What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

So Canada, UK, Australia have now recognized the Palestinian state. I hope it doesn't end at a symbolic gesture. While it will not get rid of the real power imbalance in any future negotiations, it does change one key element of inequality between negotiating parties. If those states support it.

Someone is going to get pedantic with this and point out he's talking about gas and not oil. Don't. The point still stands. Canada is bills itself as a low to zero carbon fossil fuel producer (e.g. through future CCS in the oil sector or use of hydro for LNG). It still gets burned somewhere.

Here in Canada the post office doesn’t sell weed but it sure does deliver it There must be millions of dollars worth of drugs sloshing through the Canadian postal system at any given time

Here's an iron clad law of the universe: Any necessary correction will always include elements of overcorrection. Because people aren't precision instruments. Reactionaries will always cherry pick isolated examples of overcorrection to try and discredit any attempts to correct injustice.

Wish more people understood this. It’s not only okay to say which things you think are bad and which are good but also that there are consquences for the bad. Also, there’s an XKCD for this. Because of course there is. xkcd.com/1357/

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Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

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Hello, I'm a professional author and I can never spell permanently or camouflage on the first try. Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words.

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across. I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears. Just make it stop. #AcademicChatter

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I hate that caring about privacy and security means I am in an adversarial relationship with my devices and apps. In related news, just figured out that Powerpoint was turning on my camera each time I opened it.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The discussion in this thread on AI in academia (and the papers referred to) bring me to a question I’ve asked a few times. My university like most has strong policies around academic integrity and plagiarism and a strong commitment to sustainability. How do I square that w/ AI use in teaching?

This hit the same way as the question I ask my students and present to my editors weekly… Whose future are we creating? Whose progress are we constructing? Who has a right to belong in the future, is intertwined to who has the right to the present and our accurate telling of the past.

Clarifying this post given a couple of comments. It’s not that Canada was somehow innocent and now being overtaken with anti-democratic and anti-rights views from the south. Let’s be honest. It’s always been here since colonization. What’s happening in USA is just adding fuel & providing cover.

Much of what I would want to say about the events of the last couple of days has been said by those more eloquent and with a bigger audience. But I will tell a story about “doing politics right” and dialogue (not debate). (1/x)

Gotta say it’s kinda unsettling being an American citizen in Canada watching the absolute dismantlement of the fundamentals of democracy and seeing some of the same demagoguery and views being expressed up here.

You know what was never on my bingo card? Mohawk sporting, ugly green shirt wearing, backpack paper towel roll dispenser carrying, competitive window tinter with an excited commentary track. Frankly, a complete failure of imagination on my part.

If you want a glimpse into some recent reporting we did that kinda fucked me up, read to the end of the piece, where “I want daddy” comes up

I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

I like Prof. Terence Tao. But the whole, "I don't usually talk about politics, but now is the time!" bit is so tired. It's giving "Guys! Before this only affected you! But now it affects me! Fight for me! Save me!"🤡 Albert Einstein didn't wait for his funding to be cut before speaking for others.

Time to post dumb science memes #ScienceSky

My @forestry.ubc.ca colleague is recruiting grad students. 👇 Hamish does very cool and interesting work on impacts of the internet on the environment.

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If you are in #Vancouver join us for this Truth and Reconciliation Day Event.

I've been getting requests from reporters about the disbanding of the DOE Climate Working Group. Here are some comments. More to come on my Substack (www.theclimatebrink.com).

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

Energy and climate provocations like these are useful for stimulating discussion. I find them useful as a teaching tool. I broadly agree with most of these and disagree with a couple. like the first one on AC vs data centre demand. Not so much I think it’s factually wrong. Just a bad comparison.

I have not always agreed with my faculty association's actions but this Texas A&M situation shows yet again: 1) Faculty need to be unionized 2) Union protections have to cover non-tenure track instructors

Models don't have to be complex to have value. @kevinjkircher.com presented a relatively simple global systems model of human welfare that was a great vehicle for non-modelers to see how model assumptions, data and model structure impacts outcomes. Much better than a complex model. Thanks Kevin!

We’ve arrived at the “We cannot figure out what the tariff to charge/pay is, so we’re just not going to ship/buy it” stage of world trade history. 🙄

It goes the other way too. I’m not ordering anything shipping from USA. Just trying to figure out the tariff now let alone what it might be when it gets here (Canada) is a deterrent. Most recently this meant foregoing some cool new merch from creators I really like.

Come be my colleague! We are indeed casting a wide net in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY search. **All** fields, areas, and periods of the History of Technology will be considered! #historyoftechnology #STS

Rev. Parfitt is only the latest in a line of clergy and/or older people protesting for peace, including through direct action. The Barrigan brother, Thomas Merton and Grannies for Peace in the 80s are important predecessors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmo...

I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Despite 140+ countries having committed to end deforestation by 2030, the world has not made progress yet, and if anything rates of forest loss are increasing. gfr.wri.org/latest-analy....

Am I wrong here? I carry a multi-tool. Kid1 wants to carry theirs too. School Policy: "Weapons are defined as any object that is used with the intent to hurt or frighten someone." Me: There is no intent to hurt. It's a tool (like scissors). Is it a weapon? School: It is a weapon. I disagree.

Cesium. Great for science and technology. Not so great when mixed with shrimp. Definitely not recommended. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

So forget about storage and transmission for a sec, let's explore the idea that assets are worthless if used <50% of the time. -Snow plows -substantial fraction of the poles and wires (built to peak) -The Red River Floodway (Most days Winnipeg wouldn't flood anyway!) -Every gun and private car

Nice analogy from @hannahdaly.ie demonstrating the unfairness of the grandfathering that is inherent in the "temperature neutrality" approach being used by some countries with high livestock methane emissions, such as Ireland and New Zealand. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Please stop with the Taliban comparisons. This is very much a strand of white American Christianity, a tradition with roots all the way back into antiquity