Here's the thing about this: It isn't a boycott really. On one level I'm not travelling to the US because of moral objections, sure. But the really powerful factor for me is just a basic risk assessment. The American administration is clearly aggressively hostile to foreigners, and people like me.

U.S. wine export markets have contracted substantially. In April, the year-over-year export value dropped by 41.4%, worsening the 28% decline recorded in March. The three main export destinations for U.S. wine—Canada (-93%), the UK (-29%), and China (-70%)—all reported significant decreases.

A dream.

New business ethics syllabus just dropped. Shareholder theory v. Stakeholder theory playing out in real time.

New business ethics syllabus just dropped. Shareholder theory v. Stakeholder theory playing out in real time.

Canada also has a Senate, but literally the only interesting thing about it is the goofy carpet.

Like the United States, Canada also has a Supreme Court. Unlike the United States, Canada's judges dress like Santa Claus. Also, the Supreme Court of Canada has an official owl mascot named Amicus.

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

I’d given a tiny piece of myself away. That can’t happen. I have too much to hide, and letting one piece go means the rest isn’t as protected.

My high school English teacher complained that students took otherwise acceptable pieces of writing, then poured a jar of spare commas all over the page. T***p does that with punctuation, especially upper case letters.

Transitioning to fangirl mode.

"What could possibly go wrong", says councilor who, I assume, has never read/watched sci-fi.

Yes. Absolutely. This should be leading the news.

This was the play all along.

Now would be a great time for the left in Canada to have a serious, coherent agenda that seeks a structural transformation of material life in service of workers, rather than, you know, keyboard warrior emoji shit and first-year undergrad epithets.

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Momentum Canada has a petition calling on the GoC to recognize that the US is no longer a "safe third country", to update travel guidance to the US and create a clear and accessible pathway for trans refugees. Please join me in signing. #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

The real danger to Canada isn’t from the tariffs. It’s from the (unjustified, illegal) *threat* of tariffs. We can adjust to any tariff. But *uncertainty* undermines the entire relationship. Retaliation can’t fix that. Only minimizing exposure to the US can. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Interesting thread.

1. Sabotage public institutions. 2. Claim they don’t work efficiently. 3. Eliminate them. — That’s the playbook.

To my non-Canadian followers: We’re having a bit of a Monday up here. The TL will be rather maple-flavoured for a while. Hope to sort it out soon. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Even in the age of LLM academic dishonesty, I'm trying to keep assignments aligned with learning outcomes that I care about.

I love when profs respond to worries about LLM cheating by saying you can prevent it with highly specific assignments where students analyze a text at the line-level with footnotes and citations &c. Man, that is not what I want from my students even in 3rd year courses much less 1st year

The Doug Ford government paid experts $1.5M to tell them how to reach net-zero emissions. Experts came up with 18 scenarios; each one urged the government to phase out natural gas. The Ford government isn't doing that and hasn't released the report. An exclusive by me thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ener...

A while back I asked Americans to talk about getting sick or hurt in other countries and how surprised they were at how little it cost to see a doctor almost everywhere else but here. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-american...

This.

Today's final humanism lecture: making something out of nothing. Drawing on @nickriggle.bsky.social "High Five!" and Jenny Odell "How to do nothing!" And @anneboyer.bsky.social 's poem "Not Writing". Looking to find space, meaning, fun, contemplation in the interstices.

‪I created a starter pack for philosophers (and one or two folks adjacent to philosophy) who are interested in, and contribute to philosophical pedagogy. It's decidedly incomplete for now, so if you don't mind, please help me find folks who work on teaching philosophy! go.bsky.app/RpNe6Gs

A short story collection that I could design a fantastic philosophy course around.

Loving @naominovik.bsky.social Buried Deep and Other Stories. 💙📚

Essay season.

one thing i appreciate about tlc's "no scrubs" is that it tells you what a scrub is in the first verse. tlc knew you can't make an argument unless you first define your terms

So Wired Magazine did a profile of me! www.wired.com/story/murder...

Today's humanism lecture is @rimabasu.bsky.social on Sherlock Holmes and Moral Failure and Kelly Weirich on ChatGPT and Emotional Outsourcing. In short: the moral floor is to act like a human being and treat others like a human being. Cut out the humanity at either end and you're doing it wrong.

Today Doug Ford is using the traffic disruption caused by the Santa Claus Parade to rail against bike lanes. There is no good faith in this entire thing and no journalist, citizen or pundit should treat it as good faith.

I created a Social Philosophy Starter Pack. Please tell me who I should add (including you)! #philsky

I meant to pair this with yesterday's lecture on Love and Social Justice, to emphasize the "action" of activism. Maybe it'll go on my review slides.

For 15 years, Nestlé — and then BlueTriton — extracted and profited from millions of litres of water from the traditional lands of Six Nations, while they had no access to clean drinking water. This week, the company said it is leaving Ontario. Some members of Six Nations want its wells back.

Somehow, I already had the script to Angels in America open in a tab. Grief sends me back to it again and again.

“The Great Work Begins” is the proclamation Tony Kushner’s Angel makes in Angels in America upon arrival. Although people talk about and quote that line often, less discussed is Prior Walter’s initial response: “Go away.” That sends a message today.

@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social has a thoughtful essay on this week's attack on cities from above: www.tvo.org/article/opin...

Climate change adaptation is good business practice.

Opposing the closure of safe injection sites, for one. Safe consumption includes safe supply and convenient consumption.

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

This is gutting. He was wonderful.