Mark Leier

Me, too. It's all about serving the machine now

This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.

Well, it might be worth a try

SLOCOM members/fans, it has been a busy few months but look forward to more from non-Party non-headquarters!

Would tracking interest rates help?

New book by SFU PhD Aaron Goings out now!https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754000/red-harbor/

#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

We’d be stupid to turn down the generous gift of three $150-million catamaran ferrys from the Egyptian government.

nothing spells faculty productivity like spending hours manually inputting pull-down-menu versions of information readily available on a CV into a proprietary Faculty Productivity™ software on which the university spent jillions

Puppets…

Warm weather is here! Anyone know of a Canadian maker of Clamsicles?

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.

When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

Exactly. And they know that going in. Thus their private sector experience, they plus pandering to corporate interests while in office.

How is political corruption not also private sector experience?

cannot say enough how much i despise the leaders and the senior leadership of canada's three major political parties. whatever the result tonight we all lose.

I know you all think you've saved the country but in 4 years the status quo will be untenable and the next Poilievre will be far worse. Enjoy the reprieve

Canadian politics 101: 158 years of Liberal/Conservative horse races. And both parties running on "change."

The really messed up thing is, my heart is in my throat about this election but it's going to stay there because even if we keep PP out, we're going to have to fight Carney tooth and nail for 4 years.

This election forces us to choose between the evil
of two lessers.

This Canadian election is important, for whoever wins it shifts the "Overton Window"
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.

An election where the climate was barely mentioned. As the water levels in the Rockies reach record lows, as the forest fire threats accelerate, as glaciers melt at record pace, as extreme weather accelerates...and yet, nothing.

Boat early, boat often

I fear that "the long march through the institutions" means we have become institutionalized.

Starting Dan McQuillan's "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence," Bristol University Press, 2020, and there is much good stuff here, including a call for mutual aid and the commons.

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO Johnny Cash - Hurt

As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:

Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...

dear journalists:

if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU

Well, for some definition of “land,” I guess….

One advantage to SLOCOM typed mail is security services no longer have the capacity or equipment to steam open letters! "Kettle? No, but there's a coffee pod machine in the kitchen. Why?"

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