Today I visited the work of public art that I dislike the most…

Ontario & Canada want a $40B mining project in northern Ontario they call the Ring of Fire. But First Nations leaders who live there have spent days under fire smoke and what they call unacceptable communication & service. "Protect Ontario? What is that?" ricochet.media/indigenous/a...

Abandoned on the road to the Ring of Fire

In the path of raging forest fires, First Nations leaders say poor communication with the Ontario government is putting their communities at risk

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It is more difficult to convince consumers to switch to heat pumps when data centres are being approved that will drive up the cost of electricity. This benefits those who profit from a Canada that remains reliant on oil and gas.

Rory White@rorywh.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week I wrote three stories, all surfacing from overlooked public documents in Alberta. On Monday, we revealed that power generators are expecting wholesale electricity prices in Alberta to triple when first data centres come online. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/a...

In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened.

Guys, what if we all started calling it the Gordon Lightfoot Bridge?

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While I generally don't follow matters of real estate, I know many folks that do. For you/them: Of interest? Organized Abandonment and Financialized Extraction: Racial Capitalism and the Political Afterlives of Limited Dividend Housing in Toronto onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Organized Abandonment and Financialized Extraction: Racial Capitalism and the Political Afterlives of Limited Dividend Housing in Toronto

Canada's Limited Dividend (LD) program was the federal government's main instrument for inducing private rental construction of low- and moderate-income households. This article reframes LD as a raci...

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Dr Emily Wilson reciting the opening of The Odyssey in ancient Greek. youtu.be/LhTJkHQut8A

Emily Wilson recites the opening of the Odyssey in ancient Greek

YouTube video by The 92nd Street Y, New York

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Friends! There's a library school student on this week's University Challenge! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUIT...

University Challenge S56E02 - Durham v Manchester

YouTube video by CosmicPumpkin

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"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Getting Off With the Luddites

They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...

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Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

I don't gamble because I know that there would be a good chance that I would be susceptible to having it mess up my brain chemistry. I know this because I play a daily lottery game in which you are awarded points for a random generated number (from which you can write poems) www.rngdle.com

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...

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I love the connection between improved civic tech and that of an automotive pit crew: the pit crew takes you off the road for the least possible time to give your work the maintenance you need or better tires to deal with a changing environment. ++ framing!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

www.npr.org/2026/07/10/n... have been thinking a lot about how valid tech criticism will be instrumentalized by shitty people for shitty bad faith ends and this is a good example--trying to kill subsidies for school/library internet costs in the name of "kids need less screen time"

If you're a library metadata and/or cataloging type, please consider following the new account for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (CCQ) @catclassquarterly.bsky.social. 📚 (It's me running the account!)

A film by Tony Gilroy about Pedro Pascale as a cello player? Sign me up!

BEHEMOTH! | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures

YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

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I don't think this concept has been explored enough in the context of legal research in the service of an adversarial court system.

Apostolos K.@koutropoulos.bsky.social · 3w ago

Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful

If ignore or discount the idea that many students think of the classroom as a site of competition, then we cannot be open to the idea that some (many?) students may choose to use Ai even though they loathe to do so. This 🧵explores this idea.

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 3w ago

So a reasonable question here would be... why are students using AI to do their coursework (especially when it's against the rules for a class!) if they also think that it's bad for them? Because they assume that everyone else is using it, and if they don't, they will be at a disadvantage.

This was an exceptional read

Ellie Silverman@byelliesilverman.bsky.social · 3w ago

In my first story with Kelley French for @notus.com, I spoke to the woman pictured in the Metro photo on July 4. She didn't know she went viral. Her family wants people to know their difficult reality. Please take some time with our story today www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

I knew this data format was old, but this is ridiculous

Wordle 1,851 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have been playing the same word since December 3rd, 2024, playing just for this moment. We are persistence hunters lol

I remember the first time I had seen one of these. I was working at the Periodicals Desk at the Metro Toronto Reference Library, and a (private school) student pulled one of these out of her bag, and it had next to no booting up time!!! Also, the translucent case was even more beautiful in the light

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 3w ago

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

A book like this has been my white whale —until now!

Did you know you can send a Signal call link just like you might send a Zoom link? Give everyone on your video call the gift of not having to wade through endless AI feature prompts and be more secure, to boot! signal.org/blog/call-li...

Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links & More

If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck. Today we’re launching call links: Share a link with anyone...

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We’ve welcomed groundbreaking works by award-winning Canadian poet Christian Bök into our collections, including The Xenotext, a unique poetic work consisting of two sonnets encoded within the DNA of a living bacterium. Learn more: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

I haven't read The Atlantic piece about the death of reading that's currently being circulated, but I have listened to this episode of Library Land Loves called "Reading is an essential Service" and I recommend it! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Reading is an Essential Service

Podcast Episode · Library Land Loves · July 7 · 43m

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