’ve dealt with worse since. It’s dystopian to have to monitor a digital doppelgänger: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Memorial received the funding it asked for. So why is every academic unit facing cuts? MUNFA has serious concerns about the 2026-27 operating budget and what it means for faculty, staff, and the students counting on them. Read our full statement. 1/2
#wearemun
Across Memorial, we are seeing the real impacts of ongoing funding cuts. Programs are changing. Jobs are being lost. Teaching and learning conditions are under pressure.
The impacts are not abstract. They affect our classrooms, our colleagues, and our students.1/3
#WeAreMUN
Climate group calls for urgent windfall tax on excess fossil fuel profits, as delegates tell Colombia conference their nations are suffering
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members?
I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
