Richard
@rwpickard.bsky.social
Reader, tree-hugger, teacher, preserver of foodstuffs. Canadian.
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@rwpickard.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Neighbourhood radical: A story about "AI"
Last night, at a kind neighbour's gentle garden party, I found myself calling for revolution and telling someone to choose which side they'd...
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Re-upping this post, just to make my feelings about AI unmistakeable. #noAI #againstAI
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Please share this, everybody! There's more info about Sheri and this story in the thread, so click through. #missing
Important: #Kamloops and area people
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please share this, everybody! There's more info about Sheri and this story in the thread, so click through. #missing
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Important: #Kamloops and area people
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Important: #Kamloops and area people
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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Believe it or not, if you take time to deeply explain and model what you mean by reading and writing, students are enthusiastic for the work. It does require some undoing of what they've come to believe from prior school experience, though. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Believe it or not, if you take time to deeply explain and model what you mean by reading and writing, students are enthusiastic for the work. It does require some undoing of what they've come to believe from prior school experience, though. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
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ICYMI: “Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette was last seen leaving her Aberdeen home at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 26).” cfjctoday.com/2025/11/28/m... - @cfjctoday.bsky.social
#BCNews #Kamloops #MissingPerson #SurreyBC #YVR
#BCNews #Kamloops #MissingPerson #SurreyBC #YVR
Missing Kamloops woman may have travelled to Surrey: RCMP
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a woman who went missing from Kamloops earlier this week may be in the Lower Mainland. She...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ICYMI: “Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette was last seen leaving her Aberdeen home at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 26).” cfjctoday.com/2025/11/28/m... - @cfjctoday.bsky.social
#BCNews #Kamloops #MissingPerson #SurreyBC #YVR
#BCNews #Kamloops #MissingPerson #SurreyBC #YVR
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#MISSING Sheri-Lynn (Beatty) Bissonnette Last seen November 26, 2025 in Kamloops, BC. She was on her way to babysit her grandchild. #Missing #missingperson #Kamloops
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#MISSING Sheri-Lynn (Beatty) Bissonnette Last seen November 26, 2025 in Kamloops, BC. She was on her way to babysit her grandchild. #Missing #missingperson #Kamloops
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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This morning I wrote about pots.
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
foundational
Yesterday I had a virtual visit to a class reading my novella, The Weight of the Heart. (Thank you, Richard Pickard!) In the course of the discussion, I found myself admitting that the 1970s had be…
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November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This morning I wrote about pots.
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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This is my sister, Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette. If you know anything at all, please contact me here or the RCMP.
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
Kamloops RCMP searching for missing 57-year-old woman
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are asking for help in locating a missing 57-year-old woman, who hasn't been see...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is my sister, Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette. If you know anything at all, please contact me here or the RCMP.
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
Please share this: my friend Marv's sister has been missing for 72 hours. She lives in Kamloops, but police think she may be in Surrey (based on device pings, but she left her usual phone at home). Details about her vehicle are in the linked story.
This is my sister, Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette. If you know anything at all, please contact me here or the RCMP.
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
Kamloops RCMP searching for missing 57-year-old woman
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are asking for help in locating a missing 57-year-old woman, who hasn't been see...
cfjctoday.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Please share this: my friend Marv's sister has been missing for 72 hours. She lives in Kamloops, but police think she may be in Surrey (based on device pings, but she left her usual phone at home). Details about her vehicle are in the linked story.
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I’m Sheri’s brother. I want to emphasize she was last seen Wednesday morning and is driving (truck description in story). RCMP have a general search area based on her last known location, but device pings are limited and the device in question isn’t her usual phone. She could be a long way … 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I’m Sheri’s brother. I want to emphasize she was last seen Wednesday morning and is driving (truck description in story). RCMP have a general search area based on her last known location, but device pings are limited and the device in question isn’t her usual phone. She could be a long way … 1/2
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Canadian taxpayers spent over $20,000 on Minister Hodgson’s travel in just August and September, including an exciting trip to Berlin.
How much of that could, or even should, have been a Zoom call, Minister?
Apologize to the chiefs, now.
#cdnpoli
How much of that could, or even should, have been a Zoom call, Minister?
Apologize to the chiefs, now.
#cdnpoli
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Canadian taxpayers spent over $20,000 on Minister Hodgson’s travel in just August and September, including an exciting trip to Berlin.
How much of that could, or even should, have been a Zoom call, Minister?
Apologize to the chiefs, now.
#cdnpoli
How much of that could, or even should, have been a Zoom call, Minister?
Apologize to the chiefs, now.
