That sinking feeling of developing an interesting and creative writing assignment for your students, only to realize that generative AI can give them every answer in an instant.
16.10.2025 17:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ McMaster University. Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology. Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
That sinking feeling of developing an interesting and creative writing assignment for your students, only to realize that generative AI can give them every answer in an instant.
16.10.2025 17:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Send this man all you positive vibes
14.10.2025 21:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0canadian media would never have this courage
14.10.2025 01:17 β π 341 π 70 π¬ 5 π 3Image of a fortune slip from a fortune cookie. The text on the white slip reads "For a good cause, wrongdoing may be virtuous"
Radical fortune cookie knows whats up.
10.10.2025 17:29 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So... I'm feeling much better about my decision to withdraw from that November conference in Boston (#AARSBL).
09.10.2025 15:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0About 30,000,000 people in the US have no health insurance
And at least 45,000 working-age Americans die *each year* due to lack of healthcare coverage.
As workers, we must demand this β and more (like covered abortion services)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-4-...
youtu.be/GcyJO_g3U0Q
Looking for something fun to do around Halloween? Visit your local cemetery on October 26th and participate in our yearly scavenger hunt!
03.10.2025 14:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Grateful to have connected with Phil. Go and support this man!
03.10.2025 14:42 β π 20 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
I don't know how he finds the time to write so much! Can't wait to pick it up
30.09.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
"Mr. Duke frequently used his rhetorical 'wizardry' to engage with other cultural and religious organizations, always seeking meaningful discourse."
27.09.2025 13:03 β π 53 π 7 π¬ 2 π 2I wrote a thing.
22.09.2025 19:53 β π 34 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
Using Bambu Lab for now since it is a Bambu printer
22.09.2025 13:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I may have come into possession of a 3D printer and this might be the coolest tech I've ever owned.
21.09.2025 16:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
19.09.2025 09:33 β π 19560 π 8162 π¬ 262 π 757I think I just has to say, out loud, how deeply I object to this. Hell ass kings.
15.09.2025 20:36 β π 270 π 44 π¬ 25 π 3Anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled across the wall of a historic building in downtown Hamilton, leaving the Jewish community shocked and raising concerns about their safety.
13.09.2025 00:57 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studiesβ¦? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
04.09.2025 23:35 β π 97 π 42 π¬ 8 π 14@knowledgefight.bsky.social just dropped their 3hr long Owen Shroyer 'emergency' episode.
03.09.2025 02:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ok a question: if you could have your students read one thing on genAI that you hope will encourage them not to use it, what would it be?
02.09.2025 17:20 β π 83 π 29 π¬ 31 π 9Last month CBC's Visual Investigations and the Fifth Estate, investigating the rise of "Active clubs" in Canada - essentially neo-fascist fight clubs. One of the clubs we looked closely at, Second Sons, marched in Queenston Heights in Niagara-on-the-Lake a few days ago. (thread)
01.09.2025 19:28 β π 7 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0RIP to a great one.
02.09.2025 02:12 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canadians are βit canβt happen hereβ -ing themselves into fascism happening here. Danielle Smith is banning books, Legault is banning praying, Ford is imprisoning homeless people, and Carney is passing C2 which is the Canadian version of the Patriot Act. You have to start paying attention.
31.08.2025 19:28 β π 44 π 11 π¬ 7 π 0Christie Pits in Toronto is a symbol of the fight against fascism.
This is where people stopped the Nazis in 1933. The haters are trying to come to the park again.
On Sept 13 let's flood the park with people for a non-violent day of resistance to the race haters.
Our streets. Our parks. Our cities.
Are the "unfortunate business circumstances" failing to change your products or innovate at any level in a crowded market?
I love so many Yves products, but their veggie meat is the same as it was when I went vegan 20 years ago.
βEven if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you.β
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