New working paper from Stuart Perrett, @drjennings.bsky.social , @jonmellon.bsky.social , @cbwlezien.bsky.social and me: Do polls underestimate support for right-wing parties? Assessing variation in polling error by party family osf.io/preprints/so...

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If there was an actual business case for this, it would pay for itself. Then again, the industry is and always has been highly subsidized, so the companies involved are used to never having to pay full freight.

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 6h ago

Polling shows Canadians support a new pipeline from Alberta to B.C. — if they don’t have to pay for it. Companies aren’t lining up to shell out, either. Here's a look at the economics of pipelines in Canada, including the cost of fossil fuel emissions and climate change thenarwhal.ca/canadian-pip...

A huge welcome and thank you to the firefighters from Mexico. The people of BC thank you, Canadians thank you. You are appreciated and safe here. 🇲🇽🇨🇦♥️

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h ago

Thank you Mexico 🇲🇽 Firefighters More firefighters from Mexico will be arriving later this week to #BritishColumbia #Canada

If AI was gone tomorrow, my teaching job would get significantly easier.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Me, thinking Twilight Struggle was an appropriate Valentine's Day game, like...

Are you interested in the media? → C. Knüpfer and M. Hoffmann. “Countering the "Climate Cult" - Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks”. In: Political Communication 42.1 (2025), pp. 85-107. dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2332762.

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing climate fires across Europe and North America. Meanwhile the planet burners are making record profits. And they are hitting up the Canadian taxpayers for $100 billion for another pipeline. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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One person, one vote. We should be strengthening democratic equality, not killing it. If rich people don’t like it, they can go start their own Ayn Rand utopia on Neptune. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A tech billionaire floated the idea of curtailing the right to vote. That wasn’t even the worst part

The Shopify founder’s endorsement of a bad idea suggests there is far more work to do to protect democracy from a surge of anti-democratic thinking.

thestar.com

OUT TODAY! 🥳 A straightforward, non-technical guide to thinking like a quantitative social scientist. Written for students, journalists, and curious citizens. A lot of thought and heart went into this. I genuinely hope folks enjoy it!

Thank you, Commonwealth cousin! open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...

FUCK AROUND MEETS FIND OUT: Carney's Ice-Cold Reply to Trump's Tariff Tantrum

America's closest ally fought back, so America reached for a Depression-era weapon no president in 96 years would touch. Who pays? Check your trolley.

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while there are problems with anything, the nuclear block is absolutely my second favorite thing that bluesky did. (my first favorite is detach quote, which is another thing that wrecks the way they like to use social media)

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Updated our 'Do Moderates Do Better?' paper When you analyze the question rigorously (and don't assume correlation is causation), you find that moderates & non-moderates perform ~equally well in the Trump era Love working with @adambonica.bsky.social

Apparently, we're doing COVID "lockdown" discourse. During that time, I was fully remote while my partner was deemed essential. My main memory is how we both desperately wanted to switch (so I could people and he could stay home).

PM Carney's new food sovereignty initiative is aimed at increasing the amount of food processing in Canada. Canada is leaving money on the table by sending agricultural products outside of the country for processing, then importing them back for consumption. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada could add billions to its economy by processing more food. Here's what it's trying | CBC News

The federal government's national food security strategy is pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to scale up Canada's food processing industry. CBC's The House spoke to Ontario farmers and innovat...

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Stellantis in the United States is advising its truck drivers to not use the Gordie Howe International Bridge or face discipline due to contract arrangement with the Ambassador Bridge owners www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/vide...

Some truck drivers told to stay off Gordie Howe Bridge

Some Stellantis truck drivers have been told to stay off the Gordie Howe International Bridge or face discipline. CTV Windsor’s Sanjay Maru reports.

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🛩️ v 🏖️ People who aren’t used to winning, won. At the same time, people who often win lost for once. The losers are throwing tantrums. Winners should take the win to heart because it truly belongs to them & no one else. My column on this remarkable grassroots mobilization in @thestar.com

Shawn Micallef: The Billy Bishop expansion pause was a real win for the people. But don’t put away those No Jets signs just yet

The federal government’s decision to pause the Billy Bishop expansion means that people who often win lost for once — are taking it badly.

thestar.com

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

I live in fear that the methods questions I routinely find myself wanting to ask presenters will be perceived as mean and unfair. So, I usually wait until afterwards to avoid putting them on the spot.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Live-streaming Trump undermines Canadian journalism: “Donald Trump has no business being live-streamed on the CBC. This is no different from platforming Hitler, or a white supremacist.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

CBC needs to stop live-streaming Trump’s disinformation

CBC News needs to stop live-streaming Trump’s disinformation.

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I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS

I use a different search engine now, but some folks might find this useful.

lena bell 🔔@teffie.bsky.social · 5d ago

Udm14.com

IDK, at this point, maybe we should hear them out.

Grace@eriopsis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If some lady handed me a free sword I'd still take it though.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Are prospective Trump voters going to know or care about the nuances of the trade war their guy started, or are they just going to belive whatever he tells them about how nasty and unfair we're being? I know which one I think is more likely. #CNDPoli montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Melançon: Striking back at U.S. bully-in-chief on tariffs could backfire

If Mark Carney retaliates against the latest trade salvo, it might be exactly what Donald Trump wants him to do.

montrealgazette.com

Just going to leave this here. www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts...

This free font "poisons" AI

Hate AI? Then you might want to try ShieldFont.

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