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🇨🇦 On Canada Day, we remember what sovereignty means.
In The 49th Line, we learn what it takes to keep it.
When our greatest ally becomes an enemy, will Canada hold the line?
📘 Drops July 29
⬇️ Get the Pre-Release Teaser⬇️
🔗 brownsbookshelf.ca
#51stState #CanadaDay
It took Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Conduent MORE than 9 months to disclose a MAJOR data breach, which included people's medical records, SSNs, contact info, etc.
brownsbookshelf.ca/blogs/pos…
AI increases power use, but the numbers don’t support the panic.
2024 data-centre use: 415 TWh (1.5% of global electricity).
Most of that isn’t AI. Most of that was video streaming and social media.
Full analysis + sources:
🔗 brownsbookshelf.ca/blogs/pos…
#AI #Climate #Energy
Canada risks falling behind without urgent investment in sovereign compute, sovereign data, and domestic AI capability. The AI sprint is necessary, not dangerous.
More in my article, link in first reply.
@FP_Champagne @ISED_CA @TheHillTimes
In the AI arms race, "time has become sovereign." Canada's 30-day AI Strategy Sprint isn't reckless. It's our shot at digital sovereignty before we lag behind forever. Ethics + economics demand action NOW. Read my take: brownsbookshelf.ca/blogs/pos…
#AI #TechEthics #CanadaAI
Your OS used to just run programs.
Now it studies you.
Prediction is the product, and you're the input.
Read how AI-enabled OS's can quietly erode digital privacy
Full article linked in the comments↓
#PrivacyMatters #DigitalRights #AI #SurveillanceTech #CyberSecurity
🇨🇦 Law 25 vs. the AI OS: We built strong laws against explicit surveillance. But what about the implicit threat of continuous AI inference? Unsolicited remote desktop was the old worry. The algorithm that never logs out is the new one. #PrivacyParadox #AIEthics #Loi25
Privacy is no longer secrecy; it's agency. Per Quebec's Loi 25, the right to information regarding automated decisions MUST apply directly to the OS's proprietary inference logs. We demand clarity.
If the OS has become a mirror of the self, we must demand to see our reflection before we pass it downstream to the cloud. Read why I call it "Le Contrôle Muet" (The Silent Control): brownsbookshelf.ca/blogs/pos…
What does Canadian sovereignty really mean in 2025?
In "The 49th Line", it means trusting code to defend us -
not with loyalty, but with logic.
The border isn’t a wall.
It’s a sovereign line.
What if it actually gets crossed?
#CanadaDay #SpeculativeFiction #NewRelease
🇨🇦 On Canada Day, we remember what sovereignty means.
In The 49th Line, we learn what it takes to keep it.
When our greatest ally becomes an enemy, will Canada hold the line?
📘 Drops July 29
⬇️ Get the Pre-Release Teaser⬇️
🔗 brownsbookshelf.ca
#51stState #CanadaDay
Get the "Classified Pre-Release Dossier" - with teasers from "The 49th Line", concept art, in-world documents and more!:
👇 brownsbookshelf.ca
"The 49th Line" wasn't written to scare anyone.
I wrote it because the language of war is already changing. Trade wars, rhetoric, annexation.
Fiction lets us say the things no one wants to hear out loud.
#CanadaDay #canadianpolitics
Planning a cruise this summer?? Beware! "Malvertisements" (bogus paid ads in top search results) are on the rise, and taking aim at cruise-goers. #CyberSecurity #travel #ScamAwareness
Find out how to spot these scams, and how to protect yourself⬇️
brownsbookshelf.ca/blogs/pos…
A very long comment thread fulla bad takes...
According to Christopher Nolan, there's a lot less information on Google than you might think:
“Google are not as powerful as people think in terms of information collation. They’re more powerful than people realize in all kinds of areas, such as collecting data on your movements. They’re very good at that. But in a data search, the outcome is always limited. An interesting experiment would be to walk into a library, and go to a book, open the book at a random page, find a fact or piece of information, write it down. Do that ten times, and then go online and see how many of those ten you can find. Our feeling is that 90 percent of the information is online. I have a suspicion the real answer is 0.9 percent.”
