Brad Coffin ⚰️

I feel bad for all the non-violent clowns who live in sewers

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...

To be clear, it seems they are asking for disaggregated, confidential data with a clear intent to attack academic freedom along bigoted, ideological lines.

Sign the petition here to demand the Tri-Council refuse to hand over your protected and private data. 2/2 #cdnpse

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research “passed a motion to force the Tri-Councils to release the last 25 years of [. . .] confidential data about funding applicant's EDI questionnaires and information about their institutions, peer reviewer comments and more.“ 1/2 #cdnpse

Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Speculative Whiteness Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...

if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings

To be clear, I’m not suggesting that fascism’s unpopularity is a weakness. It isn’t. But I genuinely wonder where people are even getting access to the unofficial side of things.

Been thinking about how the right in America has near total capture of mainstream media and social platforms, but many of its goals are still widely unpopular.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Why cut up a cauliflower when you could just set off a bomb in your kitchen?

I somehow managed not to get any Nazi tattoos. I think a big part of that was never wanting to be a Nazi.

He’ll probably have a position in the Whitehouse by the end of the month.

Ever since it was pointed out to me that J&B is the official whiskey of giallo films, I notice those green bottles in every movie.

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

‘Arms Locked in Solidarity,’ Markey and Millions Stand Up for What’s Right — Assigned Senator Ed Markey spoke powerfully in Boston, reflecting the deep support for transgender rights at the No Kings protests across the U. S.

ASSIGNED MEDIA'S TEAM WENT TO NO KINGS!

Four trans reporters at 5 rallies w/ one purpose: Understand how trans rights fit with the coalition of causes and communities in the largest single day protest in US history.

Our original reporting, here:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology TikTok video by lia

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Black and white image of Coily, an anthropomorphic spring. Kinda of a goblin/elf face on a spring body.

No Kings!

Black and white image of Coily, an anthropomorphic spring. Kinda of a goblin/elf face on a spring body.

No Kings!

A sign that says THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS AO YOU DON'T BLAME BILLIONAIRES Also behind them to the left is a sign that says NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS

That's right

A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.

A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.

You are not using the tool; the tool is using you.

Stop it.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

The dream broadcasts are very creepy. This is Carpenter’s most unsettling film.

Anyway, I am watching John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Today I learned that Victor Wong was associated with the Beats.

Stellan Skarsgård is this generation’s Donald Pleasence.

What I’d like is an app called Fall Poops that helps you find dogshit on a leafy lawn.

I’ve been thinking lately that everyone implicitly expects that there’s some kind of umpire who calls it for us. Like it would be front page of every paper and we’d get the day off work.

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me