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Jennifer Kennedy
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I live in Alberta, Canada, and write under the byline J.Y.T. Kennedy.
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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 14d
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Does anyone else hate the way Canadian political debates now are streamed with interpreters inserted over the original audio? My French is imperfect, but I like to be able to hear what is actually being said, ideally with subtitles to help out with any bits I don't catch.
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
I had a little story about things going wrong with AI simulations of people in polarborealis.ca in May. It was written in Fall 2024, and conceived earlier yet, and it seems to keep getting more topical. . .
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Highly recommend clicking through to read the whole essay by E B White.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29d
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
LAW dork = I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used. Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling. But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny. Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Whoever it was that mentioned watching Blue Gardenia and inspired me to check it out (on Kanopy) did not mention *Nat King Cole*.
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
savethecharter.ca
URGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of Rights
Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.
savethecharter.ca
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Book recommendation: The Last Cold Place by Naira de Gracia www.nairadegracia.com I have been working on a fantasy story set on an island, and decided to model that island (loosely) after a real one far to the south. Naturally this requires research.
Naira de Gracia
www.nairadegracia.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Submit your nominations here.
AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions
Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
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September 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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liberalcurrents.com
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
I have a story in the new issue of Polar Borealis, which is free to read online:
polarborealis.ca/wp-content/u...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Really good article.
May 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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nafo-fellarina.bsky.social
To my dying day I will always remember the day I queued in a book shop on the Tottenham Court Rd, to get "Life On Earth" signed by Sir David 🙃 My legs were like jelly + my heart was pounding, but at least I managed to get a few coherent words out!

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Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more
This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...
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May 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Good to see a decision against unfair NDAs.

www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...
Ontario judge calls out WestJet's attempt to muzzle passenger in dispute negotiations | CBC News
In what’s believed to be a landmark decision, an Ontario small claims court judge has condemned WestJet for including a gag order in a settlement offer with a customer. An air passenger rights advocat...
www.cbc.ca
May 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The ranks of American political refugees, fleeing certain states, growing by the day. “They’re being propelled by hostile political forces bearing down on them because of who they are, what they believe, or for their medical needs.” @maddow.msnbc.com @djrothkopf.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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jamellebouie.net
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Danielle Smith's recent talk about a unity crisis makes it clear that if the Liberals win this election while a majority of Albertans support the Conservatives, she will see that as a mandate to push her separatist, Trump-aligned agenda.
April 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
“There are two things the provincial government is doing… First, they are not providing sufficient funding to school boards to pay these workers a fair wage. Second, the government is dictating what school boards can offer”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Opinion: Why are education support workers still on strike? Ask the UCP
There are two things the provincial government is doing that are preventing timely settlements.
edmontonjournal.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
For full alt text, follow pastebin link in next post. Partial text: Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening: First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow. The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail. Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
jytkennedy.bsky.social
Just a quick note to say this is Jennifer Kennedy in Alberta. I'm happy to connect with friends on here, but not sure yet how regularly I'll be checking in.
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM