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Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

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I never met Douglas Crosbie. My daughter & I riding to her school that morning, missed his death by about 15mins. We turned left on Dundas. Douglas turned right on Jones. My Origin Story, becoming a cycling advocate; this father of two is directly linked to so much of what I do in #TorontoDanforth

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Fantastic initiative. As a family doc who provides gender-affirming care to many adults, it is crucial to support trans refugees to Canada.🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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is it bedtime yet?

Starting to feel a bit like a taxpayer who is not being respected, I gotta say.

I live in raccoon country.

There is a direct causal link between the removal of speed cameras on Parkside Drive and a 235% increase in speeding. This isn't neutral: people have lost their lives on Parkside. The Premier's meddling in municipal affairs is literally putting lives at risk.

The global residential real estate market is worth $287 trillion dollars — more than the global GDP. We'll commit billions of dollars to bailout investors and developers because housing is the largest store of wealth on the planet. It functions as a commodity, not a human right.

Our tool to email Ford and your MPP remains live. Let the government know that you disagree with this potential path to privatization, that fares must remain affordable and that the TTC needs the Province to step-up with sustainable operating funding: www.ttcriders.ca/bill98

Bill 98, Ford's backdoor upload of the TTC, just passed in the legislature 61-31. This is a dark day for transit. We expect fares to go up, routes to be changed and consultations with riders to cease.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

Read about our new pedestrian memorial program: “If a memorial existed at every location a reckless driver has killed someone on streets designed for speed instead of safety, the scale of this massive ongoing public health crisis would be more apparent to the public.” www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Local woman wakes up, thanks the Alberta First Nations who asserted their treaty rights to stop the separatists, makes oatmeal.

‘Obviously needless deaths’: Memorial installations honour pedestrians killed on Toronto’s streets. Featuring Jess Spieker of @ffsafestreets.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

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The only legacy Premier Doug Ford leaves behind is destruction.

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I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

First the airports now the seaports don't forget the pipelines and the minerals selling off Canada for parts

How have women in science been written out of history? Assistant Professor Ellen Abrams joined CBC Ideas to reflecting on the groundbreaking legacy of Margaret Rossiter and the enduring importance of recovering women’s contributions to science 🖇️ www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I am not an engineer but I do hope one day here in Secret Ontario we know everything about why the Deutsche Bahn deal collapsed.

anyone out there interested in the history of compressed yeast?

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Author copies have arrived! In The Broken Machine, I explore what happens when our technologies break. Drawing on five episodes from the modern Atlantic World, I argue that breakdowns have historically helped define who belongs to the social order and who's outside it. #histtech #histsci #HistSTM

leafblower season is open

Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🧮 #histsci The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic

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Can't speak to Toronto (yet), but we know this is happening here too. 15kph makes virtually no diff in travel time in an urban enviro or school zone. These drivers are just reaching the 🛑 or red🚦 faster. But it makes a catastrophic difference when they come into contact with a human, esp a child

@skywatch.blue You have @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social labeled with "suspected inauthentic behaviour". The Scientific Instruments Society is a professional organization for researchers studying the history of scientific instruments. Nothing inauthentic here.

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Big Loblaw stretches its tentacles, on track to become Canada’s grocery landlord. @rwasserman.bsky.social @keldonb.bsky.social @scpartners.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com ​ www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🔭🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919

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The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

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Carmine was, of course, a guest at the Ford daughter’s wedding.

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The Trump administration has seized $120M USD owned by the Canadian pension fund earmarked for a wind development — and demanding the pension-backed company invest in fossil fuels instead.

So it seems like the impetus for jets is that Nieuport over-paid for the island airport and is desperate to make more money on it. A salutary case study in the dangers of private airports, perhaps, as the feds look at privatizing public ones.

During her first pregnancy, a Black woman said she bled out at a Toronto hospital while waiting at triage. She gave birth in the bathroom. Another Black respondent to a health survey said her life-threatening symptoms were dismissed. She feels she’s only alive because she advocated for herself.

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