City Hall: After-Action Report
Oct. 23rd, 2023 09:41 pmWell, it wasn't a deputation. That's apparently not until next month, which is going to...not complicate at least one other appointment at the end of November. I am going to have to deal with lost income for however long I have to be ready to deliver it on that day, I think.
What did happen was further training, as well as face time directly with three city councillors. Leiper, Troster and Devine. Also, contact with some of the staffers of other members of city council.
Focus is still on mental health, poverty reduction and housing, because the city budget-building for 2024 is underway, and the staff's under direction to keep the rate increase to 2.5 %.
What I could have felt better about? More than a half-dozen of the 50 attendees masking up, for one. Seeing working air purifiers in the room for another. Neither of those things happened, though, so...
What did happen was further training, as well as face time directly with three city councillors. Leiper, Troster and Devine. Also, contact with some of the staffers of other members of city council.
Focus is still on mental health, poverty reduction and housing, because the city budget-building for 2024 is underway, and the staff's under direction to keep the rate increase to 2.5 %.
What I could have felt better about? More than a half-dozen of the 50 attendees masking up, for one. Seeing working air purifiers in the room for another. Neither of those things happened, though, so...
Matt Galloway and Rachel Maddow discuss how "all of this has happened before; all of this will happen again"...and not in the context of Second Galactica.
Yes, what we're seeing in the States at the moment is not the first attempt to steer that country onto a permanently fascist course.
Yes, what we're seeing in the States at the moment is not the first attempt to steer that country onto a permanently fascist course.
CBC: Tapestry - Living Deliberately
Oct. 8th, 2023 02:30 pmListening to this as I type right now:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/living-deliberately-university-pennsylvania-tapestry-1.6988112
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/living-deliberately-university-pennsylvania-tapestry-1.6988112
Books: Chokepoint Capitalism
Sep. 13th, 2023 09:01 pmI just brought a copy from the local library to the house for study, on the recommendation of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
doc_paradise. I figure to start reading it over the next couple of days.
doc_paradise. I figure to start reading it over the next couple of days.The Demon-Haunted Panel of 2023
Sep. 1st, 2023 10:53 amOkay, I'm back.
Hosted by the Roddenberry people - yes, that Roddenberry family! - and they apologize up-front for the sound quality as it was recorded at Star Trek Las Vegas 2023. The panel title was inspired, of course, by Carl Sagan...
https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/the-demon-haunted-panel-live-at-stlv-2023/
I hope everyone involved got home safe from Las Vegas. Of course, I remain convinced that the Pandemic in Progress is not yet done with us. We need to do more work on multiple fronts, including resuming masking-up properly.
Hosted by the Roddenberry people - yes, that Roddenberry family! - and they apologize up-front for the sound quality as it was recorded at Star Trek Las Vegas 2023. The panel title was inspired, of course, by Carl Sagan...
https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/the-demon-haunted-panel-live-at-stlv-2023/
I hope everyone involved got home safe from Las Vegas. Of course, I remain convinced that the Pandemic in Progress is not yet done with us. We need to do more work on multiple fronts, including resuming masking-up properly.
Fifth Industrial Revolution?
Mar. 28th, 2023 09:14 amInspired by work-related reading, yes.
I started wondering this morning if such was now underway. Did a web search and I've found that the debate about that has been underway for at least the last two or three years. Wondering now about your informed opinions on the matter.
I started wondering this morning if such was now underway. Did a web search and I've found that the debate about that has been underway for at least the last two or three years. Wondering now about your informed opinions on the matter.
No Thank You to Post
Dec. 15th, 2022 09:23 pmThis is why I'm staying away from Post: Marc Andresssen and his perceptions of the world.
https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109459499411846600
https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109459499411846600
Mastodon: Done
Dec. 11th, 2022 05:38 pmOkay, I've got an account now. Not sure that I'll be staying with Mastodon Social yet.
https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine
https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine
Twitter: Counter-Measures
Nov. 19th, 2022 11:25 pmInteresting ideas on what to do about the Present Problem:
https://twitter.com/Sandmonkey/status/1594114551456350216
https://twitter.com/Sandmonkey/status/1594114551456350216
Twitter: Pre-Empting Trouble
Nov. 19th, 2022 10:48 pmI did two things tonight for my mental health: I blocked Musk and pre-emptively reported Trump for spamming before blocking him.
