Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

This is excellent. Well worth your time.

101!

Last chance to submit your proposals for the CHA’s annual meeting! Send yours in by November 15th and join us in PEI this coming June. #CHASHC2026 #cdnhist #UPEI #Charlottetown

‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry to close hedge fund on.ft.com/4pc2A4Z

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

I need a phenomenologist to walk me through the meaning and implications of AI losing the Kardashians. “The reality star…noted that ChatGPT constantly feeds her faulty information, which leads to poor performances on exams.” ew.com/kim-kardashi...

The week on That '70s Movie Podcast, we were joined by @profhendershot.bsky.social for a deep dive into Robert Altman's masterpiece Nashville Give a listen - and also check out Prof. H's *brand new* BFI book on this spectacular film: open.spotify.com/episode/2oYx...

Looking fwd to this. The J-6 book from this series was great!

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

I, too, would like people to know I have read a book

This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Here is a plausible scenario: AI parses 100 years of vacuous economist publications, rolls eyes and sleeves (figuratively), develops true economic science to end scarcity and hands it to humans. Humans get disgusted by the empathy and rationality of it all and pull the plug on the AI. 🤣🤦

I‘ve heard the “end humanity” scenario, but has anyone written about how AI could “end scarcity”? What‘s the basis for these claims beyond, it’ll figure something out?

Major media still not reporting the $1B cut to student grants becuase they can't get beyong stenography when writing up these pieces.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Eight of the 10 biggest stocks in the S&P 500 are tech stocks. Those eight companies account for 36 per cent of the entire US market’s value, 60 per cent of the gains in the index since the market bottomed in April and almost 80 per cent of the S&P 500’s net income growth in the last year."

Canada's new Budget sounds likes it's riffing on Marx when it says, "Canadian leadership in the world will be defined not just by the strength of our values, but also by the value of our strength."

Canada is in an economic war, argues @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social at the CSA conference on Canada’s economy and economic future.

Great point from Marwa Abdul re education and training: what kind of workforce are we expecting if we are learning pathways? CSA Policy Pathways: Building a Thriving Canadian Economy.

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently? Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on! So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

Matthew Gandy (@cam.ac.uk) will present on “Attentive Observation: Walking, Listening, Staying Put” tonight at 18:00 as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “On Environment.” Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #lectureseries #rccevents #envhum #envhist

This government's signal legacy in higher education is going to be "we torched whatever we could right across the country because we couldn't figure out how to control the southern Ontario housing market". Ford can't/won't build houses? Better knife some more rural colleges in NB or BC.

Oct 2024 v Oct 2025

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: For this malady there is no proven cure. There is only the knowledge that on one day each year, at last, the pain will cease. The team will lose, and the journey will be over. And then comes spring training. ⚾️

Fun times with Canadian AI Policy. The federal government wants to do consultation in a 30 'sprint.' That's probably very unwise, plus the survey itself is full of leading questions. A bunch of folks (including me!) are calling for a different strategy: bccla.org/policy-submi...

Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

the us economy grew last quarter because of ai. without it, we’d be in recession. @gzeromedia.com

Last month (I have no idea where time goes) this short piece I wrote about Kansas, wheatgrass, and what it might be to life a life of abundance in the face of climate change came out. Many thanks to all at @carsoncenter.bsky.social!

Car-centric design and public policy continues to wage its War on Affordability

I’m in the stage of grief where one criticizes the winning team’s generally bad city planning. #WorldSeries

Overconfidence in "econometrics" at the expense of sound analysis of the politics of policy-making. A long-standing issue that should, by now, be well-known.

Kirk, take the glory! Do it!

Right near me: 435 sq. ft for . . . 3,000/mo

It's Halloween. Everyone post your scariest neighbourhood photos. A coffee shop across from a house. 😱

We just rolled out the latest version of the Industrial Equity Mapper. I must say I think it's pretty good. industriouslabs.org/issues/indus...

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Hoping to attend later today!

Hang it in the Louvre

What does DeSantis think he's accomplishing here? I wasn't convinced that the Trump admin understood the implications for higher ed of their H1B fee (their target was tech workers). But RD seems to be going for it...

ONE. WIN. AWAY. The Blue Jays take Game 5 in L.A. and head back to Toronto with the chance to claim their first World Series title since 1993.

Hang it in the Louvre next to where the stolen jewels used to be.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Virtual Event – Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment - @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v... #envhist #cdnhist #deindustrialization #envstudies

BTIG: “.. $SOX 38% above its 200 DMA, a level rarely exceeded in the last 30 years with the exception of the final blowoff phase of the tech bubble in the spring of 2000.”

Vladdy Jr goes yard off Shohei Ohtani

If you are a JHUP author with questions about the Anthropic settlement, you can get more info here. Neither I nor the Press can give you legal advice, etc etc etc. www.press.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...