Louigi Addario-Berry
@louigi.bsky.social
Math prof (probability), McGill U; workplace organizer. He/his.
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This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!
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And I'll add that one of the reasons why students may not value the experience of writing is because much of the writing they're asked to do in school does not require thinking. In fact, they're given lots of methods (templates, et al) that actively discourage thinking.
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
And I'll add that one of the reasons why students may not value the experience of writing is because much of the writing they're asked to do in school does not require thinking. In fact, they're given lots of methods (templates, et al) that actively discourage thinking.
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In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile.
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile.
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
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500,000 violations.
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
500,000 violations.
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There's another dimension to this Rosa Parks story that you may not know. This is where the story most often gets mis-narrated.
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
There's another dimension to this Rosa Parks story that you may not know. This is where the story most often gets mis-narrated.
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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Same with a student admitted into Windsor's Law's LLM program. The federal government's refusal to assist these students is unconscionable.
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
![Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students admitted to universities across the country
by David Gordon Koch November 26, 2025 Reading Time: 6min read](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreidrainynrwaullbjg2npno3eu2zkyfldwkhuo7p4f2rwjycf4ivha@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Same with a student admitted into Windsor's Law's LLM program. The federal government's refusal to assist these students is unconscionable.
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So they don't feel like the sort of places containing lots of people sympathetic to their own worldview, the sort of places wherein people who form their base of support congregate or work, are actually politically legitimate or economically productive places. And evidence can't interfere with this.
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So they don't feel like the sort of places containing lots of people sympathetic to their own worldview, the sort of places wherein people who form their base of support congregate or work, are actually politically legitimate or economically productive places. And evidence can't interfere with this.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half
So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half
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Retirement is celebrated everywhere except by academics and supreme court justices, who view it as capitulation
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Retirement is celebrated everywhere except by academics and supreme court justices, who view it as capitulation
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Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
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If you want to help elect a left-populist leader right here in Canada, join our campaign today - and let’s fight together for a government that serves us all.
lewisforleader.ca
lewisforleader.ca
Lewis for Leader - Avi Lewis for NDP Leader
It's time for the NDP to return to our roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the r
lewisforleader.ca
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If you want to help elect a left-populist leader right here in Canada, join our campaign today - and let’s fight together for a government that serves us all.
lewisforleader.ca
lewisforleader.ca
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While Carney caters to the corporate elite, our movement knows that it’s time to tax the rich and invest in the 99% who keep this country going.
Thanks @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for the shout out in the @thestar.com!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Thanks @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for the shout out in the @thestar.com!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
!["The closest we have to [Mamdani] in Canada is NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis, also an articulate, left-wing populist who, like Mamdani, openly advocates for taxing the rich in order to provide benefits for ordinary people. Now there's a wild idea. But it might just catch on." - Linda McQuaig in the Toronto Star](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idsofvph6jyjtkumhhla6n5e/bafkreidastyznqnyv3bj5zstod4mbkyo3o33zu447qwbfly2zmvgx426jq@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
While Carney caters to the corporate elite, our movement knows that it’s time to tax the rich and invest in the 99% who keep this country going.
Thanks @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for the shout out in the @thestar.com!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Thanks @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for the shout out in the @thestar.com!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Epstein: Trump knew
Epstein: Trump knew
In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump "spent hours" at his home with a victim and "knew about the girls."
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Epstein: Trump knew
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“.. in the Situation Room.” 👀
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“.. in the Situation Room.” 👀
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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@404media.co is journalist founded and independent, so ya, we can tell meta pr to come back when they have a sound answer for the horrors that are the meta ray-ban glasses:
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@404media.co is journalist founded and independent, so ya, we can tell meta pr to come back when they have a sound answer for the horrors that are the meta ray-ban glasses:
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I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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INVENTOR OF THE LIBRARY: hey check this out
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
INVENTOR OF THE LIBRARY: hey check this out