Musical interlude
Shallou – Save Some Room
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Eating off the Hill: Fish and Chips at Surfside in Comox
I always say when you’re having fish, get as close to the ocean as possible. If you can dine outside and smell the salt air, even better. Whenever I’m back…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kelly MacNamara writes about the slowing of Antarctic ocean circulation as a calamitous consequence of climate change which is happening far sooner than…
Moving Beyond The Partisan
A couple of years ago, I expressed my disgust with partisan politics and proposed a model that is intended to break the connection between party discipline, insularity, and policy platforms.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Helpful cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Martin Sandhu writes about the development of degrowth as a viable economic organizing principle. And Kevin Drum offers a reminder that the…
7th Inning Stretch at the Blue Jays Game in 2023
On May 20, 2023, Blue Jays fans sing OK Blue Jays and Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh inning stretch at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Cox talks to Akiko Iwasaki about the reality that we’re still far from being done with major harm from COVID-19. Keith…
Professional Use of AI
Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one,…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Gil McGowan highlights how the UCP’s intolerable plans for Alberta include another four years of systematic wage suppression in order to further enrich…
Musical interlude
Manchester Orchestra – The Way
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Beth Mole writes about the work being done to better define, diagnose and treat long COVID – even as different symptoms appear to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ neoliberal political consensus may finally have dissolved – though that possibility is of little comfort when…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emmett Macfarlane discusses how the stakes in Alberta’s election are no less than democracy and the rule of law – as Danielle Smith…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Aligned cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Antoine Flahault et al. offer a reminder that we can’t afford to be complacent about an ongoing COVID pandemic which continues to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s warnings that we’re more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees of global warming over…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes about the Parkland Institute’s research showing how privatization has undermined Alberta’s health care system. And Mitchell Thompson warns that…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nicolas Banholzer et al. study the dramatic impact of COVID-19 measures in schools – with a mandatory mask policy reducing transmission by nearly…
Musical interlude
Royksopp – Me&Youphoria