🧵What happens when libraries can't preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️ @Brewster.Kahle.org warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile. Read Preserving the Library System in VANISHING CULTURE ⤵️ archive.org/details/vani...

MIT boasts a $27b endowment

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

I don’t think that some Albertans realize how much this separatism tantrum is going to make their province reviled by the rest of Canada. Canadians not from Quebec, who knew our country’s history, could understand Quebec nationalism, but we sure as hell do not understand Alberta’s grievance fantasy

How to honor Anerica’s 250th: “Spread the word about THE LIBRARIANS, an inspiring documentary about heroic librarians fighting book bans and censorship across our country in recent years. It’s on PBS.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Librarians literally saved my life

“The hackers claim to have stolen students’ names, their personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students — the same type of data Instructure admitted was stolen.”

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social. “That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it’s cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil.”

🔥 In the face of harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of the extremism fueling the the censorship efforts. Stream FREE NOW: thelibrariansfilm.com/streaming/

🇨🇦 Canada’s Council of Prairie & Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) has joined a global movement to protect digital rights for libraries, archives & museums supporting access, preservation & heritage online.📚 Learn more ⤵️ internetarchivecanada.org/2026/04/07/c... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

Even as they claim the right to train their models on work belonging to other people, the AI companies have rejected a similar premise when it comes to their own products, Alex Reisner reports:

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

I was with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social in meetings with the German government in Berlin. I was with her when she pushed Canada to take action on Ukraine and Gaza. Our political sandbox has been kicked over. The NDP needs a leader who can present a vision to Canadians in a time of global threat.

The world does not need more undergraduate history essays but does need more people who can write good ones.

“Reading Rainbow” host Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social) celebrates the library as a place where everyone is welcome

this is like the thesis statement of our times

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

Proud of you, Milwaukee 🫡

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Mark Critch and @22-minutes.bsky.social hit this one out of the park. youtu.be/651_MuV9gZA?...

I’m auctioning off this piece on Instagram! All proceeeds go to THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Let’s show some love for our friends in this wonderful place !

“Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London... There is another America inside this one.”

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

This just-posted Canadian 1974 TV special w/ Steve Martin (his first!) is pretty entertaining if you remember Toronto or Montreal pre-1980s, or else if you're very into seeing a young Steve Martin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leb8...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

The Hidden Curriculum of AI Syllabus Statements: How Fear-Based Framing Shapes Student Behaviour and Academic Integrity academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/pt/sh… #AI #education

Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays on a magnificent season. It is a shame either team had to lose. And this was a gut punch. 💔💔 Classy players, fanbase, and truly one of the finest cities in the world. Future is bright with Yeasavage, Barger, and Vladdy. Now go re-sign Bo.

"Canada was at war with Nazi Germany two years before us—and declared war on Imperial Japan the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On June 6, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landed on Juno Beach in conjunction with U.S. and British forces."

The ad by the Ontario government on tariffs should be shared everywhere. One because it pisses the dictator off. Second because it is what Reagan said despite what the Reagan foundation says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABU...

Trump slammed for demolishing White House before Canadians could burn it down again

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

Get ready — the full #ISSOTL25 conference program has landed! Explore inspiring sessions, dynamic speakers, and can’t-miss events that will make this year’s gathering in Christchurch one to remember. Dive in now: issotl.com/issotl25/con...

BCIT interviewed me. I’m proud to work here. www.bcit.ca/news/stories... “Some people say AI is inevitable and we should give up,” Ian reflected. “But we can’t. This is exactly the moment to fight for an ethical future.”

If we ever want to be at least a semblance of a democracy again, there must be a reckoning with what ICE has been empowered to do, and with all the people who empowered them to do it.

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

Such a difference between "higher" ed and "lower" ed. Higher ed's response ranges from "We can do nothing about ICE" to "How can we help you, ICE?" while K-12 defends their kids and families. Via LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster. RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... Reality: Vaccine... - saved millions of lives - < hospitalization - < long COVID - > pregnancy outcomes - < healthcare costs - promising platform for other diseases! - etc, etc!!!

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

From Facebook getting us to assign “friendship” to casual acquaintances, to LinkedIn encouraging us to call a stack of business cards “a network,” social media has completely reshaped how we define and maintain relationships. And not for the better.