riouxjeanfrancois.bsky.social
@riouxjeanfrancois.bsky.social
Prof de philosophie, entre autres
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#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one

Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Gay and bisexual men in Nigeria who lost access to PEPFAR-funded PrEP because of the Trump administration's aid cuts are testing positive for HIV.

It's an example of how HIV prevention is under threat across the continent.

Latest for Reuters: www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Trump aid cuts deal a blow to HIV prevention in Africa
Trump's cuts restrict the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection.
www.reuters.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Aujourd'hui et pour le reste de la semaine, les étudiant.e.s du Collège de Maisonneuve ont voté au boycott des cours, "afin de revendiquer le retrait du soutien des gouvernements des soi-disant Québec et Canada au génocide commis par Israël et la libération complète de la Palestine."
March 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Quebeckers might notice the parallels with the CAQ's investigation of the "climate" at Vanier and Dawson colleges, which has focused on courses that talk about Palestine. What information do such investigations produce? What kinds of actions do they eventually enable?
NEW: U.S. Department of Education is launching new investigations into 60 colleges and universities over alleged “relentless antisemitic eruptions.” This follows new executive orders signed by President Trump expanding the definition of antisemitism to include criticisms of Israeli policies.
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Le gouvernement Legault déposera «un projet de loi» pour enfouir plus de déchets dangereux à Blainville. Stablex est une filiale d'une entreprise américaine et elle veut détruire des milieux humides de valeur écologique exceptionnelle pour réaliser son projet. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
Le gouvernement Legault déposera «un projet de loi» pour enfouir des déchets dangereux à Blainville
L’entreprise Stablex prévoit de détruire des milieux humides de valeur écologique exceptionnelle.
www.ledevoir.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Besoin d'un pas de recul face à l'arrivée fulgurante de l' #IA dans nos vies? #Unevieintelligente au #Théâtreduceppe, première dans un mois! #éthiqueIA #droitsdigitaux #digitalrights #intelligenceartificielle Développé en collaboration avec #universitédemontréal.
duceppe.com/une-vie-inte...
Une vie intelligente – Théâtre Duceppe
Spectacle inclassable qui nous invite à réfléchir sur les promesses et les dangers de l’IA. Une création de Posthumains. À l’affiche en février-mars 2025.
duceppe.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:
Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications
"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"
www.motherjones.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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"Les étudiants qui rechignent parce qu’un livre leur déplaît, n’en faites pas une affaire d’État. Vous avez un travail à faire, c’est d’enseigner, et je ne sais pas par quelle intervention du Saint-Esprit vous voudriez que ça se passe toujours sans friction"
pereduchesne.substack.com/p/profs-un-p...
Profs, un peu de nerf! (Vous en aurez besoin)
Le coup de pied au cul collégial du Père Duchesne
pereduchesne.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.

Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.

Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
November 16, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.
November 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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In fact, there never was a “battle.” By staying at Twitter, you were never “fighting the good fight.” You were being manipulated by an algorithm into believing there was a conflict you could win by arguing on the internet. This was never a real thing.
Leaving Twitter doesn’t “cede it to the fascists.” That battle was lost long ago.
November 11, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen
November 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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What's some objectively minor hill you had committed to die on in the Before Times that you'll still die in defense of, dammit?

e.g., Dead Poets Society is a terrible movie to begin with and a deeply toxically terrible movie about teaching.
November 12, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Ok, here's my #1 Bluesky tip.

If you miss having an algorithm, do the following:

- Settings > Feed
Following Feed Preferences

- Turn on Show Replies, Show Reposts, and Show Lists From Feeds In My Following

- Go follow feeds. Friends Liked, Gift Articles, What's Hot are good, but add several. /
November 8, 2024 at 4:39 AM