This award-winning documentary considers America's "war on books" and how extremism fuels censorship efforts. The border does not grant us immunity from these activities. This promises to be an interesting viewing and discussion for everyone interested in the free exchange of ideas. Free admittance.

My most recent blog post is *completely* off-topic, about how Heated Rivalry is Brokeback Mountain all over again, and how "coming out" has many, sometimes different meanings in social VR, virtual worlds, and other forms of the metaverse.

However, I do have a blog at ryanschultz.com, where I usually write posts about my areas of (research and personal) interest and expertise: virtual worlds, social VR, and the metaverse, and more recently, artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI and AI's applications to the metaverse.

Thanks, Dylan! I appreciate this. (Sorry to take so long to respond; I am not very often on traditional social media like Bluesky).

I believe that ALL social media, including BSky, inevitably tends to become a toxic cesspool/dumpster fire over time, and leads to greater societal harm. I am ONLY here for the topics mentioned in my BSky profile, and I will mute and/or block profiles who follow me as needed to maintain that focus.

I am only back on social media as a result of recent U.S. government decisions which will impact how I will receive information about H5N1 and other potential pandemics. As a result, I have set up this account on Bsky, to follow good, authoritative sources of information.

Hello Helen! I am Ryan Schultz, the science librarian from the University of Manitoba. I followed you when I was on Twitter and I would like to follow you for your H5N1/bird flu coverage, please. Thank you! I have now set up a Bluesky account just for that purpose.