Celeste Dupuy-Spencer: Burning in the Eyes of the Maker At a certain point, in recent years, I was at a crossroads: stop painting, or find another way to understand what painting actually is—what it can actually do. I decided to turn fully toward painting ...

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The Politically Charged Art of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/a...

@joanhalifax.bsky.social 💗

Perhaps you’re looking for yet another reason not to support Amazon.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter Who Used Her Art to Fight for Justice, Dies at 46 Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, whose forceful paintings sought justice in America and beyond, has died at 46.

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Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

What’s the point of an AI novel? The danger is not that it will replace human-authored books — but that we stop caring about good writing at all

“The interest in AI writing novels is just another illustration of our efficiency-loving, conveyor-belt society. The threat of AI taking novelists’ jobs is not really about the prospect of it cracking how to write fiction. It is the danger that we stop caring about good writing at all.”

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.

In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

Congratulations @avilewis.ca and what good news this is for Canadian climate politics (Avi should be known in his own right, but here's a booster for those of you who don't: he's married to Naomi Klein.)

Semi-Social: Biruté Galdikas and the Complicated Simplicity of the Bornean Orangutan. By 1971, when a 24 year old anthropology student by the name of Biruté Galdikas (1946-2026) set foot in the wilds of Borneo to study the largely unknown behavior and social structure of wild orangutan...

So sorry to hear of the death of Biruté Galdikas today at the age of 79. A visionary who brought the full extent of her observational genius to a species that had been largely ignored by other researchers, she will always be remembered.

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#WomenInSTEM #WHM #BioSky #HistSci 🦧

RIP Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas
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An anthropologist, conservationist, and author, she earned PETA’s Humanitarian Award and fought with us against NIH monkey fright experiments. Her legacy lives in every orangutan she saved.

If Parks Canada's Library Goes Quiet Parks Canada’s library closure reflects long institutional decline, threatening internal knowledge, research capacity, and the agency’s ability to document environmental change.

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Getting to know our board: Sarah James - BC and Yukon Book Prizes Last year we welcomed Sarah James to the BC and Yukon Book Prizes board. In the coming months, we’re going to introduce you to some of the wonderful people who help guide the organization. Q: What’s y...

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimag...

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Our Nelson, BC hometown legend.

America Has Occupied Canada, in the Creative Mind of a Toronto Artist

A speculative public art series that began in alleyways and on buildings and a tennis court fence is opening as a chilling new show at Western University's Weldon Library.
(gifted article, no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Can't make it to tonight's public lecture featuring distinguished speaker Justin Ling, investigative journalist and columnist for The Toronto Star?

Justin's lecture, “Telling the Truth in Hyperreality: Journalism in a Time of Lies,” will be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/4uii7Up

Don't miss it!

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

You don’t have to participate in AI’s massive hype inflation, writes critical informatics scholar Britt S. Paris. You have a right to refuse the ‘inevitable’.

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms

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"Reports indicate an increase in Christian extremism in the military, noting that complainants “report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders” who perceive a “‘biblically-sanctioned’ war that is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of fundamentalist Christian ‘End Times’.”

Recent months have seen the escalation of a brazen campaign by separatists in the oil-rich province of Alberta to dismember the country and lease its resources to an expansionist American regime—with direct support from officials in the U.S. government. trib.al/jPu1QtT

"Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position." -
@bcmerchant.bsky.social

This Freedom to Read Week, we’re joining organizations across Canada to champion intellectual freedom! 📚💡💪 Protect your freedom to read by learning about challenged books and how you can take action. Together, we can keep access to ideas open for everyone! #FTRW26 #FreedomToRead

AI minister 'disappointed' by OpenAI meeting held in wake of Tumbler Ridge shooting | CBC News Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he was "disappointed" following a Tuesday meeting with senior officials from Open AI that was arranged after it was revealed that the killer in the m...

This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech).

I do not expect them to take it.

"Here are five essential propositions that should guide any country with a powerful fascist neighbour:

A country must be unified to defend itself.
Fascists only respect hard power.
Soft power is also power.
A democratic people is a strong people.
There are no moral victories."

What do you do when you’re living next door to a fascist state? We must expect the United States could remain fascist far into the future. As with naiveté, hope is not a strategy

(Gift link, no paywall)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/221fd67...