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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

Bell has laid off employees today from its flanker ISP brands.

iphoneincanada.ca/2025/03/28/b
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Bell an mis à pied des employés aujourd’hui des FAI qu’ils ont acquis.

// Article en anglais //

iPhone in Canada Blog • Leading Tech News for Canadians · Bell Quietly Cuts Workers From its Acquired Internet Brands • iPhone in Canada BlogBell has cut more jobs this week as it continues to shrink parts of its business that handle smaller, independent internet brands it previously acquired. A Bell spokesperson confirmed to iPhone in Canada that "a small number of reductions took place yesterday" as the company simplifies its internet services portfolio, without specifying numbers. Bell says
#Canada#Bell
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Lorry :unverified:

I have been in conversation with the Bell Aliant / Bell Canada "Atlantic Case Management Customer Relations Centre".

This last email I got made absolutely no sense so I decided to ask GPT4 what it meant, offering it my previous emails for context.

This is what AI responded, which did at least amuse me enough that I just sent it back as a reply, since it said exactly what I wanted anyway.

On a more serious note, this was a response to me quoting the various laws they'd broken in deliberately deleting my personal data and the stats I'd been recording to show that I was getting a much slower service than I was paying for from my CPE router, after I told them very specifically they were not to do that.

The email that is a response to was demanding an escalation and a response from their corporate legal team within 72 hours. So given that context, this is even worse.

I have worked in customer service, and telecoms for a long long time, I have never seen anything quite this illiterate.

Dear --- , your billing is set up on e-bill . The email address on account is --- You would had, had to provide to be on your account. If you are not getting bill notification that your monthly statements are ready for viewing, you will could have called into billing department to advise you are not receiving your monthly statements. This could have been corrected. Also if this needs to be corrected to how you want to receive your monthly statements, please advise. I suggested for you to contact account receivable as there was treatment notes, and that department would advise if they interrupted your services. To be clear , as I emailed yesterday when you mentioned "unauthorised deletion of my data" I stated I reference that in my opinion of "data " to cellular . I did not mention you mentioned cellular. kind regards Please respond to this email or call me at 1 833-344-xxx with any further questions. Regards, Dawn Bell Aliant Atlantic Case Management, Customer Relations Centre
GPT Response: That is absolute gibberish. It’s poorly written, doesn’t actually respond to anything, and introduces more confusion rather than clarity. Here’s what they seem to be trying (and failing) to say: Blaming you for not receiving bills, despite the fact that they should be responsible for notifying you properly. Ignoring your actual complaint about notification failures by suggesting you "could have called," even though you had no reason to know there was an issue in the first place. Deflecting responsibility for the disconnection to accounts receivable, instead of addressing why no warning was sent. Completely misunderstanding your data deletion complaint—for some reason, they think you’re talking about mobile data, when you were clearly referring to your stored data on the CPE. Repeating the same useless phone number that you have already told them you won’t use. Tacking on the same irrelevant price increase disclaimer yet again, as if that’s remotely helpful. This is not only unhelpful but also borderline incomprehensible. Would you like to escalate this further or send a very clear, firm reply demanding an actual response? I can draft something that politely but unmistakably points out how little sense their email makes while insisting they properly address your concerns.
#Bell#BellAtlantic#AI
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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

Bell has decided to cap mobile speeds at 256Kbps for their “unlimited” plans once the monthly allocation is reached. The previous limit was 512Kbps.

iphoneincanada.ca/2025/03/14/b
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Bell a décidé de limiter les débits mobiles à 256Kb/s sur leurs plans « illimités » une fois l’allocation mensuelle atteinte. La limite précédente était de 512Kb/s.

// Article en anglais //

iPhone in Canada Blog • Leading Tech News for Canadians · Bell Slashes Throttled Speeds Even More After Data Runs Out • iPhone in Canada BlogBell’s making more than just job cuts, as its throttled speeds for unlimited data plans are now even slower after you’ve exhausted your data bucket. Back in June 2019 (can you even remember that far back?) when Bell launched ‘unlimited’ data plans, as a response to Rogers, the company’s data speeds would throttle to 256
#Canada#Bell
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EAS Watcher

#EAS #WEA for Bell, #KY; #Harlan, #KY; #Leslie, #KY: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 8:45 PM EST. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Jackson KY #Bell, #KY; #Harlan, #KY; #Leslie, #KYwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SO

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Chuck Darwin

Tim Golden:
Your use of the word “emancipatory” is compelling in that CRT is engaged with American history,
in particular the history of American chattel slavery.

