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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young@dannagal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

journalofdemocracy.org

Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · 2d ago

“There’s a fundamental contradiction between the tone Carney has struck at the summit and while globe-trotting, and the anger he showed this week after the Stelco news.” This is exactly correct. Another way of putting this is that Carney has been trying to run the old FDI playbook in a new world.…

Why laying off 500 workers at Hamilton's Stelco is an unpleasantly familiar warning for Mark Carney

From Stelco to Stellantis to shuttered factories, a pattern keeps repeating — and Carney's summit buzz won't fix it.

thestar.com

David Gross@grossdr.bsky.social · 3d ago

In addition to the utter disgust and fury I've been feeling towards the sorry excuses for men who raped that young woman at Cornell, she has me thinking of every woman in my life who has trusted me enough to share the story of her own rape. They all share something in common:

Muddy York@muddyyork.bsky.social · 4d ago

On this date in 1760, Major Robert Rogers visited the former site of Fort Rouille. He reported that there were “about 300 acres of cleared lands ... well timbered with large oaks, hickories, maples and some poplars. The soil is clay and the deer are extremely plentiful.”

Amelia Smith@nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 5d ago

One hang up I have about queer Canadian history is how the 1969 partial decriminalization is discussed. It is often discussed how 1969 didn't really decriminalize homosexuality but my issue is how the bravery of Everett George Klippert is so often erased from the story.

The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is of course horrifying but what’s also horrifying is that I’ve seen this “make learning FUN” sort of gimmick pushed my entire life. Learning is satisfying but it is rarely “fun”. Learning something profound should be quasi traumatic and wrenching!

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 7d ago

I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:

NDP@ndp.ca · last wk.

BREAKING: Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted for supporting NDP MP Jenny Kwan’s bill to close a loophole in Canada’s arms sales regime that allows weapons to be shipped via the US to Israel, a country that is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News

Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...

cbc.ca

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Parliament returned this week and the Liberal government wasted no time unveiling Bill C-39, which among other things would speed up the process of getting major projects started. Niigaan Sinclair shares what he thinks the bill is really about. Truth & Politics: youtu.be/3SLJuS2kfHo

Lembas Eater@waybread.bsky.social · last wk.

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t follow Andreessen particularly closely but every so often I get glimpses that suggest that he has pretty, pretty frustrating relationships with his wife and with his son

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 2w ago

Used to work in a small cafe in Carlisle when I overheard a young man deliberating with his friend whether he should move to London or not and was waiting for a sign. I stuck London Calling on and the look he gave his friend stuck with me and I really hope he made it to London.

Brian Eno News@dark-shark.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Art, if you want a definition of it, is criminal action. It conforms to no rules. Not even its own. Anyone who experiences a work of art is as guilty as the artist. It is not a question of sharing the guilt. Each one of us gets all of it." - John Cage #quote

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3w ago

Premier of Manitoba Wab Kinew: "Release the Epstein files. Donald Trump is Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. The reason why we're at war in Iran and everyone's paying higher gas prices is because of the Epstein files."

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 4w ago

He's doing racist revisionist history of a white supremacist who starved Indigenous children to death. Even by the standards of the time John A Macdonald shocked parliament by openly stating the "superiority of the aryan race" and that Indigenous and Asian people were a "different species"

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4w ago

Disturbing, offensive, but perhaps fitting that Carney is seeking (much like far-right groups!) to rehab Sir John A’s reputation into that of a Great Uniter, rather than someone who engaged in horrific crimes against Indigenous people and Chinese immigrants (in part to build this project!)

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Critical essays that open on fiction are a gift for teaching, and this one is no exception. A little too far removed from the subject of my class this fall but strongly recommend for others to assign. In the current issue of Dissent.

Life Under the Algorithm Veena Dubal and Katie Wells Elena's phone vibrates before her alarm at 5:12 a.m. She reaches for it because messages that arrive before dawn tend to matter. Shift allocation updated.* Base rate: $31.40/hr Adjustment factors applied: -$2.10/hr Net rate: $29.30/hr *Based on recent attendance volatility, performance signals, and local labor supply conditions. Last week her base rate was $33. The week before it was $35. There is no supervisor to call to ask why she keeps getting downgraded, no office where she can go to complain. All Elena can do is click a small blue "learn more" button. She has begun to think of her work not as a wage, exactly, but as an assessment of her current economic worth, relative to her coworkers, recalculated daily. A second notification pings. Access yesterday's earnings early. Available now: $86.20 Fee: $9.75 APR equivalent: 391 percent There's fine print here, too: "Based on your projected earnings and spending