On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

CBC Radio's Ideas has a go at answering this question tonight.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/environmentalists-what-are-we-fighting-for-an-environmentalist-argues-it-s-not-clear-1.4917208

1. Artists are workers. Right?

2. Our first vaccine-candidate approval, this week. What next?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine-rollout-plan-phac-1.5833912

3. Freeland brings the clarity. If we can't have an NDP-Green coalition, then this is a good thing that she's in her present job until then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-big-spend-finance-1.5833774

4. Have any of you been listening to Ideas this week? They're replaying the 1989 Massey Lectures with Ursula Franklin.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-humane-world-of-ursula-franklin-a-scientist-who-wanted-us-to-question-technology-1.5825485

I think I need to listen to this at some point tomorrow:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/we-need-to-reclaim-our-lives-from-our-phones-and-reset-says-cbc-massey-lecturer-ron-deibert-1.5792312

Listening to this on the radio at the moment, after getting some morning and afternoon chores done here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/zadie-smith-s-latest-book-intimations-reflects-deeply-on-isolation-and-injustice-1.5729946

"Racial contempt" as a concept...I accept that it's real. "Fear of poverty"? Also real. Also fear of poverty as a contagion...as a related concept. I am certain that I have been taught those latter two concepts, whether my teachers realized what they were doing as such or not. I hope I wasn't successfully taught racial contempt. I plan to assume the attempt was made to bake it into my education.

Usually, on Labour Day, I'd be downtown photographing the parade, and uploading the pix that suited me to Flickr. Because, usually, there would be a Labour Day Parade organized by the local unions and allied organizations. This year, it looks like, thanks to the Time of Pandemic - yet again - that parade is not going to happen.

Instead, there's going to be online events all over the Ottawa-adjacent cyberspaces, hosted by those same labour groups and their allies. I'm not sure which, if any, I'm going to be participating in.

Until then...what did I do today?

I was involved in a video chat with assorted members of ByMUG. Details for today's session were here. Shadow-dot-tech as a gamer's workaround. RSS resources. That sort of thing.

I mowed the front lawn for my household and the next-door neighbours.

I've been adding brushes from my previous Clip Studio Paint version to the current one. That's taking more time than I'd like, because the current version is not set up to batch-import brushes and other materials. Over a hundred brushes involved.

Yesterday, I looked at a script for an old project that never got finished. I was never happy with pencils that I'd handed in, nor with the tech I'd used to paste together the scans of each page. Now that I have both a scanner that can handle an 11 x 17 art board in one pass, and Clip Studio Paint as options to work with...should I revisit that script? I'm tempted.

I am tempted to see if I can do a better job now than I did then.

Taking a look at this for future study:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/behind-the-design-of-singapore-s-low-cost-housing

Ideas: Gelber Prize winners blame 'politics of imitation' for extremism in Central Europe
From the fall of the Wall to this pandemic era, experts look at the legacy of ill-fitting political systems

I'm going to listen to this for an hour.

If you want to listen to this discussion on Ideas for the next hour...stoicism may not be what many of us were taught to believe. Which might make it worth examining all the more.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/take-it-like-a-stoic-coping-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1.5520846

Yes, I'm on the Broadbent Institute mailing list for reasons.

So I'm looking this over right now...an opinion piece by one Marshall Auerbach. I don't recall reading their work before, but I want to look this over carefully.


https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/canada_s_response_to_the_coronavirus_better_than_the_us_worse_than_eu

For a longish time, my main art supply shop - aside from some stuff I needed from the campus store at Algonquin College and a couple of other venues - has been Wallack's. They're locally owned and operated, and have been here since well before I moved to Ottawa-Gatineau.

They've had a rougher go of it in recent years, and this latest pandemic has been one more kick in the teeth to them. But despite having to close up their storefront to walk-in traffic for the duration of this crisis, they're still game for sales over the web for either pick-up or delivery. Please check their website as linked above for the rules of the process, e-mail them any questions you might have, and if you see something you like and can afford....?

Whether or not you tell them where the suggestion came from is up to you.