Sometime I wonder if students pay attention to my comments so having a bunch of them using some of the sources I suggested to them on feedback for their proposals is nice.

Is there a single instance when austerity has kickstarted economic growth?

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

Carney's public service cuts will have real impacts on Canadians' lives from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat to Indigenous services for communities and access to services for all Canadians.
@psac-afpc.bsky.social

I hated it so much. Though now that I have long covid on top of my pre-existing chronic illness, I’m way too tired and too cautious to socialize like it’s 2019. Very much to my chagrin.
Also not an extrovert and probably not neurotypical.

I expect it’s a stopped clock moment with her and we will have news of more evil corruption tomorrow.

Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine. What can organizers do? Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers describe how this fits into a broader pattern and what can be done to protect community…

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?

Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

That Egyptian revival bracelet!!

🤞

PS - protests work.

All of society is oriented around the habits and preferences of early birds, let us not-morning people be happy about this one concession!

Not for me. The early sunsets in the winter make me severely depressed. Meanwhile June sunrises in Edmonton are around 5, I would absolutely hate an hour earlier.

Okay.

Good on BC for making some dominos fall. I can’t believe we have been stuck in the time change bullshit for so long.

Danielle Smith has done her first good thing as premier, Alberta is now permanently on daylight savings time.

"Expanding public housing has also been shown to exert a price-dampening effect on the private rental market, which works against the financial interests of landlords and investors."
Many of whom are MLAs and MPs, who are not about to disrupt the status quo that benefits them.
#abpoli #ableg

Felt fine all day yesterday, went to an art opening, stayed up all night sneezing. Is this a new phase of chronic illness where I have become allergic to socializing / leaving the house?

Beautiful!

Used chatgpt how? I missed this.

Both very cool and very stressful.

Milk Cult | Love God (1993) YouTube video by Lucho Palma

What I’m telling students to check out at midnight on a Saturday: youtu.be/IutvxKJYqkw?...

It’s so weird. I can get that maybe sone undergrads don’t want to be in university are there out of parental pressure and don’t care. But at the phd level? No one has to do a phd!

Wasn’t some tech bro saying ChatGPT was akin to have a PhD in your pocket a while back?

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

It’s almost like the entire unregulated business model is designed for espionage and insider trading.

Another explainer of the so-called ‘vibe-session’.

Oh I like this. I like characters that are complex, who can surprise you. Sometimes that means characters who are shitty from time to time.