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  #3GoodThings, the Sunday in autumn #cooking edition Homemade fettuccine Cranberry bread (really more of a mildly sweet cake) Harvesting the greens from plants that refused to grow radishes then cooking, blending, and freezing them for the next time we make saag paneer.

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  John K. Samson, "Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World" (2020) I manage my fantasy baseball team better Than I manage my anger these days And I'd trade my best pitcher For a draft pick and a picture Of the president writhing in pain It's a weird thing to wish for, but I can't stop wishing Refreshing the browser, some days If I live long enough And the world doesn't end My wish will come true in a way And he'll die like we all die In pain or asleep And we'l...

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  Nothing in the humanities academe is simultaneously so awe-inspiring and dispiriting as going through applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. What a profoundly broken world in which none of these people have permanent jobs.

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  Oh good, my employer is "advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale." https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-partnership-cohere-sets-stage-responsible-ai-adoption-scale

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  Today, many in #Canada wear orange shirts in remembrance of Indigenous children who attended residential schools, whether they survived or not. By its very nature, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation tends to evoke self-satisfaction among some. We remember so-called historical "dark chapters" and in so doing pat ourselves on the backs for our liberal plurastic values - we are good because we remember hard things. But history - and I say this as a historian who's worked on...

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  #SilentSunday

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  Transnational and/or South Asian Feminisms My department is hiring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! I'm the chair, so I can field questions. Deadline: October 22, 2026 Please share! Assistant: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Assistant-Professor-Transnational-andor-South-Asian-Feminisms-ON/605444617/ Associate: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Associate-Professor-Transnational-andor-South-Asian-Feminisms-ON/605444917/ #AcademicJobs #AcademicChatter

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  My conference panel's chair. I met someone new, but GUG remains a mystery.

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  In 1999, I moved to another country for the first time. While there, I made an incredible group of friends many of whom I still see regularly, despite the lot of us being spread out across several continents and a dozen countries. We listened to a lot of music that year, most of which, as the only uniliginual English-speaker of the bunch, I didn't understand at all. This track came out that year and caused me to cut more than one rug. Vive l'Erasmus ! Zebda, "Tomber la chemise&quo...

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  The university has just declared that one of its three goals in the years to come is "Advancing responsible AI adoption at scale." These goals get written into every major project the university undertakes, including a large number faculty research proposals. For years to come, then, we're going to plow even more money and support into AI while neglecting those who refuse to engage. And don't be fooled - "responsible" here is veneer, signalling our apparent commitment...

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  I'm already exhausted by the Toronto politics narrative that's going to bombard us non-stop through the election: "mayoral race has tightened." I've seen no evidence whatsoever that Brad Bradford - my councillor - has any business being elected to the office he holds, much less the mayoral position. Toronto's got problems. It'd be great if we could avoid making Bradford an even bigger one.

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  Playing cards with Kid2. My idea of perfect summer weather (24° and sunny during the day, 15° at night). Homemade honey and anis hyssop ice cream. #3GoodThings

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  Start your letter of complaint - especially if it isn't the first one - like this dude in 1853: "It is with the utmost unwillingness that I again find myself called upon to draw your attention to..."

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  Congratulations on buying an EV! You can kill a pedestrian or cyclist just as effectively with it as with a conventional car.

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  Maybe next time, as a grown-ass adult, you should just hit the brakes on your 2-ton minivan while keeping your mouth shut, instead of cutting off the kid on a bike and screaming at them because they didn't stop.

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  Spring on the green roof. #BloomScrolling

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  I love sitting in public space in my neighborhood - in a park, a library, the community center - because if there's any foot traffic and if I'm there for more than a minute or two, I'll hear several if not dozens of different languages spoken by passersby, some that I can identify and even understand, and others that are totally beyond me. It's seriously one of the best things about this place.

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  I love writing. I wasn't always good at it (it's debatable that I am now). But it was never about being good, it was always about process; about playing with language; about putting one word in front of another and moving them around; about dragging thoughts from the darkness of my head into the light on the page to make sense of them and to communicate; about affirming my humanity. Writing's never been for everyone - that's fine. But how we're collectivel...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@brian_gettler/116506332823026464 Oh, and taxes. Brought to you by taxes. Of which many of us could pay more.

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  It's a good book - well written for the most part and focusing on an important and understudied topic. Hopefully it will inspire others to do similar work. That's what I want to say in this book review. Now I just need to do it with an addition 772 to 972 words.

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  Crachat, "La dérape" (2024) https://crachatqc.bandcamp.com/track/la-d-rape #MusicWomenWednesday

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  Social media/screens/AI/whatever is a problem with capitalism and the state's refusal to do anything about it, not something wrong with the kids.

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  Wab Kinew's got a clever little soundbite on social media and LLM bans for kids: "a society should work to train the next generation, not the next AI model."

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  The gathering ends But we linger, dodging the Solitary screen. #dailyhaikuPrompt - lingering

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  Table ronde sur les revues savantes d'histoire à l'ère de l'IA et du libre accès Vendredi, 1er mai à 13h30, heure avancée de l'Est (en ligne et à l'Université de Sherbrooke) https://ihaf.qc.ca/evenement/table-ronde-sur-la-pratique-de-lhistoire-ii/ #histodons

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  Premier Mai/May Day, 1974, Montréal Source: Fonds La Presse, Bibliothèques et Archives nationales du Québec https://advitam.banq.qc.ca/notice/659509 #PremierMai #1erMai #MayDay #Montréal #Québec

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  Looking at some newspapers from 1970s Montreal and I'd love to know what portion of their ad revenue came from adult theaters and strip clubs. Something like one-eighth of the pages in midweek issues of one of the most circulated papers are dominated by these ads.

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  This Cyndi Lauper tune is probably my favorite track off this brilliant all Inuktitut cover album. Elisapie, "Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time)" (2023) https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/taimangalimaaq-time-after-time #MondayCovers

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  Thinking of a friend and colleague who is giving a talk today pushing back on her faculty's mad dash to push LLMs into absolutely everything. To see how bad things have gotten, those of us in the humanities or social sciences should stop by the business school.

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  We really don't use the words "peculation" and "defalcation" often enough.