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AI and literature

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  How can literature AI-proof itself? https://youtu.be/aUJ9wr0C3os

Carney at Davos

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  Mark Carney and the end of the “rules based order” that benefits big nations. What will replace it?

CanLit and geopolitics

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    Canadian publishing produces very few works of fiction about the gritty, brutal world of bare knuckles geopolitics. The result is a somewhat limited sense of national self; we’re perceived as a nice country, but also a naive one. Can Canadian fiction improve in this regard?

Keller of Juno

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  If you’re Canadian and know a little bit about D-Day including famous commanders like Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, Montgomery, and Rommel, you probably don’t know the names of any Canadian commanders. #canada #canadianhistory #junoneach Canada on D-Day: General Rod Keller  https://youtu.be/ZtchAN7Ufbo?si=3lkp0BbSMwa7X5WI via @YouTube

Publishing’s blind spot

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  Has the contemporary publishing industry developed a blind spot? Literature After Identitarianism  https://youtu.be/_4UG_poURl8

Witnessing climate change

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  Do average people witness climate change if they’ve been around for a while? #climatechange Chronicles of Earthly Change https://youtu.be/yDH0EGNv3gw Comment appréhender le changement climatique à titre personnel, malgré les climatosceptiques ? Les médias diffusent fréquemment des avertissements alarmistes concernant le changement climatique. À l’échelle individuelle, l’expérience du changement climatique est plus nuancée : des vagues de froid suivies de pics de chaleur, puis de nouveau du froid, ou inversement. Pourtant, même à titre individuel, si l’on suit l’évolution du climat dans sa propre région, des tendances claires se dégagent généralement. #changementclimatique #criseclimatique #lechangementclimatiqueestréel * How can we make sense of climate change on a personal level, despite the denialists? In the news, dire warnings about climate change are widespread. On an individual level, the experience of climate change is more ambiguous; cold spells followed by hot fluctuatio...