Rick Harp
@rickharp.bsky.social
Journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, etc. 📻 “Knowledge is never innocent or neutral.” Aileen Moreton-Robinson
🎙️ Host, APTN News Brief https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief
🎙️ Host/producer, MEDIA INDIGENA https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena
🎙️ Host, APTN News Brief https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief
🎙️ Host/producer, MEDIA INDIGENA https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena
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Well, would ya look at that: the two-part APTN News doc that I co-created with @anishinaboy.bsky.social on the late 2012 emergence of #IdleNoMore just passed 30,000 views on YouTube!
▶️ WATCH youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...
▶️ WATCH youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...
UPDATE: We just surpassed 35,000 views for our 2-part #IdleNoMore docuseries, a movement with great resonance for today's era of renewed extractivism, infrastructure and even greater state surveillance of Indigenous resistance
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Food creators typically see a surge in traffic during the holidays, when people are hunting for recipes to cook for big family gatherings. This year, though, many top recipe bloggers aren’t seeing that spike at all — their instructions are being absorbed into Google’s AI summaries instead. Even wors
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Food creators typically see a surge in traffic during the holidays, when people are hunting for recipes to cook for big family gatherings. This year, though, many top recipe bloggers aren’t seeing that spike at all — their instructions are being absorbed into Google’s AI summaries instead. Even wors
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Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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A network of 31 small public high schools provide “radical welcome, protection and empowerment” to migrant youth. This intentional network of schools focuses on student well-being and sidesteps standardized testing to allow newcomers to take the time they need to acclimate to life in the country.
As Immigrant Youth Come Under Attack, These Schools Are Trying to Protect Them
A network of 31 public schools is striving to provide “radical welcome, protection and empowerment” to migrant youth.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A network of 31 small public high schools provide “radical welcome, protection and empowerment” to migrant youth. This intentional network of schools focuses on student well-being and sidesteps standardized testing to allow newcomers to take the time they need to acclimate to life in the country.
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Nice ad for @alexvitale.bsky.social's book!
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Nice ad for @alexvitale.bsky.social's book!
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An AFN council says the new Alberta laws affecting young trans individuals directly threaten the safety of Indigenous youth in the province.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: November 25, 2025—AFN council says new Alberta laws threaten safety of Two-Spirit Indigenous youth
Our featured story: the Assembly of First Nations 2SLGBTQQIA council claims new Alberta laws affecting young trans individuals—laws exempt from Charter-based court challenges for 5 years under th...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
An AFN council says the new Alberta laws affecting young trans individuals directly threaten the safety of Indigenous youth in the province.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
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Manitobans who’ve experienced meth-induced psychosis and health-care workers have signed a petition to ensure drug-related detentions are “a last resort.”
Rally urges reforms for new 72-hour detox detention
Manitobans who’ve experienced meth-induced psychosis and health-care workers have signed a petition to ensure drug-related detentions are “a last resort.”
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Manitobans who’ve experienced meth-induced psychosis and health-care workers have signed a petition to ensure drug-related detentions are “a last resort.”
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Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
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This week on The North State, @melwoods.me joins me to discuss the Alberta government’s attacks on trans kids using the notwithstanding clause. We talk how it happened, how it’s justified and the hope that trans kids and people can have right now. #cdnpoli #cdnnews
Human Rights... Trans Kids Notwithstanding ft. Mel Woods (Podcast)
Dissecting Danielle Smith's attack on trans kids
readthecatch.ca
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This week on The North State, @melwoods.me joins me to discuss the Alberta government’s attacks on trans kids using the notwithstanding clause. We talk how it happened, how it’s justified and the hope that trans kids and people can have right now. #cdnpoli #cdnnews
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Before he was Manitoba Premier, Wab Kinew investigated the school-to-prison pipeline and rapped about police brutality.
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
Wab Kinew wants more cops in schools—despite his own work exposing their harm
YouTube video by The Breach
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Before he was Manitoba Premier, Wab Kinew investigated the school-to-prison pipeline and rapped about police brutality.
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
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Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser says gaming is endangered by chasing profit: "It can either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money. There’s always that danger with any commercial art form that they get distracted by money."
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser says gaming is endangered by chasing profit: "It can either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money. There’s always that danger with any commercial art form that they get distracted by money."
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The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
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Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
capitalandmain.com/lax-oversigh...
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Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
capitalandmain.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
capitalandmain.com/lax-oversigh...
capitalandmain.com/lax-oversigh...
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Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
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The Mamdani - Trump meeting wasn't just smiles
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdani-tr...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdani-tr...
Mamdani, Trump Meeting Wasn’t Just Smiles
Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump met in the White House on Friday and demonstrated a new kind of politics that actually stuck to policy.
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Mamdani - Trump meeting wasn't just smiles
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdani-tr...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdani-tr...
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The AP is defending its choice to say "Gulf of Mexico:" "Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment. It should worry all of us."
AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
Why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The AP is defending its choice to say "Gulf of Mexico:" "Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment. It should worry all of us."
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I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
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Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to use your private data to jack up prices with AI.
I introduced the first federal ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ because companies using private info to rip people off is unacceptable.
I introduced the first federal ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ because companies using private info to rip people off is unacceptable.
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to use your private data to jack up prices with AI.
I introduced the first federal ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ because companies using private info to rip people off is unacceptable.
I introduced the first federal ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ because companies using private info to rip people off is unacceptable.
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calling canadians “customers” of canada post is like calling us “customers” of the healthcare system. it’s such a silly, commercial framing.
Canada Post ‘integral part of Canada’ that must be successful: union leader | Hanomansing Tonight
YouTube video by CBC News
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
calling canadians “customers” of canada post is like calling us “customers” of the healthcare system. it’s such a silly, commercial framing.
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Manitoba is choosing new gas plants to meet its energy needs. Wind, solar and batteries could close the gap instead.
@climateactionmb.bsky.social have a roadmap for Manitoba’s clean energy future⬇️
@climateactionmb.bsky.social have a roadmap for Manitoba’s clean energy future⬇️
The Immense Potential of Wind, Solar, and Storage in Manitoba - Climate Action Team Manitoba
By James Wilt, Policy Development Manager
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Manitoba is choosing new gas plants to meet its energy needs. Wind, solar and batteries could close the gap instead.
@climateactionmb.bsky.social have a roadmap for Manitoba’s clean energy future⬇️
@climateactionmb.bsky.social have a roadmap for Manitoba’s clean energy future⬇️
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.