Elithmord 🇨🇦
@jemburch.bsky.social
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PhD candidate (Political Science) | Sessional Instructor (Quantitative Method) | Recovering public servant | Huge nerd (SCA, LARP, TTRPGs) Expect posts about Canadian news (often political) and nerdy pursuits. Opinions my own and likely to be unhinged.
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alexhanna.bsky.social
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps
monkeyminion.com
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
jemburch.bsky.social
Haha, nice! At least you didn't randomly sprinkle quotation marks around on yours.
jemburch.bsky.social
I saw a news article today trying to argue that BC's position on this is purely partisan.

Either the author is ignoring the reality on the ground in service to an agenda, or they didn't do even a modicum of research. Not sure which would be worse, honestly.
jemburch.bsky.social
“Alberta needs to go through B.C., but most of the economic benefits all come back to Alberta and most of that risk is in B.C.”

As the article rightly points out, this isn't an ideological dispute. The argument is the same regardless of who's running each province.

globalnews.ca/news/1146832...
Alberta, B.C. premiers butt heads over Danielle Smith’s pipeline dreams | Globalnews.ca
The premiers of Alberta and British Columbia continue to trade shots over Danielle Smith's call for construction of a pipeline to the northern B.C. coast.
globalnews.ca
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
🔥 Moths to the Flame 🔥
#myart #Halloween #halloweenart #art
A portrait of a woman with flame hair and orange eyes. She is surrounded by moths lured to the flame of her hair and eyes
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions
American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada
abcnews.go.com
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jessicacalarco.com
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a  suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
jemburch.bsky.social
“Alberta needs to go through B.C., but most of the economic benefits all come back to Alberta and most of that risk is in B.C.”

As the article rightly points out, this isn't an ideological dispute. The argument is the same regardless of who's running each province.

globalnews.ca/news/1146832...
Alberta, B.C. premiers butt heads over Danielle Smith’s pipeline dreams | Globalnews.ca
The premiers of Alberta and British Columbia continue to trade shots over Danielle Smith's call for construction of a pipeline to the northern B.C. coast.
globalnews.ca
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
B.C. Premier David Eby is clearly beyond frustrated with Danielle Smith's pipeline dreams threatening the B.C. economy.

In a fiery statement, he called her out directly stating...

"This is not the Danielle Smith show!"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
MAGA MAPLE declared that a youth that asked a question at a public event should be "spanked."
Danielle Smith accused the school board of being "viciously compliant" when they released the list of books the MAGA morons were trying to ban.
In Alberta, the kids are alright.
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
中秋節快樂!
Jung chow jit fai lock!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.
chadstanton.blacksky.app
“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”
How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves
AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.
www.governing.com
jemburch.bsky.social
"The federal Economic Development and Environment Departments completed an online consultation on the issue last September, noting at the time that other provinces were considering adopting similar rules."

...seriously, why haven't we?

globalnews.ca/news/1146531...
Quebec durable goods law comes into effect | Globalnews.ca
Quebec measures targeting retailers when it comes to sustainability of goods and planned obsolescence of products comes into effect today.
globalnews.ca
jemburch.bsky.social
I hear that investment is inherently risky.

Political risks are part of that - if you hoover up additional properties in the midst of a housing crisis, I don't think you should get to whine about stuff like this.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p...
Property owners return to court to challenge short-term rental rules
The owners argue that the rules should not affect anyone who was lawfully operating a short-term rental before the new legislation came into effect.
www.timescolonist.com