#cdnpoli
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Meanwhile, in academia, AI continues to provide useful servic... no, sorry, AI continues to be shit, and its boosters remain ethically suspect. #resistAI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Meanwhile, in academia, AI continues to provide useful servic... no, sorry, AI continues to be shit, and its boosters remain ethically suspect. #resistAI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jesus, these PEOPLE. #cdnpoli You need to be pushing back in caucus and everywhere else, @wgreaves.bsky.social
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Jesus, these PEOPLE. #cdnpoli You need to be pushing back in caucus and everywhere else, @wgreaves.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Cowboy Junkies
Blue Rodeo
Bob Dylan
Whitney Houston
Jazzmanian Devils
Cowboy Junkies
Blue Rodeo
Bob Dylan
Whitney Houston
Jazzmanian Devils
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts youve seen:
Joel Plaskett
Maceo Parker
Elvis Costello
Sarah Harmer
Barenaked Ladies
Joel Plaskett
Maceo Parker
Elvis Costello
Sarah Harmer
Barenaked Ladies
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Wynton Marsalis
The Philosopher Kings
Sarah Harmer
Beck
Dame Evelyn Glennie
Wynton Marsalis
The Philosopher Kings
Sarah Harmer
Beck
Dame Evelyn Glennie
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Cowboy Junkies
Blue Rodeo
Bob Dylan
Whitney Houston
Jazzmanian Devils
Cowboy Junkies
Blue Rodeo
Bob Dylan
Whitney Houston
Jazzmanian Devils
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Jamaica and the Philippines just practically swished away. Tehran, city of 10 million+, has run out of water. Vietnam is drowning in rainstorms. And Canada, in flames most summers now, signs a MOU to build yet another bitumen pipeline and transport the product through Hecate Strait...........
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jamaica and the Philippines just practically swished away. Tehran, city of 10 million+, has run out of water. Vietnam is drowning in rainstorms. And Canada, in flames most summers now, signs a MOU to build yet another bitumen pipeline and transport the product through Hecate Strait...........
Politicians don't say ridiculous things challenge
In QP today, Conservative leader John Rustad accuses the NDP government of supporting US President Donald Trump by opposing the pipeline agreement between Ottawa and Alberta
Energy Minister Adrian Dix says his government supports better projects, like Ksi Lisims LNG... 🫤
#bcpoli
Energy Minister Adrian Dix says his government supports better projects, like Ksi Lisims LNG... 🫤
#bcpoli
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Politicians don't say ridiculous things challenge
Every journalist reporting on the Canada-Alberta MOU needs to read BC's hot-off-the-presses CleanBC report: or at the very least read this piece about it by @zoeyunker.bsky.social and @amandafollett.bsky.social
BC's climate plan reviewers issued their report card yesterday.
Their verdict: Focus less on targets and more on getting stuff done.
Also, LNG could blow everything out of the water.
My collab with @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their verdict: Focus less on targets and more on getting stuff done.
Also, LNG could blow everything out of the water.
My collab with @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
LNG Is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ at BC Climate Plan Update | The Tyee
The province’s plan to reduce emissions can be salvaged. But expansion of gas exports needs scrutiny, reviewers say.
thetyee.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Every journalist reporting on the Canada-Alberta MOU needs to read BC's hot-off-the-presses CleanBC report: or at the very least read this piece about it by @zoeyunker.bsky.social and @amandafollett.bsky.social
Premier David Eby's got a press conference at 12:45 PT about "the future of B.C.'s and Canada's economy"
Livestream: youtube.com/live/FNLVn8k...
Livestream: youtube.com/live/FNLVn8k...
Media Availability with Premier David Eby
YouTube video by GovernmentofBC
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm thinking really hard about this bit: "colonial knowledge of Indigenous peoples in Canada is an artificial intelligence, built as it is on the artifice of imagined colonial representations of our being, doing, and relations." SO MUCH in this whole discussion, but this jumped out at me.
Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
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"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)
“Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm thinking really hard about this bit: "colonial knowledge of Indigenous peoples in Canada is an artificial intelligence, built as it is on the artifice of imagined colonial representations of our being, doing, and relations." SO MUCH in this whole discussion, but this jumped out at me.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Carney needs to get us some fucking flawless peer-reviewed data on how more fossil fuel development is going to help us meet climate targets and safeguard this planet and our children from climate collapse
or so help me god
or so help me god
Carney on caucus members concerned about prospect of a new oil pipeline: "Tomorrow's intended announcement with Alberta is about much more than one thing. Fundamentally, it's about building this economy, it's about making Canada more independent, and it's about making Canada more sustainable."
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Carney needs to get us some fucking flawless peer-reviewed data on how more fossil fuel development is going to help us meet climate targets and safeguard this planet and our children from climate collapse
or so help me god
or so help me god