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I can't get past the absurdity of the claims that these are being broadcast to the summit. The idea of Macron flipping through his hotel TV and stumbling across the downtown Calgary channel thinking he'd found TSN is kinda funny though.

Callings, Crises, and Community Upcoming webinar with Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Callings, Crises, and Community: Considering Critical Hope in 21st-Century Librarianship

Colleagues: Next month, join me in conversation to share library workers lived experiences of challenge, & to explore immediately applicable pathways to Critical Hope & Joy Reclamation Practice for our whole-hearted, human selves. (Note: date is July 15, 2025 at 11A ET)
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I am discomfited by how quickly university admins went from “catch the cheaters w these bad detection tools!” to “here is an embedded AI chatbot in the enterprise software for everyone to use!” bsky.app/profile/jhmu...

This is true. But why did people forget about the importance of vaccinations? Another negative impact of COVID.

You just don't know how badly I needed to see this today! 🥹❤️ #ProtectBlackGirls #BlackGirlhoodStudies

Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech Workers are fighting for working conditions and mental health support.

Incredible! "Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance...to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi"

www.theverge.com/news/658566/...

Call for Papers ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference 1-4 June 2026, Montréal, Canada As ISIC 2026 is the sixteenth ISIC conference and the conference’s 30th anniversary, we especially encourage authors to refle...

📣Call for Papers: Information Seeking in Context 2026! This conf is home to the information behaviour (broadly understood) community. Join us in Montréal, 1-4 June 2026.

It's ISIC's 30th anniversary, but first time in North America.

Papers due 8 Oct 2025.

📚📜

www.mcgill.ca/isic2026/cal...

The Unethical Underbelly of AI: A Call for Universities to Take a Stand - UKSG The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked intense debate concerning its implications across various sectors, including higher education. While supporters of Gen AI in unive...

"There is no regulatory framework to ensure technologies are evaluated for safety, efficacy and societal harms before being deployed. We must use our own critical faculties & yet within the sector above all others where you would expect to see such criticality it is glaringly absent." #AcademicSky 📚

May 4, 1970: Kent State Massacre During an anti-war protest at Kent State University, the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students, killing four. Students were also killed at Jackson State (May 15, 1970), and Orangeburg (Feb...

#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9.

Also remember massacres at

-- Orangeburg (2/8/1968) &

-- Jackson State (5/15/1970)

Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️
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This... It seems to me the government before the Liberals are the ones who stopped building affordable houses and low-income rental units, so what we are experiencing right now is not all on the Liberals.

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in a Polarized Era, JSGS The Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is recruiting for a Tie...

Come work with us in beautiful Canada! We are seeking a social science research leader with expertise in public policy. Please share with your networks! #academicsky #academia #PoliSciSky #polisky

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Addressing this to fellow Australians but it applies to everyone: LCSH and LCNAF are not library law. Their use is entirely optional. We can choose otherwise. We should choose better.

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

LOVE to see CBC doubling down on its commitment to local news. One of the most vital roles our public broadcaster plays imo!!!

Lots of jobs here too:

A grainy, vintage-looking black and white photo of Martin Sostre with his quote in white typewriter-text: "The struggle for human dignity knows no boundaries nor, may I add, is limited to any particular people or race." The image is from a postcard demanding an end to Sostre's torture and commutation of his sentence, c. 1975. Courtesy of Ewa & Hania Dubinsky.

Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a politicized prisoner and jailhouse lawyer who eventually identified as a revolutionary anarchist and laid the foundation for contemporary Black anarchism. He believed it was necessary to dismantle both the prison and the state. (1/3)

We need good schoolhouse rock type videos, reels, TikTok’s explaining in plan language what an algorithm is. What different types of AI are. What bots are. These terms are being used broadly by people who have no idea what they are. We need remedial education for the general public!

so, as ever, education can be asked to pay for "innovations" that police bodies with no genuine understanding of learning, but... funding for small class sizes or active learning? lolol nope

The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social.

Apply for a 19th News Fellowship The 19th is recruiting for its 2025-2026 cohort of the Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship.

Fellowship alert! Applications are open for @19thnews.org next Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship cohort!
Early to mid-career HBCU alums join our newsroom for a yearlong, full-time, remote fellowship with a minimum $70K salary + great benefits.
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This attitude (of mine) will lead some to say I'm self silo-ing or creating a bubble or whatever. Maybe. Maybe sometimes it's appropriate because there are lines good people refuse to cross on basic principle. A site run by someone saying Canada needs its own DOGE is a fucking bright line for me.

Occasionally The Hub will feature smart commentary by smart guest posters. I've always had trouble engaging/reading, precisely because it's run by someone who often enough shows his colours as a dangerous right-wing ideologue.

Arrest a librarian? Georgia Senators to consider bill to remove 'harmful materials' Georgia Senate Bill 74 would remove librarians' protections against a state law about giving 'harmful materials' to minors. Here's what we know.

We've reached "arrest the librarians" level of authoritarianism.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

*rolls eyes in librarian*

If we can do our jobs so can you.

Wealthy business people and corporations avoided all or most taxes. Tesla/Musk paid 0$ in taxes. As did Apple.

The people who can afford the ticket won't pay taxes, but will leech off all benefits and services. It's a detriment to America.

If every person who thinks their vote won't change anything votes, it will change EVERYTHING!!
Workers, you get 3 hours off to vote, grab a coffee and go vote.
On ODSP, all parties BUT Doug Ford will DOUBLE your assistance, grab a friend or two and go vote!
Need a doctor, go vote. Bring I.D.

Cover of the zine “Radical Books That Aren’t a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks” featuring gentle color blobs

📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚

If you have been moved by today's birth, I humbly suggest that you make a donation to my fellow farmer @jkadfarm.bsky.social in Gaza, that he may one day rebuild his own herd

The way #UCalgary admin behaved towards students who have every right to take up space on their own campus was disgraceful. I said it then and I'll say it again now, Ed McCauley needs to apologize and take accountability.

The billionaire class

Is Canadian federalism a hindrance to dealing with the threat of Trump? Canada could only exist in federal form.

NEW POST: Is Canadian federalism a hindrance to dealing with the threat of Trump?
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