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Mike Follert

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Assistant Professor @ StFX Sociology & Research Fellow @ BMIG 🏳️‍🌈 Nalikitquniejk/Antigonish, NS || production editor @fast-capitalism.bsky.social

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Fast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence websites.uta.edu/centerforthe...
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Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Center for Theory
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Sue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This will impede the safety & ability of health care workers to ride to work at Toronto Gen, Mt Sinai, Toronto Rehab, Princess Margaret and Sick Kids. Ford knows this since a letter from hospital CEOs, supporting bike lanes for their staff, was entered into evidence in the original trial
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor are dynamite in the 1953 National Film Board of Canada classic short, Farewell Oak Street! now in theatres www.imdb.com/title/tt2716...
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
CFP!!! Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Please circulate
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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky
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‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Ile" (Eugene O'Neill, 1917)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I appreciated it. If I did advice (I don’t) I would definitely advise women and femmes to leave the first time a male or masc partner even looks like he might maybe be considering ruining your birthday, work event, accomplishment. you don’t even have to say for “closure”. Just block him & leave.
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
for a truly meta experience, listen to the New Yorker AI voice reader regularly mispronounce the words of an otherwise very relatable set of testimonies
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/08/2026
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
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Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I will just say that it is an...unfortunate editorial decision to put W.E.B DuBois' picture in a thumbnail above this headline
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
*New Article* out with the Journal of Canadian Studies: "Radio Silence: Listening to the North on the CBC, 1945–1958" utppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Image of snow drift juxtaposed against dark blue skyArticle abstract
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Perfectly said. #WorldCup #FIFA
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Canadian Wildfires Kim Dorland 2023
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Carney's new envoy to New York. www.desmog.com/2023/01/18/s...
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Shell Canada’s Latest President Spent Years on Board of Climate Denier Group
More evidence the company’s net-zero plan is ‘total greenwashing,’ says one disinformation expert.
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This thread is a really helpful reminder that seemingly unrelated foodborne illness outbreaks may be... less unrelated than you think
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 13/07/2026
Carney is an endless embarrassment.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Okay Toronto started the public survey on Church Street pedestrianization. I need you to tell the city it’s great. We only got 92% positive on Kensington market and it failed, let’s blow that out of the water. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/churchstreet
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Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot
Learn more about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot and provide feedback on the impacts and outcomes by September 7, 2026.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/07/2026
Robin Andersen's indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media's role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-...
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How mainstream media bias contributed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Robin Andersen’s indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media’s role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - new edition, @versobooks.bsky.social , September 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... foreword by Angela Davis www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodn...
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
September is closer than we think - you can pre-order the second edition of Indigenous Writes now and celebrate its tenth year anniversary with me! apihtawikosisan.com/2026/06/ten-...
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Ten Years of Indigenous Writes
I began this little blog back in 2011 with posts focusing mostly on the Cree language, with some forays into reflections on Aboriginal law. I had maybe ten regular readers which was fine really. I …
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For timely & incisive analysis of the FIFA World Cup by some very sharp critical thinkers, read the newest issue of @fast-capitalism.bsky.social, out today! mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
more Ontarians should read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's #LowerEd on how private career colleges monetize student loans & pilfer from the public purse
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StFX Department of Sociology @stfxsociology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
To everyone in Halifax for the @csa-scs.bsky.social conference, please join StFX's @pmallory.bsky.social for the Jean-Sébastien Guy Memorial Lecture, titled "Theoretical Approaches to Therapy Culture" on Tuesday, June 9th at 2:30 pm in Rowe #1011 cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Provide access to trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student – from the arts and commerce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and medicine." I'm pretty sure that nobody who teaches in a post-secondary institution asked for this, and this makes their jobs even harder.
