Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the immense damage and disruption which we can anticipate if Greenland's massive ice sheet melts due to global warming, while…
Elon Musk
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Daron Acemoglu highlights the dangers of a new gilded age - particularly as increasingly large concentrations of wealth are taken for merit or wisdom.…
The Power of Mr. X: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism
Against my better judgment, I was browsing twitter which I have been reluctant to do ever since it became Nazi-infested x. In any case, I came across an exchange between…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Hilary Beaumont and Nina Lakhani report on the fossil fuel lobby's pressure on U.S. governments to impose draconian anti-protest laws to prevent climate…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Seth Wynes et al. survey climate scientists about their expectations for global climate policy - and it's telling that there's no apparent optimism about…
Fascist Twitter?
Letter to X (Musk) Letter To Elon Musk, Re: My Suspension From Twitter Twitter, “X”, “bastion of free speech”, suspended my account today, saying this: We’ve temporarily limited some of…
Elon Musk, Alex Jones, X – and Freedom
Twitter / X and Elon Musk have reaffirmed their upholding of the inalienable human right to freedom of speech. This is extremely important, and extremely good. “I’m generally against evil…
Aliens at the Bruce
“Did you see that? Tell me you saw that!” Our first instinct was to question our eyes. We were stargazing near the tip of the… The post Aliens at the…
The stages of corporate social media
Corporate social media essentially goes through three stages. The first is new, free and wonderful, lots of functionality, user friendly and free, or at least pretending to be free. It’s…
The stages of corporate social media
Corporate social media essentially goes through three stages. The first is new, free and wonderful, lots of functionality, user friendly and free, or at least pretending to be free. It’s…
Ideological Soulmates
Well, it appears Pierre Poilievre, that would-be master disinformation-trafficker, has found his true soulmate in another man-child, Elon Musk. They have had a meeting of the minds when it comes…
Angry Talking Heads
When I was a teacher, it used to bother me to no end that it only took one or two ignorant, badly-behaved kids to spoil the atmosphere and discourse in…
Money And Mental Illness
Elon Musk has suspended several journalists from Twitter. Paul Farhi writes: Many of the journalists suspended Thursday, including Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, had been covering that rule change,…
Today’s News: Christ, what an asshole!
Time for this week’s edition of “Christ, what an asshole!” So this happened: The perfect candidate for voters whose concerns are less about healthcare and the economy than more relevant…
From the bookmarks
Of course dinosaurs and humans never co-existed – dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before humans developed, and the CBC knows it, as do all paleontologists. But no scientist wants…
Today’s News: When the waves turn the minutes to hours
“Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Here is a great thread about a great song: 47 years ago…
Accountability/Cancel Culture, and the Possible End of Twitter
So this might be the end of Twitter. I’m about 1/2 convinced Musk is willing to torch 44 billion dollars just to drive the thing into the ground, for reasons…
Finally!
Finally … Ford blinked. All unions who had supported @fordnation during 2022 election, came out publicly in support of education workers & against Bill 28. Ontario was on verge of…
Today’s News: The story behind Russia-gate and the Ukraine War
The New York Times has published a major article The Untold Story of “Russia-gate” and the Road to War in Ukraine (gift article link), and the story actually turns out…
Mr. Musk Unmasked
Once more, Unlearn16 reveals something important, and her observations I could not disagree with. Yesterday, she pierced the facade perpetrated by the Ford government about the soon-to-be striking school support…