Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

I know no media is covering the Canada Student Grant cuts, but it's real and it's going to cost several hundred thousand students about $1200 this year. Here's the explainer.

There is not only "no crying in baseball", there is only crying in baseball.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

look at this innocent beast who knows nothing of the drama on screen. bless him.

if nothing else surely this game has blessed us with a glorious series of Ernie Clement facial expressions.

objectively this is very exciting baseball but also I am worried for my heart

!!!! baseball !!!!

To be clear, it seems they are asking for disaggregated, confidential data with a clear intent to attack academic freedom along bigoted, ideological lines. Sign the petition here to demand the Tri-Council refuse to hand over your protected and private data. 2/2 #cdnpse

World of yikes (read the whole thread).

I’ll be watching, helpless, as Hurricane Melissa strengthens and expands in severity with Jamaica in her path. If you’re interested in donating to a legitimate organization that does real good, please consider Food For the Poor’s Hurricane Relief Fund: foodforthepoorja.org/donations.php

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

I’ve been meaning to for awhile, but finally subscribed to The Flytrap! Yay feminist media!

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

Jays!!!!

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

my phone autocorrected “all best” to “all beach” in an email to a student today, and oh phone I wish that were true.

Similarly, the blurring of truth that comes with generative AI is also inherent it. It's part and parcel of the fascistic project of blurring what is real and what is not, so that we give up our individual and innate power of reasoning, of truth-telling, of creativity. /21

The environmental and social costs of AI are not incidental downsides of the technology, issues to be figured out and mitigated for as the industry develops. Rather, they are *inherent* in it. You cannot have generative AI without the environmental and social costs. They're one and the same. /20

AI = fascism Yesterday, @tjheffernan.bsky.social echoed some of my own thoughts about AI. I have more to say about this. 1/thread

me: [makes some basic point] my mom: you and your logic! you should have been a lawyer. me: mom, I'm a philosophy professor. Why would it be better for me to be a lawyer just because I use logic? my mom: well, I watch a lot of courtroom dramas. I guess we need more philosophy dramas?

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2

(I wanted to share this mostly for the other two talks -- I've been dealing with migraine for the last several days so please wish me luck in actually getting it ready + being somewhat coherent)

Today! An online philosophy symposium on food & the microbiome. My own talk is building off of past stuff I've done on the imperative of normalcy & the gut microbiome + considerations of accessibility around gut issues. (4pm Eastern) www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

A very good thread on masking, especially in these hellish times when the systems meant to protect us are being spitefully destroyed by evil little power hungry gremlins. Mask up! Protect yourselves and your community! 😷😷😷

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent My latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

I hope people in NS fight back against this, and win. NS Health is marketing an AI chat bot as a RELIABLE source of info to PREVENT infection. This is straight from the marketing. But it was trained on droplet dogma and claims COVID spreads by droplets predominantly. This is unacceptable. /1

Trans people, I am once again asking you—nay, begging you—to share something good that is going on in your lives right now! I’ll start: I’m working on a new graphic novel and having a blast with the creative team we’ve assembled!

Have you booked your vaccine yet? Fall Covid & influenza vaccines avail in NB next week. You have options: 1. Provincial vaccine scheduler (the website we’re all familiar w by now - and you can use 888888888 for Medicare no.) schedule.ableassess.com/VNB/Register... 2. Call PH 3. Ask pharm #nbpoli

At this point, I really want to ask, is there ANYTHING that AI does well? Because everything Ive encountered in academia is just enshittification like this thread, and profiting off struggling and vulnerable students at their lowest points

I think a lot lately about how so many Black folks were hesitant to come to this site because many of us figured this is where it would go and I have never seen one person so utterly committed to single handedly burning any and all good will their site has accumulated like a five alarm gas fire.

”So I tied an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.“

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

Prof Florence Ashley describes their experience put on leave (...for "safety"?) bc of not glorifying Charlie Kirk's death. Canadian unis should not be doing this, and I am also concerned particularly about how they were targeted by the National Post. cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

In 2020, Canada Post letter carriers literally carried the economy on their backs to deliver parcels and goods to Canadians who were staying home during the pandemic. I do not believe this is appropriate Thanks for their service.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Shoutout to @thewhn.bsky.social for putting together an excellent, science-based Q&A on why many of us are still masking😷 "Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered." whn.global/yes-we-conti...

Someone told me they don’t bother masking their child at the grocery store because "they don’t wear one in school anyway" Schools are incinerators that fuel infections out into the community. The elderly, the high-risk, they shop too. Masking in public spaces helps break that chain ⛓️‍💥

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Pharmacies in NB will have COVID and flu shots (and RSV) the week of Oct 6 (not sure if appointments/availability start immediately). #nbpoli

For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how, three years on fron its release, Knives Out: Glass Onion predicted the AI-addled tech broligarchy we're all struggling with today. This piece is our free post for the month, so if you like it, throw us a subscription the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...

My university’s website is down, which means so is Moodle. I email my classes the PDF readings for tomorrow, only to find out that the email aliases aren’t working either. I have now Bcc’d over a hundred students based on class lists I downloaded last week (which don’t reflect adds/drops). Blarg.

strategy for getting through the year: every time an upper administrator says we should be using more AI in class, since "it's not going anywhere," I'm allowed to drown my frustration with a little treat.

Let it not be said I don't engage earnestly with criticism, while my broader point stands, I added some articles that more accurately represented Carney's past comments on LGBTQ2S+ issues and abortion. They have not been substantially challenging to other actions/silence on issues, but are important

Seen a bad or misleading graph or figure in the media recently? I'd love to see it/share with my research methods class as they develop as consumers of research! Manipulative axes, really small sample sizes, misconstrued percent vs. percentile...show me what you've got! Thanks! #academicchatter

one of the things I really like about my job is that I teach a Fall intro to philosophy to first year students every year. I LOVE their energy & I love encouraging them to follow their questions. ("Yes! you're allowed to disagree with the reading! follow that hunch & try to develop an argument!")