I've said it before and will say it again... if you have to check the results of AI because of its ability to lie then there is no point in ever using AI because you can't trust it.

And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.

(2/2) We loved hearing from local authors, @waydecompton.bsky.social and @candietanaka.bsky.social‬, who both have titles in the collection; as well as local publisher, Brian Lam
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.

An all-around fabulous list.

“The operative principle underlying the music that Africans brought to the New World is that it must help people to live.” — Kim Johnson, The Illustrated History of Pan

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

New in Perspectives: A New Kind of Corner Store

Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?

@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?

🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/

new usa student visa requirement:
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."

I'm old enough to remember occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, a never ending war of terror that killed over 4 million people.

And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.

People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.

"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review."

thecapilanoreview.com/language-the...

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

We stand together or we all fall.

- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all

"The future is always here in the past." — Amiri Baraka

Please run for leadership.

Hey all—there’s lots of new material on the Soundin’ Canaan website, including an interview with one of my favourite poets and a key figure in the book: @waydecompton.bsky.social. We talk Black Canadian poetry, my DJ methodology, citizenship, American annexation, and more. @wlupress.bsky.social

thephilanthropist.ca/2025/04/narr... by @yucacita.bsky.social

Today in my #CriticalMediaPractice class at #UVic: a conversation with @waydecompton.bsky.social about race in media, and "how to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism".

"the white avant-garde is prone to assuming that its fetish for formal innovation is automatically progressive. White avant-garde writers . . . use a nomenclature of alterity, but the effect is the same as the one that perennially produces white normativity in general."
— @waydecompton.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who came out to my Victoria book launch—especially to @waydecompton.bsky.social for the excellent reading and interview. It was both a celebration of Soundin’ Canaan (@wlupress.bsky.social) and an opportunity to hear poetry and be in community.

It’s like riding in an Uber for 26 miles then calling yourself a marathon runner.

Yes I do: ualbertapress.ca/978177212743...