Independent artisan #bookstores are vital #public goods

#commons #democracy #arts #publics

Suzanne Vega - Live on Tour

📌 "Flying With Angels Tour 2025 - 2026"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9p1y53biuw

Tour info and tickets:
https://www.suzannevega.com/tour

Upcoming:
London, England
3 November 2025

Los Angeles, CA
Feb 15, 2026

#SuzanneVega #MyNameIsLuca #music #indie

📌 New study published on October 13, 2025

On Large Language Models (LLMs) and Contextual Reasoning

"Our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria.

We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification."

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

"What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None. On the contrary, .."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10

#CriticalTheory #Critical_AI_Literacy

#October #cityscape #Toronto #Ontario

#north #autumn

Autumn #book sale
#UofT St. George campus

A selection of thousands of used and rare books; fiction and literature, non-fiction, history, philosophy, poetry & more
https://alumni.utoronto.ca/events/uc-book-sale

The Art of Critique | Op-ed 10 Sept 2025

As we draw closer to the end of 2025, we are marking the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.

For equitable science & healthcare, we need a departure from narrow technocratic models & mindsets to account for political determinants, the causes-of-causes, of planetary health—the elephants in the room that we need to face for an incisive, just, and robust #art of #critique in the second quarter of the 21st century.

📌 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/15578100251379395