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Digital Borders, Critical Chokepoints, and the Fog of War

May 12, 2026

State actors in Canada and the US are repackaging digital surveillance as border security while critical supply chains for minerals and food reveal processing chokepoints that undermine sovereignty. This material fragility is compounded by AI-driven memetic warfare and conspiracy proliferation, which weaponize epistemic uncertainty to obscure infrastructure failures and justify authoritarian enclosure.

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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

EFF — AI governance, structural power, media and technology

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Trolling, memes, and deepfakes: How AI is thickening the fog of war

Nieman Lab — media and technology

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The missing link in America’s critical minerals push isn’t mining – it’s processing expertise

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EFF to Fourth Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

EFF — AI governance, structural power, media and technology

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Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

The Conversation — all

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There’s No Such Thing as Climate Policy

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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How Nigerians are coping with heat waves amid crippling power outages

Global Voices — geopolitics, media and technology

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Is Russia the Main Beneficiary of Trump’s Iran Mistake?

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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Local food systems key as food prices rise and tensions grow

IPES-Food — food sovereignty

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Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility – but it allowed big business to look the other way

The Conversation — all

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What happens when scientists trust AI more than colleagues?

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The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley

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