Bill C-22 raises serious concerns about lawful access, encryption, metadata retention, and privacy-preserving infrastructure in Canada.

A House of Commons petition opposing the bill is now open for signature:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416

If you are concerned about strong encryption, no-logs services, metadata retention, or compelled technical capability, please consider signing and sharing.

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I think Silicon Valley is making a grave miscalculation with the public sentiment towards AI.

People really enjoy useful tools, and plenty of AI tools are.

What people don’t want is an internet that feels increasingly artificial and emotionally hollow.

Ironically, the more AI-generated the web becomes, the more valuable unmistakably human things become.

The “dead internet” gets solved when humans show up to breathe life into it again.

One thing I've kept coming back to recently is how many modern systems still feel owned, even when they are fundamentally permissioned.

The button still says "Buy".
The files still appear in a list.
The app still lives on your machine.

But eventually something breaks and it becomes obvious where the authority actually lives.

Wrote more about this:
https://aquisthoughts.substack.com/p/access-is-not-ownership

The race to offload human cognition onto remote systems people cannot inspect, verify, modify, or independently operate genuinely terrifies me.

Not because “AI bad.” I use AI daily myself. It is absolutely a tool that will change the world.

It terrifies me because more and more of human thought is becoming dependent on opaque infrastructure controlled by someone else.

When even your thinking runs through systems you cannot control, what does autonomy even mean?