Dr. Margrit Talpalaru

Let’s not forget the tariffs

Arts sector contributes billions to Canadian economy, but funding challenges remain, report says | CBC News Canada's arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion to the economy last year, but an increase in public investment is needed to offset a drop in private funding and a rise in costs, says a new re...

“The report, released this week, says every dollar invested by the federal government in arts and culture generates $29 in economic activity”
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“Nearly nine in ten Canadians (88 per cent) say they are concerned about AI deception in the news, with over half (52 per cent) “very concerned.””
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so pretty! My diamine damson never looks quite so purple when I write with it

KJ Charles—never gone wrong :). Recently enjoyed EH Lupton.
Happy to take recs, too.

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

“Instead of telling their own stories, creatives are funneled into pre-existing IP, often with corporate-issued limitations on what kind of stories they can tell.”
#BookSky
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You’ve articulate so well why I can seem to make myself click play. It’s just the pov is so relentlessly bleak, which is not my cuppa in spite of everything else being well done.

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.

“I wonder if the emerging threat of AI is restoring a sense of vitality to the humanistic mission... the humanities enable people to feel whole within themselves...[they] help us form coherent narratives…out of the contradictions, challenges, and terrors of daily life. thelocal.to/humanities-i...

Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef.
Grace Flahive's Palm Meridian
Natasha Pulley's The Mars House
Jess K. Hardy's Sunastara & the Venusian (with a dash or romcom)

German cuisine truly does not get enough credit (or any at all?)

I’m pretty sure this this THE best closet ever!

“Moral convictions & emotions play a critical role in escalating disagreements. The damage caused when civil arguments are subtly replaced with moral convictions & moral emotions can impact how we co-operate & interact with one another, even in our day-to-day conversations with families & friends.”

As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content | CBC News YouTube, the world's largest video platform, with 20 million videos uploaded each day, appears to have changed its moderation policies to allow more content that violates its own rules to remain onlin...

"What we're going to see is a growth in the economy around hate and disinformation."
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

“In short, these models are very good at a kind of pattern recognition, but often fail when they encounter novelty that forces them beyond the limits of their training, despite being, as the paper notes, “explicitly designed for reasoning tasks”
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Audiobook player for Woodworking by Emily St. James

Back to my regular #BookSky posting:

I loved Woodworking by Emily St. James for its loving portrayal of different White trans women’s experiences, and the reversal of the generational flow of wisdom.

“Biderman herself doesn't have any illusions that the likes of OpenAI will […]start being paragons of ethical data sourcing. But she hopes her work will at least get them to stop hiding what they're using to train their AI models.
"Even partial transparency has a huge amount of social value"

I would totally love to see you in your MHA ears!

“OpenAI’s push to A.I.-ify college education amounts to a national experiment on millions of students.

The use of these chatbots in schools is so new that their potential long-term educational benefits, and possible side effects, are not yet established.”

Today marks the final day of Congress@GBC, and we couldn’t be prouder to be the 1st college ever to host Canada’s largest academic gathering! For over a week, we've welcomed colleagues from across Canada & the world for the 94th Annual Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. @federationhss.ca

Limberlost Campus lit up with vibrant dances by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation for National Indigenous History Month and Congress @ GBC! Thank you to everyone who joined us in honouring Indigenous knowledge through meaningful, embodied learning. @federationhss.ca #Congressh

“How to create global networks of care, to disrupt the isolationism that is becoming a powerful political force in the world” are the things Billy Ray Belcourt is thinking about #congressh

To do that, @archaeomapper.bsky.social advises us to foster a “resurgence of a sense of care and connection by recognizing the value in all beings, so all can thrive and grow.” #Congressh

“Boundaries are the distance at which we can love one another,” jokes @razorfemme.bsky.social quoting Prentis Hemphill, before inviting the audience to “Dream into a future based in love, rooted in care and collectivity” #Congressh

Kai Cheng Thom, Jael Richardson, and Kisha Supernant sit in red chairs and above on the wall is the projected image of Billy Ray Belcourt participating online in the Big Thinking panel Care of Togetherness

“What stories can you read that change you and how you operate?” Asks @jaelrichardson.bsky.social at the Care of Togetherness Big Thinking as a way to practice care. #Congressh

“Care is one of those practices that we carry out often without any kind of robuste theoretical framework, it preceeds thoughts in many ways.” - Billy-Ray Belcourt #congressh

"Each person in this room has a responsibility to the land which we live on. It's no coincidence that the land was found in such a beautiful state when settler colonialism began. Climate change is because of colonialism." - Melina Laboucan-Massimo #congressh

A true nightmare!

“AI will be a tool that you can use; it’s not going to replace everybody, but it will displace a lot of jobs. Just like other tools, it will eventually create more opportunities. AI will facilitate people being able to make more”: Michael Hirsh #congressh

Michael Hirsh in conversation with Mark Jones with their respective books Animation Nation and The Starving Artist Myth in the background

Michael Hirsh underscores the similarities between the experimental film culture of the 1960s-1970s and the YouTube creator culture of the past decade, in terms of DIY methods and finding an audience #congressh

Ryan Morrison: How do we slow it down?
Heather Krause: We focus on the fact that it wasn’t everybody, but only a few, and amplify it. #congressh