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Vancouver librarian, writer, music and radio type (etc.), often worrying about access to information, mis/disinformation, and AI. (Opinions are my own.)
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Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.
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Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
![It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knlwbyvg36keh64h6awokbqx/bafkreieb4ejxbjcnu72il754xrnw4w66tsnbcifjptfg447jyvh7pkttde@jpeg)
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WATCH: Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, pushes back on Pierre Poilievre’s latest claims regarding Justin Trudeau and the RCMP.
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À VOIR : Elizabeth May, cheffe du Parti vert du Canada, réfute les dernières déclarations de Pierre Poilievre concernant Justin Trudeau et la GRC.
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À VOIR : Elizabeth May, cheffe du Parti vert du Canada, réfute les dernières déclarations de Pierre Poilievre concernant Justin Trudeau et la GRC.
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
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31 DAYS OF HORROR! every day this month i'm going to recommend a different horror film available through Toronto Public Library, via streaming services Hoopla or Kanopy.
here you go. you can do them manually to keep control of moderation yourself or just subscribe to the list and do it all in one go.