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'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE has begun Small businesses struggled to observe the national shutdown to protest ICE. Here's why a boycott of companies like OpenAI and Amazon could be easier and more effective.

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Freshly returned from the excellent 2025 NECS conference "Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media," hosted by Lusófona University in Lisbon.

I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025

necs.org/conference/2...

SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant - University Affairs Peer reviewer’s perspectives.

A very useful read for those in the midst of (re)applying for a SSHRC grant, by Letitia Henville: "Peer reviewer’s perspectives: SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant" #UniversityAffairs Happy to have contributed. Share widely! universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...

MAGA Melts Down Over New Pope's Anti-Trump, Pro-Immigrant Social Media Donald Trump's supporters are not liking the social media of Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, which includes several posts critical of the president.

MAGA meltdown. #LeoXIV

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Talk to students about the error rate, environmental costs, labour, surveillance, eugenics, techno-fascism, security, so they have a say in their future; don't leave it to the AI industry to define it. None of my students used bots last term.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Re: Canadian federal election 2025

SCMS flyer announcing dates of the 2026 conference "CHICAGO 2026 Annual Conference, March 26–29, Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 North Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60601"

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.

"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."

Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.

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Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in T...

Big welcome to Jason Stanley, @timothysnyder.bsky.social , and @marcishore.bsky.social, among likely others, to Toronto! Definitely Canada's gain, as evidence of a possible brain drain appears.

dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...

What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like Trump’s team consider financial policy interventions to be crucial in a grand reordering of global finance and trade

Enlightening analysis from anthropologist and FT columnist Gillian Tett. #GillianTett #KingsCollege #CambridgeU
"Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats."

www.ft.com/content/fba8...

Quite a busy week on the counter-tariffs front in Canada. Adieu to all spirits and wine from the US of A, among other actions. #trump #maga #tariffs #lcbo

2025 GGArts Winners Revealed The Canada Council for the Arts reveals the 2025 winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts (GGArts).

Congrats to Bruce LaBruce, Kent Monkman, Clive Robertson, Thaddeus Hołownia, Sandra Rodriguez & Jin-me Yoon, all recipients of the #GGArts Award for 2025! canadacouncil.ca/press/2025/0...

People rallying in Union Square NYC

Union Square rally.

Union Square rally.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

Once more for the folks in the back www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs | CCPA The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally the Trump-led 2016 Canada-...

FYI "A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs" from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives #CCPA

Some things never change.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

Similar to Russia's anti-LGBT law, which seeks to suppress the portrayal of the LGBT community as a normal part of society, Meta is now reversing course and removing product features that provide visibility to LGBTQ+ users on its platforms. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio "There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

Nice to see my piece "MM Serra's Living Legacy, her Films, Gardens, & Turtles," among all the impressive others, in the recent volume of Framework 65 (1&2), a Festschrift dedicated to NYC artist-filmmaker MM Serra, edited by Ronald Gregg and Drake Stutesman.
DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp

Baudrillard could at least verify the simulation. These days, not even that.

Happy to see my chapter ‘Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies’ in the open-access book Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods, edited with care by Tamara Falicov and Dorotka Ostrowska. OA Download at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

A scene from Santa Anita. Donors lined up for days, tons of volunteers, the biggest swap meet I've ever seen, and Ukrainian empanadas. I went to volunteer, ended up unloading stuff.

The introduction to an excellent special issue of the journal Studies in World Cinema on Queer World Cinema edited by my great friend James S Williams has just been published (in advance of the issue) and is free to access!

doi.org/10.1163/2665...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive