UNLOCK 35.1 “AI for All” of Carney’s Friends

UNLOCK 35.1 “AI for All” of Carney’s Friends

Update episode on the Carney government's national AI strategy, "AI for All," released June 4, 2026. The document's most-used word is "sovereignty" — appearing 51 times — while "emissions," "climate," "consent," "Palantir," and "Amazon" appear nada. I trace the political etymology of "sovereignty" from First Nations liberation discourse through working-class populism to its current deployment by the Davos class as branding for capital accumulation. I also examine AI Minister Evan Solomon's performance on CBC Front Burner, where he dodged nine accountability questions in thirty minutes using the word "trust" as a revolving door. Finally, a look at Dr. Jason Edward Lewis's Indigenous AI epistemology framework and the concept of "data colonization." Because the familiar crime now reanimated against Indigenous communities through AI infrastructure is a template for what is coming for us all. SOURCES Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All [https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/canadas-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-ai-all] CBC Front Burner: Minister Defends Canada's New AI Strategy — Transcript [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/minister-defends-canadas-new-ai-strategy-transcript-9.7224834] DeSmog: Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company [https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/25/carney-allowed-gas-powered-ai-centres-after-lobbying-from-alberta-energy-company/] Project Ploughshares: Setting the Record Straight on Canada's Arms Exports to Israel [https://www.ploughshares.ca/publications/ploughshares-statement-setting-the-record-straight-on-canadas-arms-exports-to-israel] CJPME: Canada's Record-Breaking 2023 Military Exports to Israel [https://www.cjpme.org/pr_2024_06_04_military_exports_data] APTN News: What's Behind Canada's Sovereign AI Plan? [https://www.aptnnews.ca/infocus/infocus-whats-behind-canadas-sovereign-ai-plan/] Intercontinental Cry: Ancestral Intelligence — How Indigenous Knowledge Informs AI and Data Ethics [https://icmagazine.org/ancestral-intelligence-how-indigenous-knowledge-informs-ai-and-data-ethics/] Policy Options: AI Threatens Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Self-Determination [https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/05/ai-indigenous-data/] Assembly of First Nations: Brief to Parliamentary Committee on Bill C-27 [https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/INDU/Brief/BR12885140/br-external/AssemblyOfFirstNations-e.pdf] Canada's National Observer: Three Quarters of Data Centre Sites Planned in Alberta Are in High Water Stress Areas [https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/23/investigations/alberta-data-centres-water-supply] The Intercept: Philly Cops Admit They're Tracking First Amendment Activity Critical of AI [https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance/] Abacus Data: Canadians Split on AI Data Centres [https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-split-on-ai-data-centres-as-cost-concerns-and-local-opposition-emerge/] Abundant Intelligences Project — Dr. Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University [https://www.concordia.ca/research/indigenous-futures.html] * matthewremski.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/matthewremski.bsky.social] * @matthew_remski [https://www.instagram.com/matthew_remski/] * @antifascistdad [https://www.youtube.com/@antifascistdad] * @antifascistdad [https://www.tiktok.com/@antifascistdad] * antifascistdadpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/antifascistdadpodcast] * Order Antifascist Dad [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/]

36. Stand-up for Gaza w/ Nour Hadidi

I sit down with Jordanian-Canadian comedian, writer, and podcaster Nour Hadidi to talk about standup as survival, solidarity with Gaza, and what it means to do political comedy in a liberal industry that wants your watermelon emoji but not your actual politics. We discuss her journey from a finance 9-5 to standup, to standup in a radical register that helped her discover who she was and what her values are. She also tells few jokes. SOURCES Nour Hadidi — The Noursletter on Substack [https://nourhadidi.substack.com] Nour Hadidi Podcast on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/nourhadidi] Comedians for Palestine on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/comediansforpalestine] Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Slammed CNN — YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0UmkvOYMco] Vivian Silver Impact Award — New Israel Fund Canada [https://www.newisraelfund.ca] Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto — Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pymtoronto] Global March to Gaza — Coalition Against Israeli Occupation [https://www.globalmarchtogaza.org] Anera — Gaza humanitarian aid [https://www.anera.org] UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency [https://www.unrwa.org] Order Antifascist Dad [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/] * Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/matthewremski.bsky.social] * Instagram: @matthew_remski [https://www.instagram.com/matthew_remski/] * YouTube: @antifascistdad [https://www.youtube.com/@antifascistdad] * TikTok: [@antifascistdad] * Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/antifascistdadpodcast] * Order Antifascist Dad [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/]

