Read at this link: Mt. A. prof draws parallels between Confederation Bridge & Tantramar gas plant |
More here with Bruce Wark reporting:
Green leader links Centre Village gas/diesel plant to Lorneville data centre |
Some additional commentary on Wark's article is found here:
Consider what Mark Carney says on the AI tech. and the future at Toronto Life who have honoured him this year as the most influential person of 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baS6JD3wq7Y
Comment from Bruce Wark: Thanks so much for alerting us to this interview with Mark Carney. The section of the interview on AI comes at around the 19 minute mark and is very interesting. I think it shows that Carney is trying to see a role for Canada in spite of the dominance of American Big Tech monopolies such as Google and Facebook that in Cory Doctorow’s memorable terms have “enshitified” the Internet in service, first to the financial interests of advertisers and second, in service to their own obscene profits. Unfortunately, Carney does not seem aware of the steps the federal government he leads could take to safeguard Canadian interests: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-11-01-redistribution-vs-predistribution-elbows-up-eurostack-349a753976ce "
Bit more here on the "Enshittification" guy ...
Book Talk: Enshittification Tickets, Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
"Overview
Join us for a book talk with Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification, as he unpacks how the internet broke—and how we can fix it.
Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.
Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).
The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.
Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, including The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science-fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His nonfiction book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation is a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame."
With thanks to "Internet Archive" on X here:
Internet Archive on X: "Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work from The Lost Cause to Chokepoint Capitalism to The Internet Con shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us & Authors Alliance for this https://t.co/QsoATQXZvH" / X
