Matthew Rowlinson

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Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Someone is doing to die after being hit by a driver of a vehicle at a location that used to have a speed camera. This will be on you, Doug.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

Of course this is why.

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem.

I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

Happy to say I’ve no idea who this person is but calling her a “heifer” is tacky & sexist.

Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.

We are governed by trolls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"That anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history, politics, economics or even pragmatic common sense would call the way these provocateurs operate civil debate says just how poorly prepared any of us are for what lies in front of us."

AI 'actors' look like waxworks.

Canada's exploding wealth inequality requires tax changes Our current tax code is not asking the wealthy to reinvest in our economy, and that failure is weakening services and programs working Canadians may use to get ahead.

Clearly true.

You wouldn't know this is clearly true if you followed our legacy media and spokespeople for corporate Canada, claiming massive tax cuts will cure what ails us.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Tennyson Talks start up again next week - we have a great line up of speakers all talks free details below @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social

The thing about oilsands companies is that over the past decade they have focused on cutting as many jobs as possible in the name of efficiency while paying as little as possible for the pollution they cause.

"AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer"

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

I enjoyed "One Battle After Another" but I don't think that when Gil Scott Heron said "the revolution will not be televised" he meant it as a motto for Hollywood's last-ditch action against streaming.

There's plenty of useful things you can do with AI. But AI is (as Princeton's Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of AI Snake Oil put it), a normal technology: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology That doesn't mean "nothing to see here, move on." It means that AI isn't the bow-wave of "impending superintelligence." Nor is it going to deliver "humanlike intelligence." It's a grab-bag of useful (sometimes very useful) tools that can sometimes make workers' lives better, when workers get to decide how and when they're used. The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people. AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.

The conclusion (making it clear this is extreme skepticism about AI economics and hype, not the use case for the *technology* in some circumstances)

William & Mary University in Virginia is looking for an assistant professor of Global Victorian Literatures. Application deadline is November 9. williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det... #C19th #19th-c

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.

It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.

If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Del Duca on the side of child-killing speeders.

Not even a joke. The people who want to close UPs also think everything worth reading is available online and would like to turn the library into a Starbucks.

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Handwritten, "To Ethel, With love from Maud"

Found in a 1904 edition of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on Hathi Trust. I like to think of Ethel and Maud that year, underneath a bough with a book of verses, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and "thou."

Apparently the rapture is happening on Wednesday and now I'm like should I even bother folding my laundry if I'm going to be fighting to avoid eternal damnation on Thursday?

Doug Ford will outlaw municipal speed cameras this fall: Sources Sources say Ford's Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the "automated speed enforcement" devices.

Another item in the ‘Doug Ford wants you dead’ file (he wants your kids dead also) www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Looking for your next COVID-19 or flu shot? Here's when you can get it in Ontario | CBC News Ontario announced today its schedule for the fall immunization programs, encouraging residents to get flu and COVID-19 vaccinations.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good news if you are 65+ in #Ontario! You are eligible for flu vaccine next week & COVID-19 vaccine this week. The rest of us have to wait until October 27th for both.

#COVID19 #Influenza #VaccinesWork

lol “news”