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Myrna Moretti

@myrnamoretti.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾 📍Toronto

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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Across the city, we've been interviewing city councillor candidates for the Wards Project. Posted now to help you get to know candidates in your ward and their views on sustainability, TransformTO, and climate resilience. Please share widely #TOpoli #ONpoli thewardsproject.com/elections
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Selmin Kara @selminimal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My department is hiring; please feel free to share.
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Film & Digital Media: Assistant Professor of Narrative Film and Media Production
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The Discarded Boyfriends of Legacy Sequels - 2026 Edition
Aiden Quinn in PRACTICAL MAGICAidren Grenier in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADAPatrick Dempsey in SCREAM 3
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
QUESTION: is there any footage of data centers IN Canada and their noise output that you know of that’s legit? please send me the info if you do!!
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Call on Councilor Kandavel and Mayor Chow to pause all hyperscale data centres now . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/call...
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Call on Councilor Kandavel and Mayor Chow to pause all hyperscale data centres now
Hyperscale data centres, like STACK, create more strain on an already existing affordability crisis. Ratepayers will pay the price of high demand, and it puts one of our most precious resources, water...
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What are your reading/project/scholar recs on public humanities, public scholarship, academic-non profit partnerships, and oral history?
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...
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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government
Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm sorry what do you mean you don't blast techno while you're formatting citations so that busy work feels like cool hacking work
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Hackers 90s
Alt: Johnny Lee Miller sits at a 90s laptop typing from the film Hackers
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Marcy @marcythewarrior.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...
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Heartwarming story of Buffy's Giles going out of his way for a young trans fan
Tired: J.K. Rowling supporting a woman with anti-trans views. Wired: Buffy actor Anthony Stewart-Head quietly going above and beyond for his trans fans.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Console-ing Passions @consoleingpassions.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Did you know? CP 2027 convenes in Amsterdam!
Announcing Console-ing Passions Conference 2027, Late June at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My new article is out open access in Television & New Media-"Here Comes the Future: Black Women and Early Digital Culture in Essence" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just saw this fascinating new #history of #computing article from @myrnamoretti.bsky.social — looking forward to reading the rest of it and seeing if I can work it into one of my classes: “Here Comes the Future: Black Women and Early Digital Culture in Essence” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 17/01/2026
🇺🇸 Minnesota, Jan 23 is a general strike. Workers, students, families refusing business as usual after raids, disappearances, and deaths. How many lives must be destroyed before you join? Stand up. Demand justice.
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wrote a short post about class and income and widows and mid life romance in popular culture for CST Online cstonline.net/bradshaw-and...
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Bradshaw and Jones: Representing Midlife Romance, Work, and Widowhood by Myrna Moretti
Two of the most beloved gen-x writer heroines have been widowed in recent years: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). With the death of Big in the series…
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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Filmography 
1986 - Stand By zme
1987 - The Princess Bride
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Misery
1992 - A Few Good Men
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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Please join us on Dec. 12 @ 1pm EST to discuss alternative assessment with contributors to the recent JCMS Teaching Media "Experiments in Ungrading" double-issue. @stephbrown.bsky.social @briannajc.bsky.social @lisawj.bsky.social @jennblaylock.bsky.social Register here: forms.gle/vZrY7NH5Yk6X...
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Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com · 13/08/2025
My faculty is hiring... again! The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is looking for an Assistant Professor (Tenure Steam) in Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
The exterior of Robarts Library, a large brutalist concrete structure, during the summer.
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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Without humanities studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think. The skills we learned in our humanities classes brought creativity to all our endeavors. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: Gutting humanities signals the end of innovation in business and STEM
Lose the humanities, and you lose the very ground of science and business that depend on it.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Hey, hey... @sigcisconf.bsky.social--@shothisttech.bsky.social's Special Interest Group for Computing, Information & Society--is on Bluesky! Follow them if you're interested in #ComputerHistory or the social & political impact of digital technologies like #AI. #histsci #histtech #histSTM 🗃️📜📚
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ALT: a man wearing glasses is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor .
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Sharing creative stuff is scarier and more vulnerable than sharing research stuff but I worked with an amazing team to make this queer hopeful weird essay film and it's FINALLY screening online til June 29. Check out the link for details: becomeingotherwise.my.canva.site#screenings
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Film + media history folks, I'm early in a new project that covers golden studio era Hollywood (1930-early '50s ish) and the maturing silent era (1910s-ish); what are your recs for labour/contract/women in these eras and/or feminist film history projects that have compelling methods (any era).
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Ancestrally grounded @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Now THIS is a syllabus #booksky #blackbooksky www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...
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The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS
The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“In a world of polycrisis, the #climateemergency must not be neglected. Let’s continue to ensure our children’s future isn’t on the backburner, but front of mind, as we enter the voting booth.” @forourkidscanada.bsky.social #CanadaVotes2025
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Corey Booker is at hour 15 on the senate floor and there are over 36,000 live viewers on YouTube alone right now.
