Tim Houston made hundreds of thousands in cuts to tourism and culture, but had $300,000 to gift to mining developers, citing that “mineral exploration brings $35 to $50 million per year to Nova Scotia communities”
Meanwhile tourism revenue in NS in 2025 was $3.7 billion, growing ~8% per year.
No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
there's no such thing as a "non-controversial" topic in a university... all knowledges, in any field, are the result of ongoing controversy and debate and disagreement... that university boards and admin aren't able or willing to make that argument really is appalling
Tweet from the US Department of State: "The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America. Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline."
There is no coherent historical legacy that directly links Athens and Rome to Christian Europe and the United States while leaving out the Islamic world. This is such ahistorical nonsense.
reminding the IOF that neutrality is just advocacy for the status quo.. and the whole notion that sports isn't political has always been bogus... (cause if that were the case, then they and others wouldn't be all concerned with regulating gender as they always have...)
aware of fighting historical and ongoing colonialism and exploitation (of people, animals, resources), and yet still full of joy and optimism and hope that together, indeed, we can change the crap happening now and be better together 2/2
i am so late to saying anything about this.. but that halftime show was both the world i know and the world i want to live in -- one that is multicultural and multiracial, with many genders and sexualities, where i don't speak all the languages and that's just fine... 1/2
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The structures that were demolished had been used to store aid for the West Bank and Gaza
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
classic example of liking the food but not the people... ICE thugs wanting Mexican food
many Canadians have close connections to people in the U.S. - family, friends, work... I lived there for many years, love and miss many people there... but f the federal government and everything it is doing...
the thing with courage is that it really is contagious... and we seem to be seeing some of that today... and hope is being added to fear and outrage
This is a dangerous and irresponsible response.
Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong.
Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone
a useful starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
true in Canada and elsewhere too
the whole thread
hey PEI folks... do you know there's an NDP PEI bluesky account? go and follow us! bsky.app/profile/ndpp...
the whole thread... we've had plenty of pandemics etc before that disrupted education 'as usual'... (to say nothing of kids who spend years in war zones and refugee camps). All of this is awful - but not everything about the current situation on PSE can be blamed on 'this is the Covid generation'
woot... congrats, Bren!!
also, every class talks about race and gender, they just don't call it that, thinking instead it's just 'the discipline' or 'common knowledge'
I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all
what a friggin farce
Why is the Trump administration so eager to strip people of food? Why do they want people to go hungry apnews.com/article/snap...
exactly
such a powerful piece...
everyone welcome! come to this and see some of what STLHE / SAPES does!
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
