Ken

Totally! Extended producer responsibility should be the norm, not the exception.

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.

If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

During this time of economic uncertainty when CEOs only can rake in a measly dozen-or-so million, we all need to do our part and work the first hour of every day for free.

Page One in Scotland.

Eating this ultraprocessed food may be good for you and the planet, experts say | CNN Plant-based meats have been viewed at times as ultraprocessed and possibly unhealthy. But some experts believe they deserve a second look.

This has always been clear: plant-based meat alternatives are better for the planet and, at least compared to red meat, better for your health. That this is not widely accepted is the product of meat industry disinfo, science illiteracy, and some very stupid journalists.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/h...

Extractive Capitalism is convincing workers that a two week vacation could have ‘long term financial and career trade offs’, and that they should ‘hit their KPIs’ to save up to take it as unpaid leave.

Dear engineers: stop making cyclists dismount - Better Columbia In far too many places across the province, engineers continue to rely on the same old ineffective tricks to paper over their own inadequate designs.

"Across BC, ‘cyclists dismount’ signs have metastasized as cautious engineers rush to absolve themselves of liability for the substandard cycling facilities they design. While these signs may please lawyers, they ignore a fundamental reality: everyone ignores them."
bettercolumbia.ca/2025/06/27/d...

I honestly can’t ever see myself visiting the United States again in my lifetime. How sad :(

Crumpler is selling off a whole bunch of classic bags that have been sitting around a warehouse, so I just had to get another messenger bag, this one circa 2001.

I think I’m getting to the point where the correct number of messenger bags to own is n+1.

Finding out just how many companies with a digital login won’t allow you to change your email address.

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

Again, I implore those GenAI-evangelists who claim to be well-meaning to read an introductory-level text on educational psychology. Therein they will find learning requires effort (e.g., desirable difficulties) that can be supported and optimized (e.g., cognitive load theory) but not replaced.

Have you ever had someone tell you something half a dozen times and you still don’t ’get it’?

Learning requires challenge, there aren’t any shortcuts.

And I also committed the worst of sins, (that I should know better) implying that Ireland is anything like the UK.

I may have to follow the sage advice that the best time to delete would be now. :)

True enough- admittedly making an unfair assumption!

Because everyone knows the Fraser Institute is a bastion of balanced and ethical research that would never skew results to support their biases! /s

Every college leader should take note of why Ono got rejected by UF's Board: despite his craven and public abandonment of his previous DEI advocacy, they still thought he was too "woke." The lesson: no amount of self-abasement or eagerness to sell your community down the river, will ever be enough.

Please Advise! Are Canadians Being Mean to Trump? | The Tyee The US ambassador to Canada thinks so, says Dr. Steve. He’s wrong.

“Being a loyal member of Team Trump is like sitting beside a flatulent French bulldog, repeating, ‘My dog did not fart. It must have been you.’”

@steveburgess53.bsky.social advises. #uspoli #cdnpoli

“Unnecessary because only cars and lorries use it”

Goose chasing guy: why do only cars and lorries use it? WHY?

If they were "safe drivers" we wouldn't need speed cameras.

ICYMI: My thoughts on the economics of post-secondary education in the age AI. Tl; dr: the death of the essay is going to change the production function in a lot of disciplines, making meaningful assessment a lot more expensive.

higheredstrategy.com/the-cost-imp...

How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.

What Kenneth Roth and others reduce to "identity politics" is always an effort by a particular oppressed group to be afforded the rights, privileges and protections enjoyed by a society's dominant groups.

It's the very promise of liberalism, no more, no less.

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

It’s literally enshrined in law, the right to self-determination. Good grief how are we even still having these conversations?

#LandBack

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

Can confirm. This is next level.

We have a few close ones in Canada too - for us, it triggers an automatic recount, so we’re hanging in there! Good luck

Also fitting that Poilievre and Dutton both lost their seats! Well done Aus!

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

One thing that I was thought was revealing about the divisions within Canada:

When Carney acknowledged Poilievre's hard work on his campaign in his victory speed, the crowd of Liberals cheered.

When Poilievre mentioned Carney in his concession speech, there was loud booing.