Timothy Harvie
@timothyharvie.bsky.social
Professor, Philosophy and Religion, St Mary’s University, Calgary. Eco-Religious Studies and Philosophy Scholar. Opinions are my own. Shares ≠ endorsements. (he/him)
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
This is so sick and illustrative why stronger legal protections and status are needed for nonhuman animals.
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Winnipeg couple plead guilty to animal cruelty after killing cats, birds, axolotl for videos they sold | CBC News
A Winnipeg couple have pleaded guilty to multiple counts of animal cruelty after being arrested last year for making videos of animals being tortured and killed and selling them on a messaging app — a...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is so sick and illustrative why stronger legal protections and status are needed for nonhuman animals.
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"Feel hopeful in knowing that after strip-mining the only habitable world we have, the billionaires may build themselves a second one somewhere colder, lonelier, and even easier to keep away from the rest of us."
Don’t Worry, Bezos Will Let Some of Us on His Space Ark
“Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he doesn’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now… ‘In the next couple of decades, the...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Feel hopeful in knowing that after strip-mining the only habitable world we have, the billionaires may build themselves a second one somewhere colder, lonelier, and even easier to keep away from the rest of us."
This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao
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Why 'I hope she converts' is bad for Usha Vance, for love and for America
(RNS) — The skills that sustain interfaith marriages require the same virtues that sustain a pluralistic society.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao
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And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....
Parenting a 7 yr old means I’m now intimately familiar with the K Pop Demon Hunters…and we had a great time at the big screen theatre doing-a-long showing today.
a close up of a cartoon character with flames coming out of his eyes and mouth
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with flames coming out of his eyes and mouth
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November 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Parenting a 7 yr old means I’m now intimately familiar with the K Pop Demon Hunters…and we had a great time at the big screen theatre doing-a-long showing today.
On a candy mission.
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
On a candy mission.
Overt racism masked (well just playing lip service) under language of dignity. Garbage.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Overt racism masked (well just playing lip service) under language of dignity. Garbage.
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LLMs hallucinate because they are trained to guess, not admit ignorance. Standard benchmarks reward confident fakes. A preprint suggests a fix, but this creates a dilemma: an AI that says "I don't know" too often may lose its users. #MLSky
AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know
Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model
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October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LLMs hallucinate because they are trained to guess, not admit ignorance. Standard benchmarks reward confident fakes. A preprint suggests a fix, but this creates a dilemma: an AI that says "I don't know" too often may lose its users. #MLSky
Looks like the kids are going back to school tomorrow…and all it took was the violation of collective rights and the further erosion of our democracy.
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Looks like the kids are going back to school tomorrow…and all it took was the violation of collective rights and the further erosion of our democracy.
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Author unknown. But correctly well stated.
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Author unknown. But correctly well stated.
I’m not a conservative (big or small c), but this is a very thoughtful article from one I thought was quite good on Alberta politics.
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We conservatives need to take a stand against one of our own
Conservatives have taken the lead on equality many times before. They need to do so again.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’m not a conservative (big or small c), but this is a very thoughtful article from one I thought was quite good on Alberta politics.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
A very helpful and informative interview from the standpoint of labour on the Alberta teachers’ strike.
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"Province-Wide Action" Looms if Smith Forces Teachers Back to Work
YouTube video by Energi Media
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October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A very helpful and informative interview from the standpoint of labour on the Alberta teachers’ strike.
youtu.be/h8j-LpHVlF0
youtu.be/h8j-LpHVlF0
I’ve never felt more connected to the first sentence of a book.
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’ve never felt more connected to the first sentence of a book.
Going to the World Series!
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Going to the World Series!
A little municipal democracy to liven my day.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A little municipal democracy to liven my day.
I did not have high stakes heist of Crown Jewels from the Louvre on my 2025 bingo card.
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Here are the facts on the jewels stolen from the Louvre | CBC News
The hunt is on for the thieves who stole French Crown Jewels from the Louvre on Sunday, but officials fear the items they took will never be seen again. There are also calls for increased security at ...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I did not have high stakes heist of Crown Jewels from the Louvre on my 2025 bingo card.
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7 hours at the vet hospital with this guy yesterday. The old guy has IVDD (intervertebral disc degeneration), but he’s home with meds and resting.
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
7 hours at the vet hospital with this guy yesterday. The old guy has IVDD (intervertebral disc degeneration), but he’s home with meds and resting.
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"Charles Taylor understood that delusion and fullness are different sides of a coin. A relationship with a chatbot is not relational – there is no one on the other end. The synthetic agent that affirms every impulse doesn’t represent the divine, but another instance of surveillance capitalism."
We Aren’t Ready to Live in a World of Algorithmic Enchantment | TechPolicy.Press
New, creative thinking is needed to address the tech policy challenges of the coming decade, writes José Marichal.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Charles Taylor understood that delusion and fullness are different sides of a coin. A relationship with a chatbot is not relational – there is no one on the other end. The synthetic agent that affirms every impulse doesn’t represent the divine, but another instance of surveillance capitalism."
This is a beautifully written and thoughtful book so far.
October 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is a beautifully written and thoughtful book so far.
My wife bought The Handmaid’s Popcorn Maker
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My wife bought The Handmaid’s Popcorn Maker
An interesting history of municipal parties in Alberta.
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Municipal parties aren't new to Alberta. Here's why they disappeared — until now | CBC News
Historical records show political parties at the local level have existed before in Alberta, with some parties dominating Calgary city council for years post-WWI.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An interesting history of municipal parties in Alberta.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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