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I'll never understand all the people who apparently can't see anything dehumanizing or gross about the use of generative AI in writing.

As I detail in Canadian Dimension, the BC NDP's recent policy decisions regarding opioid use disorder management are neither humane nor evidence-based. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:

Last year I was supposed to work at Nasser Hospital but it was surrounded by Israeli tanks and later besieged by the Israeli military. Instead I worked in primary care in Rafah, and visited European Gaza Hospital to bring medical supplies. Israel bombed both hospitals yesterday.

🧵 Big Pharma is using tariffs to hold Europe hostage - and Trump is playing right into their hands. Here’s how this global power play threatens medicine access for everyone, and what we must do instead. 👇

Great editorial. It is absurd to think we should trust governments that have constantly made cruel and idiotic foreign policy decisions with nuclear arsenals. Aside from climate change, there is no greater health risk than the the prospect of nuclear war.

Presenting public health policy decisions as "non-ideological" is as foolish as it is dangerous because if these decisions are non-ideological then there is no need for public debate, simply leave the work to the technocrats.

UBC's administration is weaker on the genocide in Gaza than a former Israeli PM.

Plus deepfakes, disinformation, pollution, water use, and children learning to interact with others via ChatGPT (which could have major implications for socialization). The list goes on, and on, and on. AI is making the world worse by the day--but sure, utopia is on the horizon!

AI is a perfect case of "free markets" gone wrong - serious educational, environmental, and labour consequences with no democratic input whatsoever. There are a handful of useful applications (e.g. some science) but most applications should be promptly outlawed (e.g. any AI art).

Very moving and so true! ⁦Shaun Selcer⁩ ⁦ASMIQ⁩ montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds…

Fantastic idea for greater interdisciplinary collaboration - especially since inequality is often invoked in healthcare without much elaboration (as the SEP article makes apparent, it's a contested notion!) As a bonus, this topic has been discussed by great writers (GA Cohen😍)

This talk by Cohen has been a welcome reprieve from reading the unthinking mantras of my economics textbook discussing supposedly efficient markets youtube.com/watch?v=yA9WPQ…

should try an AI prime minister instead

Thanks to billions of dollars and years of lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry and patient advocacy groups, in recent decades the FDA has approved hundreds of drugs on the basis of flimsy or nonexistent evidence. Read: jacobin.com/2025/06/fda-ap…

Hyperbolic claims about AI’s “intelligence” exist to obscure the fact that what we have here is the same old Silicon Valley playbook: Enshittification at home, labor exploitation abroad, all in an effort to replace human connections and services with paltry digital alternatives.

This hurts. Part of it is when you're passionate about what you teach you hope that'll be conveyed to others. Another part is concern about the social impact of declining capacities. But above all its sadness for students who will no longer get what they should from education.

Fantastic assessment of the crisis - peace is the goal and each bomb only takes us further away from a safer and more collaborative international order.