Caleb Wellum
@calebwellum.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ICES/U of T Scarborough. Author of Energizing Neoliberalism. Researching energy cultures of the New Economy. Writer. EH [@energyhumanities.bsky.social] Editor. HigherEd Teacher.
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CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Deadline: January 26, 2026. #cdnhist @csdhschn.bsky.social
CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at Université de Montréal between Ju...
cha-shc.ca
January 19, 2026 at 8:33 PM
CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Deadline: January 26, 2026. #cdnhist @csdhschn.bsky.social
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The ever-expanding surveillance assemblage
January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
The ever-expanding surveillance assemblage
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“When you spend years warning about the Antichrist while building the very systems of centralized technological control you claim to fear, when you fund political movements to capture state power while decrying ‘one-world government’—perhaps you've found your Antichrist after all.”
Peter Thiel Looks Everywhere for the Antichrist Except the Mirror
The tech billionaire’s AI technology is ushering in a dystopian Big Government as he races to beat his political opponents to the end times
www.theunpopulist.net
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
“When you spend years warning about the Antichrist while building the very systems of centralized technological control you claim to fear, when you fund political movements to capture state power while decrying ‘one-world government’—perhaps you've found your Antichrist after all.”
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“Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address” (via @goodlawproject.bsky.social)
404media.co/elite-the-pala
404media.co/elite-the-pala
404media.co
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
“Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address” (via @goodlawproject.bsky.social)
404media.co/elite-the-pala
404media.co/elite-the-pala
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“He has been accused of naively embracing artificial intelligence rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
“He has been accused of naively embracing artificial intelligence rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.”
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January 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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This is honestly one of the most skilled parts of facilitation. It's the opposite of radio. You got to be comfortable with dead air.
it’s ok if class is quiet for a few minutes while everyone’s just thinking
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This is honestly one of the most skilled parts of facilitation. It's the opposite of radio. You got to be comfortable with dead air.
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Interesting @criticalinquiry.bsky.social piece on the "planetary experiment" from the 19th century Magnetic Crusade through the Trinity test to the 21c digital twin. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Interesting @criticalinquiry.bsky.social piece on the "planetary experiment" from the 19th century Magnetic Crusade through the Trinity test to the 21c digital twin. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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total Max Weber victory
January 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
total Max Weber victory
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The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Lent Term 2026 seminar schedule. Speakers include: Mariia Koskina (Cambridge), Marta Macedo (NOVA Lisbon) and Giacomo Bonan (Turin). Please join us!
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THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Lent Term 2026 seminar schedule. Speakers include: Mariia Koskina (Cambridge), Marta Macedo (NOVA Lisbon) and Giacomo Bonan (Turin). Please join us!
Click for further details.
Click for further details.
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Exceptional warmth in The Northern States and Canada with widespread max. temperatures in the 60s up to 65F in Montana and some monthly records like 59F at Arlington WA
Tomorrow hundreds more records of high minimums will fall and maxes can approach 70 in some areas with chinook
Tomorrow hundreds more records of high minimums will fall and maxes can approach 70 in some areas with chinook
HISTORIC EVENT
Hundreds of monthly records of Highest Minimums smashed with margins up to 10F
WA
52 Seattle
MT
53 Malmstrom
51 Golf
50 Big Timber
49 Billings,Lewiston
SD
49 Rapid City
48 Spearfish
46 Sturgis,Ellsworth
45 Huron,Wagner
44 Chamberlain,Philip
43 Custer
Hundreds of monthly records of Highest Minimums smashed with margins up to 10F
WA
52 Seattle
MT
53 Malmstrom
51 Golf
50 Big Timber
49 Billings,Lewiston
SD
49 Rapid City
48 Spearfish
46 Sturgis,Ellsworth
45 Huron,Wagner
44 Chamberlain,Philip
43 Custer
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Exceptional warmth in The Northern States and Canada with widespread max. temperatures in the 60s up to 65F in Montana and some monthly records like 59F at Arlington WA
Tomorrow hundreds more records of high minimums will fall and maxes can approach 70 in some areas with chinook
Tomorrow hundreds more records of high minimums will fall and maxes can approach 70 in some areas with chinook
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Your tax dollars at work: Ontario has spent nearly $270,000 in external legal fees (not including their own in-house lawyers or $200,000 awarded in costs) to attack your Charter rights and amplify a bad faith culture war contrary to the advice of their own experts.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario government has spent $270K on outside lawyers in fight to remove bike lanes: FOI | CBC News
Information obtained through a freedom of information request and shared with CBC News shows how much money the province spent on external lawyer fees to fight a court challenge against a law to remov...
