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Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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No one should work 60 hours a week to increase someone else’s wealth.

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“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

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Just watched the Trump Gaza video and whoever wrote a couple weeks ago about generative AI being the new aesthetics of fascism could not have asked for a better case in point

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Dolly Parton in 9 to 5.

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“There was a time when a newspaper…might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader…a broad-based opinion section.” Now we only use it to bring MY, Bezo’s, opinion to the people 🤮

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We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

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Right. It took them ages to add legs to their Metaverse Avatars… Not going to hold my breath here.

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The VP of the US trying to destabilize other countries. But you know, even though education has been awfully underfunded in the whole of the UK, it’s still alive and kicking, and Scottish people are very much able to tell that JD is a liar.

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First the Weimar + agreement by the EU ministers. Reminder. Weimarer Republic in the 1930s the failing republic. Now Vance speaking in Munich about the “thread from within”. While he’s not speaking from the Hofbräukeller, it’s still all too eerie, uncanny.

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All TDSB schools and sites are closed today due to the weather forecast. In addition, Friday, February 14, is PA Day for all students, and Monday, February 17, is Family Day. Enjoy your first #SnowDay of the year, and we'll see you on Tuesday!

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Last night at the St. George Campus of #UofT We had a beautiful snowstorm in downtown Toronto, pure powder coming down. It looked like small pieces of silver where whirling through the air.

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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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It’s no coincidence that massive assaults on human rights are happening at the same time as assertions about protecting machine rights.

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Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it. This week @hypervisible.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss David Golumbia’s book on cyberlibertarianism. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/261_...

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Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.

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And today CDU Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz is trying to push through a new immigration law most likely with the help of the AfD. He is saying that if SPD and Grüne won’t support this law they are forcing his hand to use the support of the AfD 🤬

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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

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Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

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The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...

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We're pleased to announce the Accessible Job Interviews in the Library Workplace Toolkit, with actions that can be used by any library to reduce barriers for autistic candidates. Explore the toolkit and take action to make your interview processes more accessible! bclaconnect.ca/resources/to...

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New research suggests misleading climate messaging used by oil & gas, plastics & agrichemicals industries on social media is “aligned and coordinated”. Researchers sorted 12k tweets into 8 types of argument — 4 of climate denial, 4 of climate delay. @gristnews.bsky.social @jbwinters.bsky.social

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Today’s word is… Recrudescence: “The return of something terrible, after a time of reprieve.” “The reappearance of an undesirable condition.” Recrudescence.

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The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

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The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. #Toronto

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We have this beauty in our home library. Curtesy of my husband’s great aunt. It’s a treasure chest. And the plan is to eventually cook some receipts from this book this year.

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The Green AI project at University of A Coruña (Spain) has a PhD position open! Your work will be on efficient NLP. Contact me if interested!

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If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Personal, the 40% price increase is a con to upsell you AI. Your old plan and price is still there called "Classic" - but only if you try to cancel. Microsoft should be ashamed if not prosecuted.

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Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I taught incarcerated firefighters who worked for criminally low wages. It's considered the best job in the prison, because you get to go out, do something valuable, and eat real food. It's also wildly dangerous, and they are given the worst jobs...literally pulling remains out of charred homes.

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In meinem SNF-Projekt «Equipping Schools: The Role of Finance in Shaping Switzerland’s Educational Media Landscapes, 1950–2010» sind zwei Stellen ausgeschrieben, eine PhD- und eine Postdoc-Stelle, Beginn Mai 2025, Laufzeit vier Jahre. Weitere Infos gibt es hier: phzh.ch/de/ueber-die... #histed

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Is this the script to the prequel of The Terminator?

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Eventually, AI accounts will outnumber human accounts, and somehow it seems this is exactly what is wanted by Meta.

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Ultimately we need to be extremely clear that housing shouldn’t be a for-profit industry

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this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

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