Fuyuki Kurasawa
@kurasawa.bsky.social
Sociologist/sociologue (EN/FR)|Associate Professor and Director, Global Digital Citizenship Lab @ York University, Toronto| researching the mashup of digital tech, culture, politics, and capitalism| analyste #polcan
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
🤓 Toronto-Ottawa new multimodal transportation level unlocked today: walk-streetcar-train-LRT-taxi 🚶🚞 🚊 🚉 🚕
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🤓 Toronto-Ottawa new multimodal transportation level unlocked today: walk-streetcar-train-LRT-taxi 🚶🚞 🚊 🚉 🚕
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On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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It’s just FRIENDS. The voices are easily identifiable as the FRIENDS cast, “smelly cat” is a FRIENDS joke, the set is nearly the FRIENDS set, the music stings are FRIENDS music stings. This is all just a lot of flea-circus flimflam.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It’s just FRIENDS. The voices are easily identifiable as the FRIENDS cast, “smelly cat” is a FRIENDS joke, the set is nearly the FRIENDS set, the music stings are FRIENDS music stings. This is all just a lot of flea-circus flimflam.
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An awesome telling of the story of last night: “managerial machinations that involved emptying both bullpens.. telling tomorrow's grand plans to piss off because tomorrow is for suckers..it gave us, and we'll give you a moment here to lie to yourselves and imagine you knew who this was, Will Klein”
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If You Went To Sleep, Sorry But You Are Not Forgiven | Defector
I think we can all agree we got cheated last night, and to be technical about it, it was still last night—at least on the West Coast where the nice people live—when Freddie Freeman hit the 609th…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
An awesome telling of the story of last night: “managerial machinations that involved emptying both bullpens.. telling tomorrow's grand plans to piss off because tomorrow is for suckers..it gave us, and we'll give you a moment here to lie to yourselves and imagine you knew who this was, Will Klein”
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.
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Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.
September 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.
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Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
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RIP Kaleb Horton
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September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
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Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
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Personnellement, je pense que quand on a été accueilli à bras ouvert par le Québec il y a 46 ans, on a le droit de demander que ceux qui nous suivent soient accueillis de la même manière sans être traitée d’ingrate ou d’être invitée à déménager.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Personnellement, je pense que quand on a été accueilli à bras ouvert par le Québec il y a 46 ans, on a le droit de demander que ceux qui nous suivent soient accueillis de la même manière sans être traitée d’ingrate ou d’être invitée à déménager.
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"The fundamental issue with “debate me bro” culture isn’t just that it’s obnoxious, it’s that it creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling."
September 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"The fundamental issue with “debate me bro” culture isn’t just that it’s obnoxious, it’s that it creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling."
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internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*
National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes
September 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*
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Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
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the world will have to learn what “groypers” are and i don’t think the average boomer is ready for that
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the world will have to learn what “groypers” are and i don’t think the average boomer is ready for that
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TONIGHT: Join Toronto Metropolitan University on September 10 at 7PM ET for a conversation about Trump’s widening assault on U.S. universities – why and what can be done?
Trump’s widening assault on U.S. universities – why and what can be done? | Centre for Free Expression
Isaac Kamola in conversation with James L. Turk
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September 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
TONIGHT: Join Toronto Metropolitan University on September 10 at 7PM ET for a conversation about Trump’s widening assault on U.S. universities – why and what can be done?
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The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.
This is absolutely chilling.
This is absolutely chilling.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
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September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.
This is absolutely chilling.
This is absolutely chilling.