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There is not only "no crying in baseball", there is only crying in baseball.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

cheering for Jays but also, seriously, same.

Sleeping black cat in the foreground; baseball game in the background

look at this innocent beast who knows nothing of the drama on screen. bless him.

if nothing else surely this game has blessed us with a glorious series of Ernie Clement facial expressions.

objectively this is very exciting baseball but also I am worried for my heart

!!!! baseball !!!!

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

good luck!

World of yikes (read the whole thread).

Splash screen on www.foodforthepoorja.org website that says “FFTP Food For the Poor Hurricane Relief Fund Donate Now.”

I’ll be watching, helpless, as Hurricane Melissa strengthens and expands in severity with Jamaica in her path.
If you’re interested in donating to a legitimate organization that does real good, please consider Food For the Poor’s Hurricane Relief Fund: foodforthepoorja.org/donations.php

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

I’ve been meaning to for awhile, but finally subscribed to The Flytrap! Yay feminist media!

Chappell Roan holding Iris Marion Young's "On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays".

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

Jays!!!!

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com

A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

my phone autocorrected “all best” to “all beach” in an email to a student today, and oh phone I wish that were true.

It looks so good! Wish I could be there.

Similarly, the blurring of truth that comes with generative AI is also inherent it. It's part and parcel of the fascistic project of blurring what is real and what is not, so that we give up our individual and innate power of reasoning, of truth-telling, of creativity.

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The environmental and social costs of AI are not incidental downsides of the technology, issues to be figured out and mitigated for as the industry develops.

Rather, they are *inherent* in it. You cannot have generative AI without the environmental and social costs. They're one and the same.

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Welcome to Big Tech, corporate-owned chatbots, and the totalitarian fantasy of AI gurus - Halifax Examiner Sam Altman notes that GenAI blurs the border between the authentic and the artificial, and this is the point: democracy cannot function without truth, reality, expertise, and facts, and the AI industr...

AI = fascism

Yesterday, @tjheffernan.bsky.social echoed some of my own thoughts about AI. I have more to say about this.

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I think "The Chair," with Sandra Oh, was trying to, at least somewhat? I didn't get past the first episode though. (I also suspect that the courtroom dramas my mom watches aren't super accurate either!)

me: [makes some basic point]
my mom: you and your logic! you should have been a lawyer.
me: mom, I'm a philosophy professor. Why would it be better for me to be a lawyer just because I use logic?
my mom: well, I watch a lot of courtroom dramas.

I guess we need more philosophy dramas?

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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(I wanted to share this mostly for the other two talks -- I've been dealing with migraine for the last several days so please wish me luck in actually getting it ready + being somewhat coherent)

Online Symposium on Food and Microbiome Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017

Today! An online philosophy symposium on food & the microbiome. My own talk is building off of past stuff I've done on the imperative of normalcy & the gut microbiome + considerations of accessibility around gut issues. (4pm Eastern) www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

A very good thread on masking, especially in these hellish times when the systems meant to protect us are being spitefully destroyed by evil little power hungry gremlins. Mask up! Protect yourselves and your community! 😷😷😷

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...