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Okay, 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.
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Inspired 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.
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The title and summary of his opinion is in the URL. I'm not convinced that Mr. Maher is correct, and unsure of how much progress we're making towards building a more just society, but he has a case to make here.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canada-has-shifted-to-the-left/
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Expecting to listen to this after tonight's Ottawa SF Society monthly Zoom-chat session:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk
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Once upon a time, Sarah Gelbard was my editor.

I'm going to heed a reading recommendation of hers.
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I've still got some degree of privilege, despite my financial situation this past year. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to look at those video tutorials. Or, for that matter, read and pass this along:

http://jlord.us/blog/osos-talk.html

Nor would I be able to look at this (and thanks to [personal profile] kiaa for passing it along via [community profile] talkpolitics):

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12

Getting to the point: we still want to leave the Time of Pandemic to enter a newer, better "Normal" than we entered it from. Right?
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Norway adds trans people to the "protected" list in their hate-crime laws.

https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-lgbt-lawmaking/norway-outlaws-hate-speech-against-trans-people-idUSKBN2852DL

CBC reporter Anthony Germain learns lessons about addiction.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/germain-pointofview-brothers-1.5852908

Baltimore Sun reporter David Zurawik on the need for a proper post-mortem among journalists in the wake of the Trump "Administration":

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-ed-zontv-trump-media-no-mercy-20201222-twriwoeftncvtc7vy7u6pldqj4-story.html

A boon of sorts for some of the bookstores I deal with:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bookstore-business-rises-during-lockdown-1.5837661
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I'm listening to this installment of Ideas on CBC Radio One as I type this:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/in-a-covid-divided-world-how-to-avoid-drift-into-a-new-normal-1.5823611

Some of you are already working on your ideas of building a better "normal" than we had before the Pandemic in Progress, I know...
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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.
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Making a note of these links about the language around space exploration that we have right now, as well as about the language we need from now on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/manifest-destiny-trump-space-exploration/612439/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/we-need-to-change-way-we-talk-about-space-exploration-mars/

And this is just for Anglophone humans. What about the other languages we humans are speaking, or will speak?
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Watched Black Panther on ABC tonight.

I am mildly surprised that they decided to not do commercial breaks for this showing. And I shouldn't have been surprised by that, not in today's context.

I am mildly annoyed by the removal of Shuri's middle finger moment. A small thing, but still...

I think Disney HQ got this mostly right tonight. But I don't and shouldn't get to have the last word on this point.
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Thanks to [personal profile] twistedchick for pointing this essay out to me:

https://longreads.com/2020/06/18/the-long-con-of-britishness/

Good on Laurie Penny for this. She's been good for sometimes brutal honesty about the worlds we live in - real and fictional - for a few years now. This is another aspect of that work of hers.

And this comes to mind in particular:

"If you love your country and don’t own its difficulties and its violence, you don’t actually love your country. You’re just catcalling it as it goes by."

Canada's existence in its present form is another consequence of that long con, and the people living here are dealing with being consequences of that as well. Consequences for each other. We are a mess right now. We can do better. We can be better.

Whether we end up with balkanization back into what the Indigenous nations had before first contact with the European nations whose leaders wanted empires built upon the burned bones and spilled blood of the locals; into a mix of Indigenous and Settler holdings; the next conquest of the American Trumpist fascism if that survives this November upcoming; or something else hopefully unified by freely made choice and better for its struggles to accept our own ugly truths and better angels...?

I don't know yet.
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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
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Some of you will remember her name from her days at CBC, others from her time at the Wikimedia Foundation...and if you have an hour to spare, you might be interested in listening to this:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/a-matter-of-life-and-death-sue-gardner-on-public-broadcasting-1.4701029
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On the Phoenix pay system brought in by the Canadian feds:



On Jason Kenney, who's looking to upend Rachel Notley's tenure as premier of Alberta, and one of his choices of wedge issue to do it with:

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