Twitter: Getting Trouble
Nov. 19th, 2022 08:57 pmMusk just announced that he's reinstated Trump's account.
*disgusted scowl*
What next in this firehose attack on democracy?
The Trump Reinstatement is exactly why he cited/expected threats of employee sabotage to bar the premises over this weekend, isn't it?
For the record: I voted against reinstatement. It wasn't going to matter to Musk what the actual results were, and I still voted against.
*disgusted scowl*
What next in this firehose attack on democracy?
The Trump Reinstatement is exactly why he cited/expected threats of employee sabotage to bar the premises over this weekend, isn't it?
For the record: I voted against reinstatement. It wasn't going to matter to Musk what the actual results were, and I still voted against.
Twitter: Asking For Trouble
Nov. 7th, 2022 07:01 pmSo I said this about one particular piece of Musk's "advice" today:
https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1589753246918201345
I didn't mock him. I did say that his "advice" made me feel unsafe.
Most of my tweets don't seem to get much "engagement". So maybe it won't matter much either way. And I have social media presence on other services, if it gets me banned while he still owns Twitter.
https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1589753246918201345
I didn't mock him. I did say that his "advice" made me feel unsafe.
Most of my tweets don't seem to get much "engagement". So maybe it won't matter much either way. And I have social media presence on other services, if it gets me banned while he still owns Twitter.
Fascism, Creeping Like Creeps Do
Nov. 6th, 2022 02:14 pmNoting this:
https://twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1589036645319249920
Of course, it doesn't feel like a dripping faucet right now. Closer to the firehose flooding the zone of the damned Steve Bannon's infamous metaphor.
https://twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1589036645319249920
Of course, it doesn't feel like a dripping faucet right now. Closer to the firehose flooding the zone of the damned Steve Bannon's infamous metaphor.
sabotabby and james_davis_nicoll - among others - have already noticed this on their own accounts.https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-28
Noting this in the opening text of the legislation:
"The Act provides for new collective agreements. The central terms for those collective agreements are set out in the Schedule. The Act requires the termination of any strike or lock-out and prohibits strikes or lock-outs during the term of the collective agreement.
The Act is declared to operate notwithstanding sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Act will apply despite the Human Rights Code.
The Act limits the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arbitrators and other tribunals to make certain inquiries or decisions. It also provides for there to be no causes of action or proceedings against the Crown for certain acts. Certain proceedings are deemed to have been dismissed.
The Act provides for regulations, which may be retroactive. Regulations providing for transitional matters will prevail over the Act in the event of a conflict."
Meanwhile, over at Twitter:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/twitter-to-start-layoffs-on-friday-internal-email/ar-AA13IGgO
I'm wearing purple today, because it's been noticed that Ford's developed Putinist Colour Revolution Allergies.
Twitter: Marina Sirtis Has Left the Nest
Oct. 29th, 2022 05:06 pmShe'll be speaking elsewhere at some point, I expect. For the time being, she won't be on Twitter. I am certain that Elon Musk is part of the problem that led to that decision.
Update 31 Oct 2022: Strange New Worlds writer Akela Cooper's doing the same. There are others adding themselves to that list, I think. This will probably be discussed in later entries.
Update 31 Oct 2022: Strange New Worlds writer Akela Cooper's doing the same. There are others adding themselves to that list, I think. This will probably be discussed in later entries.
Speaking of Twitter
Oct. 27th, 2022 09:56 amHow does one go about deleting one's own direct messages "in bulk"?
Or should I just kill my account completely now?
Or should I just kill my account completely now?
I'm watching the Day 2 testimony of Catherine McKenney and Mathieu Fleury at the Public Order Emergency Commission's hearings into the Convoy Siege of Ottawa as I type this. Playing catch-up is what I'm doing.
Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".
We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.
Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".
We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.
Truth and Reconciliation Day 2022
Sep. 30th, 2022 10:06 amThis is the second year on which the federal government of what we currently call Canada observes this occasion.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
