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We made #5!!!!!! 🥳

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Canada scores in the top ten, globally, for student performance in science and math. We have more people with post-secondary education than any other country in the world. We’re top 10 per capita in private Venture Capital funding. It’s not us. It’s our dumb leaders.

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The destruction of universities in Canada, as shown by our complete failure to take advantage of this moment.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

boy Ontario is just so thoroughly squandering this moment

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Bill 33 is probably the most direct attack on university autonomy in Canadian history. The right to select who can attend a university has ALWAYS been in the hands of institutions. Now the government of Ontario wants to change that. A Candian first. And not a very pretty one.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Doug Ford wants to take over university admissions in Ontario. Applies to all programs of study too. Oof.

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 9 days ago • 188 comments

Innovative!

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regional and branch campuses of this type were often founded out of an idealistic movement around college access, and it pains me to see that Great Society dream fading.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students. Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international students out of a student body of 24,596. Current international students at Harvard will need to transfer or lose their legal status. nbcnews.to/4dzg6eq

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“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

submitted 17 days ago • 327 comments

Love Canada’s telecom duopoly! Works great, never any problems. Who needs competition anyways???

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The risk that Trump suddenly cuts off Europe's access to the Visa and MasterCard networks as a "pressure tactic" is something that Finland's central bank is preparing for: www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Did you miss Tong Lam's CBC-JHI Annual Lecture? Here's your chance to watch it. He talked about Cold War China’s nuclear weapons development restricted zones and why they became fertile ground for love stories. Tong is one of our 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellows. youtu.be/Z9qoC1D43eI

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Shout out to the student referencing specific PopTingz tweets in my course evals for this semester.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

the neatest analogy isn't to technology, it's to prion disease: it displaces a functional form with a nonfunctional and malformed variant that serves no purpose and ultimately sickens the body it inhabits

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

submitted 35 days ago • 37 comments

LIlia Topouzova's new book! And her recent interview with New Books Networks!! Grab both!!!

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GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 38 days ago • 65 comments

In his February 26 letter saying, "I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America," Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Washington Post and Amazon, also claimed, "freedom is ethical" because "it minimizes coercion."

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

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I always think about this one moussaka place in Madison that had absolutely no business being as satisfying as it was.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Poor guy. The strain of cruelly destroying dozens of important, life-saving agencies/programs that make our society healthier, smarter, and more resilient, with no clear legal authorization, no transparency, no attempt to understand what agencies do, and no justification must be a lot to bear.

submitted 45 days ago • 27 comments

I had been hearing about this sotto voce for awhile but interesting to see it confirmed: applications to computer science and IT programsin Ontario are off 27% from last year.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

I'm so thrilled to announce a new publication from our group. "In such scenarios, the experience of failure takes on its own distinct contours. And of course, not all failures are created equal, nor are they experienced equitably." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

All slop, all the way down. posthuman.blog/this-reddit-...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

We at the Beaverton promise that, had we been afforded the same absurdly preferential treatment as Rebel News, we would have shut down the post-debate scrums TWICE as quickly and disgracefully.

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

The “I mean it obviously sucks” is what gets me. As though this is the equivalent minor frustration of a restaurant getting your Uber Eats order wrong. No big deal, just gotta demand to speak to the manager! 🧠 🐛

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No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today

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"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 53 days ago • 51 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a union brother. Metalworker apprentice in SMART, looking to do right by his family. At their national meeting a few days back, the National Build Trades Unions prez Sean McGarvey demanded Garcia's immediate return. www.instagram.com/reel/DIVDI_I...

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

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Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.

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And they’re absolutely right to do so. These students would have zero legal protections from state violence and American universities have proven themselves more than willing to throw their own students to the wolves.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 60 days ago • 884 comments

And higher taxes.

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The University of British Columbia is running a US applicant week for graduate students. Competitive but with expedited file review. www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

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