Striking to read this and flip through a number of countries in your head to which it might apply:

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

#Alberta folks who are Canadians and have no desire to play the separation game: make sure to get your name on this!

Democracy requires defending but systems of power don't give up easily. Wishing everyone immense safety and community care today ✊💛

Leave your phone at home ideally and if not, remove facial recognition passwords and put it on airplane mode! Tell trusted people where you'll be but tell them to STFU if the cops call them! Document brutalities but don't post the faces of comrades! Wear sturdy, closed toe shoes you can run in!

Don't use milk for tear gas! Only wear safety goggles if they're shatter proof! Avoid wearing contacts because they make tear gas worse! Cover up, so you don't need sunscreen because sunscreen also clings to tear gas! Memorize the # of a lawyer or loyal friend who can bail you out!

Sending solidarity for #NoKings from Canada!

If anyone needs an example of how corruption can happen in Canada, take a peek at the UCP practices in #alberta #abpoli They are saying "nothing to see here" because they didn't look (while pretending they did). Truly the worst kind of politicians: those who refuse transparency & accountability.

Come work with me! We are hiring two tenure-track #Indigenous Scholars in the Depts of Physical Therapy & Respiratory Therapy at the University of Manitoba. You needn't have a therapy background; lots of possibilities in terms of how to contribute: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

Incredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social. Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-... The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.

🔔🆕 Manitoba’s new climate plan sets net-zero by 2050, with time-bound legislated targets and reporting. We’re excited to see it centre Indigenous collaboration, clean job transitions & #RenewableEnergy. “This isn’t an obligation – it’s an opportunity.” — Minister Mike Moyes

Have you ever witnessed sexual harassment on the bus & not known what to do? Ever heard a transphobic slur being hurled at someone and worried that stepping in would just make it worse? Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free! I've got 4 webinars left! Registration links :

"Maybe, for all of her rhetorical crusading, she might actually prefer to see these new pipelines stay on the drawing board. Being able to blame Ottawa for the lack of progress is a useful political cudgel, one she deploys at almost every available opportunity" #abpoli

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Our world lost one of the great ones today. I'm so thankful for all Jane Goodall brought into our lives. RIP

Excellent way of visualizing and explaining the choices facing each of us collectively: Will #reconcilation move beyond the symbolic or performative to transformative, impactful change? It's up to we non-Indigenous folks here in #Canada to keep doing the hard work and staying on the path.

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

"This redesign isn’t a final product, but a new frame to give city council many options to improve service across the city, should they choose to turn up the dial." Systems reflect Winnipeg city Council choices & priorities. Level of service problems (incl frequency issues) are easily fixed.

Good piece by @mmarginet.bsky.social on the new Winnipeg Transit routes.

My ❤️ breaks for this family. Waiting for the bus the other evening on Osborne, I was trying to read at the stop and it was disconcerting how fast vehicles were flying by just a few feet away. You really feel vulnerable having to stand in the crash zone. #wpgpoli #winnipeg #mbpoli

I'm so happy both of these people are running for federal NDP leader. I know Avi's father's impact (and about some of Avi's own) and have really enjoyed Heather MacPherson's voice in Parliament. I love the idea of a meaningful race for leadership #ndp

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

#Winnipeg feel seen by this

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

Reminds me of "Magda Goebbels made good strudel":

Such a good portrayal of “civility” and “niceness”

Exactly this

Clarity. Coates spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last month. It’s too bad it wasn’t taped. He spoke w/such clarity. He said people say things are complicated when they’re trying to rationalize their own/the behavior of others. He said, it’s not complex at all, it’s actually simple

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Anybody want to come work with me? ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

I am absolutely thrilled to share that next week, the book Inviting Movements in Physiotherapy: An anthology of critical scholarship will be available to all. I have had the great honor of being the lead editor in this collection, which is 2 years in the making: open.substack.com/pub/critical...

For those unfamiliar with #CriticalPhysiotherapy, it's an emerging subfield in our field that seeks to unsettle and re-imagine what physiotherapy could be, with the help of the arts, humanities, and some social sciences.

I really tried to be a champion of the new system, I was having so many conversations with people about why this is a good thing. You can't do more with the same budget. But the only thing Winnipeg spends money on are cops and roads.

Read more about this delightful project here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I am absolutely thrilled to share that next week, the book Inviting Movements in Physiotherapy: An anthology of critical scholarship will be available to all. I have had the great honor of being the lead editor in this collection, which is 2 years in the making: open.substack.com/pub/critical...

We are in very dangerous territory here, Canada. If the last six months have taught us nothing, it's that there is big danger in deeper attachment to the US #cdnpoli

ICYMI: my office is hiring!

1 and 8 are basically contradictory. You cannot disseminate useful knowledge while avoiding any stances on political issues. Many scientific topics, from evolution to climate to the age of the Earth to healthcare for minorities and even germ theory & vaccines at this point are inherently political.

And some of those workers died from their workplace spread of COVID-19. Labor protections matter & are worth fighting for #LabourDay

In the last 8 months we saw the leader of research and public health going down by cutting funding, pushing pseudoscience and loosing their experts. Canada was well positioned to take this lead and attract people but I failed Instead Europe and Asia have massively increase $$$.1

And attract those experts. Canada gov has not budged and instead a 15% cut to tri council (agency funding research) and to PHAC is expected This is harming the future of Canadian health and innovation that could make Canada leader (health, aeronautic, agriculture, arts…) .2

Happy Labor Day! Time to put some #sociology to work (a thread): ⭐ "Black Women and the Anti-Work Movement," by @sharlaberry.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⭐ "To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work," by Patrick Sheehan journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.

🇨🇦 #Canadasky please share 📌 Parliament is going to return soon and one of the first bills it is going to pass is Bill C2, which will give the police unprecedented powers over the lives of Canadians, including massive surveillance, and the ability to share our data with 🇺🇸.

Minister Solomon should be rightly mocked and his judgement should be questioned for using an "artificial" (fake) podcast slop generator when he has actual staff that could do the actual job properly. He is a minister and he gets staff for this, but he picked garbage instead

those AI 80s nostalgia videos going viral are weird! and bad! here's why listen here: www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

"Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and good science should continue to shun". Thanks to someone finally calling this Nazi bullshit out.