Seriously? $3.6 billion? Mr. Carney is going to squander somewhere between $25 and $50 billion (ANOTHER galactic subsidy for Big Oil & Gas) for the construction of a fleet of icebreakers to ship fossil fuels out of Churchill. Make it make sense. #CleanEnergy
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/21/n...
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing
www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
No, and I'm sure they don't know fully, or they'd have said. :/
They emailed folks yesterday - I may have overestimated how many people they emailed!
It's Not Great!!!!
"Why don't you start your own regional network?" SEE ABOVE, I'm already doing 17 jobs!!! Campus Manitoba was a recognition of the need for a central, funded, organization to do just that!!!!
I'll keep yelling about it- expertise doesn't scale down! Brains are discrete units! It is much harder, and more expensive, for small institutions to run an OER program on their own. And small institutions have *so much* to contribute to Open pedagogy.
I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Campus Manitoba is closing down. More than *ever*, in a province with one big institution and a bunch of small ones, we need centralized supports for Higher Ed.
This time I'm not falling for the "shovel me" ploy.
Tapping the sign, etc
Agh I love good categorization so much. Like this analysis from Jonathan Band on the three different major texts on L&E for SCCR. Lovely, functional layout too from Ben Cashdan. knowledgegov.org/comparison-o...
Do any Uni hiring/ application systems have ORCID integration? It seems like it would be nice, in theory....
The... Arachnid Departs. Return of the Scorpion. Sub Commander Rag.
The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
Piracy IS preservation
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YOUR MOM HAS A GARDEN, WHEN CAN YOU PLANT THINGS?!?!!????!!
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
(it snowed. so much.)
Sure, everyone loves to be smug/ disbelieving about "low information voters" and "how could they elect him for a second term?", but I heard a looooot of people yesterday talking about how the warm weather must be here to stay.
You are gaslighting *yourselves* about April (/May)!!!
Get in, folks, we are Sokal-ing AI.
Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...
#Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The crew has been "hitting it hard" today, indeed 🌑 🟢
Mad line ups for the w/c at Mission Control.
-- from the moon
(we were watching the episode on Corona/ Discoverer right before today's launch)
I don't enjoy a lot of Nat Geo's edutainment shows, but we've been watching enough Strangest Things lately that our kid yells "carbon date it!!!" at the screen any time something has organic components.
I simply cannot imagine where they would have gotten the model for stomping into an area they don't fully understand, completely borking the economic system, then attempting to ghost the whole thing all together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
