Alberta teachers saw their real salaries cut by 13.2% since the last contract started in Sept 2020--the worst in Canada. The Alberta government wants to lock in that pay cut by ordering teachers back to work. The teachers' position is 100% morally & economically valid. #canlab

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The cloud is physical. That’s what data centers are.

On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts. What service he has given us. Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25

Doug Ford's conservative government is proposing the the biggest attack on Ontario renters and rental affordability in a generation. Not only would landlords be able to evict tenants without cause, but rent control in units built before 2018 would effectively be over. (See last row in the image.)

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

Congratulations to the new Mayor @jeromyyyc.bsky.social and the new City Council. There are some great challenges ahead, I wish you and the new Council the best of luck. #yyccc

jfc, I'm trying to book my vaccinations and I can't get an appointment before THE END OF NOVEMBER. This province is actively sabotaging any semblance of public health. Living here is endlessly oscillating between being enraged and embarrassed and winding up exhausted.

Turns out the internet isn’t as forever as we thought

NEW: Global Calgary projects independent candidate Nathaniel Schmidt has been elected in Ward 8.

Calgary's potential city council is looking very white and very male. Only one person of colour? 3 women out of 15 seats? Not exactly a representative democracy.

Today is Primidi the 1st of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate apples.#JacobinDay More information on apples

Have I mentioned on Bluesky that the @cjsw.bsky.social funding drive is on now? Support Canada's best campus and community radio station at CJSW.com/donate, and use the link below to hear three hours of me sharing tracks from this year's two FD mixes and flogging the benefits of independent radio.

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A24 released their version of the perpetual Yule log… a 10 hour long cut of the Hårga Temple Burning from MIDSOMMAR.

A university that does this but has not activated its extremely wealthy + powerful alumni network against the government starving it of resources is *doing* austerity politics, not just being *subject* to them Those who say that would be improper are also doing politics, not advocating "neutrality"

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

The UCP quietly released the 3rd party report into CorruptCare on Friday afternoon, hoping it would get buried in news around the ATA strike and municipal elections. Here's a reminder: Judge Wyant was given very narrow scope. The scandal involves wider political interference beyond policies.

So TBA failed to get a single school board trustee elected, municipal parties largely were a flop and the UCPs first choice for mayor lost? Not terrible.

Toronto, if you're going to light structure fires tonight, please only target the multinationals, banks, insurance companies, etc.

"Government house leader Joseph Schow says the changes will ensure only those who, in his words, 'truly care and are serious about representing a community' will be put on the ballot." Gradually, then suddenly. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

These are not crashes, they are results of a system that doesn't care about humans. That system only cares about moving cars. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

With the caveat that it was merely longer than usual, 45 minutes in Ward 8, Calgary (Bankview/innercity riding) with a line of 60 - 75 people. No explanation for the wait. Atypical but not wholly unreasonable.

Got off the plane and walked into a drug store in Ottawa and got my COVID vaccine in under 5 minutes. No line up. No appointment. No cost. Was even asked if I wanted Moderna or Pfizer. It’s unconscionable that we can’t get this same level of service in Alberta.

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Trying to explain article processing charges to anyone who doesn’t conduct research

If you experienced a long wait to vote in Alberta's municipal election, please post where, how long you waited, how many people were in line and what, if any, explanation poll staff provided for the long wait to vote. Also any incidents of agitated voters.

Canadian WGC members! Nominations for the 2026 WGC Awards are only open until NOVEMBER 5TH - so get your noms in now! Visit the Nomination page (log in on the WGC members portal first) and do it - then come to Toronto in April and have fun! Here's the link: www.wgc.ca/node/836826

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

Did a new one

Hello voters – It’s Election Day! Voting stations are open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Find out where to vote and what to bring at electionscalgary.ca/vote. Happy voting!

Friendly reminder YYC get out and vote! This is your city and you have a voice. #abpoli #yyccc

maybe i’ll say it here because it helped me to read it from someone else: you can always put your mask back on. just because you stopped doing it all the time doesn’t mean you can’t choose to make a smart choice when the risk is higher.

The first step to beating back hopelessness is getting involved.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

as possible from getting vaccinated. The ONLY reasons to do this are to get more people infected, overwhelm the public healthcare system, destroy it, and usher in private healthcare. There are zero defensible economic or efficiency reasons to do this. Zero. It’s anti-life. #Ableg #abpoli 2/2

🚨 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

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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It is Luddite, in the true meaning of the term. The luddites were a distributed, organized revolutionary movement targeting the use of automation by capitalists to exploit and displace skilled workers. They weren’t just grumpy about technology

This should be treated like the crisis that it clearly is. If any other act of violence killed 3 people in 2 days in Calgary it would be front page news. perfect example of the bias @drtaragoddard.com writes about. Instead of discussing "stranger danger" with my kids I go on endlessly about cars

Funding Drive is back! Get ready for a full month of events, followed by a week long radiothon from OCT 17-24. Get ready to Play/Connect/Discover with CJSW! Check out CJSW.COM/DONATE to support independent radio! This year's art provided by Daniel Bejarano.

It is clear that with this ceasefire Western governments and media want us all to let bygones be bygones. Never. Israel committed a genocide, we all witnessed the most obscene violence it is possible to imagine, and we need to see the perpetrators locked up in The Hague.

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

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Solidarity with Alberta's teachers ✊

Just yesterday someone asked me how higher ed folks will talk about AI after the bubble bursts & their narrative of AI inevitability goes up in dust. I said it will be about the same as how those types of people talk now about MOOCs, as if it never happened & they were never boosters of failed tech.