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Org theory, bus & soc, indigenous rights, CO2, She/her. Asso. Prof at Toronto (Tkaronto) Metropolitan U.πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Not into hate. I don’t follow back until you have posts. No DMs unless I follow you.

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Does getting sick boost the immune system? Do young children have to get sick to improve their immune systems? Dr. Donald Vinh explains why some people seem to get sick more often that others.

"Let it rip" is not an effective public health / infectious disease strategy. My thoughts below.

Does getting sick boost the immune system? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...

10.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6
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The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

Exquisitely written. The omnipresent control of the broligarchy serves as its cloaking device.

Cadwallader doesn’t chase news stories: she waits until the shadows they cast on her walls become clear to her. Then she makes her move.

Just read it.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

11.03.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Protestors gathered on the outskirts of Zorro Ranch for International Women's Day. ♀️

They brought flowers and called for justice for Epstein's unknown victims. (The FBI never raided the ranch, after telling the local police to back off).

09.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 332 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

You would think that the example of Christian churches would be an object lesson for other institutions. Accountability comes eventually, and it’s expensive.

10.03.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Re the video on FB about the CAAV rent strike. Folks there were maskedβ€”but not the DM. They spoke of security, and it was clear that they feel more secure when they are masking. Might the deputy mayor mask in the presence of people who are masking and who deserve her respect?

10.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A little more than 20 years ago, when I proposed doing some research that might have produced this kind of network to analyze, the chair of my department said that he didn’t think that I could get a dissertation out of the cocktail wiener circuit. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ #orgtheory

10.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When do their respective disciplines decide to investigate and determine whether they are culpable for violating their regulations? After resigning from Columbia, will they be able to move to another prestigious hospital? Perhaps one slightly less prestigious?

10.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Credit to Montreal Gazette #Canada #CUSMA

10.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 6

Speaking of air quality…

10.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

"Woit told NPR.. as a scientist, before taking a large donation, "you're going to do some basic research" and "you're going to quickly find out that this guy is a convicted pedophile and a felon. … They knew who they were dealing with."

www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The desire to claim sentience has a lot to do with reducing the value of sentience and degrading humanity to a computational parts bin.

06.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

07.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 1156 πŸ” 602 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 285
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UK must be prepared for a price shock from the Iran war | Heather Stewart Governments are having to wake up to the fact they will have to take a closer interest in supply chains for essentials

This week’s column - here we go again with another cost shock; as they become more common, given fractured geopolitics + climate crisis, we’re going to have to find new approaches besides whacking up interest rates:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

08.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4
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This International Women’s Day, we honor 9 Ukrainian women whose names the world should know β€” women who have made, and continue to make, the ultimate sacrifice for Ukraine’s existence and its fight against russian terror.

Read their stories. Remember their names.

08.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

A report out today said that Russia's war on Ukraine has emitted over 400 million metric tons of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to all diesel engines on earth running nonstop for a year.

Multiple reports this week suggest the carbon emissions of our war on Iran will be significantly higher.

08.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 442 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 12

Thank you all for coming out to fight for science!!!

08.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

All the horrors in this world and then they go and pile Daylight Savings Time on top of it?

08.03.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Three hours after this went up, Molly posted David Bernsteinβ€˜s reporting on Lindsay Graham going to Netanyahu to get him to push Trump into the war. I would love to know how Lindsay Graham fits into all of this. I think it’s all one story.

07.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot stress enough how short and direct the connection is between abandoning values in favour of making deals with authoritarian regimes with awful human rights records, and now facing potential participation in an illegal and immoral war alongside Trump. This is where rationalizations get you.

06.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The mayor was endorsing it?

07.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

05.03.2026 08:24 πŸ‘ 800 πŸ” 407 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 17
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β€˜We were the frontline’: Canadian veterans outraged by Trump’s NATO comments U.S. President Donald Trump is facing backlash from Canadian veterans after suggesting NATO allies did little during the war in Afghanistan, comments veterans say ignore their painful sacrifices.

To anyone actually thinking Canada should get sucked into Trump’s stupid fucking war.

Remember how he denigrated the service of Veterans like me and my friends who fought in Afghanistan.

Fuck Trump and his war.

#cdnpoli #Iran

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

06.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

4 years ago, NB abruptly went from closing due to omicron, to encouraging the hasty and deadly spread of disease. No more counting school cases, no more masks, no more isolation, no more testing required. And education and health reps were all unavailable for comment.

06.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Surely this is not shocking, but Rogan had most of the big anti-trans scientists that my reporting found to be in the Epstein files on his podcast.

Krauss even tried to connect Epstein to Rogan at one point.

06.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 766 πŸ” 312 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 4

Donald Trump: renewable energy's strongest soldier

06.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eisenhower

02.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 15652 πŸ” 5863 πŸ’¬ 373 πŸ“Œ 338
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

04.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 2340 πŸ” 1162 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 105
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New Flyer unveils Winnipeg facility for all-Canadian-built electric transit buses | CBC News For the first time in 15 years, a fully Canadian-built transit bus has rolled off an assembly line, marking a major milestone, officials with New Flyer and the provincial government said Tuesday.

New Flyer unveils Winnipeg facility for all-Canadian-built electric transit buses #Canada

'True North is no longer a project name, it's an actual operating facility': former NFI CEO

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

04.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 337 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 13
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Carney says his support for U.S. and Israel's war on Iran 'not a blank cheque' | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney says his support for U.S President Donald Trump's attack on Iran comes amid a "failure of the international order" and is "not a blank cheque."

PM Carney needs to do better then to say that his endorsement of Netanyahu and Trump's illegal war isn't just a "blank cheque."
The PM needs to state whether or not Canada stands for the international rule of law.
Otherwise we are complicit.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

04.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 372 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 6
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Letter of the day: Let's clear the air on respiratory infections "Handwashing helps prevent gastrointestinal infections but will not protect your child and you from leaving the emergency department with influenza or COVID."

Great letter from Dr. Filiatrault on clean air and need for respiratory protection in hospitals.
montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

27.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3