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As I continue tinkering away in the off hours building out a personal website, seeking in doing so to express IndieWeb principles and practices, last night I added a /now page (Why/What? indieweb.org/now & nownownow.com/about) and /blogroll (not in top nav) to the site.

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Who knows whether Scott Kupor read and is responding to Jen Pahlka’s open entreaty in this regard (https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/dear-mr-kupor-please-fix-federal), but he regardless appears to be acting on the content of some, at least, of her recommendations - which echo broader advice for government...

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www.fastcompany.com/91635647/…

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“Bluesky is … accused of being an echo chamber for progressives. After the blue tsunami of this week’s midterms, however, its inhabitants don’t seem to be echoing themselves so much as the vast majority of American voters.”

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@rumon.ca H/T of gratitude to @h2cents.bsky.social for the original gleaning and sharing of Macaulay’s article.

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aragornarts.substack.com/p/what-is…

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“We are not just tree managers. We are in fact the managers of landscapes in service to the community.”

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My first real job, at 16-years-old, was as a labourer on a silviculture success research project, pulling 10 to 20-year-old trees out of the ground in regen blocks...

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@rumon.ca 👆/via @indyjohar.bsky.social, with gratitude

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indyjohar.substack.com/p/living-…

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Another timely and material post from Indy Johar, observing how society - and our contemporary technologies, implicitly here - has distributed the means of producing claims but concentrated the means of making them count. In this context, whoever controls access to original...

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@h2cents.bsky.social As commented on it post-read, that’s a thoughtful, positively provocative piece. Cheers for putting it on my radar via this linkblogging, H.

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Morning walk scenes

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@stasherbc.bsky.social Would love that, my brother - let’s. (I’ve returned more recently to ride, but as you well know, trails are different creatures of experience at different paces.)

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@stasherbc.bsky.social Beauty, Stash. 😍👏

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@canadianpaintings.bsky.social Loving the @joecoffeyartistguy.bsky.social shares. 😍

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@rumon.ca Appreciate this (charitable) kindness, friend.

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@blaine.bsky.social Samesies all around. I love the Food Bank option you supported @gandersocial.ca to include, but figured as I was joining myself I’d try the quasi-institutional CP Identity+ option…lots of steps (which are understandable). In theory, we could significantly streamline for BCSC holders. Happy to help.

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@blaine.bsky.social Thoughts on / plans to enable verification via BC Services Card?

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@rumon.ca 👆 grateful hat tip to @biancawylie.com

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Solidarity, ai-note taker tools, and etiquette

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I’m grappling* with tensions regarding AI - generally, but specifically digital note-taking and synthesis tools in the present context - so am grateful (again) to have the benefit of Bianca’s thoughtful (virtual) companionship in this tension.

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*Perhaps the better word is “scrupling,” introduced to me in this newsletter, an old Quaker practice of sitting with neighbours to listen, share and search for ways to respond when faced with difficult issues.

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Took up an invitation to join a community call of Seth Godin’s Purple.Space the other day. Here are a handful of quotes from his opening “rant” (as he described it … not at all ranty from where I was sitting):

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“We’re leaving the age of compliance and entering the age of initiative.”

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“This is as ’normal’ as...

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@rumon.ca 👆 Ups and gratitude to @doctorow.pluralistic.net and host Munro’s Books for a deeply unenshittified evening.

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“The only way to do this is solidarity.”\n~ Cory Doctorow

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“Solidarity or solidarism is the provision of mutual moral and material support among the members of a group in times of need.”\n~ Wikipedia

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Cory was in town tonight, speaking at a Munro’s Books event. Two notes before continuing:

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  1. \n

    Up Local Book...

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    2. \n
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A difficult life is not less\nworth living than a gentle one.\nJoy is simply easier to carry\nthan sorrow. And your heart\ncould lift a city from how long\nyou’ve spent holding what’s been\nnearly impossible to hold.

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This world needs those\nwho know how to do that.\nThose who could find a tunnel\nthat has no light at...

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“My word would be ‘simple’.”

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Late January in an off-grid cabin on the edge of an inlet in the middle of the woods on a peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. Far away from anywhere, not least the sunshine, on a dark, rainy coastal winter night. Sipping tea and whiskey with a small group of dear friends, sharing...

