What universe was this man living in? I remember that year. It was terrorist everything. "Keep shopping/going to school/buying stocks or the terrorists win." You know what we couldn't say? French fries. (Freedom fries.) Conservative pressure groups tried to get The Two Towers film renamed.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

the left *does* punch relentlessly. the issue is that, in most modern societies, punching from the left is dramatically less effective than punching from the right because the right has, you know, money and power, and the left has dramatically less

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

A new report on civic freedoms concludes that "the US is no longer a functional democracy." Congrats everyone. And a *special* congrats to the Harpers letter signatories, free-speech warriors, and "anti-woke" crusaders. You saved us from woke! Great work.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

Most of the time when "woke/DEI" get thrown around they're just fig leaves for being annoyed that someone might ask you not to be racist but calling Calibri a "diversity" font is just tipping your hand to the fact that you lack the vocabulary to explain yourself

we really, catastrophically, have failed to convince our children to be engaged in their own education I say this as a parent of three kids who are *highly* engaged in their own education, especially compared to their chatGPT-using peers, and all along, that's stood out, but now it's so much worse.

Today is Human Rights Day. What a cruel and ghoulish thing to do.

Ahem, taxes go a long way to pay for more domestic seats a public universities in Canada. Just saying….i mean in case you didn’t know…No foreign students don’t take those spots…oh I see you don’t understand how Canadian universities are funded. But are pissed your kid was rejected…and hate taxes…

to me, I just view “perhaps we should teach more humanities again” as an attempt to regain some balance - which I do think is very important! - and not as an argument for humanities supremacy. the point is there shouldn’t be supremacy regarding the basis of human knowledge, imo

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

I can’t prove it, but I wonder if many of the problems we face in the Anglosphere are downstream of the decision, years ago, to stop teaching formal grammar. When you don’t know the rules underlying language (or even that it has rules), maybe you’re more vulnerable to manipulation.

She's had at least three times now where staff have done the, “what you're actually seeing with your own eyes here is not the case”. They said that sidewalks were plowed last year, and then had to admit they lied. How many times is Chow going to get the fell for it again award? Start. Firing. Staff.

"Masculinity," as practiced by the manosphere, is indistinguishable from a simple lack of adequate social & emotional development. It is, in a sense, the explicit *rejection* of social & emotional development.

REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus): Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.

We know, based on loads of comparative evidence, that presidential systems are unstable and prone to clientelism, democratic backsliding, and the like. SCOTUS is doing its best to amplify all the worst aspects of presidential systems. They're cutting the wires that hold the system up.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Students use LLMs because they have never, not just now, had enough time & space for learning. And they are frequently missing knowledge about how the various resources work. We just skipped right over that to "they're going to use it anyway so we have to integrate it into pedagogy."

FACULTY GREW TOO POWERFUL excuse me while I laugh myself off this cliff

Is water wet? The City of Toronto is conducting a pilot project to find out! Have your say! Before April 2026, participate in an in-person or online consultation on whether water is wet or not. Pilot results for TEY area go to Committee Q3 2026. If approved, we will look at North York next.

Ah ha ha ha ha lulz

Could someone just try being honest with students and parents about job outcomes and what it means to get an education and how it affects you if your instructor is struggling to piece together a living wage by teaching 5 different classes at different colleges at the same time?

The worst thing about “new atheism” or whatever was that it was just an alternate vehicle for bloodthirsty western chauvinism to draw in people who thought of themselves as too smart for bush

'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

Even the robots cannot fucking believe what we are doing.

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

based on the current TTC rates this is basically the current cost of a metropass both at $3.35 and $3.30 a ride. if you are on the 12 month pass it's actually going to cost you more. now 47 trips/month, which is you rely on transit isn't unreasonable. however this is not a deal!

Hard not to see this as deliberate operational sabotage

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

It's really cool that Penn, in his 60s, was able to reflect & change. It bums me out that his show "Bullshit" has become, along with South Park, the north star for a brand of specific nihilist libertarian millennial white men, a generation raised on "believing in anything is cringe and a scam"

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

This is a $3B tram that is slower than the buses it was meant to replace and has to sit at red lights for minutes just to allow one guy to turn left in front of it. Just mindboggling incompetence and cowardice from our leaders

The most infuriating part of this multibillion dollar boondoggle is that none of these outcomes are unexpected. Every single transit advocate has been shouting from the rooftops for years that these issues would happen, and they were all ignored

Metrolinx promised 33-34 min TTC runs it at 54 min Doesn’t bode well for Eglinton either

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

There's an entire book to be written about Toronto's motivations on this. The St Clair ROW. The Spadina ROW. Almost as if no matter who is in the mayor's office, appointing their TTC chair, 'priority' and public transit will never be uttered in the same sentence.

Higher education didn’t ‘find itself’ in a ’financial situation’. Smith speaks like the crisis happened naturally, without human agency. It has happened by choice, because of the decisions of this government & the ones before it. It’s her choices that keep the sector collapsing now.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

The thing to understand about all these network states is: (1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional, (2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass And (3) that’s because they want slaves.

This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.

How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.

Like you’re both lying and also devaluing what actual real human beings are doing putting their own safety on the line

What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough

I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.

NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.” This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.

So much of modern society can be explained by the fact that some people simply want to be unkind, and they want to be unkind so badly that they will invent rationales, and indeed whole worldviews, to justify their meanness and selfishness

Especially grim because this is a Labour government doing it, and there is no meaningful opposition. We have been deep in National Front Trumpy territory for many years now, no help is coming for a long, long time and what comes next will be much worse and uglier than this is.

“Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable? … They think they are the grand solutionists that can fix all the problems, but it’s so insular. But just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.”