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Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.freshwaterfishfutures.ca

Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.freshwaterfishfutures.ca

The Undercurrents exhibit is now open! Visit www.freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrents-exhibit to view. @zoestodd.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social

UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.www.freshwaterfishfutures.ca

A devoted partner and caring father who spent nearly three decades volunteering his time to rescue strangers has died while mountain biking in Squamish. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. man who devoted nearly three decades to rescuing strangers dies in Squamish | CBC NewsMichael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.www.cbc.ca

Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

Clouds have weight. The geological, temporal, imaginary, and epistemic substrates of AI are where power concentrates and where it can be contested. This issue emerges in part from, PLATFORM, a special theme year at the Institute of Advanced Study: www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

PLATFORMwww.ias.edu

I return to the concept of "algorithmic agnotology"--the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability and selective transparency. Platforms don't just hide labor and data flows. AI platforms add geological and epistemic layers of concealment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AIwww.youtube.com

What's consequential about generative AI isn't the interface, it's what lies beneath: cobalt mines in the DRC, lithium fields in the Andes, gas turbines burning methane in Black communities in Mississippi, workers in the Global South rating outputs for dollars a day. limn.press/article/plat...

Platform Obscurantism - LimnChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...limn.press

"[T]here is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms."

oh my gosh, I am so sorry to hear this. Michael was such a wonderful, thoughtful presence on here. Sending you my deepest condolences. <3

First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

APTN News Brief: Critics question PM's pick for sr. advisor infamous for inflammatory comments after 2016 shootingOur lead story: some First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor, citing inflammatory comments Scott Gilmore wrote following a tragic 2016 shooting ...pod.fo

1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

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Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

"There is no cloud. Only Earth."

The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...

The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World.Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some of which were global, while others were local and emerged from pre-existing Anti-slavery laws in pre-colonial Africa that sought ...www.africanhistoryextra.com

holy crap.

“If we really want to end the violence and depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever. [If not,] the least we can do to help is to send them a backhoe as they keep digging graves.” Scott Gilmore, now part of Team Carney

Camels are dying from heat stroke. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soarHerders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.www.bbc.com

Saying, then living, "we are not afraid" (despite fear!) is world-changing. Sometimes the scale of change is tiny. But sometimes, as with the students in India now and the freedom rider in the US who gave us that verse, it is not small at all

The 'Land Grab' That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07... Awesome article. Questions that need to be ask for similar reasons coast to coast to coast. Unlike AB & east, BC doesn't have the same history of treaties. Not that they were honored

The ‘Land Grab’ That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron | The TyeeA new exhibit spotlights the ‘grant’ made without First Nations’ consent 140 years ago.thetyee.ca