Lisa🇨🇦
@lisamichelle.bsky.social
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We visited Renee Good's memorial.
There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.
Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.
Scenes from Minneapolis:
There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.
Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.
Scenes from Minneapolis:
WATCH: Prem Attends Memorial at Scene of Murder in Minneapolis
See what Prem saw at the memorial for the 37-year-old mother killed by ICE in Minneapolis, plus interview with Omar Fateh and residents.
zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
We visited Renee Good's memorial.
There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.
Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.
Scenes from Minneapolis:
There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.
Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.
Scenes from Minneapolis:
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Second this. Nobody should be forced to go without housing whether or not they work or play by the rules, but the fact that working hard and playing by the rules aren't enough to escape homelessness demonstrates the falsity of the whole idea that homeless folks are responsible for their predicament.
Recommend @brian-goldstone.bsky.social “There is No Place for Us”. A wrenching dive into working homeless & poverty. His sharp clarity brings front & center the invisible & untenable struggle of those who labor endlessly yet remain trapped and destitute. It’s a heartbreaking but necessary read.
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Second this. Nobody should be forced to go without housing whether or not they work or play by the rules, but the fact that working hard and playing by the rules aren't enough to escape homelessness demonstrates the falsity of the whole idea that homeless folks are responsible for their predicament.
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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good time to read this.
Marco Rubio is the Trump administration’s most formidable liar and is dead set on placing drug cartel bosses at the top of every Latin American government. Maureen Tkacik reports on Rubio’s long narco-terrorist history:
trib.al/1qSYY7J
trib.al/1qSYY7J
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
trib.al
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 AM
good time to read this.
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NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
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Intresting video examining the beautifully created Porsche ad and the recent Coke AI slop ad and what it says about who AI is intended for.
Intresting video examining the beautifully created Porsche ad and the recent Coke AI slop ad and what it says about who AI is intended for.
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
vt.tiktok.com/ZS52MHpwL/
Intresting video examining the beautifully created Porsche ad and the recent Coke AI slop ad and what it says about who AI is intended for.
Intresting video examining the beautifully created Porsche ad and the recent Coke AI slop ad and what it says about who AI is intended for.
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
“The Israeli soldiers had rigged [a] can of food with an explosive.”
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
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“the expansion of private surgery had siphoned funding & a scarce pool of critical staff, including anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“the expansion of private surgery had siphoned funding & a scarce pool of critical staff, including anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
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Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
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has anybody seen Jake Tapper. perhaps he was kidnapped by aliens
The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
October 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
has anybody seen Jake Tapper. perhaps he was kidnapped by aliens
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ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
I as a Canadian I have switched: Food, grocery items as well as American chain restaurants; Clothing, Simons house brand mainly; Alcohol, anything BUT US; Dog food; Skincare from Paula’s Choice to Riverstone Naturals; makeup to 🇨🇦 brand; ❄️vacation to Mexico; will look into electronics from non-US Co.
Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company's American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.
"We were looking to triple the business. Instead, it collapsed to zero," Moore told CNN in a phone interview. https://cnn.it/4ogBglG
"We were looking to triple the business. Instead, it collapsed to zero," Moore told CNN in a phone interview. https://cnn.it/4ogBglG
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I as a Canadian I have switched: Food, grocery items as well as American chain restaurants; Clothing, Simons house brand mainly; Alcohol, anything BUT US; Dog food; Skincare from Paula’s Choice to Riverstone Naturals; makeup to 🇨🇦 brand; ❄️vacation to Mexico; will look into electronics from non-US Co.
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Thank you all for supporting this book. It means more than I can say.
Congratulations to New York Times bestsellers @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social!
Buy HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS): www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
Buy HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS): www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you all for supporting this book. It means more than I can say.
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think
Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.
thebarbedwire.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
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My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)
Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…
lithub.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
We need more Ta-Nehisi Coates and less Ezra Klein right now. Important piece by Coats for Vanity Fair.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We need more Ta-Nehisi Coates and less Ezra Klein right now. Important piece by Coats for Vanity Fair.
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Brendan Carr is limiting free speech the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Brendan Carr is limiting free speech the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said today that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from her husband confirmed he was poisoned.
Navalny’s wife says tests confirm that Putin nemesis was poisoned
“Alexei was killed,” alleges Yulia Navalnaya after biological testing.
ow.ly
September 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said today that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from her husband confirmed he was poisoned.