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Jessica Johnson

@jessicajohnson.bsky.social

Co-author, “What Should the CBC Be?” (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social 2025). Adjunct professor @uoft.bsky.social. Former EIC @thewalrusca.bsky.social. I post here about writing, journalism and books.

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

Following the death of Amanda Nobiss, who was found dead in Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation earlier this month, over a dozen animal rescues in Manitoba are now sounding the alarm on what they say is a public-health crisis.

Manitoba animal rescues call public-health crisis after death of a dog rescuer - APTN News

Following the death of Amanda Nobiss, who was found dead in Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation earlier this month, over a dozen animal rescues in Manitoba are now sounding the alarm on what they say is a…

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Adam Sternbergh@sternbergh.bsky.social · 2w ago

ten years ago: cinema is doomed, no one will go out to movie theaters anymore, home theaters have just gotten too deluxe now: I've been hoping to drive 200 miles to see that new movie at that one theater with the obsolete projection techology but the tickets are sold out six weeks in advance

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

As urine ferments, it breaks down into ammonia, which cuts through the lanolin (grease) inherent in wool. Thus, no need to feel Western traditions have been lost. Simply pee into a bucket, let it sit for a while, and then soak some cloth in it. Practice on your tweed jackets and hats.

Someone retweeted the video and wrote: "Now women sit on the couch and doom scroll on their phones." Someone retweeted the video and wrote "I'm noticing." They attached a screenshot of the women waulking and then a screenshot of the women in Australian who were negatively painted as "girl bosses" and "women in HR." Someone on Twitter retweeted the video and wrote: "But Europe supposedly has no indigenous peoples or cultures that have the right to be preserved."Someone retweeted the video and wrote: "The only thing missing is 20 million muslims and their 80 million inbred kids."
Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m at my mom’s house, checking in on her. I took a walk and saw two trans inclusive Pride flags on her block here in Biddeford, ME. It’s hard to be far from friends tonight on Pride, but it helped to learn community is near—just one of the ways these flags work. Thanks to everyone who flies them.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Jessica Johnson@jessicajohnson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s a big “why” piece of this missing for me. Canadians have said again and again they don’t trust AI and want it regulated. So show the benefit to Canadians in advancing this often contradictory strategy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News

A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...

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Kyle Orland@kyleor.land · 3mo ago

This week, you may have heard about fabricated, AI-generated quotes appearing in a book covering AI's reality-skewing effects. I talked to the author, and what came out is, I think, a fascinating look at how people justify their own continued of these imperfect tools arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's Monday, so let's talk about the most eel-some place in England. That's right..it's Ely time! Ely is all about eels. Bede wrote in his Ecclesiastical History (c. 700 CE) that Ely took its name from the abundant eels in the nearby fens & waters: Ely means Isle of Eels. 1/3 🗃️🧪

Meme. Photograph of a mosaic showing Bede reading a book. The mosaic background is gold, and he is wearing a grey robe. He has a staff in his right hand, and a red book in his right hand. He is looking down at the book. His robe has a cowled hood which he has up over his head, and he has a full grey beard that a dwarven lumberjack would cherish. He looks for all the world like Allanon or Gandalf reading from the Book of Common Prayer. “Here endeth the reading. Fly you fools!” Behind his head is a fancy halo, with spokes like a bicycle wheel. He is standing between two plants. One looks like a fern, and the other like a thistle of some kind. Bede looks like maybe reading instructions for their care. Perhaps he is looking after a friend's plants while they're out of town. He's about to get to the part of the instructions that tell him that the plants need him to sing "Stayin' Alive." He won't like it. But he'll do it. Meme text reads: "Let's make that... The Eelclesiastical History"
Jessica Johnson@jessicajohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just love this quote from Tom Ford—part of a thoughtful thread by @dieworkwear.bsky.social on the Met Gala’s origins as a fundraiser, and what it has turned into.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Notice the outfits are quite "normal." That's bc for most of its history, the gala was a private high-society dinner to raise money for the Costume Institute. About twenty years ago, under the direction of Anna Wintour, it has become more about costumes, which is something Tom Ford has lamented.

Except from Entertainment Weekley: ""The only thing about the Met that I wish hadn't happened is that it's turned into a costume party," designer Tom Ford told Time of the annual benefit. "That used to just be very chic people wearing very beautiful clothes going to an exhibition about the 18th century. You didn't have to look like the 18th century, you didn't have to dress like a hamburger, you didn't have to arrive in a van where you were standing up because you couldn't sit down because you wore a chandelier."" The images show Tom Ford in black tie and Katy Perry in a hamburger outfit.
Jessica Johnson@jessicajohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Niche book reference: you can read about the human side of this experience in David Rakoff’s hilariously sad essay “I Used to Bank Here, But That Was Long, Long Ago.” Or listen to it: www.thisamericanlife.org/156/what-rem...

I Used To Bank Here But That Was Long, Long Ago - This American Life

David Rakoff goes in search of the only existing mementos of a year-and-a-half of his life when he nearly died from Hodgkins Disease.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Man produces sperm from testicular tissue frozen as a child in breakthrough trial

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of posts about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵

A pair of brown suede loafers sits on a luggage trunk.