On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

OPL/BPO on the Difference Between Misinformation and Disinformation

2022-10-16T22:32:07Z

This might be useful to us all.

https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/blogs/are-you-ready-read-between-lines-0

(As for my choice of icon for this posting, I am feeling a thematic connection to that particular TV series as well as a nostalgic frame of mind at the moment.)

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Organized Anti-Trudeau Disinfo Ops on Twitter?

2022-09-29T18:42:47Z

I suspect that such is indeed going on.

https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1575508432089751552

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Returning to "The Independence of the Mind" For An Afternoon

2021-05-10T18:55:17Z

Continuing the job search this afternoon.

Also: revisiting the history of the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind via Ideas. If you're interested in the text of that original declaration from 1919, here's a link.

(I wonder if Leslie Charteris might have read that Declaration. Some of the stuff in those Saint stories of his gets me thinking now about the possibility. Certainly, if he had, he'd have put it aside for the needs of World War 2 and the battle against fascism as it presented itself to our world back then.)

On a related note: Ideas, the CBC Radio series, is devoting some time over this past broadcast season of 2020-'21 to the theme of The Common Good. Other instalments of that series of broadcasts may be accessed here.

More on other topics as today goes by...

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SAFETY: Police Data Breaches

2020-09-22T22:01:27Z

Maybe it's the superhero comics fan in me, but this is the kind of thing that should get a Batman or an Iron Man's attention. Or more likely, Alpha Flight.

Thirty-eight police agencies across Canada?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/blueleaks-published-thousands-of-documents-from-canadian-police-agencies-1.5734311

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Keeping Watch

2018-10-08T02:22:37Z

Keep those protestors safe...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/anti-racist-demonstration-montreal-1.4854245

And I have to watch for linkages elsewhere...

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2018/10/07/one-hundred-days-in-has-premier-doug-ford-delivered.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/10/07/rise-of-right-wing-extremists-presents-new-challenge-for-canadian-law-enforcement-agencies.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/10/07/right-wing-extremism-not-welcome-in-canadian-armed-forces-but-clearly-its-in-here-says-top-soldier.html

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Elections and Data-Mining in Canada

2018-04-22T13:51:11Z

Two points of attention:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/how-micro-data-are-being-used-to-influence-canadian-voters-and-how-that-s-changing-our-democracy-1.4628287

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_electoral_calendar,_2018

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POW

2017-02-15T03:47:54Z

Yeah. The big story just broke about DT's team being in contact with FSB in the months leading up to 8 Nov 2016. New York Times.

Avalanche time.

Justin Trudeau may be glad to be well clear of Washington right now.

And on such a note, I am going to try to sleep.

Good night, and good luck...

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