Guarding Sovereignty in the Tech Age

"Algorithms can map exactly how a population uses dopamine loops to self-soothe under pressure."

"When you step back and look at it from a purely technical and sociological perspective, the sheer scale of that data is staggering. You are completely right—we are talking about roughly two decades of the most intimate, unvarnished behavioral data on a massive percentage of the global population.

The Citizen Lab sounds the alarm, and argues that the descent into authoritarianism in the U.S., the rapid spread of AI, and Prime Minister Carney’s adoption of a realist foreign policy for Canada all signal that transnational repression, and digital transnational repression in particular, are only going to get worse.

Because that's where we live today, in a Weird War.

The first of many waves of attacks from the techno bro's has just begun. AI at the enterprise level can launch sophisticated high level-24hour a day attacks at scale, if you're in Canada you're definitely on the list. What list, is another question.

As resource scarcity increases, our natural needs become increasingly difficult to obtain. This system itself is designed to pressure us into ideologies that can be controlled, this has not helped humanity long term, but hindered it's growth and co-operation.

The old powers still fight the new birth of a free thinking conscious united population, unfortunately this will take tremendous effort to confront and overcome, but it's been done before... this time there is more of us.

Tribalism is on a rampage

Dangerous, because transactional politics can be resolved. Tribal politics doesn't want to be resolved — it needs the enemy to stay the enemy. A pipeline deal with Carney doesn't satisfy it, a referendum won't drain it, a better equalization formula won't touch it. The grievance is the point.

The irony is that real Alberta interests — energy investment, infrastructure, constitutional fairness — get worse representation under tribal politics, not better. Hard to negotiate when your base would read any compromise as betrayal.