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Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news

Hey world, this is 100,000 Australians marching in yesterday's rain against starvation and genocide.

Vacant buildings are an increasing safety risk in Vancouver, officials say Buildings left vacant are posing an increasing safety concern around Vancouver, and the system for dealing with them is inadequate, officials say.

Complaints by Vancouver Fire & Rescue about fire risks posed by vacant buildings seems of a piece with previous concerns regarding OD response & lockable torch lighters. Firefighters are really talking about having to increasingly fight the effects of #Vancouver's willful neglect of extreme poverty!

Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establ…

@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...

uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

Deep Cove with purple flowers in the left foreground and calm waters behind. Pretty enough for you?

Ambleside Beach before the beach bodies arrive. A long swathe of sand stretching into the distance with the trees of Stanley Park in the background.

Stanley Park from mid-span on the Luon’s Gate bridge. The green metal structure of the bridge casts a shadow on the green water of the First Narrows below.

Geese have the right of way. Geese acting like they own the place in the West End (cuz they do). Cyclists wait for the all-clear.

Some random pretty #Vancouver pictures

SFU is officially on Bluesky! 👋

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Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news

#Vancouver is divided into 2 groups: Those with no clue about football/soccer and refer to the city "hosting #FIFA," like it's the bloody video game! And the rest of us, who know its the #WorldCup. (Overlapping 3rd group: those who wish the city had nothing to do with FIFA's oligarchic elites.)

Tsunami Watch for B.C. - EmergencyInfoBC Tsunami - A Tsunami Watch is in effect for B.C. Tsunami Notification Zones A, B, C and D: the north coast & Haida Gwaii, the central coast & northeast Vancouver Island, the outer west coast of Vancouv...

Tsunami watch for some parts of the BC coast

Colombia Opens South America's First Safe Injection Sites | Think Global Health July's launch of a second site signals a shift in overdose prevention that could spread across Latin America

My first story for @thinkglobalhealth.org is about South America's first safe injection sites, where staff monitor clients as they inject drugs in case of overdose. These sites are possible thanks to Colombia's 2023 drug policy, which prioritizes health.

www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/colo...

how can the AAG call for abstracts already be out now, I just got back from Detroit last week

Ornate chaos of Montmartre delivers pain and pleasure in men’s road race Evenepoel claimed gold but the chance to see the best cyclists actually race – for free – is far from the only delight

Watching highlights of the Tour de France on Montmartre today reminded me of this amazing piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social from last year.
www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/a...

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Now face North, think about direction, wonder why you haven't before

Did you just drop a big Van Poli announcement here on a Friday afternoon?! 🤔😁

Uhh ... @seanorr.bsky.social's big win was a sign of things to come in New York.

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

Article 54 of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocol I.

1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.

Good for them. Writing is thinking.

Canvas goes "AI." Nope nope nope. Instead, I'll assure my students that when they write assignments, they can trust that their Actually Intelligent TAs & professor will read and evaluate them. Trust about using, or not using, "AI" works both ways. (1/3)

Of course, colleagues overburdened with teaching, service, life might be tempted by the Canvas icon offering easy 'solutions' & their concerns might be assuaged by their institution's embrace of "AI." Hopefully we can work collectively to support, not blame, them. Until this bubble bursts.

Blood in the Machine "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how...

I'll also remind them that chat-based AIs are bullshit machines & that AI is adding to the global climate crisis. I'll plug @bcmerchant.bsky.social‬ 's book Blood in the Machine www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian... (2/3)

Canvas goes "AI." Nope nope nope. Instead, I'll assure my students that when they write assignments, they can trust that their Actually Intelligent TAs & professor will read and evaluate them. Trust about using, or not using, "AI" works both ways. (1/3)

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

A really good discussion of the current 'Abundance' debate.

A little piece of art to cleanse your timeline. (Anyone who says she shinned the finish gets blocked.) #football #soccer

Interesting to know about the SRA bylaw. Yeah, another random accident, no doubt ...

Empty, thankfully. In an area recently rezoned for higher density, higher value development, as other recent fires in the area have been. Funny that ... #urbanfire #EastVan
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

Vernon Apartments, affordable seniors housing. @spthompson.bsky.social #urbanfire