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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 3h

TODAY: The deadline to register to vote in the Montreal municipal election is 6 p.m.

The deadline to register to vote in the Montreal municipal election is 6 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 16

To vote in the upcoming Montreal municipal election on November 2, the registration deadline is 6 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 16.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 12h

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 12h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 5h

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

The push to extend trans people's legal childhood is a modern iteration of homophobic policies that set a higher age of consent for gay people than for cishet people.

In this case, an elongated period of minority deprives trans people of lifesaving care during a critical period of their lives.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

Like many trans healthcare bans, the Fenway Health policy covers everyone up to age 19, including legal adults who are 18 years old.

Mainstream reporting consistently ignores this creeping ban on adult care, which extends the legal minority of trans adults to maximize the harms of delayed care.

snippet from the Boston Globe home page:
Under federal pressure, Fenway Health ends gender-affirming medical care for trans children
The community clinic, long a key institution for the LGBTQ+ community, treated 5,000 patients transgender patients in 2023, although its unclear how many were minors.

With "and young adults" added after children in red

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Lilischote 🏳️‍⚧️ @lilischote.bsky.social · 3d

Es wird am 17.10 final darüber im Bundesrat abgestimmt.

Wir benötigen eure Unterschrift für diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:

Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen über Marginalisierten in Deutschland!

Campact e.V. @campact.de · Aug 19

⚠️ Sonderregister für trans* Personen?
⚠️ Meldelisten für psychisch Erkrankte?
Klingt dystopisch, aber das fordert die CDU.

➡️ Alle Hintergründe & Kritik findest Du im Blog.
👉 campact.org/VqxyJ

Register für trans* Personen: Die CDU und ihre Listen

Wenn es nach der CDU geht, gibt es bald Listen für marginalisierte Gruppen. Klingt dystopisch? Ist aber leider real, denn die CDU hätte gerne Listen über trans* Personen und psychisch Kranke. Lies meh...

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks 🤧

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Queermany @queermany.de · 2d

📣Folgt auch der Transaktivistin & Video-Creatorin @lilischote.bsky.social sowie der Petitionserstellerin & Queerfeministin @queerfemheart.bsky.social💜

💌Macht Druck: Schreibt denMitgliedern des Bundesrats direkt – Mailadressen findet ihr unten auf den Profilseiten

👉 www.bundesrat.de/DE/bundesrat...

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 2d

my gen AI teaching statement

Summary:
If we work together, in the context of my teaching, or as part of prospective or ongoing supervision of term papers, projects, BA and MA theses, predoctoral and postdoctoral projects, I ask you and expect you to not make use of generative AI tools. In the context of writing and linguistic research, this concerns first and foremost the textual output of Large Language Models, but also extends to generative tools for image and video synthesis. I do not use generative AI in my teaching, research, preparation, assessing, grading, or interaction with you, and I expect the same of you. The only reasonable use case I currently see for generative AI tools is doing critical sociolinguistic research on them – not with them – and if this is something you are interested in pursuing, please feel free to reach out.
Please do not use generative AI to produce text that you submit to me for supervision or grading. This includes portions of text (“only the abstract”, “only the literature review”), draft versions, and related textual work such as shortening, expanding, summarizing, editing your own work.
Please do not use generative AI for the development of research questions, hypotheses, data and method outlines, literature reviews, or bibliographies.
Please do not use generative AI for the generation of data, or for the interpretation of data.
Please do not use generative AI to circumvent reading, e.g. by generating digests of summarized research literature.
Please do not use generative AI for your processes of brainstorming, pondering, reasoning, doubting, rejecting, and generally thinking and wondering about the work you are engaged in.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

I'll probably be fine, that's not the point. The point is a profit-driven healthcare system that claims it's "public", but things are just as bad as, say, the US.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not exaggerating when I say I haven't been this sick in years, and I'm quite healthy, have no underlying conditions etc. It is deeply upsetting that the #CAQ has left people like me vulnerable to illness.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

Just tested positive for #COVID. I've never had it before, because I take precautions and because I always got my booster each year. However, this year #Quebec charges most people $150 minimum for the shot, so I didn't get it.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Demand Canadian Universities Divest From WSP

WSP is actively participating in both of the Israeli and Indian occupations. They are aiding and abetting the expansion of these settler-colonial projects amounting to war crimes.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 2d

Choosing Marilyn Monroe as an example for this is a prime -- and dark -- demonstration of how AI slop's core purpose is the erasure of consent for everyone, from the artists whose work has been stolen to the performers the user turns into lifeless puppets

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 1d

migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Stop Bill C-12 - Migrant Rights Network

Send an Email Now! Bill C-12 is a cruel and violent law that aims to create a mass deportation machine: One-Year Refugee Deadline: Bill C-12 blocks anyone in Canada over one year from claiming refugee...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 2d

Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/

Förderpreis – Fachverband Medizingeschichte e.V.

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Queermany @queermany.de · 2d

🚨 EILT! Schon am 17.10. soll das #Sonderregister im Bundesrat landen – trotz massiver Kritik von trans Personen, feministischen Verbänden, Jurist*innen & über 250.000 Unterzeichner*innen von unserer Petition mit @campact.de.

✊ #KeinSonderregister. Keine Stigmatisierung. Jetzt Druck machen! #teilen!

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 2d

The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

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Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the official 🇺🇸 North America 🇨🇦 publication day for THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY! 🎉

That’s right, this gorgeous book that I happened to curate & edit is now available in all good bookstores across the US + Canada! If your fave bookstore or library don’t stock it, get them to order it in for you 🙌

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Nicole Gohlke, MdB @nicolegohlke.bsky.social · 2d

Das BAföG ist kein Stipendium - sondern ein Rechtsanspruch auf eine staatliche finanzielle Absicherung für Studierende, die es benötigen.
Das ist kein Nice-to-have, sondern Must-have!
Wer BAföG als Stipendiensystem umetikettieren will, hat keines seiner Probleme verstanden.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 2d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 2d

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 6d

Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project

csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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