Daniel Rück
@danrueck.bsky.social
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
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Two truths about Google’s Gemini:
Gemini 3 is excellent at handwriting transcription.
Notebook LM hallucinates a lot when working with handwritten documents. Moreover, it is argumentative when you point out BS.
The better the tools get, the more careful historians/students need to be.
Gemini 3 is excellent at handwriting transcription.
Notebook LM hallucinates a lot when working with handwritten documents. Moreover, it is argumentative when you point out BS.
The better the tools get, the more careful historians/students need to be.
December 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Two truths about Google’s Gemini:
Gemini 3 is excellent at handwriting transcription.
Notebook LM hallucinates a lot when working with handwritten documents. Moreover, it is argumentative when you point out BS.
The better the tools get, the more careful historians/students need to be.
Gemini 3 is excellent at handwriting transcription.
Notebook LM hallucinates a lot when working with handwritten documents. Moreover, it is argumentative when you point out BS.
The better the tools get, the more careful historians/students need to be.
Israel has killed 360 Palestinians since the ceasefire began. Nobody reporting it in the western mainstream media.
MEANWHILE, outside of the "yellow line":
(20:30 GMT) 5 killed in Israeli strikes in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, including two children. Kuwaiti Hospital says they were killed when drone hit tents housing displaced people
(20:30 GMT) 5 killed in Israeli strikes in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, including two children. Kuwaiti Hospital says they were killed when drone hit tents housing displaced people
December 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Israel has killed 360 Palestinians since the ceasefire began. Nobody reporting it in the western mainstream media.
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Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
www.mpg.de
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
Fire has not ceased
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fire has not ceased
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Even before it is launched, groups are pressing for @humanrights.ca's important & timely exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba to be shut down. My letter to Minister @marcmillermp.bsky.social, urging him not to interfere. We need to break the silence on Palestinian rights.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights Nakba Exhibit Should be Supported — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
Will the exhibit be criticized by some? Certainly. But equally, will it be welcomed by many? Without a doubt, and they will say: at long last. For it will open space for a vital human rights conversat...
www.alexneve.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Even before it is launched, groups are pressing for @humanrights.ca's important & timely exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba to be shut down. My letter to Minister @marcmillermp.bsky.social, urging him not to interfere. We need to break the silence on Palestinian rights.
What Israel is up to during its "ceasefires"
I am thinking of starting a thread that points out the current dystopia of living in the Levant
Exhibit 1
www.instagram.com/reel/DRMVAee...
Exhibit 1
www.instagram.com/reel/DRMVAee...
undefined on Instagram: "megaphonenewsكيف تخيّلت قناة الـMTV مشاريع دونالد ترامب وبنيامين نتنياهو لـ #جنوب_لبنان و #غزّة؟- - - - - - - - - - - -How does MTV…"
megaphonenewsكيف تخيّلت قناة الـMTV مشاريع دونالد ترامب وبنيامين نتنياهو لـ #جنوب_لبنان و #غزّة؟- - - - - - - - - - - -How does MTV portray Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for #SouthLebanon and #Gaza?
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December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What Israel is up to during its "ceasefires"
See also: hundreds of universities throwing money at this company Nous Group that imposes one-size-fits-all "solutions" that wreck institutions while flattering and enriching top level administrators.
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
See also: hundreds of universities throwing money at this company Nous Group that imposes one-size-fits-all "solutions" that wreck institutions while flattering and enriching top level administrators.
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It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery.
Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.
share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...
Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.
share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Fusing public dollars with private investment to build big things represents a departure from traditional capitalism where private companies take on risk in exchange for the right to profit. It’s also a break from the government's historic role of using public dollars for the public interest."
The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Fusing public dollars with private investment to build big things represents a departure from traditional capitalism where private companies take on risk in exchange for the right to profit. It’s also a break from the government's historic role of using public dollars for the public interest."
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"Since the April election, federal officials have recorded more than 220 meetings with oil and gas lobbyists — more meetings than days. The immense lobbying push was reflected in the federal budget, and continues to shape federal priorities."
The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Since the April election, federal officials have recorded more than 220 meetings with oil and gas lobbyists — more meetings than days. The immense lobbying push was reflected in the federal budget, and continues to shape federal priorities."
"Both ‘a land without people for a people without a land,’ and ‘they made the desert bloom’ are marketing jingles..." But despite these being preposterous lies, the phrases stuck. It’s like the idea that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, which you believe until you ... become aware that it is absurd."
READ: Zionism wasn’t just a political movement; it was the most successful marketing campaign of the 20th century.
