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thrilway@libretooth.gr

<p>Linguist, Wobbly, Canadian, FOSS</p><p><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/onlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>onlab</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/canlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>canlab</span></a></p>

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    Of course she welcomes it! She did nothing wrong. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-principal-suicide-response-1.6921330?cmp=rss &amp;gt; An anti-racism trainer accused of denigrating a Toronto principal who later died by suicide says she welcomes the Ontario education minister&amp;#39;s review.

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    @troberts Same! Whenever someone raves about AI, I always respond &amp;quot;yeah, but it&amp;#39;s like 90% fraud, y&amp;#39;know.&amp;quot;

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    Honestly, this is what they should&amp;#39;ve done in the first place! #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #monopoly ——— Canadian media groups call for investigation into Meta&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;anticompetitive&amp;#39; decision to block news | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/competition-bureau-online-news-act-meta-1.6930081 &amp;gt; The CBC has joined other news broadcasters and publishers in requesting Canada&amp;#39;s Competition Bureau to investigate Meta&amp;#39;s decision to block news content...

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    The fact that NELS 54 hosted at MIT has a special session on &amp;quot;Experimental Methods in Linguistic Theory&amp;quot; tells you exactly how little elite generative grammar institutions actually think about what they&amp;#39;re doing. Did no one notice a contradiction in their five word session title? https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/2416/ #linguistics #generativeLinguistics #nels #nels54 #mit #academicmastodon

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    @Gigi Whoa! For real? They stalked you to a BBQ??

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    Ryan Amato has fallen on his sword. #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-housing-amato-resigns-1.6944225 &amp;gt; Housing Minister Steve Clark&amp;#39;s chief of staff has resigned after he was singled out by the Ontario auditor general for playing a key role in the province&amp;#39;s controversial Greenbelt land swap.

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    @KimCrayton1 In this slim respect, they&amp;#39;re being treated like every other indictee.

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    It only now occurred to me that Michael J Fox and Crispin Glover are about the same age

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    The court put its thumb on the scale in favour of the bosses #onlabour #onlab #cdnlab https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/metro-strike-injunction-1.6950540 &amp;gt; Metro has been granted a temporary injunction to restrict pickets by its striking workers at distribution warehouses in Toronto.

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    Request for #mutualaid The Canadian government has decided that I need to pay back $2000 of the COVID relief payment (#cerb) they sent me, and they&amp;#39;ve decided the best way to do that is to garnish my current EI payments. I don&amp;#39;t believe I rightly owe this money, and I don&amp;#39;t know how I&amp;#39;ll make rent etc. If this keeps up. Every little bit helps https://gofund.me/9f90a36e

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    Remember the other 9/11: When the democratically elected government of Chile was violently overthrown in a neoliberal coup backed by Nixon and Kissinger. The resulting dictatorship was supported by the &amp;quot;Chicago Boys&amp;quot; intellectual progeny of Milton Friedman. https://youtu.be/PsfXRpj_JuQ