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The purpose of government is to provide public goods. Public data are a public good. This should never be privatized. While we can (and have) rescued some of this data, we need people to speak out about the halting of data collection!

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Dr. Rene Van Acker, a world-renowned scholar, proud #UofG alumnus, and a leader deeply rooted in the University of Guelph community, has been appointed U of G’s 10th president and vice-chancellor, effective July 2, 2025. Learn more: uoguel.ph/22sbt

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I see news posts and posts by The Onion and honestly, when I'm not looking at the poster's name first I can't tell them apart sometimes.

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For context, the head of the Housing and Urban Development is a former NFL turned Mega Church pastor, appointed…by you know who. They’re kicking out the scientists so he can have an office on the 19th floor with an executive dining suite and parking spaces for his 5 cars.

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Devastating account of the damage that conspiracy theories can cause. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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LinkedIn messaging is such a useless dumpster fire constantly full of ads.

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NotebookLM, a Google product has been fantastic for understanding technical standards. Put in document references and then ask questions as you would to an expert teacher. Check against the citations directly from the references. Cross check with external sources. Rinse and repeat and learn fast.

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I think this is a great new feature for the Semantic Engine we are building here at the University of Guelph. Better documentation for more FAIR research data!

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Join the Ecosystem & Governance Working Group of Trust Over IP on Thursday June 26th., when Aakash Guglani (Digital India Foundation) will discuss Enhancing Trust using Digital public Infrastructure. 20:30 IST / 15:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/9891...

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At @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social we are building the www.semanticengine.org to help researchers write better metadata schemas. And we also have a data verifier to find those empty data cells.

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Well how about that.... #HigherEd #CleanAir www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/p...

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Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives

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The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/i...

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New AI slop on Reddit. I found this in a post about blackout curtains but while they removed the end prompt the AI helpfully stuck one at the beginning. Welcome to a world of endlessly posted garbage. www.reddit.com/r/homeowners...

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Yup - not buying American wine in this household.

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And apparently an LSD trip to imagine the possibilities. www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-...

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Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

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The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

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this is the most sociopathic thing ive ever seen and i wrote a whole book about neonazis

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It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

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Elon is always lying. Therefore, we must focus on what Elon feels the need to lie about. This "I'm so backing off" lie shows: a) the #TeslaTakedown worked b) the #TeslaTakedown must ramp up He's going to be pulling the same shit & the media will be inclined to push his lie that he's backed off.

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AI + misinformation = cheap political spin A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/i... via @nationalobserver.com "...artificial intelligence 'enables the cost of misinformation to come close to zero.'"

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I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing.

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Hear me out you might want to finally get serious about indoor air in hospitals

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This same speech applies to much more than academia.

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Doug Ford did this

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The @nejm.org is cratering its credibility by publishing an article by Prasad and Makary that contains factual errors about Canadian vaccination policy. They include a table implying Canadian COVID vaccine recommendations are limited to high risk groups. Read it and weep, liars. /1

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“Since I’ve rearranged my whole identity to call most people unclean and filled with vampire blood, their hugs seem less sincere. Separately, I have discovered the vampire-blooded have a new disease called Soft Hug Disease.”

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American culture gets the dictator they deserve: tacky, self-absorbed, and a total moron.

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When you’re an anti-vaxxer and also bad at Zelda

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When profits speak louder than principles, humanity pays the ultimate price.

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First it is bumbling and obvious. What is coming next...

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Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —from decades of NIH funded research www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

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A massive health dataset has spawned a wealth of cookie-cutter "research Mad Libs" papers that don't tell us anything useful, but flood the literature with noise. Possibly AI-generated, possibly paper mill origin. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Vancouver Coastal Health wins 2024 Code of Silence award for routinely violating access to information laws during #COVID19. caj.ca/who-do-you-s... via @cajournalists.bsky.social #journalism

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This guy gets it

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GTFO, EH

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Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

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I can't top this one.

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Shoppers Drug Mart (Loblaws) is stealing money from Ontario's health care system by forcing pharmacy staff to cold call people and then fraudulently bill medication reviews. The Ministry of Health has long been aware of this, but they're still working on "improving" the program.

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I’ve been saying that antivax and MAHA are an unholy combination of social Darwinism and soft eugenics.

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Blog post! Format rules for data Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data. agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...

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Please join the Ecosystem & Governance Working Group on Thursday May 15th., when Scott Perry of the Digital Governance Institute will discuss the C2PA Conformance Program. Date: 15 May 2025 Time: 20:30 IST / 15:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/9891...

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Carney’s brain vs. Trump’s lies.

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Does your child's classroom have quality air filters? Does your office? Does your home?

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We're gearing up for the summer semester, U of G! The library has so much to offer students, researchers, faculty and instructors this semester. Read this article to learn about upcoming workshops and programming, appointments, eLearning resources, and more: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/support....

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