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Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

Ravens fire HC John Harbaugh after his 18th season ends with missing playoffs https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-fire-hc-john-harbaugh-after-his-18th-season-ends-with-missing-playoffs

#Iran : Mosquée incendiée Š #Téhéran. Elle serait fréquentée par les forces de répression.
Source non vérifiée

I've a small account here, same as for all SM platforms I've been on: infrequent posting, no big following. I know bigger accounts get lots of fake followers/bots, but it's rare for me. Maybe it averages to 1 per month on BSky and Insta (when I used it). Anyway, achievement unlocked:
🎉 1st follower that appears to be a bot or a spammer on mastodon (afaik)
Soz if it's a real person, but boasting of your income & faith & few/no posts earns a block from me

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

Caught a bug over the holidays so I’m mostly resting, feeling sorry for myself, and taking the time to at least carry out some mindless housekeeping tasks (updating dependencies, etc.) on some of my Node modules.
Released updates to the following packages yesterday:
Tape-based Node.js testing:
• Tap monkey (https://

tap-monkey
A tap formatter that’s also a monkey.

You know there's something suss when a local council takes time to indulge in this sort of culture war. Just what are they trying to distracted ratepayers attention from?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/aboriginal-torres-…

NSW council votes to stop flying Indigenous flags and enforce permissions for Welcome to Country
A mayor in southern NSW says removing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from council meeting chambers will "promote civic neutrality".

Following an intense backlash this morning,
the White House has now taken down Trump’s Truth Social repost
of a video showing a racist clip
⚠️depicting the Obamas as apes.
The post was up for 12 hours.
As we reported earlier, a few hours ago the White House had initially tried to brush off the outrage,
defending Trump’s repost as “an internet meme video”.
Politicians from both parties have this morning condemned the post
and urged Trump to remov…

Sources: Broncos fire OC after falling short of SB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47747655/sources-broncos-fire-oc-joe-lombardi-afc-title-game-loss