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- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 2025
- University Canada West - Understanding Indigenous History series takes to the skies with Air Canada - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
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- Social Media Policy
- Donald Trump types only 5 percent of his social media posts, the rest come from his inner circle - India Today October 30, 2025
- Social Media Influencer Kaelin Bradshaw Dies at 29 After Battle With Rare Cancer - NTD News October 30, 2025
- Is Social Media Becoming Transactional? - Hospitality Net October 30, 2025
- King, Pope, Jedi, Superman: Trump’s Social Media Images Exclusively Target His Base and Try To Blur Political Reality - The Fulcrum October 30, 2025
- Scrolling Through the Evidence: Social Media and Wellbeing - PYMNTS.com October 30, 2025
- Social media reacts to the Steelers trading for S Kyle Dugger | See link below ⬇️ - Facebook October 30, 2025
- ATE MAGUI'S BIG WINNER ❤️ Magui Ford took to social media to show her support for her sister, Carmella Ford, who recently entered "Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0" as a housemate. "Fave photos of us lelang!! I can’t wait for you to be back [ - Facebook October 30, 2025
- Bedford teacher resigns after parent complaint over social media contact with student - wtol.com October 30, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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From my point of view as a prof and as a writer/editor, Ethan Mollick has been the best and most sensible guide through the world of AI since the dawn of ChatGPT. His article “An Opinionated Guide to Using AI: … Continue reading
Jay Rosen
NoContest Communications readers know all about Jay Rosen, the marvellous analyst of media and journalism who recently retired from his position as Professor at NYU. His new gig is working to promote News Creators Corps. He writes: For the last … Continue reading
Small changes here
I’ve replaced the feed for “Kwantlen Polytechnic University” with one for “University Canada West” to reflect my new academic home. Gone is the feed for “Education and AI” because it’s already impossible to avoid utter immersion in this topic. And … Continue reading
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Devotion
Zach Helfand’s article describing the history and sensibility of The New Yorker‘s famous fact-checking department is hilarious – and, to me, enthralling – from top to bottom. “I find that often a fact checker forces you to tie a knot … Continue reading
Avoid unnecessary fates
Our website’s founding friend Chet Wisniewski has a new podcast: “Security. Take. Two. Real. Serious. Security.” Chet with his colleague Ben Verschaeren revisit notable IT security calamities with profound and lively stories – “once the truth is known, discovering lessons … Continue reading
Mind = Soul
Reading is a form of controlled hallucination. AI sidesteps one of the most wonderful miracles of the mind.
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Sure Why Not
God. The agency said that if a house of worship endorsed a candidate to its congregants, the I.R.S. would view that not as campaigning but as a private matter, like “a family discussion concerning candidates.” (The title is a fine … Continue reading
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Almost time to go
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has been at or near the centre of my life for more than two decades. We’ll keep the newsfeed here up into my retirement years, though.
Bryan Garner’s “Tip of the Day”
You really must subscribe. Today’s was delightfully humbling: racket; racquet. For the implement used in net games, racket is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant racquet appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the “fancy” … Continue reading
Welcome them in.
In a piece for The Conversation Canada, my Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Jeffrey Meyers writes about Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, two eminent American scholars who fled Yale University and the United States, taking positions at the University of Toronto, … Continue reading