amykaler.bsky.social
Writer, sociology professor, Canadian, feminist, internationalist.
Concerns: public health, cats, gender, political culture, essays, place-knowledge, religion, survival on hot planet.
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Trump: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Vance: On it!
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Paging Dunning-Kruger, cleanup in aisle three.
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Not sure I agree. The people in charge might actually be hyper-attuned to/terrified of the possibility of being shamed - hence the irrational demands for “respect” & the intolerance of anyone who isn’t deferential or groveling.
What they absolutely, definitely lack is guilt.
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Always look on the bright side?
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Maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but even if university presidents do whatever Trump wants, they'll still have their federal grants stopped. So - there is no scenario in which federal funding is saved, therefore the right thing to do is go down fighting. Or am I missing something?
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This is the absolute dictionary definition of "foreign interference in Canadian elections [soliciting thereof]".
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Okay. #explainittomelikeimfive. Democrats will facilitate a seven-month extension of Musk-Trump budget in exchange for opportunity to make speeches abt amendments that will never be passed? There won’t be anything left of the federal govt to not-shut-down in 7 months. What is the point?!?!
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Excellent!
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… and mother-blaming in 3, 2, 1.
If women would just fulfill their natural obligations and breastfeed their kids, we wouldn’t need dangerous vaccines!
(obvs this is not true, breastfeeding doesn’t make vaccination superfluous)
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Note of caution: I don't want to see "remove interprovincial trade barriers" treated as a green light for "deregulate everything to the lowest standard across provinces". Environmental & labour protections are as important to Canada's well-being as internal competitiveness.
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That was not a “heated exchange”. That was Trump & Vance trying to belittle Ukraine & demand “respect”, in classic weak-kneed mob-boss-in-a-bad-suit style, and Zelenskyy not playing along. It was a demonstration of the difference between bullies and leaders who’ve earned their place in history.
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Remind me why so many Democrats voted to confirm Rubio?
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“Gulf of America” has parallels with “take over Canada” : first the idea is treated (by US mainstream pundits) as obv crazy, then as very unlikely, then as implausible but don’t rule it out, then as maybe not so bad. This is how tyranny is normalized in the big ways as well as the small ones.
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I’m a dual citizen (US/Can). Please stop with the “bring ‘em in!” talk. We do not want “in”. We are our own country & not up for grabs. We don’t want to be extra Dem seats in your House. I’m sure you mean well, but even benign soft imperialism is still imperialism. It’s condescending & obnoxious.
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*sociologistS
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Not really an Elon Musk salute. It’s a Nazi heil-Hitler salute.
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Absolutely yes. As a kid, I remember meeting people (very elderly at the time, friends' parents & grandparents) with numbers tattooed on their arms from death camps. It was indelible in a way that just reading about Nazis not. In North America we're losing the visceral horror of fascism.
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Okay yeah, that’s definitely not ambiguous. Just flat-out wrong.
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At the risk of sounding like I’m trying to explain away this extremely not-right answer: is it possible the AI is mixing up “freezing” and “frozen”? Water is not freezing at 27, it’s already been frozen. An intelligent natural-language speaker wouldn’t make that mistake but an algorithm might.