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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.

lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaign

Hi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no.

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.

I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaign

I graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money.

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wonder if there are any biblical stories that could help us address the question of Who Would Jesus Stone

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

F'n jeez, this was *strategic*, so people wouldn't steal the envelope that obviously had a passport in it. They literally can't not break things

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's actually a pretty long list of issues that are like this

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2016 I wrote a short thing about how the Goldwater rule among mental health professions was a matter of the ethics (of whether to diagnose people from a distance without their consent) not of accuracy (i.e., we all knew and could see it).

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

"Students are using it for everything, including cheating, and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering 'cognitive surrender.' Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway." 🫠

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An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regardless of whether McConnell is dead or alive, he hasn't been doing his job for months, and are we just not going to ask about that? Or does everyone presume that being a senator doesn't involve any actual work, or...?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

Osama bin Laden's great hope for the attack was that the US would overreact -- tear itself apart, destabilize the post-war international order, & sacrifice its moral standing. The Republican Party obliged him, beyond his wildest dreams. (And let him get away!)

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok but once you think DSM stands for "da sanity manual" it's hard to remember what it really stands for

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026

One of the things I hate most about AI is that now I first approach a lot of art with suspicion instead of awe

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just related to the thought that so much of the economy right now feels like fraud and scams

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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OB Chargn @obchargn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A public health professor is walking through a PARKING LOT and has an epiphany that society doesn’t allow for physical exercise anymore. She decides it must be due to the rise of e-bikes: www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026

So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

OK, class, can anyone tell me the problem with this research design? Short answer quiz, five words. Congratulations, you know more than the United States' newspaper of record.

"I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common."

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tired of shitting yourself because the GOP's trying to steal votes? Here's info from a veteran. I live in the US capitol of ballot fraud! The good ol' NC-09. I've personally been hit by two (2) NATIONAL NEWS-level GOP attempts to steal elections. BOTH 👏 FAILED 👏 because we WORKED. Here's how.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Note to anyone sending in an application, paper, or any other document where one person reads many submissions: yes, they can tell. It is obvious in most cases that you are using AI, even if the language is changed, as the ideas & concepts start to rhyme as you read lots of them in a row.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/08/2026

I love when people call me a Luddite. MRNA vaccines? Inject that content into my muscles. Solid state batteries? Fuck yeah let's scale that shit and get it out there. Agrivoltaic breakthroughs marrying plants and technology? LET'S GO, power + plants is specifically my jam.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just f'n reading comprehension. Ossof's actual text suggests the president's motivation (he is a sex pest) and nothing about hers. But in the eyes of these commenters, the woman must be the one at fault, and they can't imagine the insinuation is otherwise.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The right thinks they like harsh grading and grading on a curve because the white guys all assume they'd be on top of it. I think if they fully understood that women consistently outperform men GPA-wise, they'd take it back.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think news orgs should have an obligation to not air lies, amplify liars, etc. -- and now I know this is the tricky part -- even if the liar works for the government or is rich

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’ve volunteered at food pantries and you sometimes get people upset to see someone in a nice car using a food pantry and I need to completely assure you that the person with the nice car actually is in need of that food because people who aren’t in need do not pretend to need food

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sure he was (probably obviously) a little too pessimistic, but I think a key important idea is that all the tech stuff only works insomuch as it supports human interaction (not replaces it) Art, education, politics, all at their core are minds engaging each other and that can't be replaced

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Gotta love the implicit 8% (at least) who want the party to move *both* to the left *and* the center... ( @jonathancorbin.bsky.social )

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well this sure was a fun experiment putting the literal worst possible people in charge of important pieces of the government, maybe let’s try competency next, I dunno

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I used to be involved with evangelicals and only once I left did I hear the idea that they are purposely taught outreach that will backfire because then it will become increasingly ingrained in them that the church is their only friend

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026

Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

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