I'm hearing this now for the first time
L'Estaca (Lluis Llach) is the best kind of ear worm and somehow cheers me up in these time.
“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.
It's amazing how many people (and which ones) are claiming not to be experts in international law these days. Generals. Prime Ministers. As though you needed legal expertise to know that theft and murder are illegal.
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
Health care or arts and culture? It’s not as simple as that: Open letter from a Cape Breton community health centre
by Josie Robinson
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
The Tim Houston government in Nova Scotia:
“Let’s give the biggest tax cuts to the people who make the most money.”
I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius
Of course they are. Decimate the arts and culture sectors, pull funding from Black and Mi’kmaq programs, shut down small museums across the province, and keep funding rich people's hobbies I don't hear our alcohol industry (also, in part, about rich people's hobbies) complaining about cuts...
Mi'kmaw groups oppose cuts to programs #Halifax #NovaScotia #HoustonFail
Hundreds of people from the Mi'kmaw community and their supporters gathered at Province House on Tuesday, calling on the Houston government to reverse cuts impacting Indigenous programs.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...
From the NYT: "Mr. Rubio told reporters in Budapest on Feb. 16. “These people make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology. That’s how they make their decisions. So, it’s hard to do a deal with Iran.”" From Jonathan Larsen's Substack:
Absolutely incredible.
This is insane, intention destruction of US Science by Russ Vought. He thought last year wasn't good enough, he didn't destroy it enough. So he's going even harder this year.
I had to dig around on bluesky to get my hit of confirmation bias--most of the discourse assumes the present is like the past, but this ancient war historian is asking the question that's on my mind.
A little nature to help us all breathe.
Cape Blomidon, Mi'kma'ki, at low tide.
Please Note Date Change!!
Houston is not even trying to hide his grand plan. 1. Run our economy into the ground. 2. Save it by destroying, extracting, exploiting our lands and waters.
This is going to be a pivotal legislative sitting.
Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.
All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?
$300 million.
Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?
> @covie93.bsky.social
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Extremely helpful, as a journal editor dealing with AI. Hallucinated references and plagiarism aren't taking up my time, but surface-plausible claims cited to real papers...that do not support them are taking my time. (Then appearing in print at other journals that aren't investing the extra time.)
Devastating proposed cuts, including to crucial programs at @dalhousieu.bsky.social Medicine
Okay it's not actually necessary to name the authors, but do situate the claim in the context of debates about the role of generative AI in academic research.
Ethics publication challenge of the week: "Academic work has three principal values: promotion of knowledge and human achievement."
Name the author(s) and situate this claim within the argument they are making.
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
Sue this company out of existence.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
