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in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Civic Searchlight is now free to use You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...

Great news - The National Observer is now making Civic Searchlight free for everyone.

If you want to follow any municipal council’s meetings, or see how a subject like bike lanes are covered by any Cdn council, you can use this database to find that info
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Sound Drawing Drawing Sound is a collaborative project inspired by graphic scores - visual works that invite open-ended musical interpretation. What began as pairing drawings with sound evolved into a fluid exchange between image, music, and environmental audio, with participants and staff…

“The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it.”

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? #ai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then

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It frustrates me that people who are so reluctant to accept that there are other species capable of complex cognition or sentience, yet so quick to assign it to their fancy autocorrect.

When the BC Conservatives voted for a bill to repeal the human rights code, the NDP caucus promptly put out a press release slamming the Cons who "couldn’t muster the courage to stand against it."

Today, 0 NDP MLAs mustered the courage to vote against a bill to close all BC's safe consumption sites

someone get this man a blacksky account lol

Hold. The. Fucking. Premiers. Accountable.

Research Fellow in Music Science Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia.

You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition.

Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

To me the tension in the question is between the words “exhaustive” and “simulation.” A simulation is reductive, otherwise it would be the real thing; exhaustive leaves nothing out, not even the remotest entanglement.

Isn’t the question then just: Materialism, or no?

Thought experiment: imagine one could run an exhaustive computer simulation of a living organism that is numerically accurate at the level of particle physics. Would it be alive (either to us, or to an observer included within the simulation)? If not, what is that is missing?

Our call for entries for “Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemologies and Computation” is open through 16 March. Here’s a 🧵⬇️ #cfp #ml www.biblhertz.it/3773193/2602...

Is the opposite of sleep apnea “please nap”?

LNG Canada likely delaying flaring fix to save money | The Narwhal Experts think LNG Canada is prioritizing profits over the public and ask why the BC Energy Regulator isn’t stepping in

Legal, policy and engineering experts speculate the three-year timeline is more likely a financial decision for LNG Canada, combined with a lack of enforcement by the BC Energy Regulator.
thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f...

Plus, if you are far enough north, for some portions of the winter, you can just head to school in the dark and head home in the dark too.

This is my recollection, attending school in Telkwa/Smithers

the most valuable thing that humans have, our most precious gift is TIME and having to exchange that for basic survival needs rather than the fulfillment of infinite possibilities inherent in humanity is profoundest evil of capitalism

When your political belief resembles religious dogma, there's a problem. Its one thing to learn from various thinkers, take the good and leave the bad, its another to argue about who has the "right" interpretation of white men from a hundred years ago like they're your unquestioned infallible gods 🙄

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

It is remarkable that every party of government in every anglophone democracy is substantively leaving this set of very real grievances on the table

SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.

For years, contract workers at SFU have complained of bullying & harassment and workload issues. One janitor even died on the job. Despite organized advocacy from SFU faculty and staff to bring the workers in-house, nothing has changed. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

I’m not sure where this ‘Internet‘ that Tyler is from is located, but I quite agree with the sentiment. Especially because the ‘compromise’ always moves things thither

LNG Canada likely delaying flaring fix to save money | The Narwhal Experts think LNG Canada is prioritizing profits over the public and ask why the BC Energy Regulator isn’t stepping in

After revealing LNG Canada is flaring far above permitted levels, we went to experts.

What they told us about a three-year fix — and the role of the BC Energy Regulator — raises new questions about timelines and enforcement. thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

Whoa

"LNG Canada told the BC Energy Regulator it needed to flare an additional 170,000 cubic metres of gas daily to mitigate the issue, which would produce roughly 430 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per day — equal to driving a gasoline-powered car roughly 1.5 million kilometres." #bcpoli

The BC government is moving extraordinarily fast to change DRIPA. "Warp speed," some might say

Premier David Eby vowed to alter the law and block courts from ruling on it in early December. The gov's plan is to pass the changes by end of May

In the legislative world, that's a big hurry #bcpoli

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

(Published May 2025)