Please circulate -- U of Regina has stepped up to host displaced female Afghan students, with a safe place so they can complete their degrees and not be sent back to Afghanistan from school in Qatar. (Lost funding due to destruction of USAID.) Hoping to raise $500k. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.
Pro-Trump Catholics entering the era of "The Uncomfortable Pew"? It's not like this can be dismissed with "Oh, the Holy Father is from Europe/South America and doesn't really understand life in the US".
And they've brushed it off in the past with "oh, the Holy Father is from Europe/South America and really doesn't get the cultural background in the US". Lol!
For all the money that's been thrown at AI -- actual human filmmakers would benefit enormously from mere $10k or $20k grants. This would pay dividends for decades after.
Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.
Happy to see this campaign blow past its initial target in the first week (day, actually). Hoping it'll exceed 2000 backers soon! These are quality cartoons, an excellent historical document (and like the Pogo books my dad passed down to me) sure to be heirlooms. Only available here, not in stores.
Oh, the irony. In Canada/USA, some people have a fixation on the 1860s, going on about "heritage" but freak out if some historian finds out that Jewish or Italian people were in the fur trade or Civil War.
So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
A very large animal living in the ground -- it's way scaled up, but there are clonal plant communities that are theoretically the same organism (like Pando the quaking aspen colony). Also -- bacteria can make stuff like this, which is freaky. www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/geochemistry...
I took a course in biogeochemistry during my grad degree, so I don't think this is quite as weird as might first appear! For example -- there are a lot of microorganisms in the soil that we haven't ID'd yet (hard to propagate in the lab) and we don't know exactly what they do.
Just noting that none of the stuff Trump has done is totally unexpected, though the people who predicted it were mostly activists or comedians bsky.app/profile/tapi...
Why is he doling out health care like it's a treat? The more access everyone has, the better is for everybody else. Rich people won't catch stuff because a poor person coughs at them, not as many people have to skip work, etc.
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
