"93 per cent of residents say they're satisfied with library services." Do you know how hard it is to get 93% of people to agree on anything, let alone for that thing to be satisfaction with a government service? Libraries are freaking magic.

Vancouver friends, if you love books, libraries, and your freedom to read, you might also love this documentary screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social coming up at the Rio Theatre: riotheatretickets.ca/events/40213...

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Is anyone else getting Louie Louie vibes?

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Oh goodie.

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

It's the old adage that a scientist can bring dinosaurs back to life but it takes a social scientist to tell you that's a bad idea.

This is bigger and more important to me than anything else in the world

Suzie helped me pick today’s affirmation card. It’s for both of us. And for all @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

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great, my bluesky account is being hidden now

"If you choose to speak with the media it is important to understand that you will have little control over what is actually reported and how it is presented to the public...."

Picture this, a sky full of thunder. Picture this, my telephone number.

This is such a great thread.

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Oh great :(

I’m just saying if Sauron *made* the ring who are some dweeb-ass hobbits to decide it’s gotta go. Are we pro-creator and pro-artisan or not.

Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."

Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days

Sounds like the justification is that people are so busy with trying to fight a thousand dystopian things, they won't even notice if we launch this one extra dystopian thing.

From Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's book, You Can Be the Last Leaf Poem. Translated by Fady Joudah. #poem #books #writing

it is about to be the first valentine's day since thousands of people fell in love with a predictive text generator and i fear the content will be tremendous

So gross. (Gift link.) wapo.st/3OdJGxo

"It" being AI.

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Under a new Georgia bill, librarians could be arrested for allowing a minor to read a book with LGBTQ+ characters or storylines. georgiarecorder.com/2026/02/03/g...

If you've walked away from a so-called "big deal," let us know. We keep a record of institutions that have canceled contracts with publishers, along with strategic considerations, outcomes & money saved. Click for a list & resources. sparcopen.org/our-work/big...

In light of Ring Cameras allegedly helping you find your dog:

Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

Got this by email. Interesting that the WaPo knows what might convince me to subscribe again, while also making it extremely unlikely that they will be doing more of this.

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I went to Germany in my 20's. My Canadian friend didn't want me to ask but when I met his Germany friend I did: "What do you think about the Holocaust?" He replied that in school they were taught that it was not their fault, but it was their shame. That was one generation after the ones at fault.

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in the midst of the absolute tidal wave of reposts of that awful truth social post it seems we need a reminder of this post from @clancyny.bsky.social please stop uncritically sharing propaganda

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What? Oh no. This is bad. No advance warning.

Did you know air pollution is the top preventable cause of premature death + ill-health in the world today: killing nearly 10 million people per year? And 2/3 of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels? For more surprising & powerful facts on health and climate, follow @maibached.bsky.social

Not a Bluesky expert so don't know if this is strange / bot behaviour, but it the follower count is currently jumping up and down by about 30.

I just came across this Ursula K Le Guin quote: "I have no agenda that I’m conscious of, and I certainly don’t want to nominate any enemies.... My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them." I miss having her in this world.

679 challenges from ON, 437 from AB, 376 from BC -- and YT and QC are tied for lowest with just 1.