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
How Zionism was sold to the world
Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, “Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara,” reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian…
mondoweiss.net
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Both ‘a land without people for a people without a land,’ and ‘they made the desert bloom’ are marketing jingles..." But despite these being preposterous lies, the phrases stuck. It’s like the idea that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, which you believe until you ... become aware that it is absurd."
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lawmakers need to rein in this continual expansion of dynamic pricing, it got ridiculous long ago and is becoming obscene
Yeah, the "dynamic pricing" in big box stores is the same. Depending on who is looking at the tag, time of day, etc. the price for items can literally change from the shelf to the register. 😤 Freaking DISNEY is even going to start using it! deadline.com/2025/11/disn...
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
Disney will bring dynamic pricing similar to the model used by airlines to its domestic theme parks as the company looks to boost incremental revenue.
deadline.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
lawmakers need to rein in this continual expansion of dynamic pricing, it got ridiculous long ago and is becoming obscene
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By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
The "next frontier" for "reconciliation" is Canada using repeating the well-worn paths of settler colonial expansion employing both old and new language to justify running rough-shod over Indigenous rights and jurisdiction.
Opinion: Canada’s Arctic is the next frontier for growth, security, and reconciliation
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Canada’s Arctic is the next frontier for growth, security, and reconciliation
Investment in the Arctic is not only an economic decision, but also a security imperative. As climate change reshapes global shipping routes and other nations assert their presence in the region,…
www.hilltimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The "next frontier" for "reconciliation" is Canada using repeating the well-worn paths of settler colonial expansion employing both old and new language to justify running rough-shod over Indigenous rights and jurisdiction.
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1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Fuuuucking this (re: Thomas King's book being cited in a SCC decision):
"But when a Pretendian (unwitting or not) is influencing Supreme Court decisions about Indigenous Peoples, it must be called out and stopped.”
"But when a Pretendian (unwitting or not) is influencing Supreme Court decisions about Indigenous Peoples, it must be called out and stopped.”
I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
#Opinion from Robert Jago
#Opinion from Robert Jago
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fuuuucking this (re: Thomas King's book being cited in a SCC decision):
"But when a Pretendian (unwitting or not) is influencing Supreme Court decisions about Indigenous Peoples, it must be called out and stopped.”
"But when a Pretendian (unwitting or not) is influencing Supreme Court decisions about Indigenous Peoples, it must be called out and stopped.”
"To my mind, King’s admission amounts to what the Canada Revenue Agency calls a “voluntary disclosure” — that’s the mechanism certain taxpayers use to proactively “come forward to fix errors or omissions” before they face more serious consequences." archive.is/202511261113...
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"To my mind, King’s admission amounts to what the Canada Revenue Agency calls a “voluntary disclosure” — that’s the mechanism certain taxpayers use to proactively “come forward to fix errors or omissions” before they face more serious consequences." archive.is/202511261113...
This is an excellent piece on American Thanksgiving and historical misremembering. Share widely!
New substack post out today. The myth of Thanksgiving is as American as it is wrong. Every year, we tell the mythical story of the first Thanksgiving so we can ignore the obvious truth that this land was taken not by friendship, but by violence. Read here:
The myth of Thanksgiving is as American as it is wrong
Every year, we tell the mythical story of the first Thanksgiving so we can ignore the obvious truth that this land was taken not by friendship, but by violence.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is an excellent piece on American Thanksgiving and historical misremembering. Share widely!
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In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
It's not a ceasefire when Israel is regularly bombing Lebanon, stealing land in the West Bank and preventing Gaza Palestinians from entering half of their lands. frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefi...
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's not a ceasefire when Israel is regularly bombing Lebanon, stealing land in the West Bank and preventing Gaza Palestinians from entering half of their lands. frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefi...
Herzog: "To me, one of the most precious things human beings can do is identify across boundaries, which is precisely the thing that the fascists are trying to extirpate in us."
Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right.
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
Fascism's Body Politics - Public Seminar
Dagmar Herzog explains how ableism's historical legacy informs the fascisms of Donald Trump and Germany's AfD.
publicseminar.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Herzog: "To me, one of the most precious things human beings can do is identify across boundaries, which is precisely the thing that the fascists are trying to extirpate in us."
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Attention Canadian teachers (high school through grad school) of Bsky! It would be great to get some keen young historians on this council: #cdnhist
Make your voice count — join LAC’s Youth Advisory Council!
Are you between 16 and 25? We’re looking for engaged, curious, and creative people who want to help shape the future of libraries and archives.
Ready to make a real difference? Apply by December 3!
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
Are you between 16 and 25? We’re looking for engaged, curious, and creative people who want to help shape the future of libraries and archives.
Ready to make a real difference? Apply by December 3!
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Attention Canadian teachers (high school through grad school) of Bsky! It would be great to get some keen young historians on this council: #cdnhist
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM