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tinfoiling

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Retired after 38 years working for credit unions. Married over 51 years to a wonderful Danish woman. Live on the south slope of Burnaby Mountain. Lived in DK for 5 years.

Upgraded to an iPhone 15 Pro Max from an iPhone 8+. Hope the new one lasts as long.

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tinfoiling, to random
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There must be a way to highlight a post on Mastodon that links to an article behind a paywall. Or maybe those that post something like this please highlight it with a red button 🔴 like this. For example. This link is not a link 🔴 www.notalink.com

tinfoiling, to random
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The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency discovered that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Public Safety Canada lacked a tracking system for monitoring who received and read specific intelligence on foreign interference, leading to accountability gaps. CSIS’s distribution of intelligence on political foreign meddling during the last two general elections was inconsistent, with unclear decision-making processes affecting information flow. (1/2)

rolle, to fediverse
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I actually have no idea how many boosts and favs some of the most successful posts get here in the Fediverse, because my instance shows a fraction of them no matter how successful they are. But guess what? I don’t care! It’s the best part here, to effectively unlearn that like-craving social media trait.

Everyone likes ”likes”, but in here it happens in our own terms and overall the metrics don’t really matter in the end.

tinfoiling,
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@rolle You bring up an excellent point here “to effectively unlearn…” Part of the Fediverse experience is that unlearning, or possibly, return to an open platform that is not ruled by algorithms or simple rhetoric. Isn’t a voice still a voice even if there is minimal response? It probably isn’t from a lack of not being read. The fact of your ability to reflect and post something has value.

tinfoiling, to random
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Not a big fan of the NY Times but they have some good ongoing features. Subscriber replies to articles are sometimes numerous and pretty good.

timbray, to random
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This morning, the back-porch hummingbird feeder was empty, the porch floor was sticky, and there were muddy footprints all over the furniture and railing.

Almost certainly raccoons. They can't pull the feeder down but they can bat away at it and swallow at least some of the sugar water.

Those are going to be some damn sticky raccoons.

tinfoiling,
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@timbray last year we had this guy knock down ours. Then he came back for desert with our neighbours garbage.

tinfoiling, to random
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Finnishing this book, Cracking the Nazi Code by Jason Bell. The story of Winthrop Bell a Canadian spy from WW l. Based on recently released documents as they were being held under a restriction. It upends our erroneous understanding of the Nazi's rise to power after WW l. It speaks to what is happening today with populism based on blame and the absence of civility .

tinfoiling,
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@mpjgregoire A number of things. Defeated army and populace economically and physically starving, France demanding unreasonable retribution in money, no allied presence in Germany to monitor the conditions ( ignorant of precarious situation), military and industry disdain for any change be it communism or democracy, bankrupt infrastructure, the antisemitism already in place and the pogroms of 1918 - 1921 in Ukraine. The perfect storm for the Nazis.

tinfoiling, to random
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I wonder about these people with their vast amounts of power and wealth. Does their world hold the emotions and experience most of the rest of us have? Do they miss anything like love?

tinfoiling, to random
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One needs to wonder how long the environment would take to begin to recover with a bitumen spill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitumen?wprov=sfti1

tinfoiling, to random
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How am I able to voice my disdain for the power brokers on both sides of that Gaza - Israel conflict and for all deaths associated with it and not get labelled antisemitic or pro Hamas? How does one elevate the sanctity of a human life no matter the race, religion or creed?

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The World Happiness Report is out, and once again Nordic countries are humming along with the highest scores. The No. 1 country, Finland, has held onto its top ranking for seven years straight. But I am not moving to Finland. They have 14 or 15 cases for nouns. How happy can learning that language be?

tinfoiling, to random
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This person seems to be actually devoid of any sense of humanity. What world would one have to live in to think like this? 🔴 Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ | Jared Kushner | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

rolle, to mastodon
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”It’s a similar story on Mastodon [like with Bluesky], which is still too small, and too niche, to appeal to a significant audience.

And for both platforms, there’s also no indication that the decentralized platform push will ever be a significant draw for a critical mass of users.

Maybe, eventually, decentralization will become more of a consideration. But at 2 million users, and with a challenging UI, Mastodon doesn’t yet look like growing into a viable Twitter alternative.”

