Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won't stop posting about You have probably seen your right wing family and friends post a lot about ostriches lately. And, since you don’t follow Rebel News and a lot of twitter accounts with fucktrudeau and fringeminorty in ...

Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won’t stop posting about

It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

I have all kinds of thoughts here. But this is also a marker of public belief in conspiracy theories and rejection of science and we should all be very concerned.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

Exclusive: A misconduct ruling, a flawed investigation, and an attempted payoff University of Melbourne In April 2019, Daejung Kim, then a Ph.D. student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, found a draft manuscript on the desk of a postdoc in the same laboratory. The m…

Exclusive: Forced to change labs, Kim lost a scholarship and a job offer, and had to repay about AU$90,000 (US$58,400) to his sponsor in South Korea. The university has since offered Kim AU$15,000 (US$9,750) after he sought compensation — although without admitting culpability.

Nice terms used in PHEMS for a data space

Data Passport - the permission credential to access/use data

Airlock mechanism - results are vetted before being released from a secure data processing environment.

It is an interesting point, but it's a shame that these important things that benefit the whole research community - and support #ResearchIntegrity - are billed as time-consuming gatekeepers; ideally these should be standard steps built smoothly into the process of research

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Chains 1/2000 20 X 24 inches [50.8 X 61 cm] Graphite on Paper #sciart #bacteria #gawoski

#ChemSky

Attention graph in various colours showing where research from Rhodes University has been mentioned in various locations online including Twitter, Bluesky, podcasts and news.

Twitter mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,275 mentions Bluesky mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,306 mentions

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.

Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.

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Happy Halloween!

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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

Python Foundation Rejects Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions - Slashdot The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. "The non-profit would've used the fu...

Terms: "NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott."

Oof. Risk!

developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

P.S. Liberals who kept saying "but our economic indicators are fine, it's just vibes"

this is why that messaging doesn't work ❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia Ironic.

From the AI that called itself mecha-hitler comes a rewrite of Wikipedia: Conservapedia! No wait that wasn't good enough, instead we welcome: Grokipedia!

www.theverge.com/news/807686/...

A pharmacist standing outside a building holding a sign reading "Support small business. Shop local." Above her the sign for her pharmacy reading "Walsh's West End Pharmacy"

It's time to get your free flu and covid shots Ontario!

Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy.

Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

CANADA IMPLEMENTS HALLOWEEN CANDY TARIFF

Unhinged. How much longer can fools fall for this psychos rhetoric

Ford walks back plan to slash tenants rights after spike in guillotine sales QUEEN'S PARK - Mere days after his government announced consultations over gutting Ontario tenants protections, the Ford Government has cancelled their plans after seeing a 5000% rise in the sale of g...

Ford walks back plan to slash tenants rights after spike in guillotine sales

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

Love to see another image with arrows pointing to what you are describing.

Left column: Under the RTA, all tenants have "security of tenure", which means that tenants have a right to remain in their rental unit as long as they follow the lease agreement and the RTA. Landlords cannot evict tenants without a legally valid reason, and after a fixed-term lease ends, the tenancy typically continues on a month-to-month basis. Right column: The government would consult on alternative options on lease agreement expiry that could allow landlords to control who occupies their units and for how long, allowing them to adjust tenancy arrangements based on market conditions, personal needs, or business strategies. This could add flexibility for some landlords in the approach to leases, potentially unlocking additional rental unit stock.

In particular, they want leases to no longer necessarily remain in effect indefinitely, so that landlords have more options for creating tenant turnover.

Current situation in left-hand column, proposal on the right:

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