Craig Chouinard
@craigchouinard.bsky.social
New Brunswicker, communications-y professional, vegetarian, font of useless information. Posts, opinions and the like are mine.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
The US has nothing to teach Australia - or any other nation - about how to deal with gun violence. So many days each year with multiple mass shootings, yet politicians, media and far-too many Americans are unable or just unwilling to do what is needed to end this cycle - meaningful gun control...
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The US has nothing to teach Australia - or any other nation - about how to deal with gun violence. So many days each year with multiple mass shootings, yet politicians, media and far-too many Americans are unable or just unwilling to do what is needed to end this cycle - meaningful gun control...
How in any delusional reality is using Calibri as an official font a “diversity move?” It’s a middling sans-serif font at best. They have managed the font-impossible: made me like Calibri just a little and never want to use Times-New Roman again: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
How in any delusional reality is using Calibri as an official font a “diversity move?” It’s a middling sans-serif font at best. They have managed the font-impossible: made me like Calibri just a little and never want to use Times-New Roman again: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"I was initially surprised by how often I ran into the attitude from students in these programs that they don't actually need to be well-versed in anything besides the exact information they need to know to conduct research in their field."
We no longer train scholars, we train specialists
We no longer train scholars, we train specialists
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"I was initially surprised by how often I ran into the attitude from students in these programs that they don't actually need to be well-versed in anything besides the exact information they need to know to conduct research in their field."
We no longer train scholars, we train specialists
We no longer train scholars, we train specialists
First snowstorm of the season in Fredericton and no cars are stuck or slipping away on bald all-seasons heading up Smythe Street as of yet…
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First snowstorm of the season in Fredericton and no cars are stuck or slipping away on bald all-seasons heading up Smythe Street as of yet…
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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Newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, have policies restricting use of LLMs. These experiments show why those policies are needed -they can't be trusted in writing, research or editing.
I'm not anti-AI. It's worth developing. But the design of LLMs makes them a non-option for truth-based work
I'm not anti-AI. It's worth developing. But the design of LLMs makes them a non-option for truth-based work
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, have policies restricting use of LLMs. These experiments show why those policies are needed -they can't be trusted in writing, research or editing.
I'm not anti-AI. It's worth developing. But the design of LLMs makes them a non-option for truth-based work
I'm not anti-AI. It's worth developing. But the design of LLMs makes them a non-option for truth-based work
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
I am heartened the vast majority of the Pentagon press corps left & handed in their credentials rather than submit to Hesgeth’s onerous restrictions on press freedom…
www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...
Pentagon reporters turn in their access badges rather than bend to new government rules | CBC News
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military...
www.cbc.ca
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I am heartened the vast majority of the Pentagon press corps left & handed in their credentials rather than submit to Hesgeth’s onerous restrictions on press freedom…
www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Autism cannot be "cured," despite whatever idiocy is presented by the least Kennedy today...
Ahead of the Trump administration's "historic" announcement on autism today, remember, RFK Jr. knows startingly little about autism.
In fact, his views amount to a "rabbit hole filled with pseudoscience about the condition, near complete ignorance about current research and basic facts."
In fact, his views amount to a "rabbit hole filled with pseudoscience about the condition, near complete ignorance about current research and basic facts."
RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Autism cannot be "cured," despite whatever idiocy is presented by the least Kennedy today...
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Guys. I’m in love with the newly updated New Brunswick libraries chickadee logo.
September 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Guys. I’m in love with the newly updated New Brunswick libraries chickadee logo.
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The streaming star talks about how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric
Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."
The streaming star on how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The streaming star talks about how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric
It be dry in NB. Please limit your time near the woods and keep your burning cig remnants well away from anything organic…
The fire has reached 160 hectares.
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It be dry in NB. Please limit your time near the woods and keep your burning cig remnants well away from anything organic…
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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"Cuomo, in many ways, is a Democratic Trump: he is loud, vulgar, ill-informed, resentful, vengeful, contemptuous of his constituents, and accused of being abusive toward women," @moiradonegan.bsky.social writes.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With Andrew Cuomo, Democrats are doing a disastrous imitation of Trump | Moira Donegan
The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party’s drift into boorishness and cruelty
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Cuomo, in many ways, is a Democratic Trump: he is loud, vulgar, ill-informed, resentful, vengeful, contemptuous of his constituents, and accused of being abusive toward women," @moiradonegan.bsky.social writes.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.
Boo to the NZ parliament. The anti-Maori bent of the current admin there is just plain wrong.
The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.
New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka in protest
The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.
n.pr
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Boo to the NZ parliament. The anti-Maori bent of the current admin there is just plain wrong.
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Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill have taken social Darwinism to a new level of absurdity. The America they seek is the one we last had in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
The Reemergence of Social Darwinism
The 19th-century doctrine that most closely resembles Trumpism
robertreich.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill have taken social Darwinism to a new level of absurdity. The America they seek is the one we last had in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
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that hitler was a fucking coward in the end is one of those details that his contemporary worshippers like to ignore
Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
that hitler was a fucking coward in the end is one of those details that his contemporary worshippers like to ignore
Table-flipping chaos loses its appeal when it becomes reality: "When liberalism was firmly entrenched, its discontents could treat authoritarian ideas as interesting avant-garde provocations. Authoritarianism in power, however, was always going to be crude and stupid."
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Table-flipping chaos loses its appeal when it becomes reality: "When liberalism was firmly entrenched, its discontents could treat authoritarian ideas as interesting avant-garde provocations. Authoritarianism in power, however, was always going to be crude and stupid."
Such a glorious takedown in the Guardian on the US, Greenland and the utter idiocy being exhibited to our South: Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
March 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Such a glorious takedown in the Guardian on the US, Greenland and the utter idiocy being exhibited to our South: Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
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the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns