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Kristen Thomasen

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Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || #HamOnt kid in Windsor || she/her || (Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)

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Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.

05.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 437 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

I once talked about mushrooms, drones, and Justin Bieber with Michael BublΓ©.

05.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent

At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.

A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...

05.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....

For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this:

Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here:

uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495

02.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

We have an incredible speaker line-up, too!! Ft Kristen as moderator; feminist migration & public law expert @jcyliew.bsky.social; @jamesyap.bsky.social, counsel in Nevsun v Araya(!!); @jeff.doctor, never lacking for πŸ”₯ takes, esp re Indigenous sovereignty; & Jason Toney @cjpme.org, already on it.

02.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....

So glad sthg like this is finally happening, largely thx to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Been ~2.5 years now of layers of disheartenment & sustained moral injury (5 if count covid), and a public discussion focused specifically on Canadian complicity, from a tech /tech law angle, is long overdue.

02.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Tuesday, March 10, 4pm. FREE.

"how can concerned observers broaden their resistance to Canada’s contributions to ICE in order to mitigate and prevent complicity in violence around the world?"

02.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The panel will feature the brilliant: @jcyliew.bsky.social @jamesyap.bsky.social @jeff.doctor and Jason Toney @cjpme.org.

Tuesday Mar 10, from 4-5:30pm.

CC: @cyn-k.bsky.social @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @jroselkim.bsky.social @windsorlaw.bsky.social

02.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....

For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this:

Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here:

uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495

02.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Β© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.

I had the pleasure of joining Matt Galloway on CBC’s The Current this morning to talk about *that* Amazon Ring Superbowl ad. It's heartening to see the perception of commercial surveillance networks shifting toward rejection.

Saying no to bad tech is always an option.

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

25.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

all time photo editor performance

24.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 2459 πŸ” 443 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4
Interrogating the Quiet Escalation of Tech Billionaire Influence on Detroit’s Future | safecomputing.umich.edu An eleven-foot Robocop statue stands prominently in Eastern Market. A defense contractor headquarters is moving to the riverfront. A drone conference is scheduled to take place on land, in the air and...

Tomorrow for any interested Ann Arbor folks.

23.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

It is really amazing to see something that you helped create and put out into the world, take on a life of its own. There are at least four independently organized upcoming micro-consultations for the #PCAI! Linking them below, if you're in the area, want to join, or as examples to follow:

23.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d say US men’s hockey won fool’s gold but it’d be an insult to pyrite.

24.02.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This guy gets it.

23.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 23658 πŸ” 5749 πŸ’¬ 453 πŸ“Œ 805

If I were the Leafs GM I’d trade Matthew’s for one of Quinn Hughes’ ghosts

22.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🀒πŸ₯Ί don’t like this feeling.

22.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Growing up near Toronto, I am used to the bitter pain of my team losing.

Unfortunately, relatedly, I am very much not used to Auston Matthews winning.

22.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, πŸ“Έ by @tiltoncreative

22.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 9961 πŸ” 2273 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 112
A wide variety of Toronto lingo related to anger

A wide variety of Toronto lingo related to anger

22.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 190 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Can I sue for IIMS? this topic and more.. πŸ˜­πŸ’”πŸ€’

22.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can I sue the olympics for the stress I’m surviving? This topic and more in this week’s tort law class.. 😭🀞🏻

22.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management sells last shares in Israeli military supplier Elbit Bank faced criticism for investment, including high-profile protests at the Giller Prize

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!

Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

17.02.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 809 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 10
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The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna - The OLR Supplement Justin Joque aims for a more radical critique of AI than Bender and Hanna, both by questioning intentionalist language, and with a leftist political orientation

Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con:

olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

17.02.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Bad Bunny’s Neighborliness Is the Antidote to Ring’s Dystopian Vision More and more Americans are turning against the surveillance stateβ€”and embracing each other.

#Amazon #Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool. Via @hypervisible.blacksky.app newrepublic.com/post/206568/...

14.02.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

Pure corruption of the crudest sort. And Lutnick and Trump are in on it. A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.

10.02.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 12

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the TaΓ­nos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

09.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 20661 πŸ” 5278 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 179
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Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish:

www.404media.co/icezine/

02.02.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6

Here you go.

Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS after Renee Good was murdered by ICE (and a little over a month after it came out that Roshel is contracted to sell ICE $10 million worth of armoured vehicles)

27.01.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
An infographic titled January 2026 update: A review of over 160 Injunction cases involving First Nations across Canada. The success rates for injunctions filed by governments, corporations, and FNs are compared

An infographic titled January 2026 update: A review of over 160 Injunction cases involving First Nations across Canada. The success rates for injunctions filed by governments, corporations, and FNs are compared

🚨 New injunction resources for organizers and land defenders from 8th Fire Rising! 🚨
First up, updated research by me and @shirip.bsky.social on injunction success rates for corporations, governments, and First Nations. See the stats and more at: 8thfirerising.ca/injunctions/

26.01.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1