Respected Secwépemc knowledge keeper Cecilia Dick DeRose dies at 91 - Kamloops News Renown Secwépemc knowledge keeper Cecilia Dick DeRose has passed away at the age of 91.

Respected Secwépemc knowledge keeper Cecilia Dick DeRose dies at 91 #Kamloops

Public housing ends up being cheaper, as well as being a social good.

BBC World Service - The Conversation, How war shapes women's lives The impact of war and peace, with experts from Spain and Kenya

Fascinating discussion about how war effects women. ~90 of all peace deals exclude women, and yet they receive the brunt of consequences of war.
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Same, same

a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE

textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and

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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

FFS

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

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You know they got that jar of nutella at costco

The Moon, seen from Artemis-2.

This view of the Moon from Artemis II is just... WOW!

Crescent view of Earth. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th).

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See precipitous drop in travel from Canada to US

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

When AI in public schools comes up, I think it's always worth remembering the articles about the schools the tech barons send their kids to, where screen time is either outright banned or severely limited, and the kids have multiple arts and handicrafts lessons. Their kids learn to knit.

Just said some variation of this to my colleagues.

"The earth laughs in flowers"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Quebec City, Military Culture Collides with Far-Right Extremism | The Walrus White-supremacist groups are getting armed. They’re also becoming more normalized

Today the Quebec government passed Bill 9 -- just another in a long line of bigoted pieces of legislation that legalizes descrimination against people who wear religious symbols. I wrote about the impact of these pieces of legislation and the rise of the far right here:

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I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch:

This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Same

an excerpt from a text conversation that occurs in a mix of French and English Person 1 writes in French - I’ll bring it next time Person 2 responds in French - Thank you very much. with a heart emoji at the end. Person 1 adds in English - It’s a little late. With a laughing emoji at the end. Person 2 responds first in English - That’s my bad. Then in French - I didn’t pay attention to the publication date. With a laughing emoji.

Family texting in Québec

The Warehouse: A Public Library Art Takeover in NYC (April 4-June 27) A Community-Based Exhibition at Bedford Library in Brooklyn

“Fascism is constantly and deliberately shrinking the definition of who is considered a person. Art, especially art made by and for marginalized populations, does the opposite. It expands and complicates our understanding of the human condition.”

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Education until about age 8 should be entirely based in self-directed play.

We all know this is fascism.

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

My favourite thing about the PhD defense is when the examiners each begin their questioning with some variation on “Thank you so much for this work you have done and the invitation to think with you about it”.

Bold new podcast challenges leaders on workplace culture The perspectives of First Nations employees in the workplace will feature heavily in a new Australian podcast which aims to shift the leadership conversation from optics to accountability.Culture Capi...

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