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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · 10d

KJ Charles—never gone wrong :). Recently enjoyed EH Lupton.
Happy to take recs, too.

Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · 11d

“Instead of telling their own stories, creatives are funneled into pre-existing IP, often with corporate-issued limitations on what kind of stories they can tell.”
#BookSky
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With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · 13d

You’ve articulate so well why I can seem to make myself click play. It’s just the pov is so relentlessly bleak, which is not my cuppa in spite of everything else being well done.

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · 14d

“I wonder if the emerging threat of AI is restoring a sense of vitality to the humanistic mission... the humanities enable people to feel whole within themselves...[they] help us form coherent narratives…out of the contradictions, challenges, and terrors of daily life. thelocal.to/humanities-i...

The Humanities Aren't Dead Yet | The Local

Enrollment in the liberal arts has been in freefall for years. But despite apocalyptic declarations about the end of the humanities, in my own classroom I see signs of life.

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jul 23

Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef.
Grace Flahive's Palm Meridian
Natasha Pulley's The Mars House
Jess K. Hardy's Sunastara & the Venusian (with a dash or romcom)

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jul 13

German cuisine truly does not get enough credit (or any at all?)

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 25

I’m pretty sure this this THE best closet ever!

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 18

“Moral convictions & emotions play a critical role in escalating disagreements. The damage caused when civil arguments are subtly replaced with moral convictions & moral emotions can impact how we co-operate & interact with one another, even in our day-to-day conversations with families & friends.”

The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · Jun 18

How discussion becomes discord: Three avoidable steps on the path to polarization

New research examines how people become entrenched in polarizing positions and how we can prevent debates from devolving into heated arguments.

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 14

"What we're going to see is a growth in the economy around hate and disinformation."
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As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content | CBC News

YouTube, the world's largest video platform, with 20 million videos uploaded each day, appears to have changed its moderation policies to allow more content that violates its own rules to remain onlin...

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 10

“In short, these models are very good at a kind of pattern recognition, but often fail when they encounter novelty that forces them beyond the limits of their training, despite being, as the paper notes, “explicitly designed for reasoning tasks”
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus

The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 8

Back to my regular #BookSky posting:

I loved Woodworking by Emily St. James for its loving portrayal of different White trans women’s experiences, and the reversal of the generational flow of wisdom.

Audiobook player for Woodworking by Emily St. James

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 8

“Biderman herself doesn't have any illusions that the likes of OpenAI will […]start being paragons of ethical data sourcing. But she hopes her work will at least get them to stop hiding what they're using to train their AI models.
"Even partial transparency has a huge amount of social value"

Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social · Jun 8

News: “The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion”
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This was an uplifting and interesting read on #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence

The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion

A team of researchers have created a dataset using only openly licensed or public domain content and used it to train an AI model.

futurism.com

Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 8

I would totally love to see you in your MHA ears!

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 8

“OpenAI’s push to A.I.-ify college education amounts to a national experiment on millions of students.

The use of these chatbots in schools is so new that their potential long-term educational benefits, and possible side effects, are not yet established.”

Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · Jun 7

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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George Brown College @gbcollege.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today marks the final day of Congress@GBC, and we couldn’t be prouder to be the 1st college ever to host Canada’s largest academic gathering! For over a week, we've welcomed colleagues from across Canada & the world for the 94th Annual Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. @federationhss.ca

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George Brown College @gbcollege.bsky.social · Jun 4

Limberlost Campus lit up with vibrant dances by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation for National Indigenous History Month and Congress @ GBC! Thank you to everyone who joined us in honouring Indigenous knowledge through meaningful, embodied learning. @federationhss.ca #Congressh

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 3

“How to create global networks of care, to disrupt the isolationism that is becoming a powerful political force in the world” are the things Billy Ray Belcourt is thinking about #congressh

Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 3

To do that, @archaeomapper.bsky.social advises us to foster a “resurgence of a sense of care and connection by recognizing the value in all beings, so all can thrive and grow.” #Congressh

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 3

“Boundaries are the distance at which we can love one another,” jokes @razorfemme.bsky.social quoting Prentis Hemphill, before inviting the audience to “Dream into a future based in love, rooted in care and collectivity” #Congressh

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 3

“What stories can you read that change you and how you operate?” Asks @jaelrichardson.bsky.social at the Care of Togetherness Big Thinking as a way to practice care. #Congressh

Kai Cheng Thom, Jael Richardson, and Kisha Supernant sit in red chairs and above on the wall is the projected image of Billy Ray Belcourt participating online in the Big Thinking panel Care of Togetherness

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · Jun 3

“Care is one of those practices that we carry out often without any kind of robuste theoretical framework, it preceeds thoughts in many ways.” - Billy-Ray Belcourt #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · Jun 2

"Each person in this room has a responsibility to the land which we live on. It's no coincidence that the land was found in such a beautiful state when settler colonialism began. Climate change is because of colonialism." - Melina Laboucan-Massimo #congressh

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 2

A true nightmare!

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 1

“AI will be a tool that you can use; it’s not going to replace everybody, but it will displace a lot of jobs. Just like other tools, it will eventually create more opportunities. AI will facilitate people being able to make more”: Michael Hirsh #congressh

Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 1

Michael Hirsh underscores the similarities between the experimental film culture of the 1960s-1970s and the YouTube creator culture of the past decade, in terms of DIY methods and finding an audience #congressh

Michael Hirsh in conversation with Mark Jones with their respective books Animation Nation and The Starving Artist Myth in the background

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