Quand le "vivre avec" le Covid sans prévention, défendu par les libertariens et l'extrême droite, a été normalisé avec la complaisance de toute la classe politique au côté des gouvernements, on a prévenu qu'il s'agirait d'un précédent détruisant la santé publique et laissant la place à ça :

Remember what George Carlin said: They want semi-literate workers who are just smart enough to run the machines and dumb enough to not know how badly they're getting fucked up the ass by a system that threw them overboard 40 years ago.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

When you run government like it’s your xenophobic pet project you end up getting flip flops like this. All those “smaller government” voters? Your government gets bigger because it needs to improvise exemptions and exceptions without thinking about the ramifications… so inefficient.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

I wonder how many publishers, beyond UofT Press, are going to be feeding their author's works into LLMs?

OK, but there needs to be some acknowledgment that the normal Pledge of Allegiance is already creepy as fuck.

In just a few minutes on Radio-Canada's MatinToronto: should you get the next COVID-19 vaccine?

COVID19 vaccines and how to get them in Ontario? Coming up on Radio-Canada's MatinToronto (90.3FM)

The importance of following best practices in mechanical design, according to @jerryrigeverything.bsky.social. A simple fillet would have prevented the visible scratches that owners of the new iPhone will soon discover. Because sharp corners don't allow the colour finish to stick well.

Did you know the Franco-Ontarien flag is now 50 years old?

Shout out to my mom for putting me in French immersion, because I just had the best time on @tlmep.bsky.social!! 🥰❤️

Les entrevues de la première émission de cette 22e saison sont disponibles en rattrapage #TLMEP ▶️ ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/tout-le...

'Better than English beer': Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich. People celebrate the start of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival in the German city of Munich, which will last two weeks and has gathered more than 6 million visitors in previous years

Seriously, I’ve never been to a funeral or wake or “celebration of life” with pyrotechnics. Or sparklers for that matter. This isn’t about Charlie Kirk. He’s just an excuse.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

“A successful and healthy response to COVID would have seen our public toolkit expand over the last five years. Most critically, we would’ve seen a comprehensive plan for upgrading indoor air quality in all public buildings.”

It's time for motorized bikes, whether they're kit-converted, look like bicycles, or look like mopeds and motorcycles, to be licenced, inspected and required to meet standards. The current approach of letting anything go is not acceptable, whether it's because of battery fires or collisions.

Sounds like another reason to have discussions about clean air on airplanes.

I heard CBC's Piya Chattopadhyay do a great interview with with Prof. Jason Stanley at UofT's Monk School. He spoke about the US' descent into authoritarianism and how experts could see it unfold and how it's so similar to other recent cases around the world. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The older I get the more I relate to this kind of loaf.

pretty please get/renew your shot, if able :) Still, this week, people look at me cross wearing a mask at the grocery store "You sick?" "No. High-risk family members" *Suddenly* those are magic words to turn friendly. "Good for you doing that!" as if it's some great sacrifice to care for people.

Cleaner air isn't a personal health choice, it's something that needs the broad mandate of the state to accomplish. But we'll never get there as a society (despite the tech being relatively simple), because we've been brainwashed by a neoliberal health ideology that's centred on individual choices.

This was ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE. "The CDC is urging Americans to cancel their upcoming flights if they are not vaccinated against measles." "The agency has upgraded its health travel warning after discovering the virus - one of the most infectious in the world - is spreading on US airplanes."

We also have a more detailed pre-print about the PC fan air cleaner above including performance tests: engrxiv.org/preprint/vie... /3

The PC fan air cleaner above is described in our article on Healthy Debate /2

Changing the filters on the open source PC fan-based air cleaner. It was still keeping the particulate mass in the bedroom below measurable (0.1 μg/m3) but it's been running for at least 17,000 hours. /1

Red flag going up. And it's not China's. Canada, stop allowing foreign interests to control and adjust our social media activity and the amplification of propaganda and disinformation.

This is not a new issue. We already have underemployed foreign doctors here not working as MDs. It wouldn't be easy. But a fruitful government move would be to find a way to move those people into functioning medical roles. [2/2]

There are about 20K non-US citizen medical residents, and about a quarter of those are on H1B visas. With Trump now making it unaffordable for hospitals to sponsor new H1B visas, there is an opportunity for Canada to attract 5K IMG doctors. Of course, we'd have to make training spaces for them. 1/2]

If you don't want to be called a racist, fascist or pedophile, then just don't do those things.

Les pilotes russes ne représentaient pas une «menace militaire», selon un colonel estonien.

Faraday cages for the win!

Meta's updated exam-cheating glasses are as worrisome as I thought they would be. Video calls on the lens. The person you're video-calling sees your camera's feed. Perfect for cheating on exams. youtu.be/7gtc1DW2Tgo?...

Thanks to everyone who canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions we’ve had over 50,000 people confirm they’ve canceled!

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Bye!

You know you *really* looks like hell but doesn’t know when to quit?

If you’re carrying a chip on your shoulder because you're in the "hard sciences," it's time to let that go. The ongoing pandemic has shown that one discipline alone can’t solve this crisis. We need the social & political sciences, the creativity of the arts. We need to work together

This is the way. I travel with high efficiency air filtration all the time too. Great modelling.

The “set fire to institutional knowledge” problem is a common problem with ideological restructuring. It’s particularly bad in the US right now, but we see the lack of value in institutional knowledge in all sorts of examples of restructuring, including in academic settings.

Don't forget: Epstein Epstein Epstein.

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Trump does not know how to end the war in Ukraine and is trying to "get out of this situation," — former Trump adviser John Bolton Trump treats the world as a game of winners and losers, seeking to avoid his own defeat, without determining what he will leave for Ukraine.

The thunderbox is so much nicer than an outhouse! And the views are generally great!

This is your typical Algonquin Park thunderbox, and 1 of the reasons why my wife won't go camping with me. Other reasons include no running water or electricity. Her idea of camping is in a Fairmont hotel.

“Reminder: ventilation, air filtration, well-fitting N95 masks, and avoiding high risk exposure (e.g., indoor crowds in poorly ventilated spaces) are variant-proof measures”-⁦‪ @tryangregory.bsky.social ‬⁩ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Truly, did Apple engineers consider surviving Jerry's antics when it designed the new phone?

"They're not fans. They're pilgrims. On Sunday, Charlie Kirk will be honored with a memorial service the likes of which have probably never been seen in the United States. Phoenix is ​​expecting 100,000 visitors. We met some of them."

Security guarantees for Ukraine require readiness to fight Russia, says Finland’s president

how long before the question at the dinner table is: