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Ross Floate
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Oh my. This is spectacular.
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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CTRL-Fing the Grundrisse to see if Marx ever used the word 'grift'.
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I'm in a stand off with Research Accounting. They keep sending me an incorrect form to sign. I keep asking them to correct the form, and then I'll sign. They keep resending me the same form. I know I'll be the one to break. We all know I'll be the one to break.
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New Manitoba Pharmacare arcane knowledge unlocked: IF your insurer enragingly cuts off coverage before Pharmacare letters are mailed out, and IF your Pharmacare deductible has been processed but not yet recieved in the mail, you can pick up a copy in person at their office (IF you can get downtown).
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Uncle Duke
11 days ago
this is word for word what my last performance review said
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I am not A Gardener, but I *love* hearing/ talking about people's plants. Bog violets? I need to know more! Kids starting seedlings in random things from the recycling bin? Pussy toes are *actually* deer resistant? Go on! We are Zone 3, anything we grow is a triumph, tell me about it!!
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EU Science, Research & Innovation
11 days ago
Cyberbullying isnāt just ākids being kidsā, it's a growing issue with real consequences. But what if parents held the key to a safer internet? The PARTICIPATE project provides parents with tools, schools with guides and governments with data to act. Read more:
link.europa.eu/6WtVh3
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Safer online spaces for children: How EU-funded research shapes the fight against cyberbullying
A Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Actions research project provides parents and governments with key tools and recommendations to combat online bullying, a growing issue often underestimated.
https://link.europa.eu/6WtVh3
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Omg it just occurred to me to see what search results are like for "Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus", and wow, the internet is well and truly cooked, let's shut it down.
11 days ago
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If anyone is curious thanks to
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It is so strange working with folks in very different work cultures. You're just going to... suggest a time for a meeting *tomorrow*, and hope that I and the 8 other people on this committee can meet???? Do people really live in a world where their tomorrow's aren't already booked up weeks ago?!?!
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Samuel Moore
13 days ago
"Funding will continue to support transitional agreements, but from 2028/29 UKRI funding will focus on fully OA publishing and will no longer be available for hybrid OA." Pretty big open access policy update from UKRI.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Next phase of open access at UKRI | UK Research and Innovation
Full and immediate Open Access. Since 2022, that has been the UKRI Open Access policy goal for research articles ā and together, weāve made real progress. #OpenAccess (OA) levels for UKRI articles are...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454463005188210688
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I've had 1.5 hrs sleep, so my head is full of thoughts like "little kids looks so adorable when they wear a backpack that's 1/2 their body mass, I wonder if I can get a HUGE backpack" and "does the collegial governance equivalent of 'commoning'= 'collegialling'"?
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Scott ForbesšØš¦
19 days ago
Seriously? $3.6 billion? Mr. Carney is going to squander somewhere between $25 and $50 billion (ANOTHER galactic subsidy for Big Oil & Gas) for the construction of a fleet of icebreakers to ship fossil fuels out of Churchill. Make it make sense.
#CleanEnergy
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/21/n...
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New $3.6B nature plan can help reset Canadaās energy transition at 'difficult moment': Dabrusin
The federal environment minister Julie Dabrusin says the government's Force of Nature strategy will ensure future energy and infrastructure projects are built ābalancing industry, clean electricity an...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/21/news/dabrusin-federal-nature-strategy
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Ernest Luckman
25 days ago
ChatGPT: youāre right youāre so much smarter than him. Heās so schlubby and youāre so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
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Samuel Moore
26 days ago
New from me: Why funders shouldnāt withdraw money from open access publishing
www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
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Why funders shouldnāt withdraw money from open access publishing
Cancer Research UKās decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the orgā¦
https://www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/why-funders-shouldnt-withdraw-money-from-open-access-publishing/
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I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Campus Manitoba is closing down. More than *ever*, in a province with one big institution and a bunch of small ones, we need centralized supports for Higher Ed.
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Agh I love good categorization so much. Like this analysis from Jonathan Band on the three different major texts on L&E for SCCR. Lovely, functional layout too from Ben Cashdan.
knowledgegov.org/comparison-o...
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Comparison of Limitations and Exceptions texts for SCCR/48 (Update) ā Centre on Knowledge Governance
Below is a table that compares these proposals. The two proposals from the United States are combined in a single column; and the African Group Proposal and the Chairās text each have their own columns.
https://knowledgegov.org/comparison-of-limitations-and-exceptions-texts-at-sccr48-update/
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Do any Uni hiring/ application systems have ORCID integration? It seems like it would be nice, in theory....
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APTN News
about 1 month ago
The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live:
www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
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Lina Mounzer
about 1 month ago
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced āanother waveā of attacks coming
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Sure, everyone loves to be smug/ disbelieving about "low information voters" and "how could they elect him for a second term?", but I heard a looooot of people yesterday talking about how the warm weather must be here to stay. You are gaslighting *yourselves* about April (/May)!!!
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Get in, folks, we are Sokal-ing AI.
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about 1 month ago
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Peter Suber
about 1 month ago
Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...
#Climate
#Data
#DefendResearch
#EMDAT
#Funding
#OpenData
#Takedowns
#Trump
#TrumpVResearch
#USPol
#USPolitics
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The World's collective disaster memory must be preserved
https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44
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MUNFA Grenfell
about 1 month ago
#WeAreMUN
@munfaculty.bsky.social
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Mad line ups for the w/c at Mission Control.
