Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.
Hangmen also die. (Brecht)
With #Artemis2 still in our minds, we sat down this evening to finally watch Hidden Figures. What a fantastic movie and inspirational story, everyone should give it a watch.
Lads, I have to take a plane trip to Scotland later today for family reasons. Recommend to me the most gloriously entertaining but stupid novel that can be purchased in a largish Canadian chain bookstore for the plane. All I have left at home are serious and depressing things which do not appeal.
people get mad (quite reasonably) at the BC Homeowner Grant for being anti-renter, and then Orr goes and does a municipal version of that lmao
What if, instead, foreign tourists from the countries whose heritage the British Museum stole were paid upon entry?
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
Nobody at Canvas asked us.
Nobody asked for this.
Join CES for our next colloquium talk, in which Dr. Winthrop-Young examines Nazi propaganda, philosophy, pharmacology and changes to the pension system. The talk will present the increasingly compressed, accelerationist and catastrophist notions of history that made up the “Nazi chronobscene.”
How will AI affect how we teach and remember the Holocaust? A new white paper authored by @bcgl.bsky.social, Robert Ehrenreich (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and @toddpresner.bsky.social available here:
www.digitalmemorylab.com/ai-and-the-f...
There are oil fires and bombing all over Tehran. The AQI is now 153
It is a normal day in Delhi. The AQI is now 193
Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Real Alexander the Great shite here.
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
„A move toward genocide is always piecemeal and it has to be supported by even the most obscure and niche professions.”
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Servus 🇦🇹 Nun in der besten Tageszeitung Österreichs: Meine Seite im STANDARD über den Holz-Unternehmer KundanLal Gupta, der 1938/39 mindestens 14 Juden aus Wien vor dem #Holocaust bewahrt hat. Sein Trick: Er holte sie als Fachkräfte nach #Indien - inklusive eines Juristen, Ehefrauen & Säugling Alex.
Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
Off to see this exhibition for the second time as it is huge and needs a few visits at least. Highly recommended if you're in Vancouver.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
While AI models excel at technical tasks, the job roles that use these models demand versatility and the precise meta-skills developed through liberal arts education.
It is. It's appalling to see academics push GenAI.
A Vancouver violinist who was threatened with legal action by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra after breaking a non-disclosure agreement and speaking out about an alleged sexual assault by one of its former senior musicians says she won't be "intimidated" into silence.
Nice of 2025 to remind me on its last day that it truly is a cursed year.
auch dieses juli zeh interview lasse ich ungelesen vorüberziehen wie einen tag mit garstigem wetter
Was Thomas sagt. Alles ist Politik, auch und gerade der Versuch, diese Tatsache zu bestreiten.
Mandatory quote in coverage of far right towns: “I am normal, my neighbours vote for Nazis but I am not someone who would be friends with Nazis so my neighbours are not Nazis. The foreigners are not like me and so I am indifferent to their fate compared to the hurt feelings of my neighbours.“
The cover of my forthcoming book The Crown’s Silence, out with Mariner next month!
You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky