Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans — Melanie #Mitchell #amreading

Lemme tell y’all a few things about Haiti - and why we owe them. A thread.

You can find the Schedule for Truth and Reconciliation Week at nctr.ca/education/trw/…. There are tens of online events and sessions available to the general public.

WATCH CBC News: The National: Ka’nhehsí:io Deer tells the story of the boy behind a cruel nickname. He died after being forced to attend Residential school in Manitoba... hundreds of kilometers from home. Find out who he really was: youtu.be/GtvCiwmAhvQ via YouTube

As people before me have said, you can't reconcile a relationship that was never good in the first place. But if you were trying to create a new kind of relationship that is good, the first step would be to stop causing harm, and this is a first step Canada isn't willing to take.

Saviez-vous que le premier grave accident nucléaire au monde a eu lieu en bordure de la rivière des Outaouais?Un extrait de mon reportage ici: quebecscience.qc.ca/societe/accide…

Our own Deborah McGregor wrote an article for Carbon Brief's week-long climate justice series. Check it out! x.com/rtmcswee/statu…

ive been photographing the Mississippi River for over a year but my mind is still blown when I see a map of its watershed (41% of the continental US) and how all of that water flows through Louisiana

More than 100 Indigenous leaders, from all regions of the world, are in Glasgow to hold world leaders to account and demand #climatejustice. The #IndigenousPeoples Pavilion at #COP26 will host 70 events over the next two weeks - All livestreamed here: iipfccpavilion.org/livestream

Canada’s Supreme Court recognizes Wet’suwet’en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead? | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis nationalobserver.com/2021/12/02/new…

Oil barrels lying on the ground. Murky water flowing into wetlands, lakes and rivers. A growing list of infractions reveals a pattern of #CoastalGasLink failing to abide by the rules of the pipeline project’s environmental permits, @writermjs reports. thenarwhal.ca/coastal-gaslin…

"This week, parents have been placing green ribbons on a fence outside the school in support of the teacher." Heartening to see solidarity against a discriminatory law that harms our communities & sends a terrible example to our kids. #Bill21 ottawa.ctvnews.ca/teacher-remove… CTV Ottawa

Important issue: charging for access to this environmental data is unethical, but protocols+parameters for collection must be determined by/with communities “Energy watchdog urged to give free access to government data” theguardian.com/environment/20…

It's out! Geographies of Digital Exclusion. My new open-access book with @dekstop. Data and algorithms shape how we perceive and move through space. Inequalities and exclusions within digital datasets therefore fundamentally influence our lived and experienced geographies.

💯 The theory/(critical) practice divide was always a means to maintain a hierarchy of existence in the academy, to keep those farthest from the centers of social power ranked at the bottom. Barbara Christian told us as much in “The Race for Theory” (1987). Deborah E. McDowell told us, too.

“I didn’t know if I wanted to be in such a contentious setting and talk about science. Then I thought: This is exactly how science should be used.” science.org/content/articl…