Victoria’s Scavengers #BlackHistory #cdnHist #bcHist #yyj buttondown.com/leftcoastdis...

Eve Lazarus: West Vancouver's Navvy Jack House has a fascinating history

Do you know someone who would not be having a Happy National Flag of Canada Day this weekend? Conn Smythe! The longtime Toronto Maple Leafs owner disliked the maple leaf flag and in 1964 wrote to every MP to urge them to retain the Red Ensign. Even cited the Olympics. #cdnhist #vexillology #hockey

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.

Yeah let's see AI take my job. Let's see chat gpt crack the perfectly timed joke in the zoom meeting. Let's see it brighten everyone's Monday. Get outta here

Update: the judge in the Stanford case has declared a mistrial, with jurors "hopelessly deadlocked" on both felony counts – a big embarrassment for the Santa Clara DA, who has already said he'll retry the case.

the B.C. government created a ministry of mental health and addiction in 2017 for the purpose of PRETENDING to address the unregulated drug deaths emergency mental health services remain inaccessible to prevent crisis and inaccessible in crisis. only police. its an outrageous scandal.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Today is World Radio Day, and we're exploring the intersection of radio and AI internally, and with our listeners. Q: What is one thing you don't understand about AI? Is there anything you think you might be misunderstanding?

Alright, time to get back into writing, the thing that people do in order to stop becoming smooth-brained weirdoes

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

Northern Ireland waving from the corner of the room

I was lucky to work briefly on the Inuit university project a decade ago. This has been something people have been working toward since the 1960s/70s and it’s a small joy to see it come this much closer to reality

A “Costco-plus-local” public model could reduce grocery prices by 25 to 45 per cent, depending on where people live www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

Island Health and local groups are urging North Cowichan to reconsider "uninhabitable" shelter sites in Somenos marsh. Advocates warn that recent displacements are linked to health risks and a spike in overdoses. They’re calling for safer, accessible alternatives. #NorthCowichan #IslandHealth

Eby demanded all these special powers to fast track projects, and when his ministers were selling the legislation they used schools and hospitals as examples. I wonder if that was a bunch of bs 🤔

If you care about archives and preserving Canadian history, please write your MP and the Minister of Canadian Identity and Heritage, Marc Miller. Templates are available on the Association of Canadian Archivists website to make this easy for you: #archives #library 📚 archivists.ca/Latest-News-...

Harper killed the National Archives Development aprogram and then Carney killed its successor, the Documentary Heritage Communities Program. Why does the federal government hate archives? bsky.app/profile/emge...

archives are a tiny, tiny proportion of federal funding, killing them simply increases an amnesia about Canada's past, and that's not a good thing, other than for those who benefit from erasing the past or rewriting it for political means.

For many Canadians this may draw a 'meh,' so what, but archives, especially community archives, are a tangible link to collective memory and the past, in the past few years I've witnessed many reserves starting their own archives, photographs and stories, here the cuts will hurt, community...

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

It is absolutely bonkers that Canada isn’t stepping up here. Aside from the tourism ties, it is a looming humanitarian catastrophe. If Canada led, regardless of Washington’s position, others would surely follow.

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

An historic day as the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, or ITK announced that the main campus of the first Inuit led university, Inuit Nunangat University will be located in Arviat, Nunavut.

So as we close the chapter of our lives with Lubo, I decided to read the chapter about him. Less than 2 years into our time with him, I submitted some writings about him. It was published in a book about rescue dogs around the world. jumpshare.com/s/yMMtqMG7Wp...

It’s interesting that two major heritage/history initiatives were recently cut by the feds, but the response from advocacy orgs has been ad hoc. Nothing on DHCP cuts from museum orgs, nothing on Historic Site Registry from archive orgs etc... The time to work together on these matters was yesterday

We apologize for the typographical error in our recent posting for a deck-hand job.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org

It’s interesting that two major heritage/history initiatives were recently cut by the feds, but the response from advocacy orgs has been ad hoc. Nothing on DHCP cuts from museum orgs, nothing on Historic Site Registry from archive orgs etc... The time to work together on these matters was yesterday

Every time you see a big-time CEO post about Tumbler Ridge, send them the link to the GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/tumbler-ri...

I love how every Al ad is like "You're a stupid pissbaby, right? You can't wipe your own ass? Ask our chatbot how to wipe your ass. Pollute people's homes forever just to learn how to clean after pooping. We're worth $300 billion.”

Verified Tumbler Ridge fundraiser organized by the community’s Parent Advisory Council, with Alt Text and direct link below: www.gofundme.com/f/tumbler-ri...

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

Reminder to folks trying to make sensenof the senseless today in Tumbler Ridge, in Quebec city, Alexandre Bissonnette wanted to do a school shooting from when he was a teenager. He just didnt get a gun till he was in his 20s.

All of BC is wrapping the families of Tumbler Ridge with love. Supports are available: BC Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789 Kids Help Phone: Text “CONNECT” to 686868 Thank you to the emergency responders on the ground for the work they are doing.

Our hearts are in Tumbler Ridge tonight with the families of those who have lost loved ones. Government will ensure every possible support for community members in the coming days, as we all try to come to terms with this unimaginable tragedy.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

ICYMI: “Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for water shortages and wildfires” abcnews.com/US/wireStory... - ABC News #CAFire #CAwx #COFire #COwx #Climate #Drought #Environment #Hydrology #IDFire #IDwx #MTFire #MTwx #ORFire #SnowDrought #UTFire #UTwx #Wildfires

The Bay and Eddie Bauer were two of the few places I could find quality clothes that fit me at a decent price. Thanks a lot private equity fucckos

Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

We pay many humans to work for the City to do this work.

Sovereignty includes being able to tell your own stories. You can’t do that if you don’t preserve your history. #cdnpoli #Canada

I havent seen any reporting on this, yet. Have you?

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Elbows down, discreetly 😡