On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

OPL/BPO on the Difference Between Misinformation and Disinformation

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 22:32:07 GMT

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?

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:42:47 GMT

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

Mon, 10 May 2021 18:55:17 GMT

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

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:01:27 GMT

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

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 02:22:37 GMT

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

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:51:11 GMT

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

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:47:54 GMT

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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