Noelle Allen

Some important work being done by The Breach

This is a wonderful article about student journalism!

New Report Urges Publishers to Capitalize on Hidden Strengths Consulting firm Bain & Company argues that now is the time for the publishing industry to band together to find ways to win back consumers looking to break their obsession with screens.

An interesting book industry read:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Interesting

A really good explanation of why today's demonstrations are struggling to create change:

The privatization crisis at Canada Post Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

An interesting lunch read:

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

"Institutions should embrace collective storytelling between those who hold deep knowledge and those with the cultural fluency and media reach to deliver it effectively." Amen to that!

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

Isn't this what ended the last shut down?

Reposting to remember to read later.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

The fall of a Canadian giant The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...

That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.

That's quite the correction...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

This is a very good essay and a great lunch read:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Perfect! Naheed Nenshi gives the student who dared to ask Danielle Smith a question about education back the mic they cut off.

Fascinating.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

An interesting lunch read:
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Group training workers for ‘Rob Ford’s favourite nightclub owner’ got $6.5M in provincial skills development funding Training takes place at Zlatko Starkovski’s event venue at Exhibition Place

Interesting:
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Way too on the nose. A perfect send up of how things are right now.

"The labour market shortages that immigration is supposed to fix are not being addressed by the current system, which focuses on Temporary Foreign Workers, while leaving migrants with needed skills in fields like care work backlogged."

from "Shifting Borders": broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shi...

The women are rising Women have been leading the fight in the care sector for fairer wages and to put an end to unpaid labour.

A fabulous piece from Judy Rebick over at Rabble:
rabble.ca/columnists/t...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

This is a fascinating read:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Okay, writer friends, someone please turn this into a comic novel - romance, mystery whatever.

At the intersection of the 1st and 2nd…

Rhetoric, rights and realities: America at the crossroads Charlie Kirk's assassination highlights persistent issues of free speech and political violence in America, amid a troubling trend of increased attacks on public figures, necessitating a call for refl...

Friday editorial cartoon in the Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

This week on GET LIT, Jessica Popseki talks poetry and Noelle Allen talks Supercrawl!

1230 pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here; tinyurl.com/47wu5abv

It's E460. 40 shows left! (Now if only I had 40 weeks left until *real* retirement)

@supercrawl @noelleallen.bsky.social

The Humanities Aren't Dead Yet | The Local Enrollment in the liberal arts has been in freefall for years. But despite apocalyptic declarations about the end of the humanities, in my own classroom I see signs of life.

An interesting lunch read:
thelocal.to/humanities-i...

Andrew Scheer is targeting this person exactly the way she worried people would. Can he even read?