Colin Mitchell @cpmishell - Bluesky Profile

Told my niece this is RUSH

01.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0

Photos: The history of Netanyahu’s rhetoric on Iran’s nuclear ambitions Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an imminent threat from an Iranian nuclear bomb for more than 30 years.

aje.io/dcbicg

24.06.2025 15:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kingston Police's use of a drone to catch distracted drivers stirs backlash | CBC News Drivers at three busy intersections in Kingston, Ont., had no way of knowing they were being watched earlier this month, but high above them police hovered, zooming in to catch those using their phone...

in an era of invasive social media, data leaks, data breaches, etc., I'm not swayed by legal experts using "privacy concerns" to criticize this particular police use of drone technology. Distracted drivers are a menace on the roads - pure and simple.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

17.05.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally some good news on a Friday.

10.05.2025 00:27 — 👍 122 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYS...

05.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

29.04.2025 21:41 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Okay so under the bill now:

* Saying the State of Israel is racist, or comparing Israeli government actions to the Nazis = illegal discrimination

* Saying your religious belief is that Jews killed Jesus and they currently run a global conspiracy to replace white people = totally fine

29.04.2025 23:16 — 👍 806 🔁 314 💬 31 📌 26

On behalf of, I dunno, EVERY FAT KID IN the USA, l'ma go ahead and call BS on the whole bullying creates mass shooters narrative. LGBTQ kids, kids of color, disabled kids, poor kids, girl kids are bullied. Who's doing the shooting? White boys whose parents don't secure their guns

Makes sense.

22.04.2025 00:14 — 👍 9458 🔁 1888 💬 103 📌 58

I have been home in Pennsylvania for 45 minutes and I’ve already hit a pothole so deep I had to fight a balrog on my way out

21.04.2025 19:56 — 👍 650 🔁 31 💬 19 📌 0

I’m very interested in this event, but unfortunately I won’t be able to attend. Hopefully there might be something available online after it’s all said and done?

12.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Public Lecture – Halifax Humanities Society

Peter Adamson - here in Halifax! Please consider attending at the Halifax North Memorial Library, April 16, 2025. See Event Brite below for reservation.
halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca/tag/public-l...

www.eventbrite.ca/e/philosophy...

10.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ouch

01.04.2025 14:28 — 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine-refusing the prompt.

I just co-authored a piece with @cnygren.bsky.social on exactly this! It’s short!

static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

28.03.2025 19:44 — 👍 419 🔁 85 💬 23 📌 25

Harvard is now Trump-compliant. This kind of “self-enforcement” of regime policy by university boards also happened in Germany immediately after the Nazi’s seized power.

29.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 36 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDK...

22.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

—people sent to ICE detention prisons under terrible circumstances, with no information about the conditions of release, and with great barriers for outside contact. The latest reports concern a Canadian citizen: /4

19.03.2025 13:37 — 👍 197 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2

US: Pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil arrested – DW – 03/10/2025 The arrest of the campus protest leader comes after President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

www.dw.com/en/us-pro-pa...

10.03.2025 19:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump deported 37,660 in first month, lagging Biden but poised to ramp up U.S. President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration.

US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration reut.rs/3QrUQfQ

21.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 440 🔁 183 💬 43 📌 32

Couldn’t agree more!

21.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act - Halifax Examiner The guardrails limiting government influence over research and teaching in our postsecondary institutions are there for good reason. Tim Houston’s government is taking them off in the name of accounta...

‘Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act
By Karen Foster

21.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 29 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 5

The Banat of Temeşvar as an Ottoman province? Sultan Donald thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to the Patriarch of Constantinople, who would gain a lot more Orthodox Serbs in his flocks.

(this article is disgusting and morally reprehensible)

18.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

seriously, fuck all the way off to the Gulf of Mexico
Way too many American "journalists" are talking about Canada, Greenland and Panama as "terra nullius" as if they are lands emptied out of history, people, culture, ambitions and desires.
These places do not exist only on a map, you absolute arse.

18.02.2025 04:00 — 👍 116 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0

The Ottoman scribal service is perhaps the dynasty’s finest achievement, allowing the sultan to collect immense tax revenues, mobilize huge armies and fleets, and control territories from Tunisia to Tabriz and from Azov to Aden. But for some reason, Sultan Donald is allowing his new Grand Vizier...

04.02.2025 04:40 — 👍 49 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 6