Uh oh. Is someone upset he might be stopped from overriding basic constitutional rights to life, liberty, and security of the person in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice because he hates bike lanes?

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

“We’ve normalised horror” in #Gaza, our JulietteTouma tells @newhumanitarian.bsky.social “There's been impunity – and that has been going on for a long, long, long time… This carte blanche has got us, all of us, where we are right now.” This must stop.

CAUT in solidarity! #keepdalstrong @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @stfxaut.bsky.social

Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.

Don’t forget, for many years #Uber insisted loudly that it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion. So much for “making cities better…” Via @wsj.com

My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.

Graham Greene, a Canadian actor who belonged to the Oneida First Nation and portrayed Indigenous characters in “Dances With Wolves” and other Hollywood blockbusters, died on Monday in Ontario. He was 73. nyti.ms/425In7L

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

When the Ford government announced that it was forcing the Somerset West Community Health Centre to close its supervised consumption site, they quoted unsourced stats about local crime rates. They lied. Crime actually went down significantly when the CTS was open.

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

very fun yearbook collection on display at Toronto Reference Library @toronto.ca

This piece in WaPo by @zhoyoyo.bsky.social, "The two reasons Americans aren’t having babies, according to data," has an unusual amount of wrong things, starting with the incorrectly labeled figure at the very top www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

BDS Sponsors include Scotiabank (learned nothing from Giller Prize shitshow), Sobeys, Rogers, Merchant of Tennis (some irony for all you Shakespeare fans) and Stella Artois

the way western journalists abandoned their palestinian colleagues in gaza leaves a black mark on the profession

NEW from @kashhill.bsky.social and me: Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders. Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.

For years, Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to travel. But a New York Times investigation found that hundreds of thousands of people reported that they were sexually assaulted or harassed during Uber rides. Listen to "The Daily."

The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.

Always listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social cuz she’s always right on time! You find our chat wherever you get your podcasts (or on YouTube!) just search for The Sam Sanders Show

Rashid Khalidi: I can’t honestly teach a course on middle eastern history under the terms of the IHRA definition of antisemitism adopted by Columbia under pressure from the Trump admin. And so he won’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Harlan County, USA (1976)

French President Emmanuel Macron had been pushing for France and its G7 allies, the UK and Canada, to recognise Palestinian statehood. But London and Ottawa “did not want to face the wrath of the United States”, reports Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qep46z

People are once again forced to be displaced in #Gaza by Israeli Authorities orders. They have nowhere to go. 🚫 No one is safe in Gaza. 🚫 No place is safe in Gaza. 🚫 Not aid workers, not medical workers, not UN staff. Over 650 days of relentless killings, destruction, and despair. #CeasefireNow

A few kilometers from #Gaza, shops are full. But people in Gaza are being starved and fainting from severe hunger. “We have 6,000 trucks loaded with food, medicines, and supplies in Jordan and Egypt—waiting for the green light to reach Gaza,” UNRWA Juliette Touma tells @aljazeera.com.

I’ve been sorting through some of the medicine and supplies on board the Handala freedom flotilla (photo on left). I am reminded of the medicine and supplies we brought into Gaza last year (photo on right). This is important, but not the solution. Liberation is the best medicine.

paradox? did an AI write this?

Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula

"Silence and inaction are not neutral; they are choices that perpetuate suffering. It is time to choose accountability over complicity, and justice over political convenience. We refuse to let these atrocities go unnoticed.”

Be nice if more news agencies picked this up

I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT time.com/7026050/chat... #ChatGPT #teaching #learning #writing #PhilSky

Bluesky may not be great for this yet. But i'm gathering reports/policies from universities, institutions, agencies on verification of #Indigenous membership/citizenship if anyone has any leads. So far, i have (and I'll add as i go): 🧵

give trains all the money, we need more trains

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary theonion.com/teacher...

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

This is a hell of a thing to read.

With Canadian heroes, healthcare workers who have been working in Gaza, witnesses to the genocide happening right now - calling on PM Carney to end Canada’s complicity in this genocide. We demand: arms embargo; sanctions on Netanyahu; recognition of Palestine. Full presser on CPAC (see comments)

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” – Former Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa.

The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?

Yesterday, May 16, 2025, at Tisch graduation, the faculty of the NYU Game Center staged a silent but searing protest.

I spent all yesterday grading. Maybe 5 out of 50 final projects didn’t read as AI generated.

Children face starvation in Gaza as Israel's blockade of food, medication reaches 2 months Current level of malnutrition in Gaza 'causing a collapse in immunity,' WHO says www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.