UNLOCK 34.1 Looks Like Jonathan Haidt Did a Moral Panic

Jonathan Haidt recently padded his bestselling career by telling worried parents that their kids' anxiety was caused by smartphones and social media — and that the fix was bans. I always thought the argument was depoliticized, correlational, and suspiciously convenient for parents who'd rather blame a device than interrogate the world they've handed their children. Now the research is catching up. Psychologist Jen Lumanlan's challenge in Psychology Today exposed the romanticized and racially selective "golden age" childhood Haidt keeps gesturing toward. A major NBER working paper from Allcott et al. studied over 1,300 US schools using Yondr pouches and found near-zero academic effects. A Dutch study by Vanluydt et al. in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence found that full bans may actually undermine school belonging, especially for girls. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas does what Haidt won't: it plants digital technology inside a structural critique of platform capitalism. That's the conversation I want to have. * Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/matthewremski.bsky.social] * Instagram: @matthew_remski [https://www.instagram.com/matthew_remski/] * YouTube: @antifascistdad [https://www.youtube.com/@antifascistdad] * TikTok: [@antifascistdad] * Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/antifascistdadpodcast] * Order Antifascist Dad [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/] SOURCES Jen Lumanlan, "What Research Really Shows About School Phone Bans," Psychology Today, July 2025 [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-beyond-power/202507/what-research-really-shows-about-school-phone-bans] Hunt Allcott, E. Jason Baron, Thomas Dee, Angela L. Duckworth, Matthew Gentzkow, and Brian Jacob, "The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches," NBER Working Paper No. 35132, April 2026 [https://www.nber.org/papers/w35132] E. Vanluydt, R. van den Eijnden, L. Vonk et al., "Disconnect To Reconnect: How Variations between Types of Smartphone Bans Influence Students' Well-being and Social Connectedness in Dutch Secondary Education," Journal of Youth and Adolescence 55 (2026): 551–569 [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-025-02313-6] UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, "Phone Bans in Schools Are Spreading Worldwide as the Policy Debate Rages On," March 2026 [https://www.unesco.org/gem-report/en/articles/phone-bans-schools-are-spreading-worldwide-policy-debate-rages] Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (encyclical on artificial intelligence and human dignity), May 2026 [https://time.com/article/2026/05/25/pope-leo-encyclical-ai-magnifica-humanitas/] Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Press, 2024) [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727131/the-anxious-generation-by-jonathan-haidt/]

35. Antifascist Tooth Fairy w/ E.V. Debs

Joining me today is E.V. Debs (not their real name!) an antifascist community organizer from Seattle to talk about their new tabletop game, Antifascist Tooth Fairy, now getting funded on Kickstarter for a November release. Throw hands, collect teeth, manage charges, build mutual aid networks. It's a ton of fun as it guides players through the moral, legal, and strategic weeds of community self-defense. We cover the game's origins, the ethics and limits of physical confrontation, "anarchist calisthenics," and why games are a legitimate form of political education. I close with a passage from my book on Thi Nguyen's theory of games as the art of agency. SOURCES Antifascist Tooth Fairy Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evdebs/antifascist-tooth-fairy] anteefa.org [https://anteefa.org/] Games: Agency as Art — C. Thi Nguyen, Oxford University Press [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/games-agency-as-art-9780190052089] * matthewremski.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/matthewremski.bsky.social] * IG: @matthew_remski [https://www.instagram.com/matthew_remski/] * @antifascistdad on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@antifascistdad] * @antifascistdad on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@antifascistdad] * antifascistdadpodcast on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/antifascistdadpodcast] * Order Antifascist Dad [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/]

UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History

I wanted to trace the century-old roots of Maren Forsberg's antifascist self-defense work, so I dug into three overlapping histories. First: the German Bund's use of Körperbildung — body education through eurythmics — as both a resistance philosophy and a cover for anti-Nazi organizing. Second: the Jewish Labour Bund's Morgenstern athletic club in interwar Poland, which united boxing, gymnastics, swimming, and internationalist youth camps under the banner of do'ikayt, the right to belong wherever you are. Third: the Austromarxist Workers' Olympiad of 1931 in Red Vienna, where 25,000 athletes gathered to demonstrate that the worker athlete and the militant soldier for socialism were one and the same. I close with a passage from my book on bully culture in mainstream phys ed, and what it can feel like to step in and stop violence. Follow Maren Forsberg on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/marenforsberg/] and find her self-defense workshops through her page. * Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/matthewremski.bsky.social] * Instagram: @matthew_remski [https://www.instagram.com/matthew_remski/] * YouTube: @antifascistdad [https://www.youtube.com/@AntifascistDad] * TikTok: @antifascistdad [https://www.tiktok.com/@antifascistdad] * Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/antifascistdadpodcast] * Antifascist Dad — Penguin Random House [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/] Mark Roseman, Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany [https://www.holt.com/us/title/lives-reclaimed-9781250619587] Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741949/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/] Julius Deutsch, Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) [https://www.pmpress.org/catalog/product/view/id/878] Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/211534/the-cats-table-by-michael-ondaatje/9780771068379] Bread and Puppet Theater [https://breadandpuppet.org/]