What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 21h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 4d ago

There it is. Elon Musk now advocating for Alberta separation. That should perhaps be one of the biggest reasons to vote to stay. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Me: hi I need this book Library catalogue: here it is Me: it’s not tho it says I can download up to 49 pages…? Library catalogue: try this Me: that’s a review of it Library catalogue: Try this? Me: yeah that’s also a review Library catalogue: this? Me: …

If You Think Rising Oil Prices Are Bad, Just Wait for the Inevitable Crash www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o... Maybe #canada should be planning ahead & not doubling down on pipelines to carry our very expensive and carbon-intensive oil.

Opinion | If You Think Rising Oil Prices Are Bad, Just Wait for the Inevitable Crash (Gift Article)

An oil bust is on the horizon.

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This is an outstanding refutation of PM Carney's double-speak on proposed Canada Labour Code amendments, from Colleen Bauman and Mark Rowlinson: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont.... Previous misuse of Section 107 would be codified & routinized, even though it's still facing court challenges. #canlab

Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.

🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/YuyIkjK2

Don’t rig the rules against workers!

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Make no mistake about it, the Carney government's labour reforms neuter the right to strike. A right that’s suspended when it becomes effective isn’t much of a right at all. www.thestar.com/business/uni... #canlab #cdnpoli

Unions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’

Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im...

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Can anyone smarter than me explain how the government aims to create new pre-strike binding mediation legislation (which essentially removes striking as an active tool), yet claims that it will "never interfere with a worker’s right to bargain or to strike?" Because this seems, uh, bad!

CTV News Northern Ontario@ctvnorthernontario.bsky.social · 3w ago

Multiple industry and labour sources tell CTV News they have been told to get ready for the introduction of significant labour legislation as soon as next week. A senior government source says plans are underway to introduce such legislation following a review of the Canadian Labour Code.

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

broadly agree with this; it is orders of magnitude more likely, particularly in the next decade or so, that someone will be killed with a nuclear weapon fired in anger than by ai

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · last mo.

I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...

Help me find Alexandra who wrote me the loveliest note in 2017 when she was ten! That note really cheered me up on a particularly tough day. Clue: she was a member of the 12th Toronto Girl Guides and likes turtles!

In 2014, London Ontario residents threw out one of the most councils in Ontario history. [Mayor Joe Fontana resigned after being convicted of fraud from his time as a MP] Two of the Fontana 8 are running this year, hoping nobody remembers the past Unbelievable #onmuni lfpress.com/news/local-n...

One divisive city council era. Two would-be comebacks. Will London voters care?

Two members of the so-called Fontana 8 voting bloc from nearly a generation ago are trying to win back their old seats in the fall civic election.

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In the midst of cyclospora, there is also opportunity.

Doug Saunders@dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since we’re considering trade reprisals — I wrote last year about how easy it would be for Canada to make toilet paper completely unavailable to Americans. It could be done without any tariffs or embargoes. It may be happening already. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

TT position in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven (teaching in English) www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Tenure track professor in de Culturele Studies

Aan de Onderzoekseenheid Literatuurwetenschap en Culturele Studies van de Faculteit Letteren van de KU Leuven is een voltijdse aanstelling vacant als tenuretrack docent (ZAP) in het domein van de Cult...

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Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

Lecturer in British Romantic Literature at University of Glasgow

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in British Romantic Literature. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.

Of all the academic freedom challenges available to choose from in the year of our lord 2026, imagine being the 100s of people who say, right, let’s go with debunked 19th c. race science as retold by a philosopher.

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

I just want to also name Peter Singer, at the top of the list. The most famous philosopher in the world, many would say. Awarded so many prizes. Hosted as the big speaker at events around the world. He started espousing "the disabled would be better off dead" in the late 90s, I think.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

Deeply unsurprised that Krauss and Hossenfelder are there. Also Pinker and Shermer.

Glad to find out I’m not 100% super-mega-weird for thinking, when I first heard this news earlier today, that this would be a grand occasion for Canada to “do that @doctorow.pluralistic.net stuff”… (y’know, that STUFF)

Craig Cheslog@craigcheslog.com · 2mo ago

It's time for Canada to follow @doctorow.pluralistic.net's advice and repeal their anti-circumvention law. This asshat of a trade representative won't know what hit him. pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/p...

Turns out the ‘deal’ with Canada that Trump (not Carney) announced the other night was no more real than the 14 ‘deals’ he’s announced with Iran, or the dozens of others he trumpets with no underpinnings. He’s shown he’s desperate to proclaim a victory with someone, anyone. /2

I think, with a fair amount of regularity, that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, while Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Chris Hitchens were all writing screeds one-handed about how Islam was incompatible with civilization, Gould simply got in his car and drove down to NYC and started helping.

Jacob@tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was

I have also been thinking of Aaron Swartz often —he downloaded scholarly essays in the hopes that information migbt be free & was hounded to death. Silicon Valley has stolen all scholarship and creative work with impunity, so that they might put it behind a moat in order to control the future.

Aaron Swartz’s Legacy

The example of a young outsider—in his life, not his death—should make us question our own complacencies.

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Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The opposition in Quebec is going to be enormously consequential. If this deal does, indeed, hinge on American booze returning to the shelves, and the deal leaves in place substantial aluminum tariffs, *and* in gives up our ability to regulate tech? It's going to be tough to sell that.

Why isn’t the #NDP on this?

Jim Stanford@jimbostanford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Monday Morning Update: No ships passed Strait of Hormuz yesterday, Trump threatens to bomb Oman, oil prices climb again--and Canada's inflation up to 3% for July due to sky-high gasoline. The global oil roller coaster is hurting Canadian workers and consumers once again. 🧵1/9

Also: make your machines operable with a credit card (no mandatory app) and post clear price info.

InsideEVs@insideevs.com · 2mo ago

How do you disrupt established networks like Tesla and Electrify America? Beat them on price.

A site created by his former students

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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