www.cbc.ca
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Your tax dollars at work: Ontario has spent nearly $270,000 in external legal fees (not including their own in-house lawyers or $200,000 awarded in costs) to attack your Charter rights and amplify a bad faith culture war contrary to the advice of their own experts.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
For more from Melanie, check out her piece in EH about her poetry collection, Goose: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/trying-...
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
For more from Melanie, check out her piece in EH about her poetry collection, Goose: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/trying-...
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AI “ghost artists” are ushering in slopifcation—and threatening Canadian culture in the process. If we want it to survive, writes journalist and author Vass Bednar, we need to pay more attention to what humans are producing. thewalrus.ca/can-canadian-cul...
January 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
AI “ghost artists” are ushering in slopifcation—and threatening Canadian culture in the process. If we want it to survive, writes journalist and author Vass Bednar, we need to pay more attention to what humans are producing. thewalrus.ca/can-canadian-cul...
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Long-running suspicions about Bonnie, our eavesdropping border collie, confirmed!
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
Dogs Build Their Vocabularies Like Toddlers
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Long-running suspicions about Bonnie, our eavesdropping border collie, confirmed!
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
Check out the one with the psychedelic yellow and white cover on the right!
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Check out the one with the psychedelic yellow and white cover on the right!
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“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
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BREAKING: The United Kingdom is considering banning X, per the Telegraph
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
BREAKING: The United Kingdom is considering banning X, per the Telegraph
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"If we wait to let the atmosphere “perform the CO2 experiment,” we will finally learn how well our models have served in making these predictions of #climate change. But then it will be too late to do much..., if the warmer Earth should prove to be a sadder Earth"- W. Kellogg, 1978 @thebulletin.org
1978: Is mankind warming the Earth?
This report is based on a monograph the author prepared for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
thebulletin.org
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
"If we wait to let the atmosphere “perform the CO2 experiment,” we will finally learn how well our models have served in making these predictions of #climate change. But then it will be too late to do much..., if the warmer Earth should prove to be a sadder Earth"- W. Kellogg, 1978 @thebulletin.org
Long-running suspicions about Bonnie, our eavesdropping border collie, confirmed!
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
Dogs Build Their Vocabularies Like Toddlers
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Long-running suspicions about Bonnie, our eavesdropping border collie, confirmed!
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
"They can learn the names of new toys not only through direct instruction but also by eavesdropping on the conversations of their owners."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
What could possibly go wrong?
The world's oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water. nyti.ms/3Yvh5FO
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
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Thea Riofrancos @ IECS / U of Toronto. If you happen to be in the city for MLA, join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/extraction...
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
A lecture by Thea Riofrancos
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December 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Thea Riofrancos @ IECS / U of Toronto. If you happen to be in the city for MLA, join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/extraction...
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404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Yes: why do a PhD in Canada if this is how your gov and institutions will treat you once you’re done?
Beyond being an intrusion into institutional and faculty autonomy, it undermines our domestic training pipeline, creating a perverse incentive for Canadian trainees: you have to leave Canada if you ever want to be valued by your country. /2
January 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Yes: why do a PhD in Canada if this is how your gov and institutions will treat you once you’re done?
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Beyond being an intrusion into institutional and faculty autonomy, it undermines our domestic training pipeline, creating a perverse incentive for Canadian trainees: you have to leave Canada if you ever want to be valued by your country. /2
January 7, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Beyond being an intrusion into institutional and faculty autonomy, it undermines our domestic training pipeline, creating a perverse incentive for Canadian trainees: you have to leave Canada if you ever want to be valued by your country. /2