Untitled - Springtime Elevators Robert Newton Hurley 1953

Canada's Covid strategy has been to not talk about Covid and vaguely encourage people to suffer quietly.

Grocery giants just can’t help themselves. Underweight meat. Overweight profits. Canadians are sick and tired of being ripped off. A public option for groceries is overdue. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

Spain recognises Palestine as a State.

Huge BDS win on cultural front Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation. Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

"Colonialism was never about civilization. It was never about progress. It was violence organized, justified, and repeated until it looked normal." Frantz Fanon #quote #quotes

I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.

Just a reminder that Criterion Channel currently hosts 23 films from Iran, including masterpieces from Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Forugh Farrokhzad's incomparable The House is Black (1963), as well as others. Any of these will be time well spent.

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The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

to imagine back on that beautiful blue orb that makes all of this unique life possible we can’t stop bombing and killing one another, it’s terribly sad

SOURCE CALLOUT 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ (Please share!) I'm working on a large print feature for later this year that asks a big question: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? I'm looking to talk to a few everyday trans people from across Canada about what that idea means to them. (Thread...)

A friendly reminder that feeling unsafe doesn’t mean we’re in actual danger. If the sight of poverty makes you uncomfortable, because suspicious, please call for a stronger social safety net, not for increased policing.

Takes a lot to truly unnerve these days but the "a whole civilization will die" line is a new plane of horrific. Even if it is just rhetoric, which I would not bet on, it feels like a sign of some last vestige being blown away. The US openly and eagerly announcing itself as monstrous

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The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

It is is a judgment against every single country that they are not aggressively isolating the US right now.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Thousands of people lined Dublin’s O’Connell Street for an event marking the 110th anniversary of the armed rebellion against British rule in Ireland. jrnl.ie/7004144

Clear and bright. Shortly after the equinox, when the swallows return home and the geese fly north. The first rainbows of the season appear. 🌈

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Literally how to build a better world: Doing the work, side by side with comrades, looking cute.

@brbusby.bsky.social ‪Just saw some of your new work and my word -- Time Change is speaking to my soul; the colour palette is just gorgeous. Really beautiful work. canadahouse.com/collections/...

Ximena is *on point* with this. It's on us too, folks. Get comfortable with discomfort. It gets easier every time you do it. And it does not have to be confrontational but it does need to be in the moment.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

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Something I really wanted to happen (related to my work), didn't happen. And I'm truly and deeply crushingly disappointed about it. Think I'll wallow in it for the next day. And then I'll find a way to muddle through. Which is... so annoyingly necessary.

Some gardening inspo for those of you without a yard 🌿 🌷

The moment we’ve all been waiting for… all water restrictions are officially lifted. 🙌 The feeder main is filled, water quality testing is complete, and the pipe has been reconnected to the rest of the water distribution system.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This isn't just an environmental, corruption, sovereignty, and public-access disaster - it goes deeper. The Forest Service is an original kernel of the administrative state - more than any other, it's where the expert, nonpartisan civil service began. It's been a target of oligarchs for a century.

Kaze hikaru (Japan): lit. Shining wind. The warm breeze of spring after a dark winter.

Today marks the launch of our Theory Sale! Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new.

Replacement likert scale just dropped

Today is #TransDayofVisibility. I wrote about how the possibility for change that transness represents benefits everyone, because it is the same possibility that maybe other parts of our lives can be better too. 💖🤍💙 xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

It's one of those mornings where if I can actually muster my meagre energy to put on shoes and leave the apartment, that's going to be the biggest accomplishment of the day in its entirety. Ugh - I just don't know if I have it in me today.

The main thing AI has taught me is a profound new appreciation for human intelligence (and human writing and art!), particularly that which emerges from longstanding experience, expertise and mastery.

Avi Lewis on left-wing populism: "Left-wing populists believe that capitalism concentrates wealth and power in the fewest hands. And we need policies and a response that actually responds to the needs of the 99% of us."

Making generational changes to things like planning and development can be politically costly, no matter how much sense it might make, writes Courtney Walcott, in his latest column for LWC. #yyc #calgary #yyccc

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