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Best-selling author Claire Cameron (@clairecameron.bsky.social) joined me to talk about her book, How to Survive a Bear Attack, an infamous bear attack, how much bears and humans are alike, and how her life has changed since a cancer diagnosis. #podcast #betterme podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

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this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

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The U of Regina has opened my virtual talk to the public! Join this Tuesday for “Open & the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire.” Free! Info/registration: uregina.libcal.com/event/3891413 #OER #HigherEd

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1.🧵 While people bitch about migrant crime and deport brown people, the same people are letting white "refugees," in from Africa. Why are they refugees? Because they oppose Anti-Apartheid, they are racists and wealthy.

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Good morning everyone HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 🌺 TO ALL MOMS So many of you Sending you all the love in the world 🌿🌺🌿

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Trump is accepting a bribe from the royal family of Qatar in the form of a luxury airliner. The use of this aircraft as Air Force One also raises national security concerns. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

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Plus the massive environmental impact, bias, slave labour conditions for trainers, copyright infringement, the damage to our creativity and problem-solving skills and on and on. Why are we just accepting the argument that it’s here so we have to live with it?

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YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

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A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

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JUST IN: NPR has learned that rules must now be vetted by the White House and that the administration is drafting an executive order that could loosen radiation limits. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Top Virologists Warn World to Prepare for Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic Top virologists from 40 countries warn of growing H5N1 bird flu pandemic risk; urge stronger global defences as virus could kill 1 in every 2 people it infects.

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Reminder: If you see this link in a post from alt(anyone), they are NOT #AltGov. We do not ever ask you, the people we serve, for money.

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“The “social contract” of immunizing ourselves to protect others has been “broken,” likely allowing this spread to continue for weeks or months.” -- this from Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Health Officer. #MeaslesOutbreak #SkPoli

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Stop asking what ai can do (or could do) and ask what people are willing to use it for.

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How can we say our universities are for sustainability and Reconciliation, AND encourage the use of GenAI in teaching and learning? Thank you for this piece @audreywatters.bsky.social. Being opposed to AI in higher ed can be lonely these days. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/matter-and-d...

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Can anyone point me to some research showing that Zoom calls use (or don't use) more water than GenAI? I've searched and can't find anything factual about that, but hearing it from people recently in arguments that AI impact not as bad. @mahabali.bsky.social @greeneterry.bsky.social @wired.com

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Leo XIV (Prevost): 69 (pretty young for Pope), American, born in Chicago, naturalised citizen of Peru, pretty centrist, progressive on some issues, but not on ordaining women, murky record on abuse, very much an heir to Francis. That's my potted summary. Not as good or as bad as it could have been.

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"WIRED confirmed that citizens of China, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea and many other countries are eligible to select the Trump Card Visa option in Global Entry applications." New details on the Trump "gold card visa" from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

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While agreeing with this (I really do think generative AI is de-skilling a generation of young people), we should also note the extraordinary pressure we face and incentives our leadership deploys to “integrate AI” into literally every aspect of education because “industry” wants it.

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Great TEDx talk on changing the language and approach to business. youtu.be/GIYwa5bggd0?...

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"A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse" Reframe: With new reasoning models, AI creates more mirages, not fewer, and it's getting more tempting to believe in them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t... See our paper arguing for "AI mirage" instead of "AI hallucination."

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Renee joined me to talk about her journey into the hockey world, what Black Girls Hockey Club is and does, and the role that individual self-care has on a community. #wphl #mentahealth #hockey podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Saskatoon Pelican

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He wants to destroy the Canada we know and love so he can strip us of all our natural resources including water. #ElbowsUpCanada 🇨🇦

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Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.

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Worth the read. Important message.

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3 May 1880 | A Polish Jewish woman, Bluma Sternberg, was born in Chrzanów. She lived in the town of Oświęcim (that Germans turned into Auschwitz). In June 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from the ghetto in Będzin. She was murdered in a gas chamber.

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🧵/ Hey @theglobeandmail.com, Let's stop pretending obnoxious clowns speak for the west. I live on the prairies & I want: -climate change solutions -fair wages -affordable daycare -strong firearm regs -vaccines -electoral reform -robust women's rights, repro-choice -more LGBTQ2S+ rights

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Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

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The federal NDP need to acknowledge that one of the reasons they were decimated in the election was that they were ready to pull down the Liberals at a time that would have resulted in Polievre becoming prime minister.

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In 1911, a fire broke out on the top floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Fires weren't uncommon, but this fire would long be remembered. Because the mostly young, immigrant women who lost their lives that day had been locked inside by their factory bosses... #MayDay aflcio.org/about/histor...

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This is simply not happening even though they’ve been looking for this scenario for years now. Fear mongering at its best and fools are falling for it. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/whit...

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Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online. clears throat IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.

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Funding for school mental health grants received broad support from both parties during the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. These grant cancellations are short-sighted and harmful. I urge Congress to do its job and give our students the services and support they deserve.

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Renee joined me to talk about her journey into the hockey world, what Black Girls Hockey Club is and does, and the role that individual self-care has on a community. #wphl #mentahealth #hockey podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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It's not something we say about a lot of people, but ימח שמו. yimakh shemo-- may his mothertrucking name be blotted out forever. May this day happening on the eve of May Day inspire us to rise up against the tyrants living in our lifetimes. Never again is right now.

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The old Washington Post.

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Yesterday: “Do your own research” (Don’t) Today: “MMR has aborted fetus debris” (It doesn’t) What will it be tomorrow? Clot shot, turbo cancer, 5G, or mRNA makes you magnetic? Looking forward to watching the HHS Secretary trying to stick a nickel on his arm.

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Jane Jacobs, in her 2004 book Dark Age Ahead, predicted a new dark age if things kept going the way they were. Sadly, she may very well have been right. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable

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