"There are no poor countries. Only exploited ones." ~Michael Parenti

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Une société n’est pas une famille. Un gouvernement n’est pas un parent. En cultivant cette confusion jusqu’au bout, François Legault aura voulu transformer la critique en impolitesse et la dissidence en faute morale. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

Dans le mille

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.

The overview effect. What does this mean for our own personal leadership and responsibility when we truly the Earth as a spaceship containing all of life? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMI...

Meg Wheatly on Servant Leadership - What is the work that needs doing? Am I the one who needs to do it? vimeo.com/483717081?fl...

Grades might not say all that much about what students are actually learning. "Grades are a standard part of our educational systems that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if we could rewrite what are not rules in the first place? theconversation.com/a-b-c-or-d-g...

This is a stunning piece.

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On en est là… je sais de moins en moins comment justifier de voyager dans ce pays si ce nest pas essentiel. lp.ca/xw1WN8?shari...

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

Nous vivons dans la dimension stupide…

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Good trouble for troubled times.

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

Pas mal dans le mille.

Some good reminders here in silly and dangerous times.

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

Canada should now do what many have suggested to hit back against the US with non-tariff measures: jailbreak all American tech and stop enforcing US copyright in Canada. pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b...

Cory Doctorow, on point! www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/co...

"in scarcity and sufficiently frightened we are all capable of committing acts of heroism and/or villainy that would be completely unimaginable to us in times of stability and prosperity. We do not know how others will react under such duress, and we do not even know how we ourselves will respond."

Love this.

Yes to that!

This is a beautiful tribute.

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Do our grading practices harm students? Are schools and colleges forms of artificial intelligence? Can we change the purpose of our big algorithmic educational systems from sorting humans to helping them grow? Dan Davies and @josheyler.bsky.social help answer. open.substack.com/pub/ailogblo...

It's not just in regard to college enrollment that we don't talk about misogyny, it's pretty much everything. Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.

« To be singleminded is to be unmindful. Mindfulness is keeping many different things in mind and observing their relations and proportions. To conquer is to be careless. Carefulness is holding oneself and one's acts in appropriate relation and proportion to the many other beings and intentions. »

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT get your Post-Its, flipcharts, markers, singing bowls, vision decks, sticky dots, or linen tunics from Amazon this holiday season.

Here is my latest: The Life and Death of Canadian Small Towns. Or, how small towns cannot survive neoliberal capitalism. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-life-a...

I hesitate to take out just a section—because it is a strong thing that is all linked together and I want cis people to sit with this, but I also felt like my own upset at the callous response to not just trans death but also pain—but I keep coming back to this. It is about curtailing possibility.

Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.

Fascinante entrevue avec Judith Butler. "Once a group of people has been so dehumanized that they no longer count among the community of humans, then the pathway is cleared toward genocidal action."

Nouvelle contribution au débat sur les stratégies rhétoriques de la droite populiste. Je mobilise la notion de "dog whistle" et donne des exemples de déclarations récentes de François Legault et PSPP.

Nora Bateson in Combining (2023)