Oh no. Anyway…

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/assessing-state-twitter-alternatives-future-microblogging/707290/

#Mastodon #SocialMedia

tinfoiling,
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@rolle Interesting statement “a significant draw for a critical mass of users”. What is a significant draw? Is that important? And critical mass? Instances seem to be continuing and the quality of posts and conversations is still apparent. It isn’t mass that is critical it is the nature and communication of the dialogue that is.

tinfoiling, to random
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You can know someone for years these days and have no idea what their handwriting is like. One misses this. At work you knew who wrote the note just by looking at the handwriting

tinfoiling, to random
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Out for my first decent length bike ride this afternoon. Biked along the Burnaby section of the Brunette River into New Westminster, destination Hume Park. Was surprised how low the water level in the river looked. Certainly can see the effects of the building of the Trans Mountain Pipeline through the area. All the pipeline building is done, so the vegetation is gone.

Hume Park

Looking towards North Road (west) from the eastern edge of the park just south of the river.
Picture of bike ridden looking south.

appassionato, to books
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Censorship

Offering a potted history of censorship from the execution of Socrates in 399BC to the latest in internet filtering, Petley also explains how today's media monopolies and moguls censor by limiting what news/entertainment they impart. Julian Petley is professor of Film and Television at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of several books on censorship.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#censorship

tinfoiling,
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@appassionato @bookstodon just started reading this. Looks very good. Written in 2009 this is so true now. "In war zones, journalists are increasingly excluded unless they choose to be ‘embedded’, and those who do manage to report ‘unofficially’ or independently are increasingly regarded as legitimate targets"

tinfoiling, to random
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Today 88 years ago Rudyard Kipling passed away, the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize for literature. An imperialist but also an incredible writer. He lived through the tragedy of loosing two of his children.

tinfoiling, to random
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Sometimes, with the negative banter about the internet, you forget the benefits. Texts and emails going to different countries and continents instantly. And the timeliness of answers based on timezones. There is something magic about that.

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One wanders through life believing peace is permanent and wars are temporary. You arrive at the end of 2023 and your belief is shattered. How does one ever return to such a belief? Peace is only temporary, war and its evil is permanent.

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Sad news, Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, dies at 89. In 1979 with an Apple II+ there was Basic and then with dual 5.25 inch floppy drives (147K storage each) Pascal arrived. It was a gift to those learning computer languages. Wirth was instrumental with so many of us broadening what computers could do. It meant so much then. He is part of computer history. #pascal #wirth

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/01/04/0126247/niklaus-wirth-inventor-of-pascal-dies-at-89

tinfoiling, to random
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@penfount finally found a very good way to clean your #fountainpen. Tried a dental water pik to clean just about every area especially the feeder and tines. Catridge cleaning won't take forever. Using lukewarm water after the pen parts have soaked for awhile makes it easy. Keeping it at a high spray intensity helps. Really takes the drudgery out of cleaning those pens you find with a bit of dried older ink. Of course you want to try that new ink in your favourite pen, right?

whitedove, to Israel

Deal Now. All for All

2023-12-23
At a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for a ceasefire, hostage deal, impeachment of the government and equal rights from the river to the sea.

@israel @palestine #israel #palestine #gaza #hamas #IsraelHamasWar #protest #demonstration #ceasefire #CeasefireNow #HostageDeal #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow

tinfoiling,
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@TruthSandwich @chiraag @globalpilgrim @drgs100 @whitedove @israel @palestine All war is evil, the particulars will end with the death of innocents, always. Napoleonic wars lasted 12 years with estimates of between 3.5 to 6 million dead. One can detail similar atrocities throughout history. Discuss cause & blame, but it is always the innocent that suffer. When we drown in blood maybe then it will stop.

tinfoiling, to random
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Death, sometimes it scares me, sometimes it is viewed as only an ending with a new beginning. It changes. It is the great equalizer. Then it condenses to realizing you really only have today.

tinfoiling, to random
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When only art can depict the horror of war in a seasonal setting that we in the West want to be "comfortable" in. #Bansky #gaza #christmas

miksimum, to random
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Got an entry-level fountain pen yesterday — the Pilot Metropolitan — which I plan to use for line work in my art, i.e. as an alternative to fineliners, and also occasionally incorporating handwriting. Think I’m gonna try it tonight. Pretty excited. ✒️😁

tinfoiling,
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@miksimum Wondering how you are doing with your fountain pen? Do you find that using it for handwriting adds something of an "art" dimension to your writing? After using one (well many) for decades a ballpoint pen seems so sterile. #fountainpen

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