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I don't enjoy a lot of Nat Geo's edutainment shows, but we've been watching enough Strangest Things lately that our kid yells "carbon date it!!!" at the screen any time something has organic components.
about 1 month ago
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404 Media
about 1 month ago
NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.
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How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reutersā data, which can include peoplesā addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.
https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/
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Help, they are reverse engineering The Landlord's Game on the internet again...
publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/
about 1 month ago
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Shhhhhh, I'm not up at 5:30 am on the first day of Spring Break reading about librarianship.
about 1 month ago
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Emily Higgs Kopin
about 1 month ago
Iām boosting this point (there are some key areas where I diverge from Aaron in the larger thread, respectfully) but this is really true, not as a universal but as a pattern in how librarians (including me) have been situated vis-a-vis our search infrastructures, and Iād like to talk more about it
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Re: last retweet. Cat magic punks make great shirts, btw.
catmagicpunks.com
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Cat Magic Punks Official Store: Cat Lovers Against White Supremacy
Known for CLAWS Cat Lovers Against White Supremacy, Stay Home With Your Cats, Abolish MICE. We are lifestyle brand for cat lovers and supporters of social justice. Anti-racist cats. Cats against white...
https://catmagicpunks.com/
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Musicology Duck
about 1 month ago
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Violet Fox š¦
about 2 months ago
I'm sending out my new zine ("Mystery Science Theater 3000: Our Midwestern Heritage") to friends today. It's freely available to read on my website,
violetbfox.info/mst3k/
, but if you'd enjoy a print copy, just let me know!
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There are a couple of Winnipeg recordings up, definitely worth checking if a public Zoom you hosted was recorded. Like this one, on retail crime:
webinartv.us/watch/322c24...
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about 2 months ago
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I hate Leisure Guide Day so much.
about 2 months ago
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I dunno, I find something charming about the current phishing attempts using University Senior Admin's names - welding equipment, a trailer. Feels very wholesome prairie-ish.
about 2 months ago
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New Neurosis, my partner says casually to me, as if I haven't discovered a new one every day.
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Samuel Moore
about 2 months ago
"The only way to address the reliance on a journalās brand as a proxy for quality was to take a recognized signifier and destroy that signification." Nice piece. I still have so much respect for eLife's decision to jeopardise its prestige in order to show that journal prestige is bad for science.
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eLife Fallout
When a prestigious journal scrapped accept-reject decisions on submitted papers, some scientists rebelled, and the editor-in-chief was fired.
https://nikomc.com/2026/03/05/elife-fallout/
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Question for US Copyright folks - if an author has approached a rights holder for reproduction rights (for an academic book) and been denied because the book is critical of the work, would that impact a fair use justification in either direction?
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This has reminded me of the time our local IMAX (RIP) had old James Bond films on, and in the middle of the Junkanoo scene in Thunderball, a dog very clearly lifts a leg and has a nice massive piss.
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Le Monde in English
2 months ago
Ig Nobel prizes moving to Europe because US 'unsafe' to visit
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Ig Nobel prizes moving to Europe because US 'unsafe' to visit
The awards, which celebrate the sillier side of science, have held raucous ceremonies that see the winners showered with paper aeroplanes at universities in Massachusetts since 1991. The 36th edition will be held in the Swiss city of Zurich on September 3.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2026/03/10/ig-nobel-prizes-moving-to-europe-because-us-unsafe-to-visit_6751289_10.html
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(And there, just at the end, funding is in jeopardy because of the CDC cuts...)
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Ed Newton-Rex
2 months ago
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. š§µ 1/5
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It's been a really great time to have not slept for a full three days for medical reasons.
youtu.be/TmosS8G03Y8?...
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We Seek No Wider War (Phil Ochs)
YouTube video by Vietnam War Song Project
https://youtu.be/TmosS8G03Y8?si=MpecvGgS9FmGoR6H
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Marika
2 months ago
As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.
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Higher Ed lives! UWinnipeg is posting two tenure track positions in Human Rights: Focus on digital security/ AI Ethics:
www.northstarats.com/University-o...
Joint teaching in Peace & Conflict Studies:
www.northstarats.com/University-o...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Human Rights, Global College
https://www.northstarats.com/University-of-Winnipeg/Tenure-Track-Assistant-Professor-of-Human-Rights-Global-College/89618
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Ian Bogost
3 months ago
Is this bad
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Einstein - AI Homework Agent
Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer ā he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.
https://companion.ai/einstein
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
3 months ago
Itās been a year since we launched the science IRL mini-grant program. Wanna see what our grantees got up to?? Check it out!
www.patreon.com/posts/scienc...
Weāll be doing this program again in 2026, keep an eye out for the announcement soon!
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SCIENCE IRL: Mini-Grant Highlights | Skype a Scientist
Get more from Skype a Scientist on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/science-irl-mini-151051441?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share
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Matthew Guariglia
3 months ago
!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!! A report from
@eff.org
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@justjournalism.bsky.social
, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. š§µ
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New Report Helps Journalists Dig Deeper Into Police Surveillance Technology
SAN FRANCISCO ā A new report released today offers journalists tips on cutting through the sales hype about police surveillance technology and report accurately on costs, benefits, privacy, and accoun...
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-report-helps-journalists-dig-deeper-police-surveillance-technology
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Cam Scott
3 months ago
Winnipeg, this is your reading for the day! Follow the delegations against Councillor Duncanās disastrous anti-protest bylaw below
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