A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Credit to boom99.7 #Ottawa #Canada for this wonderful tribute to Catherine O’Hara, rest easy Queen, you will never be forgotten #CatherineO’Hara #NationalTreasure

The origin story of our current moment in American fascism is the creation of white fraternities—which exempted a piece of campus from race and gender integration and allowed the most powerful students to bond over their hateful ideologies and group violence.

sorry, is he a Marxist who loves the environment or is he unburdened by principle? Those sound like principles to me

“I have the impression that the persons directing the policy of the Hitler Government are not normal. Many of us, indeed, have a feeling that we are living in a country where fantastic hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.” —Sir Horace Rumbold (letter to London, 1933)

A cherished goal in at least half of the US political class at least since Reagan: cripple or dissolve the UN: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

there's a lot of monday happening on a friday, if you ask me.

Brie hosts UVA's Alisha Gaines to talk about work on plantation knowledge production, literary studies, and the place of Black Studies in antifascist, antiauthoritarian struggle. Great convo, here or most streams: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Measure of Our Humanity—COURAGE This Sunday, Feb 1, 11am - 12:30pm MST Online, FREE, donations appreciated With three remarkable women, Christiana Figueres, Roshi Joan, and Rebecca Solnit. Register here: www.upaya.org/program/the-... @joanhalifax.bsky.social

Fill yourself by scrolling through the Catherine O’Hara trending feed tonight. So many clips of her work are posted

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Canadian postage stamps are superior to American postage stamps. This was issued in 2014.

This came in the same budget that axed a luxury tax on yachts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Toronto Life dove into its archives for this one featuring greats of Canadian comedy, including Catherine O'Hara, after our sad news this morning:

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A First Nation in southern Alberta is advising its members against all travel to the U.S., adding that the Jay Treaty and Indian status cards are being challenged by U.S. border officials.

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

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#MorningReads Combating anti-transgender misinformation: A sociological approach:

If you're going to interview Jason Kenney and bring up the lessons of Brexit, don't you have to remind him that he *supported* it? #abpoli #cdnpoli

The problem (for them) with having the entire executive branch captured by poasters and meme huffers is that they think the average person vibes with their bullshit; they just can't seem to understand that the more of this shit they do & post, the angrier Normie America gets with them. Sucks to suck

There's a lot that can be said (and has been said) about how intellectually shoddy and self-injurious the whole 'remigration' movement that is picking up steam in Canada is, but this article is a really powerful example of the real human impacts of recent immigration reductions in the country.

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Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

Look at our movies. Read our books. Those only capture SOME of what it was like. It was hell growing up with some of those kids. HELL. Some were mean AF for no reason, and a few were even cruel. Adults just told us to "fight back." There was no Internet to vent on! You just had to deal with it.

Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.

I had to see it for myself "Unlock life in America."

How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year. Our Ocean Heat Report, now featured in @insideclimatenews.org details these profound impacts. Full analysis: insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202... @michaelemann.bsky.social @aasjournal.bsky.social #ClimateScience #Insideclimate #Science #AAS

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

oof lol www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hell is empty and all the Devil's Advocates are here.

The "release them in the middle of nowhere to die in the cold" tactic was called "starlight tours" when the Mounties invented it to kill Indigenous people. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

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"We don't need Canadian products. We don't need anything from Canada"

As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues A rig fell over onto the tundra as it was on its way to drill in ConocoPhillips’ winter exploration program. insideclimatenews.org/news/2801202...

I'm not fooling myself, I've tried, this regime takes us to the stone pit every day we live like this each dawn we wake up, our limbs paralyzed shake our bones out, deliver ourselves to the sharp instruments for butchering to appease which rain god, which govt god, which engine god - Dionne Brand

they ask sometimes, who could have lived, each day, who could have lived each day knowing some massacre was underway, some repression, why, anyone, anyone could live this way, I do, I do ... we live like this... - Dionne Brand, excerpt OSSUARY XV

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This is kind of blowing my mind?

put a cork in this guy www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

More tariffs ffs

A psychologist and an artist collaborate to turn reproductive loss into connection, visibility and healing.

One of the big unspoken impacts on GenX is that a huge part of the progressive moral heart of the generation was killed by AIDS.

Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.

New for @teenvogue.com (!) The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026. www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...