Notices by Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦 (paezha@mastodon.online)

@inthehands @shansterable

Columbia, the university that will yank your degree at the first sign of a fascist president

@Remittancegirl @jaykuo @StillIRise1963

Absolutely impossible ever again. Why would the rest of the world subject their economies to the whims of voters in Florida every couple of years?

@TomWellborn @bmacDonald94

A Trump shoutout just gets Lindsey all wet

@attilakinali @JoBlakely

The recommendations to travel "safely" to the US, in addition to onerous, make you highly suspect:

- Buy a burner phone
- Delete your social media accounts
- Create a fake media account that is bland or praiseworthy of fascism
- bring a blank laptop with only your presentation
- Etc.

Why would anyone risk detention and deportation to Bukele's outsourced concentration camps?

@wdlindsy @bmacDonald94

America entertained itself into fascism: Trump's America is the confluence of World Wrestling Entertainment, Gamergate, reality tv, and twitter/facebook

@ayoub @bmacDonald94

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-gaza-leqaa-kordia-arrest.html

@verge @lashman

"The meeting also hinted at tension between Apple’s Siri unit and the marketing division. Walker said the communications team wanted to highlight features like Siri understanding personal context and being able to take action based on what’s currently on a user’s screen — even though they were nowhere near ready."

Dear god. A company led by its marketing team.

@hkrn @bmacDonald94

Pay to have Bezos snitch you to Trump. What an awesome deal

@cigitalgem @bmacDonald94

"Puzzled" lol

The only logical use case for LLMs is to generate right-wing propaganda

There are many ways in which Ford has been terrible for Ontario.

There is all the stench of corruption, the starving of our health care system, the attempt to sell the Green Belt to developers, the usurpation of powers with legislation to rip bike lanes, and the sheer idiocy of proposing an underground highway, Elon Musk-style, as a way to address congestion.

Any one of these failures would be enough for me to wish that the province would replace him as our premier.

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There is an upcoming provincial #election in #Ontario.

Doug Ford, our current Conservative premier, thought to capitalize from the chaos of the Trump administration, and called an early election, presenting himself as the man who will protect the province from tariffs.

This is rich.

Ford wants to protect Ontario from Trump just so that he can continue to destroy the province all by his own Ford self.

#onpoli

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Let us compare, for example, the largest economy to the south, California. With a gross state product of USD 4.080 trillion, California boasts seven public universities in the top 100 of the world according to the 2025 Times Higher Education World Ranks.

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But on top of all this, there is an issue that is dear to me: higher education.

Higher education used to be a source of pride for me as an Ontarian and a professor at one of Ontario's public universities. With an excellent system of universities, and two world-class institutions, UofT and McMaster, higher education has long been an example of the best Ontario has to offer to the world. Not so much anymore.

#HigherEducation

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Instead of treating our public university system, and its crown jewels, as an incredible treasure, and an important element of Ontario's economic, cultural, scientific, and technological strategy, the province has persisted in treating universities worse than it has developers hungry for chunks of Ontario's Green Belt.

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Creating and maintaining a system of higher education that includes such institutions is not an easy task.

It has been the effort, the work, and the investment of countless generations of Ontarians.

It is heartbreaking to see how such effort can be squandered in a few short years by a provincial government bent on manufacturing financial crises in the public sector.

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Compare that to Ontario. With a gross provincial product of USD 0.83 trillion, the province used to have two universities in the top 100 (McMaster and Toronto).

Dollar for dollar, Ontario used to beat California in terms of highly ranked universities.

Not any more, now that McMaster dropped to 116th place in 2025.

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• Stopping the gigification of teaching, and restoring secure academic jobs by reforming Employment Standards Act (ESA) language so that contract faculty are paid fairly and committing to long-term funding for our universities.

• Converting loans into grants to provide incentives for prospective students from Ontario to ensure we don’t lose our best and brightest talent.

• Encouraging universities to reclaim their independence from foreign technology companies.

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• Committing to long-term investments in Northern Ontario which requires, doubling and making permanent the Northern Ontario Grant for Universities.

• Championing domestic student enrolment by updating the university fund model so it doesn’t penalize universities for enrolling domestic students.

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This should involve:

• Strengthening funding for universities by 11.75% annually for a five-year period to bring Ontario close to the Canadian average in per-domestic student funding.

• Creating resilient, affordable communities by investing in strong, affordable university education that can lead to good paying jobs, allowing our graduates to get a faster start in life, and contribute to their communities.

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With the upcoming provincial election, it is important to call on our political elites to stop the manufactured fiscal crises that the province has pushed on our universities, and instead strengthen higher education in Ontario.

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