I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.
Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Ok this is a mass thanks to everyone who has replied to this thread, fantastic suggestions here. I think I might just compile all of these replies into a handout. 🙏 ❤️
New Brunswick budget news: no cuts to universities (this is just kicking the can down the road, cuts will now happen next year), but the line item covering NB's share of admin expenses for the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission have mysteriously disappeared (not zeroed, just...missing)
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i will also emphasize that there is no question spacex will not give public investors any governance rights (i.e., dual class shares, a shareholder agreement with musk, etc). So the wider public will be forced to fork over their capital with literally no oversight of it
Submissions open for the @jofvictculture.bsky.social Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2026!! 📄
This is open to anyone either currently registered for a higher research degree or awarded one within past 3 years. Deadline October 1st 2026. Please share widely!! 🌟
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
A poster for the event including the information given in the post, as well as photos of the speakers and their books, which are “Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States” by Asha Jeffers, and “Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family” by LiLi Johnson.
Join us this Friday, March 13, for “Family Matters: A Joint Book Launch” by @dal-english.bsky.social professors Dr Asha Jeffers and Dr LiLi Johnson! 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198, with reception to follow. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Nora Ephron's Les Miserables
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, strikes down Trump’s tariffs as not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Roberts writes the court’s opinion.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
This would normally be scheduled for next week, but I made a short explainer about Halifax's current budget problems and am dropping it early because the events are currently happening.
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Congratulations to Schulich Law Associate Professor Naiomi Metallic (BA ’02, LLB ’05), Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, who was named the 2026 Indspire Award Laureate for Law & Justice when the award recipients were announced on February 12. More: https://bit.ly/3O7kd91
I'm pretty sure it's still Norm Macdonald.
We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...
No better place to do a PhD!
"International Hoops Terms With Cleanthony Early" has to be the wildest sports category in Jeopardy! history.
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Our former students doing good work on this case.
#rjweek2025 the Restorative Lab supported the organizing committee for the 2025 National Restorative Justice Symposium in Ottawa. The keynote panel ft. Jennifer Llewellyn, Chair in Restorative Justice at @schulichlaw.bsky.social who shared her vision of the future of restorative justice in Canada.
Tonight!
Might have been their best chance at winning with Embiid
Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty Dr. Matthew Chippin will present his paper "Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty," followed by a brief Q&A session, and an informal social gathering. Using case law and statutory analysis from England, Canada, and the United States, Dr. Chippin's paper highlights how intent-based standards in solvency transactions avoidance provisions have often produced uncertainty, inefficiency, and inconsistent application. By comparison, both the Irish Companies Act 2014, section 608, and the Canadian anti-deprivation rule offer a uniquely broad effects-based model that avoids many of these difficulties while still maintaining sensible limits. Matthew Chippin holds a PhD in Insolvency Law from the University of Leeds. He is currently a visiting scholar with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute and will be a visiting lecturer at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law in January. Dr. Chippin has previously held visiting appointments at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. 6 pm, Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 Location Weldon Law Building, Room W207 6061 University Ave. Additional Information RSVP to bizlaw@dal.ca A social mixer will follow the lecture in the 2nd floor Student Lounge.
Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!
Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty Dr. Matthew Chippin will present his paper "Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty," followed by a brief Q&A session, and an informal social gathering. Using case law and statutory analysis from England, Canada, and the United States, Dr. Chippin's paper highlights how intent-based standards in solvency transactions avoidance provisions have often produced uncertainty, inefficiency, and inconsistent application. By comparison, both the Irish Companies Act 2014, section 608, and the Canadian anti-deprivation rule offer a uniquely broad effects-based model that avoids many of these difficulties while still maintaining sensible limits. Matthew Chippin holds a PhD in Insolvency Law from the University of Leeds. He is currently a visiting scholar with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute and will be a visiting lecturer at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law in January. Dr. Chippin has previously held visiting appointments at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. 6 pm, Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 Location Weldon Law Building, Room W207 6061 University Ave. Additional Information RSVP to bizlaw@dal.ca A social mixer will follow the lecture in the 2nd floor Student Lounge.
Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!
"Before we ended our call, Goertzel told me about an event he’d just been to in San Francisco on AI consciousness and parapsychology:'“ESP, precognition, and whatnot.'"
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
This is bad!
A poster featuring the cover of the The Secret Path animated film about Chanie Wenjack
Please join us this Wednesday for a free film screening of The Secret Path at 4 p.m. in the Ko'jua Okuom in the Downie Wenjack Legacy Space in the Killam learning commons. All are welcome! @dalhousie.bsky.social @downiewenjack.bsky.social
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
@schulichlaw.bsky.social is inviting applications for an Infectious Disease Innovation Governance (IDIG) Research Fellow. The posting closes on November 3, 2025: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632
