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i signed this! thank you to the organizers 🫧 writers with published books & people who work in publishing, including agents, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, & more, y’all can also sign the letter here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Which "Canadian" newspaper chain has come out strongly in support of Trump's attack on Canada's DST, the tax that charges giant US-based tech firms for digital sales in Canada? You guessed it, the RW Sun newspaper chain, the one owned by a giant US hedge fund. #ElbowsUp #cdnpoli

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

A new report on race and ethnicity data in Manitoba emergency rooms has revealed several disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients. The report is based on data collected in Manitoba hospitals over the last two years.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

submitted 11 days ago • 901 comments

already a bluesky classic, only 15hrs old

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Gift article: this morning the Marines detained a Veteran who was trying to enter the VA building they have blocked patient access to all week. The administration is denying veterans access to healthcare for their political theater. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

One weekend off social media & news and the world gets closer to all out war. Even Canada got closer to totalitarianism FFS. Yeah, we see you Carney... Part of me wishes it would just kick off so this tension ends. Part of me wants to go back in time and have some hard talks with some little kids.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🗃️ Considering a novel as a whole, rather than as the sum of its parts, was an approach favored by mid-20th-century literary critics. It was also useful for fighting book bans. www.hnn.us/article/the-...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Real question for H&M: Why is your photography giving American Apparel vibes (not pleasant) just as you got rid of most of your plus sized, or extended sizes clothing? It's giving eww. It's giving problematic leadership vibes.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?

submitted 40 days ago • 30 comments

A whole lot of people really need to take the following to heart and act on it: "I do not have anything to hide. However, I do not have anything I wish to share." Don't buy something that feeds a corporation. They should pay you a substantial sum, or large subscription fee for the data collected.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This reminds me of a conversation I had a while back with another writer. He was telling me that he used Microsoft's Copilot (the same base tech as ChatGPT) to 'generate ideas' and find facts as starting points. When I told him that LLMs were really unreliable at finding facts, he AGREED. 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Ah Bell... At least I am enjoying my coffee a little more leisurely than usual this morning. #Bell #internetdown

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments