Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jeremy Corbyn writes that the cause of workers remains the greatest force for hope that we have. And Hannah Appel discusses the prospect of uniting the aligned interests of workers seeking to reduce the abusive use of concentrated corporate power in the workplace,
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cmkl.ca: My personal blog renaissance
Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, I have decided (probably like a lot of other people) to reinvigorate my blog. It’s amazing to think that it’s been almost 20 years since I’ve been publishing my blog. Though of late (oh… say about ten years) it’s been much neglected. Internet communications
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Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, I have decided (probably like a lot of other people) to reinvigorate my blog. It’s amazing to think that it’s been almost 20 years since I’ve been publishing my blog. Though of late (oh… say about ten years) it’s been much neglected. Internet communications
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: How to Make Credit Card Purchases Safer – Banks, Are You Paying Attention
Do you worry about the security of your credit card information when you provide it to lesser known merchants to make payments ? Do you worry that the information you provide to well known major merchants could be stolen as their databases are hacked as seems to happen regularly ?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michela Antonelli et al. study the disease profile of post-vaccination COVID, concluding that full vaccination helps to reduce both the number and duration of symptoms. But Elizabeth Yuko points out that the result is still a significant risk of debilitating long-term conditions.
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world
Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World is an essential book for our time. Newport argues — quite persuasively — that smartphones and their constant connection to social media are degrading our quality of life. He offers ample proof of this, and offers a plan that
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Is Facebook killing people?
President Joe Biden missed his goal of 70 percent of Americans vaccinated against Covid by July 4th. Some cities are now urging even vaccinated residents to resume mask-wearing, and in states such as Missouri and Utah, where large swaths of the population remain unvaccinated, health officials are warning of hospitals
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Michael McGrath highlights how the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant represents a serious threat to the prospect of safely relaxing restrictions over the summer. And Morgan Modjeski reports on the COVID outbreak at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre. – D.T. Cochrane highlights a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marianne Guenot reports on a World Health Organization-backed report confirming that political leaders could have averted the spread of COVID-19, but failed to do so. And CBC News reports on the fears of workers facing unmasked customers and management unwilling to look
Continue readingwmtc: subscribe-by-email is going away. bloggers, what are you going to use instead?
Blogger will soon stop supporting the function that allows readers to subscribe to blogs via email. This is occurring because Google is killing Feedburner. Like the deceased Google Reader, Feedburner is very popular, used by millions, but Google has not been updating it, and is now officially killing it. There
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: We are all in this together … including the billionaires
We are all in this together. An expression we hear a a lot these days. And rightly so, as we depend on government to relieve the millions of people and businesses affected by global economic disruption and provide us with the security of vaccination. Perhaps it’s important to endure a
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, Feb 17, 2021
Today’s topics: a class action lawsuit against chocolate producers using child slavery and discussion about a ‘new’ internet.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Stonks Game Stops At This Stop
Hedge funds that bet against Game Stop are crying foul as they lose a fortune, because the crowd noticed their weakness and exploited it. Sounds very Wall Street. Is it against the rules? How could it be in a market that has too few rules. The difference now is that
Continue readingThings Are Good: Deleting Facebook Improves Your Health
You’ve probably heard that Facebook is bad for you and shrugged it off thinking that it’s not a big deal. Turns out it is, and you really should get off of Facebook. We all know how Facebook spies on use and profits from our secrets by selling our data. Tracking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard warns not to expect the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (however distant that may be) to result in any particular triumph. And Reuters reports on the looming possibility that the vaccines developed to date may not protect against the coronavirus
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Weather Alert Dismantling
Write your MP and the weather office now please. you’re not going to like this but Environment Canada has decided to break the Weather Alert feature for the entire Toronto area. Contact your MP. https://t.co/8ErKVEH7xZ — things can’t possibly get worse (@hoverbeaver) December 30, 2020 In a year where unusual
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how a “COVID zero” strategy has been successfully executed elsewhere – and could be achieved in Canada as well. But in case we needed a reminder as to the numerous ways in which our current governments are falling painfully
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Brethour discusses houw the effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been anything but fairly or equally distributed. And Katherine Scott highlights how the effect has been to undo decades of already-slow progress in improving the conditions of single mothers. – Don
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Robson examines the lessons we should learn from EI’s failures which required a less-onerous and more-widely-available income support system to bail Canadian workers out through the coronavirus pandemic. – Michael Harris surveys some of the actions of governments – including that
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: On Television Part 2 – Cutting The Cord
Those of you who have read THE FIFTH COLUMN: On Television may wonder if the Fifth Columnist has finally decided to cut the cord as it made a pretty good argument for that. Well we have finally overcome over 40 years of inertia and made the decision and as of
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