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Ross Fair

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Public historian; doer of stuff.
Author of Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791-1852 (UTP, 2024) utorontopress.com/9781487553531/improving-upper-canada/

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Look what’s just been released!
#aghist #cdnhist
utorontopress.com/978148755353...

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This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...

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Hey! I spent a good little while working on the cover story for the summer issue of the Walrus. Read, share, shower me with praise, write me hate mail etc thewalrus.ca/ai-hype/

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joe, your friend from online's avatar joe, your friend from online @makeitunclear.bsky.social
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remember like 15 years ago when companies started selling "hoverboards" that were actually just regular electric scooters that caught on fire all the time? and every company started pushing "hoverboards" and they all sucked until they exploded and people stopped buying them? well a.i. is different.

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Dr. Liz W Faber's avatar Dr. Liz W Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social
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Actual footage of me turning a T/Th course into a M/W/F course.

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I switched to Wondershare PDFelement a few years ago for those same reasons.

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A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

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Shawn Micallef's avatar Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
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Anger is an energy. Harness it.

Toronto hit rock bottom with ticketing of King Street streetcar. Transit has nowhere to go but up

My column this weekend (back after a 3 week break)

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Matthew Dow Smith's avatar Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
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Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.

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