Chet Scoville
@chesterscoville.bsky.social
Academic knuckleballer.
Thanks I hate it
As machine learning reshapes higher education, #UofT is preparing students to become ‘super humans’.
U of T Magazine: Teaching in the Age of AI 🤖 https://bit.ly/3XNvtJ1
U of T Magazine: Teaching in the Age of AI 🤖 https://bit.ly/3XNvtJ1
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thanks I hate it
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This is why I’m so skeptical of supply-side solutions to housing. It’s not a panacea. So much depends on what we’re building, where, and can regular people afford it. I’m not against condos or tall buildings. And I’m definitely no NIMBY. But a purely market solution to the housing crisis won’t do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is why I’m so skeptical of supply-side solutions to housing. It’s not a panacea. So much depends on what we’re building, where, and can regular people afford it. I’m not against condos or tall buildings. And I’m definitely no NIMBY. But a purely market solution to the housing crisis won’t do.
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75% of condos were purchased to rent out, not to live in. But people can’t afford the rent. Supply only adds housing if profit expectations are reasonable and something the end-user can actually afford. People got too greedy and here we are. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
No Buyers, No Builds: The Warning Signs in Toronto’s Condo Industry
Podcast Episode · Toronto Today with Greg Brady · 2025-11-27 · 8m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
75% of condos were purchased to rent out, not to live in. But people can’t afford the rent. Supply only adds housing if profit expectations are reasonable and something the end-user can actually afford. People got too greedy and here we are. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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Machado is an insane character she's basically if Malala got the Nobel Prize in 2002 and it also turned out she was lying to the US so they could sell Afghan oil to Halliburton
NYT reporting that Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado lied to Trump about Maduro´s role in the drug trade to prompt a US invasion... welcome back the WMDs
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Machado is an insane character she's basically if Malala got the Nobel Prize in 2002 and it also turned out she was lying to the US so they could sell Afghan oil to Halliburton
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“Why would you be so upset at being threatened with conquest? What?”
US Ambassador to Canada: But let me tell you, I go around the country and people will say, “Pete, you just don’t understand why we’re so mad about the 51st state.” And it’s kind of like, “Yeah, you’re right. I don’t.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Why would you be so upset at being threatened with conquest? What?”
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"While Ontario is spending more on post-secondary than it has in the past,it remains among the lowest per-student in the country."
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
Here’s how much the cuts to Canada’s international students have hurt Ontario colleges and universities
New post-secondary figures obtained by the Star reveal massive revenue losses, expected to get worse with the latest federal cuts to foreign students.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"While Ontario is spending more on post-secondary than it has in the past,it remains among the lowest per-student in the country."
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
This would rule
Potential Blue Jays rotation:
Kevin Gausman
Trey Yesavage
Dylan Cease
Shane Bieber
Jose Berrios
Eric Lauer
Kevin Gausman
Trey Yesavage
Dylan Cease
Shane Bieber
Jose Berrios
Eric Lauer
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This would rule
Well.
@JeffPassan tweeted
Right-hander Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement on a seven-year, $210 million contract, pending a physical, sources tell ESPN. The defending American League champions get one of the best arms on the free agent market.
Right-hander Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement on a seven-year, $210 million contract, pending a physical, sources tell ESPN. The defending American League champions get one of the best arms on the free agent market.
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Well.
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
Silly rabbit, no one says “USians.”
It’s “USAians.”
It’s “USAians.”
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Silly rabbit, no one says “USians.”
It’s “USAians.”
It’s “USAians.”
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For anyone who might wonder what I do at the faculty association: here (at this link) is the result of one matter I oversaw, championed a policy interpretation grievance for, helped to mediate, agreed to settle, alleged a violation of the settlement, settled again, and, at long last, voila!
Substantial Win: Teaching Stream Eligibility for Academic Administration Positions
UTFA is pleased to announce that it has secured an agreement with the senior University Administration that recognizes that Teaching Stream faculty are eligible for appointments to academic administra...
www.utfa.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For anyone who might wonder what I do at the faculty association: here (at this link) is the result of one matter I oversaw, championed a policy interpretation grievance for, helped to mediate, agreed to settle, alleged a violation of the settlement, settled again, and, at long last, voila!
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914,000 arts and culture workers in Canada nodding in agreement.
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
914,000 arts and culture workers in Canada nodding in agreement.
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We've lost 12,000+ public college jobs here in Ontario. One of the greatest mass layoffs in Canadian history.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We've lost 12,000+ public college jobs here in Ontario. One of the greatest mass layoffs in Canadian history.
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
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i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
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Hey, you know what other sector what has been decimated by a hostile government's actions that has yet to be given a bailout?
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey, you know what other sector what has been decimated by a hostile government's actions that has yet to be given a bailout?
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Adam Kotsko isn't here anymore, so I'll plug his blogpost in his absence. The "see no problem, hear no problem, speak no problem" brigades, says Adam, slip back and forth among incompatible arguments.
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/kettle-log...
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/kettle-log...
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Adam Kotsko isn't here anymore, so I'll plug his blogpost in his absence. The "see no problem, hear no problem, speak no problem" brigades, says Adam, slip back and forth among incompatible arguments.
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/kettle-log...
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/kettle-log...
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people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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Before it gets consigned to the memory hole, new from me at TVO on the substantial investigative powers a government can bring to bear on its critics (and why premiers shouldn't make idle threats.) www.tvo.org/article/anal...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
www.tvo.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Before it gets consigned to the memory hole, new from me at TVO on the substantial investigative powers a government can bring to bear on its critics (and why premiers shouldn't make idle threats.) www.tvo.org/article/anal...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Given the choice between admitting they were wrong — and obviously so at the time — and blaming Biden for eroding norms surrounding pardons, the news outlets will get busy working on the blame pieces
Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Given the choice between admitting they were wrong — and obviously so at the time — and blaming Biden for eroding norms surrounding pardons, the news outlets will get busy working on the blame pieces