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Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 5d

As part of my effort to make art and get off the internet, I recorded a new album of weirdo experimental ambient folk music. This one inspired by the sound of degrading cassette loops, thrift store guitars, and the work of artists like Grouper, Jim O'Rourke, Florist, Hana Stretton and Claire Rousay.

Twin Rivers by Thrums

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 28m

Have been on Tidal for a few years now and you're not missing anything if you leave Spotify. You can transfer over your playlists and everything, it's not all that difficult.

Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 2h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1h

I've been using Tidal for 3+ years now and am really happy with it (also buy albums when I can). The family subscription plan works great.

Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 2h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 56m

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2h

This is great.

"They made the world better even though they all kind of hated each other over petty bullshit, which they did because they were fuckups, the same as us. An army of fuckups cannot lose."

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 5h

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

The handful of revolutionary articles this will produce will fit nicely in the fully-defunded library at this dead husk of a once half decent university.

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, high-end subscription AI models will allow specific kinds of machine learning applications to open up large data sets in ways that were previously impossible. That's great. But that's something like 0.001% of AI users right now and, I would argue, in the future.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about the academic promoters of AI who criticize kneejerk anti-AI sentiment—often by promoting very specific technical use cases— all while ignoring the fact that we are all pretty fucking familiar with actually existing AI and the way it is destroying entire fields of knowledge production.

Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 1d

Wow — new AI-made articles online are already outnumbering human-generated content.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 1d

Canada's Managed Forests, which comprise 230 Million Hectares, seem to be shedding Carbon. By late 20th Century they were typically a Carbon Sink. Now, thanks to increases in Natural Disturbances, they are a (growing) SOURCE of Carbon in the atmosphere.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 1d

Already today, Israel has:

-Conducted a drone strike on Khan Younis in Gaza

-Shot & wounded two others near Khan Younis

-Killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

-Fired on & wounded a several others near Jabalia

All in violation of the “ceasefire.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

breezy, speculative, counterfactual history, with minimal recourse to the work of historians, is the pumpkin spice of airport books

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

If Books Could Kill taking on Sapiens—a somehow sub-Jared Diamond work of Big History hookum—is what the world needs right now.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jays pulling a starter who's doing fine and then giving a massive home run: a part of our heritage.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

How exactly was that not interference?

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 2d

Most read in British Journal of Canadian Studies🍁
'‘The abiding condition was hunger’: assessing the long-term biological & health effects of malnutrition & hunger in Canada’s residential schools' by @ianmosby.bsky.social & Tracey Galloway @csnrec.bsky.social
Read it #OA: bit.ly/BJCS-Galloway-Mosby

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2d

Can't win the game if you don't hit the ball.

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2d

Welp

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely wondering what happened to that team that seemed to hit multiple times every inning against the Yankees.

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2d

Jays getting killed by the worst Seattle starter going on three days rest. Not ideal, man.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

"Another example of the antichrist in great works of art," continued Thiel, "is the masked terrorist who, no matter how many times he is foiled, continues his schemes."

Thiel paused for effect then spoke slowly, his words carrying the weight of the world:

"Swiper, no swiping. And yet he swipes."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 3d

It probably won't surprise anyone to learn that CSIS is racist as hell but this is still pretty horrifying.

The distrust revealed in one word — ‘aftercare’ — meant I had to leave CSIS. A book excerpt from an agency pathbreaker

A former colleague, a Turkish Muslim, told me that he’d excelled at a technical exam required for a promotion but that his candidacy was rejected. When he filed a grievance,

www.thestar.com

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