Noah Arney

I really enjoyed Hyperion, and then I read literally anything else by or about him and... yeah, all pretty terrible.

Good thing governments spent the last decade telling young people they all had to learn how to code and universities that they were useless unless they were churning out IT grads.

Peter MacKinnon: University of Alberta should be applauded for resisting affirmative action Affirmative action — by whatever name it is known — is discriminatory

Peter MacKinnon with an absolutely inane piece about EDI hiring opens by noting that 'affirmative action' is discriminatory and against section 15(1) of the Charter. He fails to note section 15(2) of the Charter, which EXPLICITLY PROTECTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES. nationalpost.com/opinion/pete...

When we think of budgets, we really should be thinking about collective commitments to a common cause, a common institution, a shared social contract. Not bean counting, which is always partial, skewed. Alas, this kind of thinking goes against the way many disciplines and academics operate.

Ricardo Levins Morales image showing the slogan 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will, across images of a worker, a person sleeping, and people on a rowboat reading the newspaper.

I’ve taken to echoing Robert Owen & so many in labor history.

And if life is "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest" and education only focuses on labor, we have left behind as irrelevant the vast majority of human life & thriving.

To our cost.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

Must have a state id to vote, not allowed to have a state id if youre trans? It's not subtle.

Self-phishing drills are the most irritating 'training'. Thanks, you took some of my time to look up who I'm supposed to forward a phishing email to, and then wasted more time with your canned reply to tell me it was a drill and about the training.

Feels like something @lastpositivist.bsky.social would have written.

Wait, I understand that Hergot was posting pro-hitler stuff, but if I'm understanding Juno News' quote correctly, the reason they are cutting ties with both Widdowson and Hergott is because Widdowson refused to also cut ties with Hergott over his expressing of Nazi ideology?

Ahhh, so in this case 'middle class' is bad because the candidate is supposed to be 'working class'. I assumed it was 'people I look down on are below my class and that's funny' but it's actually 'people I look down on shouldn't have access to the same things as me'.

responding to the setup for what's happening now and was clearly aimed at leading to today's full attack on free-speech with calling it a "mixed bag" and that it would only be bad through "over zealous enforcement" was a bit credulous for a group who studies this stuff.

It's good to see that FIRE is no longer taking the 'wait and see' approach they advocated for last year. I understand that for a lot of conservatives it was easy to take the administration at its word that they would be pro-free-speech, but

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I feel like I don't know enough about British class politics to understand this. Is she saying middle class is bad? Good? Should MPs be middle class? Is that bad or good? So much is relying on cultural knowledge that for someone outside the culture its impenetrable.

Today's #ykaHotChocolateFest is the Alanis S'Moreissette at Table Twelve Fifty, wonderfully rich, the marshmallow was tasty, but the biscotti really brought together the smores flavour.

Hot chocolate with pistachio on top

Forgot to update the #ykaHotChocolateFest tries. The pistachio white hot chocolate at Ice-cream Social was fantastic. Smooth and rich while not being overpowering and the pistachio elevated it nicely.

a man wearing glasses and a suit says it 's devastating Alt: a man wearing glasses and a suit says it 's devastating

Its a millenial insult. It's devastating.

I'm curious if there are any Canadian ties other than Peterson.

It's mixture of imagined problems and things that aren't provincial jurisdiction. Likely all in an attempt to make people not blame Smith for the UCP caused financial problems.

Cowichan decision is ‘rock solid law’, won’t affect private landowners, UBC expert says - UBC News A new UBC analysis says the Cowichan decision is grounded in solid law and does not threaten private landowners, outlining pathways for fair, forward-looking solutions.

The pundits and politicians trying to stoke fear turn out to be ignoring what the Cowichan decision is really about.

news.ubc.ca/2026/02/cowi...

Ahh yes, an intro to sociology that prohibits any discussion of how a society behaved in the past or how that might impact the present. I'm sure that will be useful.

I feel like this is because I stopped watching to go to a meeting when it was 1/0 with 6 min left.

Ming-Na Wen is amazing, can't wait!

My kid prefers honey to jam on this and calls them spaceman sandwiches. He saw Commander Hadfield eating them on the ISS when he was little.

It's so good, but not a light read.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Oooh, new euphemism for "indefinite delay" just dropped. For when you want to pretend you care but you really don't.

I think Nenshi's brand of NDP would do better in this moment, but I don't think there are enough NDP folks like him.

I wonder if Carney's turning the Liberals into the progressive conservatives will start having mps move to the NDP. Trudeau spent a good chunk of time grabbing political territory from the NDP and Carney is doing the same to the conservatives.