Lisa Levesque
@lisalevesque.bsky.social
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Lisa Levesque
@lisalevesque.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I've been reading about data surveillance non-stop, and my 2026 goal is to share more of what I've learned. If I'm horrified, you need to be horrified.
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
I've really enjoyed The Secret Life of Data and would recommend it to anyone learning about surveillance.
A central idea is that “data, fundamentally, have no fixed meaning,” which is why your metadata can be coopted by powerful entities.
search.worldcat.org/title/139077...
A central idea is that “data, fundamentally, have no fixed meaning,” which is why your metadata can be coopted by powerful entities.
search.worldcat.org/title/139077...
The secret life of data : navigating hype and uncertainty in the age of algorithmic surveillance | WorldCat.org
"In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact
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January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I've really enjoyed The Secret Life of Data and would recommend it to anyone learning about surveillance.
A central idea is that “data, fundamentally, have no fixed meaning,” which is why your metadata can be coopted by powerful entities.
search.worldcat.org/title/139077...
A central idea is that “data, fundamentally, have no fixed meaning,” which is why your metadata can be coopted by powerful entities.
search.worldcat.org/title/139077...
It's so interesting to see the renewed interest in zines. There are several learning to make zines events in my periphery right now and several zines specifically about ICE!
The great @meganpiont.bsky.social has a bunch of fantastic HOW TO REPORT ICE zines for many cities and in multiple languages! linktr.ee/meganpiontko...
January 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It's so interesting to see the renewed interest in zines. There are several learning to make zines events in my periphery right now and several zines specifically about ICE!
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Act now: email the Ontario government telling them to remove the unnecessary limitations on @lufappul.bsky.social's right to free and fair bargaining. Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
Act Now: End the CCAA Exit Loan Controls — Let LUFA bargain freely
Join LUFA in calling on the government and the Laurentian University Board of Governors to lift the remaining CCAA Exit Loan Agreement restrictions to allow for free and fair collective bargaining.
actionnetwork.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Act now: email the Ontario government telling them to remove the unnecessary limitations on @lufappul.bsky.social's right to free and fair bargaining. Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
"The sheer amount of records that data brokers are accessing almost defies comprehension....[t]housands of data broker companies exist worldwide and their surveillance capacity only grows with each new technological development." - Kanwal & Walby
We're talking trillions of data points.
We're talking trillions of data points.
www.uwinnipeg.ca
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"The sheer amount of records that data brokers are accessing almost defies comprehension....[t]housands of data broker companies exist worldwide and their surveillance capacity only grows with each new technological development." - Kanwal & Walby
We're talking trillions of data points.
We're talking trillions of data points.
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Grok is being used to remove clothes from random peoples' photos. Journalists think they got the chatbot to 'apologize'. What are you doing? An LLM cannot apologize. It doesn't know what is happening. A journalist doing this is a form of AI psychosis. Full ep here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Grok is being used to remove clothes from random peoples' photos. Journalists think they got the chatbot to 'apologize'. What are you doing? An LLM cannot apologize. It doesn't know what is happening. A journalist doing this is a form of AI psychosis. Full ep here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
Adding my own void of fluff to this trash news day.
January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Adding my own void of fluff to this trash news day.
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The video that will make your day better: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet by @doctorow media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
media.ccc.de
January 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The video that will make your day better: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet by @doctorow media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...
"This long-running war on knowledge [represented by book bans] and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of 'efficiency.'"
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge [represented by book bans] and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of 'efficiency.'"
"The twin modalities of luxury and imposed surveillance may look different on the surface, but they represent two faces — carrot and stick, if you will — of a challenge to the bases of democracy and social freedom." - Gilliard & Golumbia, "Luxury Surveillance" reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...
Luxury Surveillance — Real Life
People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others
reallifemag.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"The twin modalities of luxury and imposed surveillance may look different on the surface, but they represent two faces — carrot and stick, if you will — of a challenge to the bases of democracy and social freedom." - Gilliard & Golumbia, "Luxury Surveillance" reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...
