Liam McHugh-Russell
@xntl.info
Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad. Not even a jack of any trades.
I momentarily thought you were talking about Gilder from The Princess Bride and I was very confused by the second half of your post
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I momentarily thought you were talking about Gilder from The Princess Bride and I was very confused by the second half of your post
Fair. "You" read pretty broadly in this case especially given it wasn't an actual QT but I can see that the post was must meant to call out one person
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fair. "You" read pretty broadly in this case especially given it wasn't an actual QT but I can see that the post was must meant to call out one person
Kindly, every political persuasion has its cranks, and it's bad praxis to attribute the views of the cranks to everyone with that political persuasion
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Kindly, every political persuasion has its cranks, and it's bad praxis to attribute the views of the cranks to everyone with that political persuasion
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A root problem with the immigration proposal -- using permanent immigrants rather than temporaries to fulfil the "nation-building" goals of the larger budget -- is that Canada's main immigration pathways, Express Entry and PNP, select for FAR too high skill/education levels for our economic needs
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A root problem with the immigration proposal -- using permanent immigrants rather than temporaries to fulfil the "nation-building" goals of the larger budget -- is that Canada's main immigration pathways, Express Entry and PNP, select for FAR too high skill/education levels for our economic needs
There is so much in the budget that I find disappointing, enraging. But the cuts to foreign aid make my blood boil. Just a complete failure to actually think about the future our or our role in it
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There is so much in the budget that I find disappointing, enraging. But the cuts to foreign aid make my blood boil. Just a complete failure to actually think about the future our or our role in it
I think that rights discourse has limits and downsides as a political strategy, but I am not opposed to using rights in general. In courts and not only in courts they are powerful and in many contexts critical resource
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think that rights discourse has limits and downsides as a political strategy, but I am not opposed to using rights in general. In courts and not only in courts they are powerful and in many contexts critical resource
Top-down, corporate controlled knowledge is not the exciting future we were told we were making possible
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady argues that its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge.
buff.ly/odvgs4q
buff.ly/odvgs4q
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Top-down, corporate controlled knowledge is not the exciting future we were told we were making possible