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.

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM (Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The notwithstanding clause has got to go.

Concept rendered meaningless through collision with the internet: third space

A key reminder right now, from @prisonculture.bsky.social: "We are actually in a consistent battle to unleash and free our imaginations in the face of unrelenting oppression... Imagination is an important terrain of struggle." prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

normalizing mask wearing makes criminalization, from this kind of surveillance to mask bans, way harder. you wearing a respirator to the grocery store, on transit, in healthcare is a practice of solidarity with the most marginalized in your community on more than one level.

".. capitalism has always required the social differentiation and hierarchization of race. [..] the social differentiation of race is not a secondary outcome of capitalism but, rather, the racial expropriation of land, labor, and life is innately constitutive of capitalism." @harshawalia.bsky.social

Vaid continues, quoting Frederick Douglass: “What I do believe is that power yields nothing without a demand & without some kind of countervailing power to win that demand. I believe that organizing to redistribute power & access more democratically is how we will bring about change.”

It worries me how often I am seeing "teach AI literacy" basically meaning "teach patrons how to use AI" as if those are the same thing.

For almost two decades, Nunavut has been working on the largest land use plan in the world — but the process appears stalled, while a renewed interest in northern development has led mining claims in proposed protected areas to spike. New from @chloewilliams.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nunavut-land...

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

FWIW, your local library has probably been fighting EBook Central about these changes. I know we have been.

Library and Archives #Canada Announces Its First Creator In Residence www.canada.ca/en/library-a... #libraries

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Yeah, definitely nothing suspicious about Ex Libris of all companies selling us a tool that won't answer questions about Gaza

All those AI-powered tools library vendors are turning on by default (or your library is choosing to active)? Yeah, they aren't neutral, they aren't accurate, and the companies have no interest in providing clarity. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

My @thestar.com column this week: More than a decade ago, Doug Ford helped usher in an era of outsourcing public services at city hall. The private sector contracts for services like garbage pickup were supposed to save a lot of money. The numbers say they haven’t. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

Glad to see diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives thriving at the nation’s top universities.

Carney is placing Canada on a collision course with fascism. My latest at Substack. noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-...

The person in the video in the quoted tweet is Melanie Yazzie, speaking about decolonization. She did not deserve this response from Marina Medvin or Ann Coulter. That response is just gross. Full text response from Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin: www.krmg.com/news/local/p...

Philanthropy empowers mostly the philanthropists. "Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school. The closure of a school Chan opened in 2016 to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors."

Authoritarians create an imaginary past by controlling access to actual history. They claim strength but are too fragile to face things as they actually exist.

Canadians really need to interrogate their government about what these "critical minerals" are gonna be used for (hint, it's war)

Canada preaches truth and reconciliation until they have to live up to treaty obligations. History repeats itself again and again. We betray Indigenous folks for money and resources every time.

The Trump administration is looking to cut funding for already underfunded tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%. College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social‬

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

A massive error by Mr. Kinew. A pipeline to Hudson Bay is building a stranded asset. By the time it's finished (2030s) there will be NO market for methane exports. Europe is weaning itself from gas as it builds out renewables. Dumb economics. #EnergyTransition www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

One of the issues with undergrad students is that - despite all the “digital natives” hype - their online literacy is often quite poor. In two academic offences panels this week a student was totally perplexed when asked why an AI made up quote was in their essay: “it was the 1st result on Google.”

March 2025: “Elbows up!” June 2025: “Yeah, whatever.”

Am I losing my mind wasn't there a beaverton article or something that said "Conservatives finally figure out how to get a Conservative prime minister: run as a Liberal" I want it for a video but I can't finnndndddddd iiiiitttttttt

20% - 25% of the CO2 emissions of gasoline come from its extraction, refining, and distribution. That carbon is in the air before the fuel is even burned.

People should actually be panicked about the fact that social media algorithms mean that we functionally can live in completely different realities or you can just write snarky comments about how dumb people are I know I can’t make you choose the correct response

Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

Anti-transit rhetoric is just a funnel for Conservative talking points. We do not need an ABC Toronto.

All of this. Please listen to the activists who have been through all this shit before. Don't talk about shit. Be about shit.

Canada has been in wrong since day 1 on this. They did everything to get Human Rights Tribunal case tossed out including spying on Cindy Blackstock & they LOST. Courts said Canada had to settle. When Canada offered an insufficient settlement, Cindy called them out on it - now Canada is blaming her?

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

For those who don't feel comfortable donating to individuals this is one way you can help Gazans: