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Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
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More humility should be the order of the day. No one really knows how anything will turn out. So you might as well try to do your best and importantly to take constructive action where you can. Nothing else is within your control.
January 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM
More humility should be the order of the day. No one really knows how anything will turn out. So you might as well try to do your best and importantly to take constructive action where you can. Nothing else is within your control.
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Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn.
This Sept. piece is instructive
This Sept. piece is instructive
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn.
This Sept. piece is instructive
This Sept. piece is instructive
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My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟
January 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟
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Part of the political project of genAI is to undermine knowledge and expertise until it is meaningless. And this is not theoretical. Actually existing AI is doing precisely this.
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources
The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Part of the political project of genAI is to undermine knowledge and expertise until it is meaningless. And this is not theoretical. Actually existing AI is doing precisely this.
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Glad to see we’re almost all in agreement about something.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Glad to see we’re almost all in agreement about something.
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One good thing about the current era is that you don't have to argue with people about the fact that white supremacy and racism permeate every aspect of US society. Everyone knows it and some even admit it.
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One good thing about the current era is that you don't have to argue with people about the fact that white supremacy and racism permeate every aspect of US society. Everyone knows it and some even admit it.
Teachers can and are negotiating this as a shared endeavour with our students, but it detracts from many more inspired conversations we could be having.
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Teachers can and are negotiating this as a shared endeavour with our students, but it detracts from many more inspired conversations we could be having.
Denialism hurts.
news.uvic.ca/2025/healing...
news.uvic.ca/2025/healing...
Healing from harms caused - UVic News
A message from Qwul’sih’yah’maht, Dr. Robina Thomas, Acting President & Vice-Chancellor
news.uvic.ca
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Denialism hurts.
news.uvic.ca/2025/healing...
news.uvic.ca/2025/healing...
Growing diversity is “scary to someone who remembers how they have always treated outcasts.”
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Growing diversity is “scary to someone who remembers how they have always treated outcasts.”
This thread aligns also describes my thoughts in doing my best to teach secondary students *well* over the last 10 years. I never thought I would feel such relief to see spelling and grammar errors in writing, excitement even! Oh! They are writing for real! Exhaustion is also present in the youth.
One is that teaching university students *well* requires much more work (and frankly, compassion) now than it did when I started nine years ago. 2/
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This thread aligns also describes my thoughts in doing my best to teach secondary students *well* over the last 10 years. I never thought I would feel such relief to see spelling and grammar errors in writing, excitement even! Oh! They are writing for real! Exhaustion is also present in the youth.
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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
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Resources for allies:
White Supremacy Culture
WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU GO FORWARD:THE FIRST RULE OF WHITE SUPREMACY, WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE, CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACYWHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE WEBSITE:https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/'T...
www.decolonizemyself.ca
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Resources for allies:
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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I know more people who have been sexually assaulted and/or harassed than people who have not - and with 81% of women and 43% of men reporting at least one incident of abuse, odds are you do, too
www.nsvrc.org/statistics/
www.nsvrc.org/statistics/
What this whole Epstein files saga has shown us is that despite the deep and bitter political divide within our country, a sad and sobering common denominator exists among all Americans—so many people have suffered sexual abuse.
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I know more people who have been sexually assaulted and/or harassed than people who have not - and with 81% of women and 43% of men reporting at least one incident of abuse, odds are you do, too
www.nsvrc.org/statistics/
www.nsvrc.org/statistics/
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I so enjoyed listening to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social describe the many levels of deceit & corruption in our govt & among those reprehensible individuals pulling their strings...regardless of political affiliation‼️ Her books should be flying off the shelves ‼️👏 Epstein was one of many depraved players
Here’s a bit of the brilliant Sarah Kendzior from today’s show on Jeffrey Epstein and The Difference Between Conspiracy & Conspiracy Theory... youtu.be/e84jycTBfdY?... via @YouTube
Jeffrey Epstein, The Difference Between Conspiracy & Conspiracy Theory, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I so enjoyed listening to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social describe the many levels of deceit & corruption in our govt & among those reprehensible individuals pulling their strings...regardless of political affiliation‼️ Her books should be flying off the shelves ‼️👏 Epstein was one of many depraved players
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It’s pedophiles all the way down.
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s pedophiles all the way down.
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I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Elon Musk is getting a $1 TRILLION pay package from Tesla.
If he worked 40 hr/week, he'd be making $50 million PER HOUR.
That is a truly unfathomable amount of money -- it could end hunger, fund life-changing research, & save countless lives.
Instead, it's going to Elon Musk.
If he worked 40 hr/week, he'd be making $50 million PER HOUR.
That is a truly unfathomable amount of money -- it could end hunger, fund life-changing research, & save countless lives.
Instead, it's going to Elon Musk.
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Elon Musk is getting a $1 TRILLION pay package from Tesla.
If he worked 40 hr/week, he'd be making $50 million PER HOUR.
That is a truly unfathomable amount of money -- it could end hunger, fund life-changing research, & save countless lives.
Instead, it's going to Elon Musk.
If he worked 40 hr/week, he'd be making $50 million PER HOUR.
That is a truly unfathomable amount of money -- it could end hunger, fund life-changing research, & save countless lives.
Instead, it's going to Elon Musk.
I am interested to try wrapping my brain around this relative to the sometimes nonsensical writing I am receiving from high school English students. From polished through digital support to utter digital nonsense seems to be a fine line.
The thing about AI is that being 90% right about practically anything is superhuman, but chaining together steps that have a 90% success rate results in entirely subhuman performance.
A 5-6 step process becomes a coin flip.
A 5-6 step process becomes a coin flip.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am interested to try wrapping my brain around this relative to the sometimes nonsensical writing I am receiving from high school English students. From polished through digital support to utter digital nonsense seems to be a fine line.