VicPD asked the province not to release any of its use of force data, and they agreed. After multiple appeals, we can now see things like how often VicPD injured people, including people they’ve already jailed, or used force during “wellness checks.” needsmorespikes.com/blog/use-of-... #yyj #cdnfoi

VicPD and province try to stop release of police “use of force” data — Needs More Spikes

VicPD asked the government not to release data showing how its officers used force between 2022 and 2024. The government agreed, but they were overruled by the privacy commissioner. The data shows Vic...

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What are we even doing here

Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians)@mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · last wk.

“Some teachers are using Al to generate their lesson plans and assignments and their quizzes, and then kids are using Al to do them, and then teachers are using Al to grade them. So we just have bots talking to bots. Is that what we want education to look like?” www.npr.org/2026/09/02/n...

Almost as though these issues might be connected…? No I can’t see any reason why people who care about climate and marginalized people would care about massive amounts of bombs being dropped on Indigenous people by their colonizers

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you believe these fucking losers, being mad about more than one thing over the last six years

Big W for Waterloo

SJ Brison@brison.bsky.social · 2w ago

More on Talia Bettcher's move to the University of Waterloo! uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/ma...

The Israeli commander who personally ordered the airstrikes on seven World Central Kitchen workers who were murdered in cold blood says that he is not sorry and falsely claims that the WCK has ties to Hamas. WCK is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."

Israeli commander defends ordering strike that killed Zomi Frankcom

An Israeli commander who ordered a deadly drone strike on an aid convoy in Gaza, killing Australian woman Zomi Frankcom, says he stands by his decision.

abc.net.au

Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent

Anti wokes and TERFs well represented here

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3w ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

living the accuracy-first epistemology dream

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · last mo.

i shuffle over to the Oracle 4000 holding a live chicken. with practiced speed, i break the chicken's neck and stuff it in the aperture. i solemnly turn the crank, mechanical clicks and whirs. after a minute, a Truth slides out. i dutifully carry the Truth to the enormous file cabinet to alphabetize

For no particular reason, recalling that the Luddites had some pretty great ideas actually

Ok but it Argentina would kind of have deserved it if they’d VARed that goal and decided someone was offside right

I can’t unsee this now

dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile)@thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

messi has a face like the world’s only mean golden retriever

Fistfight pausa when

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

What is even happening in this game

I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

If nothing else this tournament has taught us just what it takes to get people to root for countries like Belgium and Switzerland

I don't understand the paranoia. It's not like FIFA have any obvious corruption issues.

VAR working hard for Argentina I see

Love to see how much judges everywhere hate England, not just in Eurovision

An Unexpected Visitor Turned Our Prison Block Into a Makeshift Aviary

An Unexpected Bird Brought Gentleness to This Prison Block

Freedom isn't just about flying — it's about the small connections that make the bars feel a little less solid.

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Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

VAR that

Uhhhhhh, don't use it? wapo.st/3TmHl5G

Column | How to stop ChatGPT from ruining how you think

Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.

wapo.st

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Has someone already written the epistemic injustice paper about this

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

#philsky Surely we can get many more signatures on this …

Cailin O’Connor@cailinmeister.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wonderwall as a victory song in the Azteca feels like a microaggression

Excited to see how many more minutes of fans heart attack time this ref adds in