Who cares if our fellow humans suffer and the planet burns as long as we get to click from our couch and get stuff quick, right Amazon?
Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 6d ago
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
@kirstenanker.bsky.social
Law Prof @ McGill (Indigenous & ecological law, govermentality), visitor who never left Tiotià:ke, reluctant soccer mum, mid-Pacific accent, choir gal, labour enthusiast.
Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 6d ago
“Hey judgmental country folk, cities are often the place of refuge of the children you failed to love.”
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5d agoHoly shit.
The monetization of content + evolutionary attentional bias towards negativity + global economic disparities has created this bizarre phenomenon. Fascinating reporting!
Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is fascinating and also very bad. Foreign networks creating hateful AI slop content for money. youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew
Oh look, pervert glasses are being used to help men harass women! Waiting on the exposé about their other use case: cheating on exams.
Anonymous@opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 2w agoMeta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
*Canadians and Europeans when Donald Trump says we need him and America to accomplish anything and therefore must bow to his demands*
Somewhere in between skynet and marketing, then…
Jess Miers 🦝@jmiers230.bsky.social · 4w agoI did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
McGill Faculty unionization update from @eidlin.bsky.social and me on CKUT!
Barry Eidlin@eidlin.bsky.social · last mo.@kirstenanker.bsky.social and I were able to sit down with Jules Bugiel at CKUT 90.3FM this afternoon to talk about the current state of faculty unionization and contract bargaining at McGill. (Scroll to 4:33 here to listen to to the interview): archives.ckut.ca/archives/128...
CANADA: More than 6,000 University of Toronto staff in position to strike on Tuesday’s first day of classes www.thestar.com/news/gta/mor...
More than 6,000 University of Toronto staff in position to strike on Tuesday’s first day of classes
The union said the workers, who include IT employees, undergraduate and graduate program co-ordinators, academic advisers and lab assistants, voted 96 per cent in favour of a strike.
thestar.com
Following closely this strike action over AI protections in higher ed… Also, I just discovered my students have been uploading my recorded lectures into chatbots.
Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · last mo.AI is going to be one of the biggest issues in higher education in coming months. There is zero doubt vice-chancellors want to automate their teaching www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nobody here wants US-style 2-tiered health care. @mark-carney.bsky.social your government needs to enforce the CHA in Alberta.
Heather McPherson MP@heathermcpherson.bsky.social · last mo.Today is a National Day of Action to protect public health care. Danielle Smith is pushing two-tier, American-style health care in Alberta. Mark Carney’s government has a duty to enforce the Canada Health Act and stop it. Tell Ottawa: enforce the law and protect Medicare.
American poet, novelist and environmentalist Wendell Berry has passed away. “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
afm.org
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2mo agoDolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.
So sad to hear about the passing of Dolly! While “Jolene” is my favourite, it was moving to sing “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”, the song she wrote after leaving a toxic relationship, while we were in the deep funk of pandemic online choir.
Chorale Musaïque - Light of a Clear Blue Morning
YouTube video by Musaïque
youtu.be
like, by all reports Carney was about to sign on to a deal that was WAY better than the US than it was for Canada and then they were like "oh and also, one more little thing, please tap dance on the third rail of Canadian politics"
Saturday craft project that possibly only 3 of my moots will clock (2 weeks ahead of the Toronto concert) @blackswanlaura.bsky.social @edelrh7.bsky.social @ladynuala.bsky.social
The peat is on fire - it spreads underground and is v difficult to control. 😳
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3mo agoI join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
Well YOU try ending a book. It’s not so easy.
Rudy Fraser@rude1.blacksky.team · 4mo agoin this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that
Phew, at least THAT mystery has been solved!
🇨🇦 Stephen O’Connor 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️⚧️ (he/him)@soconnor.bsky.social · 4mo agoSenior discounts? Sure. Peak demand price rises? Annoying but my bad for not planning ahead. Bulk discounts? At least justifiable even if effectively a poverty tax. But targeting price-gouging algorithmically pinned to someone’s degree of desperation is an outrage. Great article from LPE.
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday, Andrew Miller explains how consumer profiling creates new patterns of advantage and disadvantage in the market. But because these practices are often invisible to consumers, those on the losing end can't effectively organize against them.
Lesley faculty are going on strike if something doesn't change at the bargaining table this week. All allies are welcome to sign this letter of support for these determined teachers:
Long overdue, fair contract for Lesley Core Faculty!
act.seiu.org
Christie Belcourt’s paintings glow with a life force of their own and this installation looks spectacular!
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 6mo agoI was on the @ualberta.bsky.social campus today for the unveiling of this remarkable art installation by Metis painter Christi Belcourt. It’s called In My Grandmother’s Time, and it blends traditional motifs from Metis beading and embroidery with digital technology. And it’s gorgeous. #ualberta #yeg
Surveillance pricing - whether for goods, or wages - is vile and egregious.
Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 6mo agoToday, the Liberals rejected our NDP motion to ban surveillance pricing - a dystopian practice that will drive up costs for Canadians if we allow it to take root. The NDP is the only party fighting to protect you from getting ripped off at the checkout.