Brian Fauteux

A small crab spider, white with red markings, clutches a leaf in a garden

A goldenrod crab spider sitting on a leaf of a weed in a garden

A goldenrod crab spider, guarding the strawberries

Lou-Adriane Cassidy (performing), Saya Gray (performing), Yves Jarvis (performing), Mustafa, Ribbon Skirt (performing) — your 2025 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize Short List. Winner revealed Sept. 16. Link in bio.

AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions. Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaning­ful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagia­rism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.

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At 1,000 episodes, Vish Khanna’s Kreative Kontrol culture podcast keeps guests talking Since the show launched in 2013, the Canadian host has earned a reputation for being an engaged interviewer

Wrote about @vishkhanna.bsky.social's KREATIVE KONTROL reaching 1000 episodes, & how he's built+sustained a podcast that treats both guests and listeners with care

With insights from @katebeaton.bsky.social, @youvechanged.bsky.social & Fugazi's Brendan Canty www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Whoa, an Ontario university that can somehow afford to hire!

JOB: Assistant or Associate Librarian, Rare Books, University of Guelph
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How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

Many of you have shared this but 1 statement just keeps hitting hard: "public universities are being slowly starved of public funding, and their desperation for diversified revenue streams creates opportunities for private capture and Ponzi austerity."

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

Who do they even got? A guy who can stretch really far. Ok whatever

I believe it

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

Alanis Morissette was ruthless for beginning Ironic with the guy who dies on his first ever flight leaving behind a wife and kids

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Anyone have any bird feeder recommendations?

A man-on-fire Kendrick verse

41 y/o man finally gets around to listening to the new Clipse album

I recently spoke about Music In Orbit with @corybarker.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast. We talked about the turn to subscription listening, Liberty Media's growing power in the media industries, and music programming in the streaming era. Listen here

newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit

Music in Orbit by Brian Fauteux - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Grab MUSIC IN ORBIT from @ucpress.bsky.social

I'm back with another episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. I spoke to @brianfauteux.bsky.social about his great new book, MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE.

Music in Orbit by Brian Fauteux - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

And if you wanted to read the book before listening to the podcast, have i got the link for you:

www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

I recently spoke about Music In Orbit with @corybarker.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast. We talked about the turn to subscription listening, Liberty Media's growing power in the media industries, and music programming in the streaming era. Listen here

newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit

Fffffffuuuuccckkkkkk

I have not yet taken it to that level

One of my favourite lectures in my intro class is on early 70s and Sabbath and metal and the rift in generations and taste in rock and culture. Then, I play all 6+ minutes of "Black Sabbath" and we just sit with it

RIP

Telling myself, 'you wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts' as I hit the checkout button on the verso 40% off sale

Cursed in like a good way, yeah?

overheard one of the other customers say they found this shop by using ChatGPT. I know people use it for a lot of mundane shit, but asking an Internet robot to pick out a TATTOO ARTIST for you feels so perverse, I truly can’t wrap my head around it

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Back on air with WHAT DO WE KNOW / CJSR, which feels great after missing three weeks while away. We're doing a theme of RIVERS for the next two hours, 88.5 FM in Edmonton / cjsr.com everywhere else

The long reign of right-wing parties in Alberta has produced a class of political backroom players unlike anywhere else in Canada. The Globe story and a previous story by former CP reporter Bob Weber offer a rare window into the world these people inhabit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...