On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I have just signed up to delegate to the Ottawa Transit Commission about the upcoming service changes. I have next to no script for this. I am almost certain to have to do this while I'm working on my day job, and it will be over Zoom.

I have somewhat less than two days to decide whether or not to settle for a written submission instead, and if so, what to write for it.

1. Trump on testing in general?

https://alexandraerin.substack.com/p/testing-trump

2. Criminalisation of climate activism:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world

3. The trial of Barber and Lich re: the Ottawa Siege continues.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/freedom-convoy-made-it-near-impossible-to-live-zexi-li-tells-trial-1.6997367

4. Conservatives targeting the CBC again, more of that "War on Expertise" that David Brin warns us about...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-cbc-terrorist-language-guide-policy-1.6997926

The "hamlet" - I'm having trouble thinking of a community of a thousand people as a "hamlet", as it seems more a small town - is a trivia point in the back story of Due South's central character Benton Fraser, being one of the communities in which his parents and grandparents jointly raised him. It's also a very real place, the most northern community in Canada that you can reach by road these days.

"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.

Listening to this on the radio right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/cbc-the-house-may-8-2021-1.6017783

Needing to think through the implications raised by the discussions aired today...

I spotted a housefly on the outside ledge of my bedroom window this morning.

For some reasons, that seems to matter a lot to me right now.

From 2019 in Nature for a revisit:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02242-y

From this month at The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption

Making me wish Trek-style replicator tech was real. I know there's people working on it...and we want to make this not be a no-win scenario...

Taking a brief moment from my video tutorial studies of Drupal 8 - which I think I may need to rewatch several times each today - to pass this along: apparently Canadian federal penny-pinching is getting too line-item-fussy about weather alert-related infrastructure again? Details here:

https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/weather-alert-dismantling/

If Jon Klein's misunderstood the situation, please pass along corrective information. I'm certain that he'll appreciate the corrections once he confirms their accuracy.

If he's got it right, and you're a Canadian citizen, please contact your federal MP ASAP.

Seeing squirrels keeping busy on the streets and in the yards here.

Chris Hadfield noticed this morning that the smoke from the Pacific coastal fires has indeed reached us in southern Ontario, and announced same on Twitter.

My training video focus this afternoon is on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. ("Document Cloud"?)

More as it comes to mind.

The European Space Agency maintains a Flickr account of its own. Here's one of the things they've been noticing of late via Earth-observation stuff.