Google Shut Down Its Dark Web Monitoring Tool, so Here's What to Use Instead ino.to/0bjBrpm

If you read a book, short story, article or other piece of writing you enjoyed this week, take two minutes and let the author know.

😥 Olds College Suspends Craft Beverage & Brewery Operations Diploma; Brewery to Close June 2026 www.oldscollege.ca/news-events/... I guess I have to acknowledge that I'm part of the problem, having greatly reduced my craft beer intake.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. See the problem here?

Hey look, Calgary #yyc

Students! The City of Calgary just posted their summer jobs. There are a lot of them. #ucalgary #mru #yyc #abpse Here are some: - Finance intern: $29.82/hr - Archivists team intern: $29.82/hr - Audio-Visual student: $29.82/hr www.calgary.ca/careers.html...

Lifehacker - Nine Phone Settings to Change Before Attending a Protest ino.to/O5hfHyk #NoKings #StaySafe #ICEout

FetchSeries - www.fetchseries.com Freely Downloadable Data Sets Updated Daily #Datasets #Commodities #Transport #EnvironmentAndClimate #Finance #Macroeconomics

Here's a nifty new Canadian Sovereignty project: Home | Own Your Digital ownyourdigital.ca #SocialMedia #Fediverse #CdnPolitics #Mastodon

Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t... #ABLeg #ABEducation #BookBans

Smart Glasses in Education - Artificial intelligence nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/01/2... A look at the technology, but not at the ethical implications of these devices. @saraheaton.bsky.social

Listening to Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (The Quiet American Takeover of Banff and Jasper): www.donotpassgo.ca/p/the-quiet-... This was an eye-opener.

Arc: Finding Scene-Based Information Using AI mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/arc-findin... Hey, this seems to work surprisingly well! Certainly fun to try out on the last movie or show you watched. #IMDB #AI

I quite enjoyed this post. I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship www.hughrundle.net/i-accidental...

I also had a student report this issue last week :-/ NVivo 14 and 15 for Windows is reporting ‘File ‘Size’ Errors and Crashing up Saving – QDATRAINING qdatraining.com/nvivo-14-and... #Troubleshooting #NVivo #MiseryLovesCompany

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

😬 Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests

Lovely Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

A long and sobering, but important, read. Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

New blog post: One possible solution to ghost citations – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/one-possible... #distlib #Schoogle #hallucitations

New Clarivate tool "connects AI users to trusted academic resources" - Research Information www.researchinformation.info/news/new-cla... "Clarivate Nexus will be released for early access in Q3, 2026." #AI #Libraries

Electricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01... #ClaudeCode #Environment #Electricity #Sustainability

Dealing with AI Bots – A COAR Resource for Repository Managers www.cni.org/news/dealing... #OpenAccess #Repositories

Best Z-Poles 2026 Folding & Collapsible www.adventurealan.com/best-z-poles... Folding, Collapsible, Light, and Strong #TrailRunning #Hiking

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan. More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded. These 158 didn't make it home. And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

Battlefield wound spray stops bleeding in just one second newatlas.com/medical-tech... That's pretty cool, and mostly (completely?) natural ingredients to boot! If it has a long shelf l,ife this should be in every first aid kit! #science

Well said, @mark-carney.bsky.social !

What? No! America’s Own Goal: Who Pays the Tariffs? - Kiel Institute www.kielinstitut.de/publications... "US customs revenue surged by approximately $200 billion in 2025" "Foreign exporters absorb only about 4% of the tariff burden—the remaining 96% is passed through to US buyers." #inconceivable

While the eye of Sauron may have recently averted its gaze, a good reminder it is always only one post away. There can be no more normal. No more “but my kids like Disney” vacations. No more “but it’s such a good conference”. No more appeasement.

Well that's a depressing take. I, and most of my neighbours, don't want a Tesla, that's for sure! Tesla’s Secret Weapon: Why Elon Musk is the Real Winner of Canada’s New 6% China EV Import Rules | iPhone in Canada www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/01/19/t... #EVs

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Translate As a Quiet Rival To Google Translate - gHacks Tech News

Jeff Bezos' Ex Wife MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project

The next Crave Original Series: Hurry Hard.

100% POTUS will complain about these colours! Rapha's new Team USA kit drops tradition in favor of pastels escapecollective.com/raphas-new-t... #Olympics

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday apnews.com/article/wiki... "The new deals will help one of the world’s most popular websites monetize heavy traffic from AI companies." #AI #Wikipedia #Wikimedia #Licensing

MichelNivard/gptstudio: GPT RStudio addins that enable GPT-assisted coding, writing & analysis github.com/MichelNivard... Of possible interest... #RStudio

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/... If this feature drops down to the $20 level, I'll have to sign up again!

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1... What a great read. #OpenAccess

Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions ino.to/UBkFaJB

Online screening + Q&A of the film 'The Librarians' 🍿📽️ events.zoom.us/ev/Ata9URuZA... I saw this late last year and recommend it for all librarians and lovers of knowledge.

CA congressional maps - Federal judges say new maps are legal: laist.com/brief/news/p... "...legal and should remain in place, handing a win to state Democrats who hope the new districts will swing five congressional seats for their party next year."

What I Learned After Trying Out Every Exoskeleton at CES ino.to/WcyVfqD I can easily imagine these continuing to improve and become cheaper just in time for me when I need them as I age :-) 5 years? 10 years?

My life always feels a little boring after completing the blood donation screening. Still no monkeys in my life. #GiveBlood

16 Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/ #Truth #xkcd

The Guardian has mapped how the world is losing its forests to wildfires, transforming abstract climate statistics into clear, spatial comparisons. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... BTW, have you read Fire Weather? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_We... #EffingTrudeau!

University of Calgary breakthrough may stop canola shatter and boost yields. New research on canola could help save farmers time and money. albertafarmexpress.ca/news/ucalgar... #UCalgary #AbSci #biology #Science #SciChat

More oil-learning! Five(ish) charts that give some context to Venezuelan oil hannahritchie.substack.com/p/venezuelan... #dataviz

This is some big news!