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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 2h

What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 2h

Every year we learn a little more just how much we all need Fat Bear Week to survive

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Billionaires are vacuuming up all the wealth, while workers get screwed. They’re laughing in our faces while Trump steals from us and builds a ballroom. (H/T @qasimrashid.com)

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 2h

Yup, Khan stepping down was the most effective thing he has ever done to hold the MB NDP to account....

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14h

The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.

It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why the Globe and Mail looked past rising right-wing violence, the shooting at the Quebec City mosque, the connection between antivaxxers and white supremacy, to blame Canada's highest profile Jewish politician for the synagogue shooting in Belleville ... noraloreto.substack.com/p/turning-a-...

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Turning a peaceful movement violent

Canadian elites blame Palestinian solidarity for Belleville synagogue shooting

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 3h

In partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Metis, our government is going to raise shareholder value so much...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“If you're causing division between Indigenous and non-Indigenous and not letting non-Indigenous people participate in the sharing of the land, that's not right...” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew tells First Nations, whose reserve lands account for just 0.5% of the province.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On This Day in Wab Kinew History: Anicinabe Park occupation avoided after participants make wise choice to stay home, let authorities sort issue out

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Max Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On the one hand, Muse is vibe coded slop malware. On the other hand you could get a $32 check in 10 years if you let it build a stasi file on you and everyone you know or meet.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And do not ever fucking dare to put other people’s writing into an LLM without consen : no matter why you’ve been asked to read it, for feedback or reviews. Have some decency.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This makes sense because Brand used to have rodents living in his hair while he was deep in his addiction and RFK Jr. thinks this is so cool because locally grown snacks

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a clown show the MB PC party is, this is kind of bad for the MB NDP because they might actually get a leader of the opposition who is competent (although the pickings are thin) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Obby Khan stepping down as Manitoba PC leader | CBC News

Obby Khan is stepping down from his position as leader of Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But don't say anything about this or you might make people who love genocide feel unsafe

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone needs to make a "Everything I don't like is a Chinese psyop" book cover meme

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"This laughably insane thing I am saying is *not* a conspiracy theory."

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We have to call this what it is, a white genocide,” said Lily LeBlanc, spokesperson for white hunters. “When you inconvenience a white person, they literally die.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is literally a Simpsons joke

So learn on the go with
your phone, wherever you are.
Genghis Khan
Professor of History

Genghis Khan Simpsons

YOU'LL GO WHERE I GO DEFILE WHAT I DEFILE, EAT WHO I EAT HMM?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me to my Dean: yeah my calendar AI went rogue and deleted all the faculty council meetings, whoops

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Irish Paul of Winnipeg @irishpaul-clerkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Part owners of your Winnipeg Jets, David Thomson the chairman of Thomson Reuters #winnipeg

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.

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Jenn Allen @jenn-allen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile Nahanni Fontaine is posting about the Cornell case as if her government isn’t allowing people to opt out of learning how to not assault someone

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait until more of Canada even figures out who @avilewis.ca is, because he is pretty great and with Carney's conservatism starting to cause problems within the left of the Liberal MPs, the cracks will start leaking supporters

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

You won’t ever convince me that Turnitin isn’t a mass IP theft machine. And Gen ai marking is just a cheap way of stealing more ideas, feeding each student’s style into the blender and then we wonder why 💯 authentic work gets marked Gen ai.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

We desperately need much stronger disclosure, norms in academic publishing and we need publishers to step up their game in enforcing them.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/09/2026

🆕 📄 🤖➕🧪 “Support for using public funding for research drops when scientists use AI.” “34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.” doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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Redirecting

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NDP @ndp.ca · 25/09/2026

The Liberals are using their majority to pass bills that Conservatives could only dream were theirs. But don’t take our word for it. Just listen to Conservative MPs:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sure, but with whom ? Like maybe it is more fun to break rules if you also believe them...

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been a rough week, and ranting is my therapy. I wrote about the seemingly COVID conspiracist-inspired shooting at my local synagogue and the simultaneous promoting of COVID conspiracism by Jesse Brown. medium.com/@michelle.co...