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Sarah J. Martin

@eatingpolitics.bsky.social
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I think about food. IPE/GPE Teaching with ungrading practices. www.mun.ca/political-science/people…

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 4h
I’m sorry, what?! “Salmon are carnivores and eat other fish in the wild, so feeding them chicken is entirely natural,” said an executive at a major salmon-feed producer.” Feeding them humans would be just as “natural” BTW. www.ft.com/content/8f1e...
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Salmon producers start feeding chicken to fish
Fears of consumer backlash pushed aside as producers respond to surge in fishmeal prices
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 2h
"Entirely natural" lol “Salmon are carnivores and eat other fish in the wild, so feeding them chicken is entirely natural,” www.ft.com/content/8f1e...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12h
When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17h
This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean.
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Mark Nichols @justmarknichols.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A pay increase equal to 68% of a minimum-wage worker’s annual pay
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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 24/09/2026
When Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and food systems are healthy and sovereign, they generate social, environmental, and economic benefits for all people in Canada. go.cca-reports.ca/4yCZdbV #IndigenousKnowledgeSystems #IKS #IndigenousFoodSystems
Report summary page 1. Report summary page 2.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
One of the key messages I carry is that we don't have to accept any of this. Sometimes I see opposition in the form of "Get in loser, you'll be left behind" and other times it's in the form of "It's all over the place, what do you mean you think you can opt out?" >>
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most frustrating thing about this moment is having to discuss with (senior) colleagues why using genAI is unethical & does not rhyme w #ResearchIntegrity. Many colleagues give zero Fs about the communities being sacrificed for data centers. Others collaborate with the fossil fuel industry. 2/2
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 06/10/2026
1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like? 1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork ipes-food.org/report/food-... 🧵
More people work in food systems than any other part of the global economy. Nearly 1.4 billion people work in food systems - 2 out of every 5 workers
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 05/10/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT: The world’s largest workforce is also its most exploited. 1.4 billion people – 2 in 5 workers worldwide – work in food systems. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. Read & share #FoodWork: ipes-food.org/report/food-...
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FOOD WORK | IPES-Food report
NEW IPES-Food report – 1.4 billion people work in food systems. Food Work exposes systemic labour exploitation and sets out how to secure rights and dignified work for all.
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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is really good thread - pretty much sums up my feelings about AI, and if you're a hater too, check it out:
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026
but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ...
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Veronica Kitchen @vmkitchen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The University of Waterloo is hiring for a tenure-track position in IR. Preference for: international political economy, international organizations/law, Canadian foreign policy/Canada-United States relations. uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ...
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The work is, of course, highly feminized and racialized, and is currently performed within companies by executive assistants. Tech bros are big mad they didn't get to participate in the era of the Mad Men secretary and now think they can get the bot to do it.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 28/09/2026
Screenshot from J-Stor. The publisher in question is Sage, which has risen in my estimation this morning.
Screenshot of a corner of J-Stor reading "AI Research Tool - Unavailable". The cursor hovering over the information icon explains that this is "Unavailable for this item because the publisher has limited its use."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iowa's rising cancer rate and the long-term effects of industrial agriculture. Excellent article "Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's "Cancer Alley,"" www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Iowa's cancer rates are rising as the nation's fall. Families want answers.
Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's Cancer Alley as residents search for answers.
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unreal what we permit on our roads whilst screaming at politicians to ban e scooters. www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'd be really interested in a map that overlays farm debt, medical bankruptcy rates and cancer rates in Iowa. I'd predict that they're all rising
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iowa's rising cancer rate and the long-term effects of industrial agriculture. Excellent article "Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's "Cancer Alley,"" www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
usatoday.com
Iowa's cancer rates are rising as the nation's fall. Families want answers.
Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's Cancer Alley as residents search for answers.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized
We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible chart
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Average annual spending as % of US GDP
A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a couple from Texas about 15 years ago. One worked for a health insurance company trying to deny payments and the other worked for a hospital trying to obtain insurance payments. Absurd then, absurd now.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych. @pednpsy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NLs, please wear a mask in healthcare. The first respiratory illness has hit one of our centres that cares for the elderly and others for rehab.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What a brilliant and beautiful album! music.apple.com/ca/album/riv...
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 24/09/2026
Won’t training AI models on student work mean that they are forever condemned to be plagiarists and excluded from work as their own writing will be flagged as AI by AI recruitment/HR? It’s a doom loop for human employment.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent analysis by @acantle.bsky.social on the Churchill Falls MOU-who wins and who loses? Spoiler - it ain't NL residents... theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
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Churchill Falls MOU2: Hold your nose for a tiny sliver of Hydro Quebec’s 7500% profits – The Independent
Rather than lock ourselves into another half-century deal, maybe N.L. should consider merging with Quebec instead
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are so many ways to celebrate students and colleagues without centring oneself
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s not good out there and it’s costing a lot of queer and trans people their jobs.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026
Universities paved the way for student AI ambassadors for tech companies through their ever closer imbrication with private companies in the provision of basic services on campus. The campus center cafeteria has a Chick-fil-A, a Starbucks & a Chipotle; in this context, selling Claude seems normal
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.
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Grenfell Library @librarygrenfell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Libraries are the original data centres anyway — why ask AI when you can ask a librarian (and get a real answer)? #WaterForLibrarians Find reliable resources on your first try at the library. #GrenfellCampus #library #MUNLibraries #AILiteracy
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 09/09/2026
Susan Strange, with laser eyes and a speech bubble pointing to the quoted FT headline: "‘I am the house now’: Bessent warns currency traders not to bet against yen"
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’
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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’
Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
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