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New Issue Alert: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (#EPLIP; Vol. 20 No. 4 (2025)) is Now Available Online journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.... #libraries #librarians
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New Issue Alert: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (#EPLIP; Vol. 20 No. 4 (2025)) is Now Available Online journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.... #libraries #librarians
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This year, I have seen a glimmer of hope: people are ditching a life led on screens for the real thing | John Harris
This year, I have seen a glimmer of hope: people are ditching a life led on screens for the real thing | John Harris
Whether it’s nightclubs banning phones or a drop in online dating, there are signs that we’re rediscovering the joy of being in the moment, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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December 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This year, I have seen a glimmer of hope: people are ditching a life led on screens for the real thing | John Harris
"Every doctrine of inevitability carries a weaponized virus of moral nihilism programmed to target human agency and delete resistance and creativity from the text of human possibility" - Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Or, what I wish I'd said about AI inevitability on a panel last week.
Or, what I wish I'd said about AI inevitability on a panel last week.
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Every doctrine of inevitability carries a weaponized virus of moral nihilism programmed to target human agency and delete resistance and creativity from the text of human possibility" - Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Or, what I wish I'd said about AI inevitability on a panel last week.
Or, what I wish I'd said about AI inevitability on a panel last week.
I've been reading about data surveillance non-stop, and my 2026 goal is to share more of what I've learned. If I'm horrified, you need to be horrified.
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I've been reading about data surveillance non-stop, and my 2026 goal is to share more of what I've learned. If I'm horrified, you need to be horrified.
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
In Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff asks for a "rebirth of astonishment and outrage" at the scale of data surveillance. Outrage is back, baby!
Doctorow does such a good job explaining Internet issues simply
Must-watch: Cory Doctorow on the Daily Show, explaining how we can rescue the internet from “Enshittification”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-...
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Doctorow does such a good job explaining Internet issues simply
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Join us for a Harbord-Hoskin Celebration Ride this Sunday at 2pm.
RSVP & find out more:
www.cycleto.ca/Harbord-Hoskin
RSVP & find out more:
www.cycleto.ca/Harbord-Hoskin
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Join us for a Harbord-Hoskin Celebration Ride this Sunday at 2pm.
RSVP & find out more:
www.cycleto.ca/Harbord-Hoskin
RSVP & find out more:
www.cycleto.ca/Harbord-Hoskin
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Our new zine; a very strange change at Instagram; and the creator of ICEBlock is suing the U.S. government.
Podcast: Zines Are Back
Our new zine; a very strange change at Instagram; and the creator of ICEBlock is suing the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Our new zine; a very strange change at Instagram; and the creator of ICEBlock is suing the U.S. government.
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Toronto time to fight back against the hate rally at Christie Pits
www.instagram.com/p/DN338UYkte...
www.instagram.com/p/DN338UYkte...
workersactioncentre on Instagram: "Sept 13, join our community rally against a racist and anti-immigrant event at Christie Pits Park. Ours is community-led and family…"
Sept 13, join our community rally against a racist and anti-immigrant event at Christie Pits Park. Ours is community-led and family-friendly, with music, speeches, snacks and workshops. Link in bio to register now.#StatusforAll #NoSpaceForHate
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September 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Toronto time to fight back against the hate rally at Christie Pits
www.instagram.com/p/DN338UYkte...
www.instagram.com/p/DN338UYkte...
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Time to keep the pressure on, see you at #CriticalMass Friday April 25, 2025, 6pm. Location TBD.
April 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Time to keep the pressure on, see you at #CriticalMass Friday April 25, 2025, 6pm. Location TBD.
Ripping out bike lanes is wasteful and dangerous. Sign this petition about it #ReverseBill212 act.gp/3WLGdrw
Stop the removal of Ontario’s bike lanes
Call on all parties running in the Ontario election to reverse Bill 212
act.gp
April 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ripping out bike lanes is wasteful and dangerous. Sign this petition about it #ReverseBill212 act.gp/3WLGdrw
Another beautiful day for a bike protest, because we don’t want to lose our lanes @devanmarr.bsky.social @fridaysforfuture.bsky.social #safestreets
March 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Another beautiful day for a bike protest, because we don’t want to lose our lanes @devanmarr.bsky.social @fridaysforfuture.bsky.social #safestreets