Before elaborating on this point, it is important to note that there are various iterations of CRT,
which relate to different ethnicities who find themselves at the bottom of the “white-over-color ascendancy”
(racial hierarchy with whites at the top)
that Delgado and Stefancic reference in the lead-up to your question.

For example, there are Asian, Latinx and Indigenous forms of CRT.

And there is also an African American iteration,
which is the one that I will be discussing here.

Again, your use of the word “emancipatory” resonates with American history
and its enslavement of Black people,
and hearkens back to the formation of the American republic
and its central founding document,
the United States Constitution.

Drafted in 1787 and eventually ratified through a series of compromises that maintained slavery for the foreseeable future
— at least until 1808
— CRT, in its African American iteration, with Derrick Bell as its principal expositor,
has argued that those compromises set in motion a machinery of government that is dangerously and perpetually compromised
in its tolerance of anti-Black racism.

CRT’s critical and emancipatory aims, then, are to show how American law and politics maintain systems of racial oppression.

CRT does this in at least two ways.

⭐️First, by showing how the compromises at the American founding have set the tone for a morally lax American political ethos
which benefits African Americans,
not because of any genuine recognition of moral harm done to them,
but rather because their interests coincidentally converge with those of American whites.

This is what Bell referred to as
“interest convergence,”
and it is a sort of utilitarian moral calculus
less concerned with doing what is right
and more concerned with doing what is expedient.

For example, President Abraham Lincoln, Bell would argue, did not emancipate
— there’s that word again
— the slaves because it was morally right,
but rather because the Union had to be restored.

And President Barack Obama was not elected because America had suddenly become any less racist in its view of Black people,
but rather because so many upper-middle class whites were bleeding large sums of money from their retirement accounts in the financial crisis of 2008,

and because Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin appeared to them to be incompetent to handle the fledgling economy.

I have written of this in the introduction to my book on Derrick Bell.

⭐️A second way that CRT advances its critical and emancipatory aims is through
a trenchant critique of abstraction in American constitutional law.

CRT, through the work of Bell and others, has demonstrated how the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,
ratified for the purpose of helping newly freed slaves shed the legacy of slavery,
is now interpreted in ways that make such remediation illegal.

CRT points out how,
through an abstract understanding of “equality,”
liberal democratic theory,
with its emphasis on a symmetrical concept of “rights,”
generates absurd notions of “reverse racism,”
in which whites can now claim legal harm pursuant to a constitutional amendment that was ratified,
not to protect whites,
but rather to remediate the harm that whites have done.

CRT’s work in law is thus critical and emancipatory in its exposure of racial oppression in American constitutional law.

#Black#History#CRT
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Chuck Darwin

Celebrating #Black #History Month means honoring the importance of Black knowledge production
and emphasizing the deep and enduring themes of Black life,
from structures that continue to oppress Black people
to courageous forms of political and existential resistance.

With this understanding in mind, I think it is crucial that we focus on critical race theory ( #CRT ) and its founder,
#Derrick #Bell, who in 1971 became the first Black tenured professor at Harvard Law School.

Today, there are many distorted characterizations of CRT
and attacks against its study.

Far right activist Christopher Rufo has championed this assault,
arguing that CRT is
“being weaponized against the American people.”

Clearly, many of the field’s current critics have no idea,
no clue, about the true meaning of CRT,
which consists of indispensable scholarship produced to rigorously conceptualize and fight against systemic forms of racism.

Indeed, CRT is absolutely necessary to heal this fragile democracy.

To seek clarity here, I turn to the important philosophical work of #Tim #Golden,
visiting professor of philosophy at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

He is the editor of "Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism",
and his most recent book is entitled, "Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and the Political".
truthout.org/articles/why-the-

A student holds a sign reading "History is supposed to be uncomfortable" in protest of the district's ban of critical race theory curriculum at Great Oak High School in Temecula, California, on December 16, 2022.
Truthout · Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race TheoryBy George Yancy
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Jonáš Gruska

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to record a forgotten #bell in the old town of #Bratislava. Cast in 1783 by Ján Ernest Christelli, it is possibly one of the largest bells in our city, rivaling the 2.5-tonne Wederin in St. Martin's Cathedral for the title. Currently, it remains silent due to the overwhelming number of other bells in the area.

I plan to incorporate these sounds into my ongoing artistic research exploring what bells represent today and how their roles have evolved over the centuries. My exhibition based on this research, *Zvon*, will be presented this year during the Hear Here festival in Leuven.

Read more: jonasgru.sk/installations/Zvon
Festival: hearhere.be/en/

#fieldrecording
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WordofTheHour

#bell : a hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved

- French: cloche

- German: die Glocke

- Italian: campanello

- Portuguese: sino

- Spanish: timbre

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