Luke Stark

Catnip for @nickseaver.website

The Canadian establishment is fascinating in action.

The most famous line from Lincoln's second inaugural address is also probably the most misunderstood: "with malice toward none, with charity for all."

I'm a fan of Frederick Douglass's gloss on it.

This is now the bar for every Democrat in the country.

This makes even less sense than the Exhibition Place site for a huge convention centre.

Why put it on a new artificial island? Convention centres are giant windowless buildings requiring all sorts of logistics for things like catering and display/booth set ups.

What is he trying to distract us from?

I don't think I would have wanted to go on

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

This feels exactly right. Prudery and purity culture is one side of a single coin whose other side is perversion and abuse, and the thing that unites them is control.

Video: A.I. Videos Distort Damage From Iranian Strikes After Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, A.I.-generated imagery claiming to show massive explosions or exaggerated destruction at or near targeted sites have been spreading on social m...

Both predictable and terrifying the way gen ai images and narratives about ai systems’ precision are manipulated towards normalizing atrocities.

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But Fadi Masoud, the director of the Centre for Landscape Research at the University of Toronto, says putting such a large, flat concrete convention centre on new artificial land in the lake could involve hundreds of millions of dollars in extra construction and maintenance costs, trigger environmental hurdles and leave the facility facing flood risks.

The man just cut OSAP, hitting low income students hard, and our healthcare system is an underfunded mess as our population ages but sure, let's build an island that could come with flood risks.

#OnPoli

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

doing everything you can to kneecap renewable energy development and then immediately launching an illegal war that threatens non-renewables and may result in a catastrophic increase in energy prices is the republican party in a nutshell

Whether you think AI may have good applications for education or not, it's clearly *not right* for global AI vendors to be controlling the production of evidence about their own products.

There's just something so unaccountably absurd and surreal to see the President in real time improvising and asking around about who to bomb next

People in my mentions blaming Jeffries and Pelosi for defections, and you shouldn't. Both whipped hard for yes on this, Pelosi was personally arguing with yesses on the floor until the vote closed. If you were following this previously, you'll see that some who had said they were voting no flipped

Really cool that everyone is adapting to this new and fast paced environment

Israel attacking Turkiyë and forcing a showdown over article 5 is a situation made in a lab to drive the Reasonable Thinker caucus into Lovecraftian madness

Why One Artist Transcribed All 900-Plus Pages of ‘Moby-Dick’ by Hand

Next time should we embark on a month of Moby-Dick transcription??? 🐋 (🎁 link)

A reminder that CNN is a top channel in Canada and that this conversation is about us too. Our latest media research for the record

Arrested development ass admin

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Preston Brooks resigned after caning Charles Sumner (and then was resoundingly reelected anyway) but we are maybe in a more fucked-up era than the antebellum period bsky.app/profile/elkm...

It’s Bad: What Now? - Nancy K. Baym, 2026 This essay reflects on a decade of worsening social media harms—inequality, algorithmic power, precarious labor, and data extraction—arguing for renewed interdi...

Lucky to have theee @nancybaym.bsky.social revisiting her essay in the inaugural issue of Social Media + Society, and what's happened to the tech and to us since.

It's Bad: What Now?

I genuinely believe that most students attend college to learn. They are very open to a pedagogic critique of the tools. but if this is coming unevenly from professors and not at all from admit, they will embrace the 'adopt or die' advertising of Big Tech.

There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.

dave said the thing i wanted to say the other day but with less cursing and more reasonableness because he's a responsible adult and im basically feral

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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In a faculty meeting on student AI & holy f the situation is just grim. Basically, it's on its to totally revise our assignment structure & pedagogy, but uni will start opening up computer lab testing centers bc students can't be trusted to take exams on computers they own without using agentic AI.