hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/you-say-si... "Silos preserve quality and integrity. Without silos, grain rots... Its purpose is preservation, not isolation. ... The function of the academic discipline is not unlike an agricultural silo: it is a structure of preservation and quality control."

How about some support for sectors hammered by shitty provincial governments?

I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites

Holy hell. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Doug Ford *falsely claiming* he has the power to audit his enemies when he doesn’t actually have that power is still a news story But it’s kind of a different story than one uncritically accepting the premise that the Premier of Ontario can order the federal government to audit his enemies

A democracy where a coordinated effort by national leaders of one party to subvert an election outcome does not lead to any real consequences is a democracy unlikely to last long

Yeah, it’s like they’re binary thinkers. Yes just because PP would’ve been worse, doesn’t mean Carney has proven to be great. It’s like Liberals entire goal is to always be judged on a curve.

As responses, "It could have been PP" and "Name someone who would be better" just tell me that even Liberals know there's not much they can say to actually defend Carney's *substantive record* so far.

Carney has been so much worse than expected. It's like watching The Matrix sequels of governance or something.

Among various papers published defending Quebec's ability to unilaterally amend the Constitution of Canada, none actually address my arguments, made here in this article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/i...

Among all the problems with substance and process identified in this story on Quebec's constitution bill, not mentioned is the blatantly unconstitutional element of purporting to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, which I remind you all, a province can't do. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This might be... a writing day. #NovemberMiracle

It is wholly inappropriate and professionally negligent for a journalist to rely upon, let alone quote, ChatGPT as a source. CBC News should have established guidelines to make sure this kind of thing never happens.

Oh please just fuck off

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

when its definitely not a hostage situation

I'm not proposing a ceiling, or speaking to other professions. But 200K puts an individual in the top 5% of income, and we're seeing hiring freezes and program cancellations, when salaries are 90% of starved operating budgets. The Ontario professoriate needs a little perspective, IMO.

CEO pay is so absurd, and CEOs so generally shitty, that we would probably have *better results* with lower CEO pay.

I think literally every one working as a regular prof at a Canadian university - except perhaps a fraction of one percent lured from abroad - would happily be in their exact same jobs at 20% lower salary.

Nope. 100K is now the *starting* salaries at most Ontario universities. The average salary of a tenured prof is well over $150K. In my department of 18, at least a third make over 200K. It's ludicrous.

Utterly, patently ridiculous. We have such great jobs - flexibility, self-management (an employer, no boss), and generally following our interests. Yes, we're specialized, yes we sacrificed income in our 20s to earn PhDs, but good lord is paying profs over 200K ever excessive.

The UCP: you should be able to fire your MLA, here’s a handy-dandy recall process. Citizens in 9 Alberta ridings: ok The UCP: NOT LIKE THAT!

I think he would benefit enormously from the right poli sci advisor.

Used to work great for keyword search to get results representing a mix of top cited and most recent scholarship in legit academic journals/books. Now about half the results are unpublished theses, partial documents and questionable sources. And citational info for the good sources is often wrong.

Interesting divergence between the tight party numbers between the CPC & LPC and the chasm between the leaders.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

And it's not just in areas like federalism - Carney's got pathetically short-term vision on the economy and growth, the very things he's supposed to expert in.

Carney’s approach here is very much in keeping with an observation Paul Wells made back in the summer, that he’s focused on short-term deliverables, not long-term governance challenges. The problem is, neglecting and failing to improve governance will leave Canada with weaker foundations.

We're just cozying up to all the assholes, eh?

Gee, who could've predicted...

Among all the problems with substance and process identified in this story on Quebec's constitution bill, not mentioned is the blatantly unconstitutional element of purporting to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, which I remind you all, a province can't do. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just the most loser shit imaginable. Imagine actually doing this anywhere, much less *at a party with other humans*

“This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

Just don’t call it a bubble

This is who Carney outsourced his innovation policy development to.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

The descent into dystopian nightmare continues unabated.

This is a stunning story. I've been tracking the "greenhushing" narrative for a while now: this is the idea that strict regulations on fake climate claims spooks companies into total silence; therefore we shouldn't regulate them. @meyer.bsky.social asked for examples and the Carney gov't failed:

I agree with Harvard Law's Randall Kennedy. It is more important than ever to protect free speech/academic freedom, whether the threat comes from right-wing populists banning critical race theory or left-wing ideologues punishing offensive speech on campus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGC...

Bluesky, what are the best independent books stores in Ontario? GO.

The trouble with the UCP's dual practice model? Think about a double double. If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.

More essential reporting: What Alberta's plan to permit public *and* private billing by doctors could impact access to/quality of care. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The "hybrid" system exists nowhere in Canada. A doctor can practice privately -exclusively- anywhere. The most do so in Quebec.

I'm sure we'll see a capitulation from this editorial board when in a mere few years health care in Alberta is worse off as a result.

Reality check: The Supreme Court actually did the right thing in its child pornography ruling

Fucking idiotic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows. Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting. Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social

Even the Churches are opposed to Bill 9. It’s a simple message. Treat everyone with basic dignity and respect, not hate or harm.

Yes, there are ethical and useful applications of AI: quick scans of large text files; protein folding, routine coding, all that. But in current higher ed they are MASSIVELY outweighed by the harms: students using “Chat” to skip reading, writing, thinking. And admins are determined to deny that.

This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically. There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.