Pascal Brissette
@pbriss7.bsky.social
Professor at McGill University. Director of @criemcirm.bsky.social and Quebec Studies Program. DH & AI.
Littérature québécoise. Création littéraire. Discours social. Récits collectifs. Montréal.
Littérature québécoise. Création littéraire. Discours social. Récits collectifs. Montréal.
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Merci @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social pour cette vidéo sur #Griffintown 😊
J'y habite depuis plus de 10 ans et représente sa population au conseil d'arrondissement depuis ~ 4 ans 💚💙
Et plusieurs critiquent ce quartier sans y avoir mis les pieds depuis l'époque industrielle 🤷🏻♀️
#urbanisme #montreal #somtl
J'y habite depuis plus de 10 ans et représente sa population au conseil d'arrondissement depuis ~ 4 ans 💚💙
Et plusieurs critiquent ce quartier sans y avoir mis les pieds depuis l'époque industrielle 🤷🏻♀️
#urbanisme #montreal #somtl
Why Does Everyone Hate This Neighbourhood? youtu.be/4iiIaFRMg1E
Why Does Everyone Hate This Neighbourhood?
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Merci @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social pour cette vidéo sur #Griffintown 😊
J'y habite depuis plus de 10 ans et représente sa population au conseil d'arrondissement depuis ~ 4 ans 💚💙
Et plusieurs critiquent ce quartier sans y avoir mis les pieds depuis l'époque industrielle 🤷🏻♀️
#urbanisme #montreal #somtl
J'y habite depuis plus de 10 ans et représente sa population au conseil d'arrondissement depuis ~ 4 ans 💚💙
Et plusieurs critiquent ce quartier sans y avoir mis les pieds depuis l'époque industrielle 🤷🏻♀️
#urbanisme #montreal #somtl
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Comment bâtir des villes heureuses ? www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
Comment bâtir des villes heureuses ?
C’est en planifiant des espaces qui favorisent la rencontre et le lien qu’on crée des villes où les gens se sentent bien. De passage à Montréal, l’urbaniste et auteur à succès Charles Montgomery expli...
www.lapresse.ca
July 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Comment bâtir des villes heureuses ? www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
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Very cool. Dataset of 2.5k fiction books specifying when they were published and when they were set. Interesting to see whether there are patterns (eg do more recent books more often get set in the near future?) data.post45.org/posts/futuri...
Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.
data.post45.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Very cool. Dataset of 2.5k fiction books specifying when they were published and when they were set. Interesting to see whether there are patterns (eg do more recent books more often get set in the near future?) data.post45.org/posts/futuri...
Dossier de l’excellente revue COnTEXTE sur les récits de « transfuge de classe ». journals.openedition.org/contextes/12... @lacroixm.bsky.social
36 | 2025 Perspectives interdisciplinaires sur les récits de « tra...
COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature. Revue électronique. La revue rassemble des chercheurs adoptant une approche sociale du littéraire, toutes époques et toutes littératures confondues.
journals.openedition.org
June 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Dossier de l’excellente revue COnTEXTE sur les récits de « transfuge de classe ». journals.openedition.org/contextes/12... @lacroixm.bsky.social
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Nobel economist speaks out.
April 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nobel economist speaks out.
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La citation de la semaine richardhetu.com/2025/04/05/l...
La citation de la semaine
« Il s’agit peut-être de la plus grande erreur de politique économique que j’ai vue dans ma vie. Les marchés ont déjà rendu leur verdict. La bourse n’est pas l’économie. Mai…
richardhetu.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
La citation de la semaine richardhetu.com/2025/04/05/l...
Dernière écurie de Griffintown, Montréal, le château de tôle mis en scène par Marie Hélène Poitras dans son roman Griffintown (2012). Debout, mais pas pour longtemps.
April 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Dernière écurie de Griffintown, Montréal, le château de tôle mis en scène par Marie Hélène Poitras dans son roman Griffintown (2012). Debout, mais pas pour longtemps.
Cosmopolitisme et créativité. Un peu de lumière jaillit de la plume du chroniqueur du NYT, David Brooks. À lire. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Opinion | Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great (Gift Article)
Trump’s tariffs erect a wall between Americans and other people, obstructing the flow not only of goods but also of ideas, contacts, technology and friendships.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Cosmopolitisme et créativité. Un peu de lumière jaillit de la plume du chroniqueur du NYT, David Brooks. À lire. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
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PUBLICATION | 🎉 Our member Leila Ghaffari co-wrote the article “A culture of proximity and urban governance: toward the commoning of cultural resources” published in the Journal of Cultural Geography.
👏 Well done, Leila!
👏 Well done, Leila!
March 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
PUBLICATION | 🎉 Our member Leila Ghaffari co-wrote the article “A culture of proximity and urban governance: toward the commoning of cultural resources” published in the Journal of Cultural Geography.
👏 Well done, Leila!
👏 Well done, Leila!
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RAPPEL | 📖 Ce jeudi, à 8h30, notre directeur @pbriss7.bsky.social recevra l'autrice Marie Hélène Poitras pour discuter de son roman «Griffintown», de ses rapports à la ville et à ce quartier si singulier.
📍 Rendez-vous à la salle Lev Bukhman (203) du Centre universitaire, de McGill (3480 McTavish).
📍 Rendez-vous à la salle Lev Bukhman (203) du Centre universitaire, de McGill (3480 McTavish).
March 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
RAPPEL | 📖 Ce jeudi, à 8h30, notre directeur @pbriss7.bsky.social recevra l'autrice Marie Hélène Poitras pour discuter de son roman «Griffintown», de ses rapports à la ville et à ce quartier si singulier.
