Hart: just imagine a glorious future where all books are AI garbage so readers have no choice but to read them Hart: also maybe we could make it illegal to say that AI is bad Hart: just a thought Hart: i think that would be a great idea

I have experienced privatised mail and believe me, you don't want it.

How many YEARS have I been railing against this Food Professor fraud?! Yet local and national media treat him as an authority, instead of the galoot he is.

“There’s no light at the end of the tunnel whatsoever,” says Matias Duque, director of philanthropy for Canada’s largest food bank, Moisson Montréal. “Demand is not going down.” thewalrus.ca/more-student...

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

panow.com/2026/01/29/i... “I think it’s incredibly short-sighted and counterproductive to the agricultural centre, to the agricultural industry in Saskatchewan, to the long-term prospects for Canadian sovereignty,” said Will Robbins, a farmer west of Saskatoon and board member of the NFU

5 classes you took in university: 1. Critical Resource Geography 2. Contemporary Debates in Marxism 3. Canadian History since 1945 4. Women in Early Modern History 5. Educational Linguistics

Types of roll I will acknowledge: egg, spring, fresh, jelly.

Things that are still very gross even when you do them to fascists because they reveal what you really think about marginalised groups of people: (Other things are gross too but this is what I’ve seen people doing consistently) - sex worker shaming - misogyny - homophobia - fatphobia

"treating creative work as free raw material for AI systems is not progress. It is a massive transfer of wealth from creators to corporations, from the many to the few, and from the UK to the US..."

The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs.

Does Carney...eat? Between this and cuts to AAFC I just don't know

Canada is overreliant on food from the US (and agriculture exports to the US) - this is not the time to cut AAFC staff and resources. We also need this investment to increase the food systems resilience in the face of climate change.

BREAKING: Big legal win for the bid to reverse the Palestine Action ban through the Scottish courts The Craig Murray led bid for a judicial review has been successful and will be heard in weeks www.thenational.scot/news/2580004...

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

“Open borders experiment”…. Utter nonsense. Except for the fact that the current clown car collective is worse, “Oversaw a feeble attempt to dehumanise refugees by painting over murals while we have gone full xenophobic, economy-wrecking fash” would be better.

Sit with this because it's the truth

We just called it "the crick".

Action item for Canadians: look up your municipal/provincial/federal rep Does their official website have an X button on it? Write them a letter that says: "Hey, I'm your constituent, your website [url] has a link that goes to a site with porn on it" Use more words than that if you got spoons.

Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Canada has 41.5 million people, and its governing party is posting messages on a platform that are on average viewed by only a few hundred people What do Canadian MPs actually gain from using X? What would Canadian MPs stand to lose by leaving X?

I mean if JD Vance really wants to say this, he can, during the many hours daily he seems to spend on X. Why is the British government laundering positions on his behalf that he won’t publicly take himself? stocks.apple.com/ABZlqyHk8ReC...

Email Solomon. CC your MP and the PM. And sign the hoc petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Of course not. That would make the tech bros that Solomon is sucking up to very angry. What an absolutely useless waste of a Cabinet minster.

Thank you! 14,000 Canadians have signed this petition calling for banning X/twitter in Canada as well: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

Will Palantir just do this for us in the UK?

Almost a year to the day I wrote this for The National. If Musk funding technology to make child sex abuse images isn’t enough to get people off that damn app then I don’t know what is. Labour are going to tackle misogyny? Here’s an easy one. Ban X! www.thenational.scot/politics/248...

A library based on access to subscription databases that vanish completely as soon as the payments stop is, in an important sense, not a library. It is not a repository. It's just a viewing platform.

January is Stalking Awareness Month! When we launched in 2024, we set out to change the law. "Made you fear your safety" is too subjective and there are numerous cases where a woman's anger, tenacity and resilience were used to dismiss the harassment because "Well, she doesn't seem scared." 1/3

Do you think the government might learn from this

Just another day trying to get the taxpayer-subsidised private bus service to post information about weather-related cancellations ANYWHERE instead of - heck, even in addition to - X. No, my teen will not be joining X to find out if they can bus to school. #stagecoach #nationalisebuses

Back when I hadn't realised this was their whole business model

Why is Reuters quoting an AI/LLM chatbot’s response to the same LLM making CSAM? Is the software responsible for this material or is it the staff, board and owner of the company that makes the software that should be held to account?

I made it through this year and it didn't kill me. So much appreciation for the nurses, oncologists, radiotherapists, scanners I don't know the proper names for, and my amazing surgeon - all unfailingly patient and kind. On to preventative treatment and concerted time to spend on my actual research!

The way the railways are run is changing. We think it's vital that passengers' voices are heard in the reform process. If you ever travel by rail, and you have around 10 minutes to spare, please fill in our survey: bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/ra...

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

Hey Bsky… Here is a Regina, Saskatchewan holiday tradition: Shit Fireplace. Enjoy. youtu.be/q4I2tOUy6vQ?...

An English local council innovates, evaluates what it did, finds it works (replicating an earlier study in Scotland) … and all councils are told by the Labour government not to try it. What message does this convey? Another victory for ideology & cowardice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"if you have time" It is literally our job to be experts and to discern what is true. Do you not understand why those are critical functions without which societies fall apart? Those functions are to be protected and rewarded, not characterized as a hobby for those who "have time."

I signed and encourage you to too.

No loving parent needs the state to force their child to come out. Alberta's legislation doesn't protect families; it rewards abusive ones. Using the notwithstanding clause to override the rights of trans kids makes the intent clear. #CDNpoli #ABpoli

Last radiotherapy treatment today! Goodbye, hated chin strap. #oncosky

The technology was forged in a delusional space where copyright isn’t an issue. No business before has been allowed to do something like that. Except maybe colonialism. “What if we revalued humans and resources at a purchase cost of £0? Would that get us a big pay day?” And we made that illegal.

New in The GJ: 'The (im)possibilities of repopulation: How supply-side factors hinder the revitalisation of vacant houses in rural mountain regions' by Bernhard Grüner & Elisabeth Gruber This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Depopulating Places'. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

You hear transportation engineers (especially for state DOTs) say stuff like, "People want to drive. We're not in the business of social engineering." Honey, your profession has socially engineered our society since the 1950s. It's time to invest more fairly across transportation modes

My fighting-age son is coming from a foreign country to visit us on Wednesday!