This is a big deal in Vancouver politics circles. @fabulavancouver.bsky.social has been reporting on Vancouver politics for decades. You can make a good case that no one knows the city's politics better than she does. A real get for OneCity.

The story ends with people complaining that the waived rental fees only amount to $11,000 when the cost of relocating will be $18,000. Imagine if landlords waived your rental fees for 2 years while you looked for a new living situation?

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then cheknews.ca/residents-at...

I still need to build the companion website, but I finished the data jacket!! The circle on the cuff is an NFC tag that will direct folks to a website that helps explain the visualizations. #DHmakes

SFU Contract workers said for years they face bullying and harassment at work. Requests I made under BC's FOI Act turned up WorkSafeBC records showed they tried to go through the right channels. They told their union. They told SFU. They told media. Nothing changed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

The ACRL 2027 Call for Proposals in now open! We welcome you to share your academic research and innovative projects April 7-10, 2027, in Portland, Oregon, and online. Contributed paper, panel session, and workshop proposals are due on June 6. https://bit.ly/3OOtC5y #ACRL2027

[whispers: the steam clock is a lie]

In light of Sim saying that he said Orr dealt drugs based on seeing a mystery photo from a mystery person, I think it’s important to reflag this. If this is an uncharitable interpretation, the mayor is free to provide more details of how he ended up seeing such a photo and believing it.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

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Imagine being a loaf of sourdough and poisoning your own starter because you think croutons are the future

The abject nihilism of tenured faculty not bringing on new PhD students because they think AI is better

If I’ve learned one thing from the last two decades it’s that we can trust tech companies to regulate themselves

A thought I had while reading this: many people seem much less threatened by GenAI making things like code than making things like language? Which seems weird and possibly related to a bunch of bias ppl have about making (& the meaning baked into making/code) www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f...

What does it mean to make something… and who is the work for? newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it...

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

The really great parts of working in a university are the moments of real reciprocal connection with students who are exploring their unique perspectives & interests & GenAI won’t change those much. OTOH it seems likely to make the mediocre and painful parts of working in a university much worse.

This this this! Students act very rationally within systems designed to extract value from them in exchange for promises of future wealth and if that no longer holds true we’re going to have to find entirely new models and it’s likely to be less lucrative for everyone (but maybe more fun!)

Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

I am probably 20 months into a 6-month sabbatical (let’s say I started 12 months before and it’s been over for 2 months) and I flip between feeling exhilarated and insane.

@danielcberman.com hi! What’s bringing you to Kamloops? Are you coming to TRU?

A lesson about networks that I’m kind of proud of: at the beginning of the year, I gave my 200 students a dumb survey: fav books, foods, etc. I told them they could use pseudonyms and that I’d share their responses with the class. We’ve been using that data in various ways: to make points about +

The future of academic publishing is standing on milk crates yelling

While looking up some other Latin entomology I learned that the Latin root for citation is citare which means “to summon, call forth, stir into motion” which can also be used for evacuating one’s bowels

it's extremely toxic of a conference not to automatically extend the deadline for proposals. speed limit rules apply here: 10 above IS the speed limit and 1 week after the deadline IS the deadline.

information literacy is 💫✨ world-building 💫✨

gotten to the point in the research process where I think I just need to write speculative fiction

In 2018 Buckland noted that documents would continue to increase due to the collaboration required by increasing division of labor, new technologies, and ppl documenting ordinary life. I have to wonder if this will still hold true in the age of generative AI and instant disposable synthetic media?

"Is there a technology the left is excited about?" Let's see, off the top of my head: - libraries - solar power - community-owned, community-run [noun], for example • power grids • communications networks - e-bikes - voting by mail - vaccinations - affordable health care Notice any patterns?

University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.

PSE budget frozen (so -2% in real terms), construction of new student housing at UVic delayed (indefinitely, I think, but not 100% sure)

My whole adult life (and especially post-secondary) we’ve seen this kind of“generational job cut” through unfilled positions, etc. Less opposition since nobody is losing their current job but they still represent a loss of future jobs/value/representation/efficacy/imagination/possibility/etc

I think LLMs are an incredible testament to collective human ingenuity. *Collective*: they are built on layers upon layers of work, spanning centuries, institutions, nations. Only in the crudest sense are they the property of Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and yet they are deployed in a world that +

Doing some important humanities stuff

Honesty every story out of the Louvre just confirms they are the greatest of the giant art museums ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ no notes no competition

#DHmakes 🧶

... tear up relationships and agreements with allies, it's the cultural ecosystem that allows him literally threatening the existence of ostensibly allied states to be played off as a "it's just three years" problem. Ok, and? What about President Vance in '28 or '32, Trump Jr or Barron in '36?

This is the thing where it feels like even anti-Trump Americans don't fully grasp the damage his presidency is doing to their relationship with the rest of the world. Because it's not just Trump. It's the party system that brought him there, it's the political and legal system allowing him to...

Hey, uh, do you want to buy any Girl Scout cookies? My daughter LOVES being a Daisy and is super proud to wear her uniform. www.gsdigitalcookie.com/cookie/Landi...

I love my YMCA. It’s been a part of my (almost) daily routine and social infrastructure for decades. It scaffolds and exemplifies an infinitely more holistic, systemic, reciprocal, and ethical understanding of “health” than all those performance- and aesthetic-focused gyms.

These are sooo good!

1) letterpress vs other possible ways to make movable letter art 2) how to do yr 1st typeset+print w/a Vandercook 3-4) how to access or buy yr 1st type & press for free or least $? Emphasize physical+financial accessibility, why/how print under fascism (protest, infoshare, persuasion, joy, hope).+

I’ll believe that AGI has been achieved when it gets depressed and spends three years getting high while playing video games on the couch until one day it inexplicably decides to start birding which leads to a chance encounter in a park and a passion for dance despite having absolutely no rhythm

🥹 this is what the internet is for 🥲

It’s a category mistake nobody really talks about: most AI companies are not trying to sell creative tools, they are trying to sell content streams.

Obsidian uses local files, so all your standard terminal commands work for editing/moving/searching/etc Obsidian CLI adds everything else: - interacting with the UI - internal functions e.g. base queries, orphans, etc - devtools, console, screenshots, eval, etc See the CLI docs!

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