'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Bsky mind trust: does anybody have interesting/useful/tested "how to take notes on paper" guidelines for students? Like many, I'm planning on a fully analog classroom this fall, and will insist on pen and paper. (I will of course post lecture slides and have TAs take faithful notes on a computer.)

Bsky mind trust: does anybody have interesting/useful/tested "how to take notes on paper" guidelines for students? Like many, I'm planning on a fully analog classroom this fall, and will insist on pen and paper. (I will of course post lecture slides and have TAs take faithful notes on a computer.)

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I call this time of year the harrows

Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo@cgrbravo.bsky.social · 4d ago

August has arrived

August has arrived

I am not at all surprised, but I am thoroughly appalled, by the commitment to secrecy on the part of Canadian university administrators in their (often violent) organizing against their own students, who were protesting for human rights. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

breachmedia.ca

Holy forking shirtballs. How have I never seen this before?

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last wk.

everyone remarking how mean that review of the film was; it could be so so much worse. Sometimes it's just a murder using your own tools. Feast your eyes on the greatest literary hatchet job of all time. onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...

I haven’t read this in 10 years or so but it all came back like tucking back into your favourite novella.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last wk.

everyone remarking how mean that review of the film was; it could be so so much worse. Sometimes it's just a murder using your own tools. Feast your eyes on the greatest literary hatchet job of all time. onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...

the people behind this are ghouls

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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This cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" is art.

There was a lot of talk about future drone warfare when I was a RAND fellow 30 years ago, but degrading civilian morale by singeing an adversary's mail order dildo supply was not something that came up

Too often, we neglect the subtleties of Homer's original text. For instance, this famous passage: Odysseus is coming And everybody's jumping His wife has many suitors His son, a godly tutor His giant horse is wooden His guilt is a great burden So if you like to party He'll make you a dead body

this is the guy our economic system rewarded with $1 trillion. if that’s not good enough reason to tear it down, i don’t know what is.

Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

What an utter disappointment to have had my old Detroit address (where I vote in the US) redistributed out of @reprashida.govpeeps.us ’s district and to have this guy as my representative. Ugh.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2w ago

Just had to patch a bug on the @influence.citationneeded.news Michigan House District 13 election pages, stemming from Shri Thanedar reporting -$1.1 million in receipts. Why is Thanedar reporting negative receipts? He put $3.7 million of campaign funds into crypto. theintercept.com/2026/07/17/s...

Back then we thought that these things would last forever.

My first reaction to this is more or less holy shit that can’t be true, can it? Except it seems definitely to be.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 2w ago

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." —Joseph Weizenbaum

Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated?

Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their forgotten history reveals why that dream keeps falling short.

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I was so surprised at how few ppl I saw with masks yesterday. Please stay safe.

The Biking Lawyer LLP@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you're out there today ride safe. If you're delivering food by bike and need a N95 mask, we got a ton of free ones, so come by the Biking Lawyer LLP office at 158 Sterling Rd. Suite 703. This applies to all our @thebikebrigade friends out delivering food to our neighbours in need today too!

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU POST THIS SHIT WHILE MY FUCKING SKY OUTSIDE IS ORANGE MOTHERFUCKER

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w ago

The world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.

I used to explicitly teach my students how to bullshit well. It’s not only a valuable life skill, good bullshit is a reasonable foundation for coming back with a little time and effort to get to something actually interesting.

Hiiiiiiiii. We are trying to make a solitary inch of Toronto a better place by pedestrianizing part of Church street, the heart of the Gay Village. Here are the contact details to have your say to helping us keep it. Please participate even if you don’t live here but you just like walkability

It's the final day of pride month. No matter what our enemies do, remember:

ICYMI, this is the next milestone in the criminalization of dissent. If you thought DHS was trying to be lowkey post-Minnesota, they were just buying time for cases like this. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for journalism like this — what you need to know to stay free.

The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here

First came Prairieland. Now an indictment treats mutual aid and road-blocking as a criminal conspiracy

forever-wars.com

good thread. as @volts.wtf is always saying renewables and batteries are a *highly* disruptive technology in the old-fashioned sense, meaning a lot of pain imposed on comfortable vested interests

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

A key point is that the threat is not to profitability as such. Decarbonization can be as profitable as the alternative. The threat is that collective decisions about decarbonization reduce private control over production. (I think this is felt more acutely by the tech owning class than by finance.)

Because the thing is, you can't have normal democratic politics except without climate policy. A major push to decarbonize is where any rational, minimally accountable government is going to land in the 21st century. If that's not where you want to end up, then you need a different kind of politics.