Maybe fix all the above first & implement recs TF/GBV & MMIWG experts have called for over decades, THEN we can maybe consider starting to think about contemplating the idea of possibly discussing if LE really needs new "technical capabilities" to investigate crimes their own buddies are committing.

3) it cynically exploits social justice issues to claim that preventive measures against a product will necessarily be discriminatory 4) it claims that educators must adapt to the rules of commerce, which, if subject to regulation necessarily results in the discrimination cited in number (3)

This is a fake problem. The research cited here makes four classic moves in tech boosterism: 1) it cites w/o evidence the inevitably wide uptake of a product 2) it prematurely frames a narrative of tech progression in terms of waves ("2nd-wave AI challenge") to make this future a fait accompli

“While Trump’s trade war is hitting the Canadian economy, Mark Carney is insisting on a devastating round of austerity to ensure it is workers who pay, not profits” www.counterfire.org/article/aust...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

A Day in the Life of a Palestinian Lawyer: “In Gaza, missiles don't just destroy stone; they attempt to erase legal history. Families lose homes along with title deeds under rubble. A client asks: How will I prove this land is mine? With official archives destroyed, I fight to reconstruct the truth.

Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalised at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence, crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the UN. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/25/i...

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

There is no dustbin of history. For better and for worse, archives can always be reactivated in new combinations

If you’re an engineer in the US with Iranian colleagues, they probably graduated from here. It’s MIT caliber. What the fuck are we doing.

Yeah that’s cool

This is an epic Ford failure and he should lose the GTA over it., Over to you, Ontario voter.

GET HER, VARIETY 😍

This is just a tactic to desensitize people in Toronto to police openly carrying weapons. There is already so much police brutality and violence without this in public spaces and public life. www.tps.ca/media-centre...

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

Now Available Online (Full Text): Special Issue of IFLA Journal (March 2026) Devoted to #Indigenous #Knowledge repository.ifla.org/items/cce7bc... #libraries @ifla.org

God gives the loudest snores to his fastest sleepers 😞

Think of this when you think of Carney and Canada

Borders are colonial constructs and the Jay Treaty gives free passage across that line dividing a once undivided land that has belonged to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The residential school denialism movement is fracturing because (unsurprisingly) it has a Nazi problem - and you just love/hate to see it.

Another example of AI & Racism harming the Black community.

Incalculable, immeasurable loss. You will be missed so dearly, Fobazi.

My colleague Mikayla and I have an article in this issue that defends imperfect solutions as an ethical framework toward justice work! If you're intrigued, you can read more here! cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

We have a major issue on our hands at the Toronto Prosecutor's office. They claim a lack of resources are why huge numbers of charges are withdrawn against dangerous drivers, but that excuse is meaningless in the face of blatant anti-cyclist attitudes. www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements. It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.

Draw your own conclusions, but the president of Palantir Canada sits on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. And the feds also did a deal with Palantir, via a homegrown proxy.

Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this. www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...

Somebody end the methodological scourge that is the “Systematic Literature Review” 😡😭

I need as many Heated Rivalry seasons as there are Drag Races

Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...

It’s 2 o’clock, do you know where your emotional support spreadsheet is?

Why is pairing my sweet, old, crusty pug with early modern English so funny to me?

"Canada is one of Palantir's top funders." "Public Sector Pension Investment Board and the Canadian Pension Plan are major shareholders." "[I]ncentive for governments to look the other way. Jeopardize oversight? That might hurt pension returns." #Ontario #Canada #Surveillance #Technology #Policing

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

The Ontario Conservatives have a unique talent of seeing problems in public infrastructure and service and doing the utmost to make it infinitely worse while also enriching their buddies. It is beyond time to dump Doug Ford.

Stop trying to make AI happen, it's not going to happen

The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.

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every librarian I know would crawl over broken glass for the chance to fistfight an ebook company executive. the ebook policies are genuinely diabolical

We have entered the part of the year where I won’t have volume in my hair for like 6 months because I’m always wearing a hood or hat 😭

Provinces are responsible for health and education - let's start talking to voters who keep voting to defund these essential services. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

After losing in state court, the company behind Line 5 tried to move the case to federal court. The problem with that move is that it was illegal. An appeals court rejected the bid, but now the pipeline company is appealing to the Supreme Court.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.