Michael DeMoor
Political theorist and Dean at the King's University in Edmonton. Pluralism, democracy, history of political thought, but don’t expect much.
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- Kapanen!
- What is wrong with Drai?
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- AI bots controlled by billionaires that have infiltrated the federal government posting unprompted about “white genocide”. You can make this shit up, but no one would publish it.
- I find it offensive when LLMs use the first person singular pronoun.
- A quiet American (bittern). Will leave it to @nyhofs.bsky.social to post the ebird list. There were many peeps today out at Murray Marsh. Thank goodness for birding peeps who know their peeps better than (bitter ‘n) I.
- It’s the 40th anniversary of the city of Philadelphia’s bombing of the MOVE house that killed 6 adults and 5 children. Listen to this podcast series. It’s so well done. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
- Went to Elk island with @nyhofs.bsky.social and our youngest. Maybe she’ll post her ebird list.
- Saw a Western Tanager and an oiler’s win today. Pretty ok day.
- Ok. That was a heck of a period.
- The only time it’s smart to fight in the NHL is when the guy you’re fighting is better than you so that it’s a net positive to have him sitting in the box for 5 minutes while you do the same.
- Because we can’t have even inadequate and vestigial things, apparently.
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- I posted a while back about feeling torn between engaging in education-and-dialogue style community activism (aimed at depolarizing around housing and development), on the one hand, and using that time and energy (and, I guess, social capital) to try to help a candidate win, on the other.
- “Don’t fix things that aren’t broken, and don’t try to solve a problem by creating another.”
- Oh man.
- McD!
- Even if you don’t have any of your own, spend some time around kids.
- Sigh
- Alberta is violating its own freedom of information laws by using illegitimate reasons to withhold records, watchdog finds www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and @robyndoolittle.bsky.social
- Not disagreeing with Jared. But have another way of getting at smith’s motives. Here are the options: 1. She knows that separation is folly but doesn’t want to be the one to tell her party that. She wants to be in charge but not to lead (that’s what led Cameron to the Brexit referendum). 1/
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- My dad wrote a thing. He’s a mensch. www.christiancourier.ca/i-am-so-sorry/
