Amazing! Well deserved!

The Barrio is now open Latinsky is up and ready to use. You can log in at latinsky.community and you can follow the link below to transfer your data to the Latinsky/Blacksky PDS and get a Latinsky handle.

The chatbot of the police in the Netherlands reacts to a report of incitement of violence against Palestinians as a case of antisemitism. Likely because the word Palestinian was mentioned. Thinking of the scholars who claimed recently AI can help democracies & governance. LOLwelp #ResistAI #Racism

Carbon capture is basically greenwashing anyway. I don’t know why we continue to pretend it’s a viable option.

TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.

MEDIA RELEASE: Emily Lowan Supports Opposition to Nanaimo Data Centre, Continues Calls for Moratorium at Press Conference

Good.

"Among the most important legal issues authors need to consider are that 'AI-generated text is not copyrightable, and knowingly failing to disclose AI-generated content in a copyright registration application can constitute fraud on the Copyright Office'"

Canadians don’t need big things, we need investment in the small things: public libraries, social workers, early childhood educators, nurses, community health supports. These are the investments that provide sustained benefits, more than mining, more than oil & gas.

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Unbelievable, and yet totally believable.

1/3 Yes, even the dems and liberals (remember, Obama would not apologize to American Indians and still says the word "genocide" is special and we have to be careful for whom and how it is used) follow Trump's comprehension of "real americans". The rest of us are hyphenated Americans.

The greatest scientific research funding program in world history, illegally gutted & now replaced with a pipeline of pure grift for charlatans. Mindless stupidity & corruption.

Sanctuary Health has helped farm and construction workers for decades. Now they’re bracing for a new crisis. @isaacphannay.bsky.social dug into the history and future of a B.C. organization that has been connecting migrants to health care for 40 years. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

hate when i have to cancel a stop on my Stab Trans Women To Death Tour because someone stabbed a transgender woman to death

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I’m always kind of surprised when people in line at the coffee shop have to ask about all the different drinks. What must it be like to discover a cappuccino for the first time?

🚨 BREAKING: The Bureau of Land Management has just announced plans to open up ~80,000 acres across rural NW Arizona (north of the Grand Canyon) for oil and gas leasing. The rub? The geologists and land managers I spoke with said there’s not any oil or gas there. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Watch this if you've never heard it laid out just why SNAP for low income people is a plus for the economy and, no, that it isn't responsible for higher food prices for the rest of us.

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

In June, I'm recording 3 back-to-back episodes of The Data Fix specifically speaking to AI data center buildouts in Canada and beyond. This one below is open to the public!

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

folks seem jazzed about yesterday's libraries exec budget news. HOWEVER, we at @nycplan.org are not thrilled. it is still 97 million dollars short on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign promise... 0.5% for libraries. he only restored the cut HE made in Jan. budget is basically the same as last yr

BC Nurses are pissed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

OK I need to shut it down for the night. I'll say more about the public library stuff in the morning. All I will say now is that the executive budget proposal is still almost $100 million LESS than the Mayor's campaign promise of 0.5% of the city expense budget. The fight continues...

Slightly increase a band: Reasonable Mouse

I sincerely wish that the eyes emoji would look in both directions. 👀

Fucking hell, it is Telus dailyhive.com/vancouver/te...

Globe & Mail reporting that the radar scientists supporting EC's new $180M national radar network have been disbanded. They did the work to ensure the 'essential functionality' of the network - providing timely, high-quality data for weather warning decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1fa5cdb...

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It’s bright outside, and we’re getting brighter indoors! Learning about Controlled Vocabularies with @julzbullard.bsky.social and the UBC iSchool.

Seventeen American passengers who were aboard the cruise ship that faced a hantavirus outbreak were expected to land in Nebraska to be monitored at the country’s only federally funded quarantine center. One passenger had mild symptoms, and another tested “mildly PCR positive” for the Andes virus.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

“Post-training” is just a bunch of extra prompts before your prompts.

“‘What’s happening right now is probably the swiftest disenfranchisement of Black folks since Reconstruction, due to disenfranchisement by racist gerrymandering. And they will lie and say that it’s for political purposes,’ said Democratic state representative Justin Pearson of Tennessee…”

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

If you are NYC-based and you want to join with other New Yorkers who are fighting for our public libraries, you are welcome to attend our next monthly meeting on May 17 at 1:30 pm. It's in person. Email [email protected]

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Speaking of techno-fascists, Gab is sending mass emails out about AI that adheres to “Christian and Western values”.

What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.

I’ll say it. I supported the @liberalca.bsky.social for too long. I wanted to believe in a Canadian centrism that balanced social and economic issues. But it’s clear the Liberals just don’t give a shit about anyone but corporations.

"A celebrated harm reduction and recovery advocate is rejecting an honour given to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim because the mayor is trying to prevent a new overdose prevention site from opening." Reporting by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

This is a reminder, if ever we needed it, that community spaces are critical for communities. Libraries, parks, community centers, all-ages spaces, schools, walkable streets. For folks in #yvr this means a strong Parks Board. @onecityvan.bsky.social

Dear British people, following your local elections, I regret to inform you that you are going to need to spend more time in the pub.. www.ippr.org/media-office...

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

Even though student enrolment has dropped slightly between 2014 & today, the Vancouver School Board has doubled the number of senior management jobs. @kehyslop.bsky.social breaks down the numbers as a teachers' union says the money would be better spent in the classroom. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

There's a lot of work to do and there are billions of people who can take on some part of that work.

Today we’re publishing an important investigative story by Emily Enns. This story maps the connections between a group of mostly retired academics and think tanks to sow doubt about the historical truths of residential schools in Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...