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Unsettling Irish Studies Program at Saint Mary's University, Halifax.
Landback, decolonialism, critical race, psychoanalysis, politics, language.
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Labour 4 Palestine talk Labour Zionism
Labour Zionism and the struggle for Palestine in the labour movement - past and present.
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January 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Arts for Everyone at SMU. Study writing, thinking and the poetics of catastrophe with Dr. Seán Kennedy. We are reading the amazing work of @suegoyette.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM