Deb Neill
@debneill.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Europe, Colonialism, History of Medicine, and World Wars One and Two at York University, Toronto, Canada. #canadastrong #elbowsup 🇨🇦
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This insight unfortunately is usually only internalised by a society after its state has experienced a potentially terminal crisis
No you are not the greatest country in the world and no you are not the worst country in the world, like most countries you are just kinda mid and it is way past time to grow up and accept this
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This insight unfortunately is usually only internalised by a society after its state has experienced a potentially terminal crisis
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There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC.
Three
Hundred
Thousand.
Three
Hundred
Thousand.
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC.
Three
Hundred
Thousand.
Three
Hundred
Thousand.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Oligarchs are addicted to greed.
In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.
Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.
Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.
Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.
Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
June 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Oligarchs are addicted to greed.
In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.
Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.
Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.
Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.
Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
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Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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I am so deeply uninterested in AI. Just think of all the 🤩 stories that aren't being covered by journalists, the worthy projects that aren't being funded, the institutional challenges that aren't being addressed by uni administrators — bc their 👀 are all focused on this dumb product nobody asked for
Another hour, another call for another conference about teaching with AI. I am so supremely annoyed and bored and 💔 by this reactionary obsession: what a waste of opportunity to think about infinitely more constructive, convivial, empowering, life-affirming and existentially consequential things
May 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I am so deeply uninterested in AI. Just think of all the 🤩 stories that aren't being covered by journalists, the worthy projects that aren't being funded, the institutional challenges that aren't being addressed by uni administrators — bc their 👀 are all focused on this dumb product nobody asked for
The last time Canada's official Head of State came in person to open our Parliament was 48 years ago. PM Carney definitely sending strong signals with this invite.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
King Charles to travel to Canada, deliver throne speech | CBC News
King Charles will travel to Canada later this month and deliver the speech from the throne on May 27, it was announced Friday.
www.cbc.ca
May 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The last time Canada's official Head of State came in person to open our Parliament was 48 years ago. PM Carney definitely sending strong signals with this invite.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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From Andrew Coyne's G&M article about Poilievre's proposed use of the Notwithstanding clause: “Poilievre isn’t proposing to use the notwithstanding clause to pass his crime bill — the point of the crime bill is so that he can use the notwithstanding clause.” #cdnpoli
April 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
From Andrew Coyne's G&M article about Poilievre's proposed use of the Notwithstanding clause: “Poilievre isn’t proposing to use the notwithstanding clause to pass his crime bill — the point of the crime bill is so that he can use the notwithstanding clause.” #cdnpoli
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57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
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Additional caution recommended for several categories of academics including:
- Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
- Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration
#AcademicSky
- Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
- Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration
#AcademicSky
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Additional caution recommended for several categories of academics including:
- Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
- Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration
#AcademicSky
- Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
- Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration
#AcademicSky
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Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter
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Prime Minister Mark Carney on Pierre Poilievre promising to use the notwithstanding clause:
"I think this is a very dangerous step"
"I think this is a very dangerous step"
April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Pierre Poilievre promising to use the notwithstanding clause:
"I think this is a very dangerous step"
"I think this is a very dangerous step"
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"I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics."
In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election
www.science.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics."
well this is terrifying.
Economist Peter Schiff: “The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire implications than…the stock market. If these tariffs remain in place, the US could have a full-blown financial crisis by the fall that makes the 2008 Financial Crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
well this is terrifying.
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international travelers spent $213 billion in US in 2023 and support 1.2 million jobs
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
international travelers spent $213 billion in US in 2023 and support 1.2 million jobs
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Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly just delivered a forceful statement responding to the U.S. tariffs and Donald Trump’s push for a “global trade reset.” #cdnpoli
April 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly just delivered a forceful statement responding to the U.S. tariffs and Donald Trump’s push for a “global trade reset.” #cdnpoli
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Poilievre needs to heed calls by First Nations leaders to drop Aaron Gunn running in North Island-Powell River who did posts denying the history of residential schools, praised Musk & supported Putin. #CPC seems to go out of its way to find brutal candidates. www.timescolonist.com/2025-canada-...
Demand rises for removal of North Island-Powell River candidate
First Nations lead call for Conservative Party to take Aaron Gunn off ballot
www.timescolonist.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Poilievre needs to heed calls by First Nations leaders to drop Aaron Gunn running in North Island-Powell River who did posts denying the history of residential schools, praised Musk & supported Putin. #CPC seems to go out of its way to find brutal candidates. www.timescolonist.com/2025-canada-...
The Economist is not mincing words.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Economist is not mincing words.
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That phone call with Carney must have been something
Full tariff list here. Canada and Mexico are, confusingly, missing from the list.
April 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
That phone call with Carney must have been something
an interesting development indeed.
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
an interesting development indeed.
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Buying Canadian means supporting Canadian media.
Support the CBC.
Support the CBC.
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Buying Canadian means supporting Canadian media.
Support the CBC.
Support the CBC.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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We love this country with every fibre of our being.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
March 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We love this country with every fibre of our being.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
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