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SFU Community Petition re Hootsuite To: President Joy Johnson, Interim VP Finance and Administration (Acting) Karamjeet Heer, Provost and VP Academic Dilson Etcheverry Rassier, Associate VP Communications & Marketing Kristin Linklater W...

SFU community members: please sign and share this petition demanding the university terminate its relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company's refusal to cut ties with ICE is abhorrent, and SFU needs to hear from us on this.
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Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

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Generative AI is antithetical to the core values of librarianship and not grappling with that is a big issue, not just for librarians, but for anyone in the education field.

Flock of ducks on the seawall with a pink sunrise, morning moon, and buildings in the background.

The third annual West End Duck Congress is underway. #WEDC2026

Records of Stanford student’s incarceration during WWII digitized by Stanford University Libraries | University Libraries The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and his wif...

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So excited to read!

I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇

Goose Rorschachs on foggy Lost Lagoon. January 18, 2026.

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fog bank over the Salish Sea. December 31, 2025.

I still mask a lot of the time and all that's meant is that I haven't been sick for a long time and I haven't made anyone else sick. Isn't that hilarious?

Not proud to admit this, but we spent a bunch of time looking for "The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger" on various streaming sites (no luck) before checking the public library, and violà! Don't be like me. Check your public library catalogue first. 🫣

Emperor of Gladness book cover

Last book of 2025: Ocean Vuong's "Emperor of Gladness." Stunning, devastating, hopeful, unsentimental, wise. I loved everything about it.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

Salish Sea on Solstice Eve, 2025.

Size of Life From an amoeba to a blue whale

I loved this so much. neal.fun/size-of-life/

SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply

Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school.

SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.

pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...

*The only way to ship through Canada Post (a crown corporation and the primary postal operator in Canada).

TIL that the ONLY way to ship something to the US is to download a 3rd party app, create an account & give them all your info. Don't have a smart phone/are not a semi-advanced user? "You can ask a neighbour to help." The post office should be for everyone & give a sh*t about your data. Infuriating.

The Tyee Has a New AI Policy | The Tyee Long story short: We’re mostly taking a pass on the robots.

Sorry, servers of AI. We are a human-powered organization.

#CdnMedia #GenerativeAI

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

David Eby to become next B.C. premier after NDP ousts leadership rival Anjali Appadurai | CBC News The B.C. NDP executive has voted to disqualify Anjali Appadurai from its leadership race, effectively crowning David Eby as the next premier of British Columbia.

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

Sunrise over the Salish Sea. November 4th, 2025.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Calls for improved working conditions for janitorial staff at SFU, Burnaby At Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus, colleagues and friends of a custodian who died while at work are calling on the university to improve working conditions for janitorial staff. As Michelle ...

CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family.

Please take a few minutes to watch and share.

Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.

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A search for "Mahmoud Darwish" shows 274 results. Library catalogue recommends searching for "mahout darkish" instead.

Thank goodness for the AI search recommendations: "it looks like you're searching for a particular author who appears in our catalogue. Would you like to search for some gibberish instead?"

losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper

Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social

Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!

alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca