Les Allemands ont même inventé un mot, le Kevinismus (kevinisme), pour évoquer cette discrimination. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

The always-already-nostalgic for “long long ago” “like the ones we used to have” “Christmas past” world that Victoria, Albert, and Dickens made, with a Catholic holiday and German trees and 19th c romanticism about children and all the rest: an invention! One that feels so familiar… 3/

And, yes, true, the world Walter Scott made, the world of a longstanding unified Scotland of fierce kilt-wearing Highland warrior clans— invented! And conveniently Other and exotic! You know what else was invented in the 19th century? English Christmas. 2/

At this time of year, one of my favorite clouds to shout at is this: When mostly English historians memorably branded the idea of “the invention of traditional” in the 80s, the headline example and the one that came to symbolize the whole phenomenon was 19th c Scottish identity. 1/

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

There are 400 Canadians including toddlers who have been kidnapped by ICE. Amnesty International is now reporting on the use of torture at the detention facilities. This is the march of American fascism. charlieangus.substack.com/p/torture-st...

Non, je n’ai pas besoin de me faire souhaiter joyeuses Fêtes par courriel par toutes les entreprises avec qui j’ai déjà échangé. Qui lit ces courriels?

Quebec's Health Minister Christian Dubé has just resigned to sit as an independent www.facebook.com/ChristianDub...

Every exec who thinks AI is going to boost their company needs to read this

J’ai fait ça! I made this!

Vaccins et autisme: il n’y a pas de lien, martèle l’OMS www.noovo.info/nouvelles/sa...

Another clinic in Montreal announced it is closing its doors in part because of the Quebec government’s controversial doctor salary law.

I think a large part of the problem capitalism is having now is really we have all the technology we need for our day to day lives now; we don't need anything new or more technology-y, just stuff that lasts or works properly, but no, here's a incredibly flammable subscription dictaphone instead.

In the 1600s in New France, Jesuit missionaries adapted the story of the birth of Jesus into Jesous Ahatonhia to convert First Nations. Considered Canada's oldest Christmas carol, it has since helped preserve some of the Huron language and is used as a fundraiser today. 🧵1/9

Estimates of flu vaccine efficacy from 2024-25 are around 43% www.bccdc.ca/resource-gal... [1/5]

This might sound low (and it is). But stopping 30-45% of serious cases is a huge win from a population health perspective.... if enough people get vaccinated. [4/5]

It's also good to keep in mind that even a low efficacy flu vaccine is still likely to keep you and your loved ones out of the hospital and out of the morgue. Thus concludes my ongoing plea for people to get their flu shot ASAP. [5/5]

Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.

Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."

This is a great column on why women don't like/use AI. It's because AI is being used against them, including by using it to create deepfakes. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Since the end of the Second World War, Canada has revolved around the United States like a planet around the sun. Author Dan Gardner argues it’s time for Canada to stop orbiting and start leading. thewalrus.ca/this-is-the-mome...

I am not watching the FIFA draw, but have been told Trump just won their Peace prize very specially created for him. The Fascist Imbecile Fucks All Peace Prize.

I’m going to get in trouble for this, but fuck it. I’ve been at this a long time. Games culture wants the spoils of cultural sophistication without doing the work. It wants a guarantee that the intention to make work guarantees not just a living but a thriving one. It is a medium for children.

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

Additionally, management struck out: 1️⃣ Language that would prevent GAI from producing editorial work 2️⃣ A requirement that AI-generated content be clearly labeled and reviewed by human editors

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

From Tacy Beth Hoeg's website. This is the person that RFK's FDA has empowered to make decisions about drugs and vaccines. Sheer pseudoscience nonsense.

Assumption of good faith is a solid heuristic. But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises. But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.

I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop

Dans Le Devoir d’aujourd’hui.

Really neat, especially as a cohort in Quebec is pushing hard to allow 16-year-olds to vote.

You know what is an advanced level of annoying? Some kid coming over for your kid's party and leaving with the TV remote

<<il faut d’abord cesser de voir le plurilinguisme des jeunes issus de l’immigration (soit le fait de parler plusieurs langues dans différents contextes) comme une menace à la pérennité du français au Québec.>> www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

Again, NO evidence immigration = more crime! On the contrary. Yes, immigration is a complex issue. But any policy based on a fearmongering crime narrative (usually using dramatic anecdotes) should be questioned. For eg: siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythica...

IYKYK: Richard Mailey: Homer Simpson’s gun and the notwithstanding clause policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/home...

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Telling teens that high school "are the best years of your life" is a cruel lie.

(English...French) Assistant Professor...Professeur adjoint Adjunct Professor...Professeur associé Associate Professor...Professeur agrégé Someone did this on purpose.

In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment." www.science.org/content/arti...

New @pnas.org "This work represents the most extensive study to date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Anyway, if you're saying it's fine to steal from people because you don't want to pay them, that's not Marxism or Communism. That's just capitalism.

When I'm looking for recipes, I've given up on Google. I'm going directly to sites I know and looking through their archives.

One of the purposes of this is, obviously, to completely alienate people from their intellectual and creative labor. When "write an article" becomes "push the big red GIMME SLOP button" you're gonna have less pride and investment in the outcome.

A chatgpt user will *never* experience the experience of finding the task of researching and organizing an essay or program or story, shockingly easier than it used to be. A genAI user will *never* find an artistic task effortless that was once enormously frustrating.

There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before* Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming

Boum. La Presse poursuit le créateur de ChatGPT Pour animer #ChatGPT, OpenAI aurait utilisé «sans consentement ni rémunération» environ 378 000 textes d’information de La Presse. www.lapresse.ca/affaires/med...