A. L. Bishop

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

I don’t often make blanket book recs, but I’ve run out of friends to randomly text with fascinating insights from this one, so here we are.

‘The biggest betrayal’: A year on, staff grieve Ontario Science Centre’s snap closure | Globalnews.ca One year after closing the Ontario Science Centre, plans for a new site face delay, the roof remains intact, and staff call the shutdown a “manufactured crisis.”

The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later:

The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli

By the superb Canadian Press team
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if you haven’t tried Shyra’s teas and coffees yet, this is the perfect time to treat yourself!

Bearskin First Nation joins chorus calling for Rickford's resignation Bearskin First Nation in northern Ontario is joining a chorus of nations calling on Ontario's Greg Rickford to resign over Bill 5.

'Ontario’s Bill 5 wilfully ignores this obligation and now threatens our lands, waters, and our ability to protect them for future generations.'

This is great news and a great piece! Gorgeous illustration, too

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.

For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. There will be a recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE!

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A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"

"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

Spotted at #IndigoHillcrestMall in #RichmondHill

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@houseofanansi.bsky.social

Jim Carroll’s Ass | Alice Notley Nothing seems real yet I’m willing / to play ‘the real’ game for ones I love

We’re saddened to hear of the passing of Alice Notley, who died on Monday at the age of 79. We published a poem from her 2024 collection, “Being Reflected Upon,” in our June 2024 issue.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

BBC World Service - Tech Life, The carbon footprint of AI How much energy could the tech behind artificial intelligence use in the future?

And wasn’t it? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC publishes Net Zero Transition Plan The Corporation’s first Transition Plan sets out the BBC’s Ambition, Action and Accountability in reaching Net Zero

But I thought? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Um…

AI ‘s primary purpose is to eliminate consent one update at a time

Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself (Gift Article) For years, the singer and songwriter has avoided the spotlight. But she is breaking her silence to look back on her self-titled debut and its powerful hit “Fast Car.”

“The thing that I take from it…now that I’m older, is that [the struggle for civil rights is a] constant practice that needs to occur. A constant vigilance. You can’t expect that things will hold.”—Tracy Chapman

The forces arrayed against justice & thriving don’t die, they hide in our complacency.

It is not and has never been about wealth or prosperity in an objective sense. It's about control of human beings and the wealthy have more control and power in a desperate, shrinking economy than they do in a prosperous and wealthy one.

COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told. A new story, rooted in the way we live now, would necessitate the telling of present-day truths.

COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/04/c... by @flannerydean.bsky.social

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

I’m so sorry for your loss, Martha.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

We published this on Monday, and within minutes, there were already a bunch of new stories we needed to add to it. Now, five days later, there are dozens. We will update this list every month for the remainder of Trump's term.

Stunning new visualization of global temperatures since 1940, from @hausfath.bsky.social

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

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Thank you #CBCBooks! I’m so excited! 🙏🎉

spring fever
all the frogs
I never kissed

#DailyHaikuPrompt (frog) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

It’s our national news site, so if it was, don’t feel too bad about it! 😂

Baby, you’re a firework! Katy Perry to blast off into space Pop star Katy Perry is set to 'shoot across the sky' this spring when she lifts off as part of a six-member, all-female crew on Blue Origin's next space flight, the company announced Thursday.

It wasn’t this joke, was it? www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...

I recently did this in front of a current uni student (who I did not know) and he offered to take my phone and type for me because he couldn’t even bear the sight of it