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Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is what happens when queer people hate your party. There’s no one there to plan one.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Repulsive. Public money paying for fascist propaganda. Encampments are rare; they are not a danger; this government is doing nothing to help the people who live in them or to solve the underlying problems.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/05/2026
““My mother did not give her life. Her life was taken and it shocked the nation enough that they passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965,” he said, adding that the Supreme Court and Trump administration were “working tirelessly to go back to the ‘60s.” “It’s disgusting,” he said.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20/05/2026
“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba," says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. "This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.” mondoweiss.net/2026/05/same...
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Gaza elders who survived the Nakba reflect on being displaced by Israel again, 78 years later
“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger,...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So, the @endofsportpod.bsky.social just got banned from TikTok, almost certainly for posts with Black Alliance for Peace calling for an anti-imperialist boycott of the World Cup. 🤔
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Ride-hailing was once pitched as a way to reduce urban congestion, but a new report suggests it may be contributing to more gridlock on Toronto streets… research showed rideshare vehicles drove 1.13 billion kms in the city in 2025 — a up 40% from 2023 & the highest amount ever recorded in Toronto.”
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More Ubers, more traffic? New report reignites licence cap debate
Last year, Uber and other rideshare drivers clocked 1.13 billion kilometres on Toronto streets — a 40 per cent increase from 2023, according to a new report
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Justice Shaina Leonard says the petition should never have been issued.
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Judge quashes Alberta separation petition in favour of First Nations
A judge has quashed an Alberta separation petition, saying the provincial government had a duty to consult with First Nations.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🤖🫧💥
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 08/05/2026
Israel's decimation of Gaza's judicial system has left hundreds of thousands of women unable to claim inheritance, get a divorce, or retain custody of their children. "That is the reality of women in Gaza. We are abandoned,” mondoweiss.net/2026/04/when...
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When Israel destroyed Gaza’s courts, legal protections for women vanished
The decimation of Gaza’s judicial system has left hundreds of thousands of women unable to claim inheritance, get a divorce, or retain custody of their children. “That is the reality of women in…
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Reddit post: In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 18/04/2026
In #Gaza, rising energy prices are limiting access to fuel and food.   In February 2026 alone, UNRWA treated more than 3,700 children under five for malnutrition.  #UNRWAworks to detect and treat malnutrition early, but we could do much more if we were allowed to bring food into Gaza.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Et tu, Canada?
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Palestine FA officials denied entry to Canada for Fifa pre-World Cup meeting
Officials from the Palestine Football Association have been denied entry to Canada ahead of a pre-World Cup meeting of Fifa’s member associations to be held in Vancouver this month
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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
devastating for every young trans/queer person trying to find community amid irl social isolation
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Your goals are to replace human public sector workers with AI so you can slash public services and to make your buddies at Brookfield even richer by spending public funds on AI infrastructure for private profit.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Meanwhile my university has bought licenses for CoPilot. Is a technology that "is for entertainment purposes only, which can make mistakes, which may not work as intended and cannot be relied on for important advice and has to be used at our own risk" so essential?
AI chatbot Microsoft Copilot available to U of T employees
Published on: December 11, 2023

Eligible staff, faculty and librarians at the University of Toronto have access to Microsoft Copilot, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot and search engine (formerly Bing AI), through their U of T account effective Dec. 4. Eligible U of T employees have access to the secure enterprise edition of Microsoft Copilot, which conforms to the University’s privacy and data protections. The public version does not have full privacy and data protections in place.

Microsoft Copilot is connected to Microsoft’s search engine and responds to prompts with detailed information and footnotes that link back to original sources on the internet.

The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation has developed guidelines for use, including detailed instructions on how to access the enterprise edition of Microsoft Copilot. Employees are encouraged to read and adhere to these guidelines.

“With its ability to provide up-to-date information and real links, Microsoft Copilot can be used as a research tool among staff, faculty and librarians at the University,” says Avi Hyman, Director, Academic, Research & Collaborative Technologies. “It could also be used for writing, generating images and other tasks.”
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You love to see it!!! #LandBack #Nuchatlaht www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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B.C. Appeals Court sides with First Nation over Aboriginal title on Nootka Island
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an “arbitrary boundary” to determine a First Nation’s Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off weste...
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.
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