Liam McHugh-Russell
@xntl.info
Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad. Not even a jack of any trades.
I tried to start saying "grand" as a way to express enthusiasm but I took a wrong turn and now I'm describing things as "rad" like a 1995 era skater. AMA
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I tried to start saying "grand" as a way to express enthusiasm but I took a wrong turn and now I'm describing things as "rad" like a 1995 era skater. AMA
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this seems unbelievable but there appears to be no way to type accents in windows 11 without changing your entire language setting?? does anyone have any insights? every single keyboard shortcut I've tried doesn't work
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
this seems unbelievable but there appears to be no way to type accents in windows 11 without changing your entire language setting?? does anyone have any insights? every single keyboard shortcut I've tried doesn't work
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The thing about politics — the thing about life — is that people who may not seem important *right now* can be decisive elsewhere and later. For instance, Carney just threw away any chance of Canada getting a seat on the UN Security Council for a generation. Think that’s not important?
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The thing about politics — the thing about life — is that people who may not seem important *right now* can be decisive elsewhere and later. For instance, Carney just threw away any chance of Canada getting a seat on the UN Security Council for a generation. Think that’s not important?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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3️⃣ The dangerous rush for Indigenous identity policies at universities, by Debbie Martin: policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...
The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies
Universities are cracking down on pretendians, but poorly designed policies are harming people with legitimate claims to Indigeneity.
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
3️⃣ The dangerous rush for Indigenous identity policies at universities, by Debbie Martin: policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...
A tragedy in five words:
"...there are two papers here"
"...there are two papers here"
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A tragedy in five words:
"...there are two papers here"
"...there are two papers here"
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This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
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Open specialty. Ability to teach central topics at u/g and p/g level in ethics is essential. Also desirable, e.g. Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (including post-Kantian Philosophy up to Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind. Closing date Dec 21 2025 #philsky #philjob
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
The Faculty of Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. This post requires teaching expertise at a level that is at the forefront of
www.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Thousands of folks at the MacDougall Centre saying No to Notwithstanding on Trans Day of Remembrance 🩵🩷🤍
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Thousands of folks at the MacDougall Centre saying No to Notwithstanding on Trans Day of Remembrance 🩵🩷🤍
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the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)
there's nothing like someone breezily wandering into your wheelhouse and peeling off the wallpaper to realize just how much you know about a topic
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
there's nothing like someone breezily wandering into your wheelhouse and peeling off the wallpaper to realize just how much you know about a topic
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i'll be charitable here: the creation of a bifurcated labor force is a primary way of trying to solve the illiberal's dilemma. the herrenvolk get high labor demand while living in a subaltern world of low labor demand--
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
i'll be charitable here: the creation of a bifurcated labor force is a primary way of trying to solve the illiberal's dilemma. the herrenvolk get high labor demand while living in a subaltern world of low labor demand--
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
This is so mind-numbingly dumb. The Nova Scotia government has a supermajority in the legislature. They can and have changed laws and rules on a whim. And yet they're relying on legal technicalities to stop an MLA from covering weekend emergency room shifts!
Southwestern NS peeps: A fully qualified & licensed physician offered to waive his MLA pay to cover shifts in the E.R. at Yarmouth because the need was so dire. Houston government's response? Nope. #novascotia #cdnpoli #houston
MD-turned-MLA alleges political interference in effort to provide emergency department coverage | CBC News
A Nova Scotia opposition MLA who is also a doctor is concerned that delays he faced getting privileges to cover vacant shifts at the Yarmouth emergency department were the result of political interfer...
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is so mind-numbingly dumb. The Nova Scotia government has a supermajority in the legislature. They can and have changed laws and rules on a whim. And yet they're relying on legal technicalities to stop an MLA from covering weekend emergency room shifts!
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Agreed
So many people are telling me to read pop anthropology/ neuroscience book like they were doing me a favour
It's like I met a banker and told them "do you know what interest rates are? You should really look it up"
So many people are telling me to read pop anthropology/ neuroscience book like they were doing me a favour
It's like I met a banker and told them "do you know what interest rates are? You should really look it up"
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Agreed
So many people are telling me to read pop anthropology/ neuroscience book like they were doing me a favour
It's like I met a banker and told them "do you know what interest rates are? You should really look it up"
So many people are telling me to read pop anthropology/ neuroscience book like they were doing me a favour
It's like I met a banker and told them "do you know what interest rates are? You should really look it up"
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I miss consequences
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I miss consequences
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The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
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My aunt, a single mom, voted Conservative much of her life because she thought that their policies being bad for her meant they were probably good for society.
There’s a kind of person who grew up upper-middle class and whose politics now treat that as some kind of unforgivable sin because they think their upbringing was cringe and believe the only way to be absolved for this sin is to advocate against things that would help them. It’s dumb as hell.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My aunt, a single mom, voted Conservative much of her life because she thought that their policies being bad for her meant they were probably good for society.
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> the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
it is the third most successful example of behavioral engineering ever done, following only “the wolf that lives in your house” and “the grass that wants you to eat it”
it is the third most successful example of behavioral engineering ever done, following only “the wolf that lives in your house” and “the grass that wants you to eat it”
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
> the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
it is the third most successful example of behavioral engineering ever done, following only “the wolf that lives in your house” and “the grass that wants you to eat it”
it is the third most successful example of behavioral engineering ever done, following only “the wolf that lives in your house” and “the grass that wants you to eat it”
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Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...