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Great idea for the newsletter. Will this be the host of (if I remember correctly?) the rumoured forthcoming how-to-Costco guide? I wanna read that!

Pop music abandons the key change? I will abandon this century!

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Modal music rules though.

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Hey if your Dean ever comes up to you and says, "hey colleague we need you to become an emergency program coordinator with a few week's notice. You can just bank the course release that comes with that role and use it later," think about how--indefatigably--later is not now.

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Medieval Music - 'Hardcore' Party Mix

I am working more than a full time job this semester. I will be sustained through the wonders of the Hardcore Medieval Party Mix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRN...

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YouTube video by VacnaPaul

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've gotta run a welcome event for about 30 students in the same program, but in different years. I thus ask the necessary, brave question: Does anyone know any ice breakers that are actually good?

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice bread and trains conspicuously missing from the strategic priorities/tech transfer list!!!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All nationalism is fake but "we founded an independent country because we were angry about the prevailing price of oil and natural gas and disagreed with federal policies regarding pipeline investment" is even faker than usual.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 15/09/2026

Guys I think we shouldn't have elected a banker...

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Ontario is still writing its rules for datacentres. But Ford's pitchdeck for foreign investors explicitly markets Hamilton’s waterfront for deregulated AI datacentre development, including "sovereign" AI opportunities." Sovereign AI. Built for foreign investors. With no rules. #HamOnt

"Ontario — Your investment partner," reads the title of an investment prospectus circulated by the Ontario government at Mark Carney's private investment summit of 200 foreign CEOs

relevant section: "The Steelport site is undergoing
master planning following M5 Industrial zoning.
Commercial opportunities are expected
to be announced in Q4 2026, with Phase 1
construction anticipated to commence in 2027."

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I'm particularly pleased with this bit!

One implication of these factors for STS thinkers and environmental advocates engaging on the issue is the need to take stock of the internal analyses happening within the !eld. The goal cannot simply be to demand that machine learning scientists become ecologically educated, moving from ignorance to action. This work is already proceeding from within. Similarly, despite potential limitations, the proposals in play all exceed mere technosolutionism, and include complex accounts of social relations, both within proximate research institutions and across a wider global academy. It is therefore essential to track how machine learning researchers develop their own internal theories of change, how they increasingly understand social, infrastructural, methodological, and planetary outcomes to be mutually entangled, and how they seek to expand or limit moral and material imaginaries that might better respond to such a conjuncture. This

knowledge can provide further points of leverage. For one, and breaking from previous periods of epistemic virtue formation that were predicated on the formation of new scienti!c selves (Daston & Galison, 2007), the texts analysed in this article suggest that this community is taking the group, rather than the individual, as the central agent in this political story. External advocates, seeking to engage researchers, might do well to do the same.

No bots allowed to access this research!

If we met at #FAccT2026 and I said something to the effect of "I am a spy. I am here to study you guys," this is what I meant...

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sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi

I have a piece in this issue with Brian Sutherland looking at the different ways AI researchers have tried to tackle the climate impacts of their own research (+ how degrowthers are offering some neat critiques from the margins) sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...

Making sure you're not a bot!

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Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our special issue in Science and Technology Studies is live: “Across the Layers of Planetary Matter, Data Infrastructures, and Knowledge Production”. #sts This is an attempt to rethink the digitized world as a planetary entanglement. sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/issue/vie…

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I'm back in Europe in Nov and I have booked myself into another ~night train~. This one has Japanese cubical hotel style sleeping pods---let's go!

jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I went to Kingston for the first time this summer and was surprised at the footprint they continue to have on the downtown. A good melancholic vacation plan?

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's always surreal how sometimes deeply significant, or simply difficult, moments in our lives overlap with everyday workdays in the caring sectors.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First Senakw doing compulsory YIMBYism on Vancouver, now this, nothing but respect for Indigenous power

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/09/2026

fucked up that nigel farage is a brexiteer and pro-crypto. makes it hard to criticize him, what with him being eurodivergent and a miner

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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ottawa's New Data Centre Copies Trump's Policy Prof Anne Pasek of @Trent University with plenty of info Canadians need to know about AI/data centres. Eg the US can compel US companies operating in Canada to disclose your data. #uspoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/oAyy_n4ur5c

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Ottawa's New Data Centre Copies Trump's Policy

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Helping to collate candidate opinions on data centre moratoria/bylaw reviews in Peterborough. We are off to the races, with only pro-moratorium opinions so far... peterborough.stopthedatacentre.ca/election-tra...

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Election tracker · Stop the Datacentre

Think there should be rules for AI datacentres? Us too.

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also, my dudes, some bullet points and vibes is not a strategy!

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My take on the feds' new AI data centre framework: It's basically just a copy of Trump's rate payer protection pledge. It rebrands voluntary corporate pledges as if they were government mandates. They're not. They're pinkie promises, and they're already falling short. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Want to build a data centre in Canada? These are the federal government's new expectations | CBC News

The federal government has announced a new framework outlining key expectations for responsible data centre development, as politicians and companies grapple with public pushback to the infrastructure...

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're looking to recruit a PhD student at Trent to do some experimental community engagements with UNFCCC climate docs. Are you a theatre kid at heart? An aspiring policy wonk? A climate comms nerd? We have funding for you--Come work with us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Funded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change Policy

Funded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change Policy Two researchers at Trent University (Anne Pasek and Stephanie Rutherford) are recruiting a new PhD student for ...

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Diami @diami.myatproto.social · 01/09/2026

Chapter 1 of Capital summarized.

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I want some to, gonzo journalism style, have a year where they exclusively publish and present at obvious scam venues. What would it be like to keynote at the Second International Conference on Biotechnology and Recycling? Especially if I know fuck all about that topic? Who else would be there?

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Haha I was at a conference talk recently in which a team debated the problem of 'AI stigma' and how it impacts disclosures, and whether ever more granular disclosures could solve the problem. The audience's response was mostly "AI stigma is good actually."