📍 Rendez-vous à la salle Lev Bukhman (203) du Centre universitaire, de McGill (3480 McTavish).
📍 Rendez-vous à la salle Lev Bukhman (203) du Centre universitaire, de McGill (3480 McTavish).
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FUN FACT OF MTL | 🛒 Have you every shopped at Steinberg?
March 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
FUN FACT OF MTL | 🛒 Have you every shopped at Steinberg?
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If you're a fan of Isochrone maps and US census data (and who isn't?) Dan Snow just released opentimes.org and it's spectacular - I published some notes about it here, there's some very clever data engineering going on under the hood simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/...
OpenTimes
Spectacular new open geospatial project by [Dan Snow](https://sno.ws/): > OpenTimes is a database of pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies. It lets you dow...
simonwillison.net
March 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you're a fan of Isochrone maps and US census data (and who isn't?) Dan Snow just released opentimes.org and it's spectacular - I published some notes about it here, there's some very clever data engineering going on under the hood simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/...
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L’idée de Donald Trump d’annexer le Canada n’est pas populaire aux États-Unis.
Seulement 8 % des Américains estiment que c’est une bonne idée.
Chez les partisans de Trump, c’est à peine plus, à 14 %.
Seulement 8 % des Américains estiment que c’est une bonne idée.
Chez les partisans de Trump, c’est à peine plus, à 14 %.
51st State: Canadian resolve in saying ‘no’ continues, while a massive gap between Trump & Americans is revealed -
60% of Americans say they have no interest in Canada joining, 32% say only if Canada wants to March 12, 2025 – U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate his trade war and annexation rhetoric t...
angusreid.org
March 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
L’idée de Donald Trump d’annexer le Canada n’est pas populaire aux États-Unis.
Seulement 8 % des Américains estiment que c’est une bonne idée.
Chez les partisans de Trump, c’est à peine plus, à 14 %.
Seulement 8 % des Américains estiment que c’est une bonne idée.
Chez les partisans de Trump, c’est à peine plus, à 14 %.
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PUBLICATION | ✒️ Bravo à notre membre Harold Bérubé a qui a co-écrit le chapitre «“The Latest and Most Important Local and Foreign News”: Producing and Reading the Press in the Eastern Townships (1867–1939)», dans l'ouvrage «Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World», à la @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social!
March 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
PUBLICATION | ✒️ Bravo à notre membre Harold Bérubé a qui a co-écrit le chapitre «“The Latest and Most Important Local and Foreign News”: Producing and Reading the Press in the Eastern Townships (1867–1939)», dans l'ouvrage «Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World», à la @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social!
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Création d’un prix Paul-André-Linteau en histoire de Montréal www.ledevoir.com/culture/8494...
March 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Création d’un prix Paul-André-Linteau en histoire de Montréal www.ledevoir.com/culture/8494...
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A new piece w @danielbeland.bsky.social and @excubs.bsky.social
“Putin seems to be counting on the Trump admin to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Ru has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.”
www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...
“Putin seems to be counting on the Trump admin to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Ru has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.”
www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...
Trump’s Attack on Zelensky Sends a Clear Message to Canada and the World - Policy Magazine
In a stunning scene at the White House on Friday, US President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance verbally attacked Ukrainian president Volodymyr
www.policymagazine.ca
March 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A new piece w @danielbeland.bsky.social and @excubs.bsky.social
“Putin seems to be counting on the Trump admin to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Ru has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.”
www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...
“Putin seems to be counting on the Trump admin to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Ru has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.”
www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...
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Full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295
arxiv.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295
Doit-on renoncer à faire faire des travaux aux étudiants universitaires sous prétexte qu’ils pourraient utiliser l’IA générative? C’est le choix que semblent faire plusieurs collègues. Avec mes étudiants, je teste une autre approche.
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February 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Doit-on renoncer à faire faire des travaux aux étudiants universitaires sous prétexte qu’ils pourraient utiliser l’IA générative? C’est le choix que semblent faire plusieurs collègues. Avec mes étudiants, je teste une autre approche.
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If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…
Trump during his Super Bowl interview: "I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not gonna let that happen."
February 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…
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Reminder: Don’t. Use. ChatGPT. As. A. Calculator. Seriously.
Loved listening to @sashamtl.bsky.social on Hard Fork with @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social—it really made me think. 🧵
Loved listening to @sashamtl.bsky.social on Hard Fork with @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social—it really made me think. 🧵
January 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reminder: Don’t. Use. ChatGPT. As. A. Calculator. Seriously.
Loved listening to @sashamtl.bsky.social on Hard Fork with @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social—it really made me think. 🧵
Loved listening to @sashamtl.bsky.social on Hard Fork with @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social—it really made me think. 🧵
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Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:
Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...
The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on @huggingface. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.
Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...
The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on @huggingface. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:
Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...
The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on @huggingface. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.
Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...
The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on @huggingface. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.
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Stage postdoct sur l'étude de l'imprimé au Canada #exsitu-veille-édition
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Stage postdoct sur l'étude de l'imprimé au Canada #exsitu-veille-édition
Sous une autre plume: «Trump is all about spectacle. But all around him are gamers. And not just any gamers – gamers who are happy to destroy their opponents at any costs, regardless of the societal consequences.» www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
What Game Are We Playing? | danah boyd | apophenia
www.zephoria.org
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Sous une autre plume: «Trump is all about spectacle. But all around him are gamers. And not just any gamers – gamers who are happy to destroy their opponents at any costs, regardless of the societal consequences.» www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...