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Took me one minute to email congress/senators, add a little note at the beginning. Why do libraries matter to you?
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Trump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA
Trump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
But what kind of -ist will Brody play next? #oscars
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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
How did television help to shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? See standout media studies scholar Dr. @myrnamoretti.bsky.social 's insightful (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” "! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A snowy day out canvassing with Eglinton Lawrence’s liberal candidate Vince Gasparro @vgasparro.bsky.social #onpoli #toronto
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Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Excited to announce that we're looking for a tenure-track hire in Game Studies! Our department is home to two fantastic undergraduate programs in games/interactive media, and Canada's first MA in Game Studies program. Please share! brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/brocku...
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-track Game Studies
This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities, a Top Employer in Hamilton-Niagara, ranked #3 as Canada’s Best Employers and ...
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Beware fake X ads pretending to be from the CBC #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source | CBC News
X users have been subjected to a flood of ads that feature fake CBC headlines, leading to fake CBC-style articles. In the end, it’s part of an international investment scheme.
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
All right, Ontario! With the next provincial election expected for February 27, it's time to #UniteTheVote to #VoteFordOut! A new initiative called "Common Ground Ontario" is recruiting volunteers to help in targeted ridings. You can sign up at commongroundon.blogspot.com. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli
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Common Ground Ontario
Take Action for a Better Ontario - Empowering Communities, Supporting Progress, Driving Change
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Interesting piece on the responsibility private universities have in this time of targeting public universities. At my press, we publish sometimes controversial books that the public one down the road could not. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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A troubling moment for public higher ed (opinion)
Jay Hartzell’s planned move from the UT Austin presidency to Southern Methodist demands attention from all who care about public higher ed, Michael S. Harris writes.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's monkey see, monkey do with these MAGA wannabes. #canqueer
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Pierre Poilievre says he is ‘only aware’ of two genders
The Conservative leader was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's first actions since his swearing-in, which included changes to Washington's gender policies.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 22/01/2025
Authoritarianism wants you to feel like you’re drowning in chaos — headlines of breaking news, after breaking news. Here are 4️⃣ questions you can ask yourself to help spot genuine threats to our democracy. Read more here: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-pay...
Is the action tangible, actionable, and detailed? Or intangible, abstract, and vague? 
When [Trump] leaves the details vague, we, collectively, cannot help ourselves. We try to fill them in. But — if Trump’s past promises are any guide — intangibility is a pretty good indicator that a proposal is a less-than-pressing concern.Does this thing cause irreparable harm to real people? 
Deploying the military to conduct immigration raids and rounding people into mass camps is a major threat. An unspecified announcement (likely via Truth Social post) suggesting future plans to bully folks — as scary as that sounds — may not be.Does this action target the opposition in a way that may cause anticipatory obedience?
By targeting individual politicians, companies, civil servants, nonprofits, donors, media outlets, and journalists, [Trump] can cow hundreds or thousands of others into a more submissive and defensive posture.Does this entrench the authoritarian faction in power and make it more difficult to dislodge?
Trump and his supporters’ unifying goal will be to entrench themselves in power, indefinitely. Not necessarily by canceling elections outright, to be clear, but rather by tilting the political playing field so much that they’re unlikely to ever lose power through elections (or other means).
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Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What a week to be teaching Rubin's "Thinking Sex." Cannot wait to dig into this bs with my undergrads tomorrow Rubin in 1984: "It is precisely at times such as these, when we live with the possibility of unthinkable destruction, that people are likely to become dangerously crazy about sexuality."
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DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Finally, on Friday, Feb 7, it’s the For Viola presentation of NO OTHER LAND. At latest count, we’ve had over 300 tickets booked, which puts us on pace to sell out pretty soon. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil... Tell a friend and see you there. 🍉
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Not only did Zuck sign off on using copyrighted works, Meta “wrote a script to remove copyright info, including the word ‘copyright’ and ‘acknowledgments,’ from e-books in LibGen…” … Meta actively tried to conceal it. techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
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Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
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Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
How adding names to archival images has been healing for people of We'koqma'q First Nation 📜
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How adding names to archival images has been healing for people of We'koqma'q First Nation | CBC News
A project to add names to archival images of Indigenous people across Canada has been creating connections and promoting healing in We'koqma'q First Nation.
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/01/2025
JUST IN: Trudeau's decision after almost a decade in power, sets the stage for a succession fight to select a new prime minister.
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Canada's Justin Trudeau says he will resign as party leader and prime minister
Trudeau's decision after almost a decade in power, sets the stage for a succession fight to select a new prime minister.
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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
📰 We've got so much going on over the next few months—workshops, lectures, discussion panels and more—and all of them free! Sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss out. Next issue comes out January 9. Subscribe ow.ly/zWwp50C...
Abstract illustration of yellow and black vertical lines on a white background. The text overlay in yellow lettering on black background reads: Humanities at Large, the Jackman Humanities Institute Newsletter.
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