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dubito, ergo sum, vel, quod idem est, cogito, ergo sum

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I doubt, therefore I am; or what is the same - I think, therefore I am

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\nI’ve had the fact of Descartes’ first, typically omitted, part of his “cogito” put in front of me a number of times recently. \n

Most recently, it was by Indy Johar, by way of his...

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A still-sick dog walk, reflecting across horizons on the anxieties and divisions - and possibilities - of politics, listening to a podcast ep about the same.

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A couple of thoughts that stood out:

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“When I used to teach political science we told students that government is: Answering the question of how we...

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@rumon.ca As I appreciate all your wonderful and varied shares. 😊

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@rumon.ca Fascinating projects, @aerinj.bsky.social / @makeway.org, not at all surprised to see you and @bcparksfoundation.ca involved - hat tips. (While also fascinated - and unsurprised - by the amount of great work I miss knowing about, so “nearby” my own work).

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🙏 for the gleaning @marli-k.bsky.social.

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Just had the Kwaikah First Nation and partner’s Kwaxala and associated Centree projects cross my radar. Fascinating initiatives along a number of contours. Some more details below via this report, and additional story via the embedded video.

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\nKwaikah First Nation worked with the BC Ministry of Forests over three years to convert the logging obligation into a structure that supported their vision to protect and regenerate their territory, retiring the license’s extractive obligations. These regenerative rights are now held by the Nation, and generate an annual carbon offset revenue from a living forest.\n
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@stasherbc.bsky.social Big congrats, Stash!

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@rumon.ca … There, she highlights an another invitation from the text that I’ll also amplify: that wisdom should “help us build on commonalities without eliminating the tensions, surprises and possibilities other people present us with.”

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@rumon.ca Grateful hat-tip to @elizayer.bsky.social for the pointer to this wonderfully thought-provoking article, over on Mastodon. …

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Might the Other be a source of wisdom, rather than separation and conflict?

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doi.org/10.1177/2…

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In this article, the author asks whether the figure we most fear and exclude, the Other, might be the source of wisdom. He starts from a bleak premise: xenophobia, war, and ecological collapse are tangled together...

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@bluesky.sboots.ca A(nother) great read, Sean, cheers for the generosity of your reflections, connections to the writings of (brilliant) others, and optimism. Definitely got my wheels turning recalling our (shared, in fleeting moments) pasts, and considering our (still undetermined, possible) futures.

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Watched: Disclosure last night. 🍿

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Gave it a like, 4 ⭐️, and some comments on Letterboxd: boxd.it/gPF26p

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@rumon.ca /via @bluesky.sboots.ca 🙏

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Prussia meets Versailles: a review of Moral Mazes – Surfing Complexity

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“Managers commonly struggle with decision making. Because the norms of behavior are socially defined, and because these norms change over time, they are forever looking to their peers to identify what the current norms are. Compounding the problem is the tempo of management work: because a manager’s daily schedule is typically filled with meetings and interrupts, with only fragmented views of problems being presented, there is little opportunity to gain a full view of problems and reflect deeply on them.

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Making decisions is...

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@danhon.com Solidarity, D.

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“This story of a bear is a story about us.”

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Care warning: Don’t watch this trailer if you’re not in the mood for an adrenaline spike followed by an immediate compulsion to watch the full doc as soon as possible. 😳

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youtube.com/...

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@rumon.ca @vicfilmfest.bsky.social 👆 would love to see this via the 2027 fest.

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@gordonr.ca 😳🔥👏 Wow.

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My friend and occasional collaborator Sandra has written up a proposed extension of Schein’s change model, “offered as a hypothesis worth testing: that organizational cultures demonstrating resilience under significant environmental pressure tend to exhibit high coherence at the artifact level combined with...

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@rumon.ca As posted under the OP: “I read it aloud last night after Thanksgiving dinner with friends - among them a home builder, an upholsterer-come-classic car shop owner, a farm manager - as on many levels, among that crew, amidst these times, and in the context of giving thanks it felt rather on-point. 🙏”

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As I posted under Shawn’s OP: “ I read it aloud last night after Thanksgiving dinner with friends - one a home builder, the other an upholsterer-come-classic car repair shop owner, another a farm manager - as on many levels, among that crew, amidst these times, and in the context of giving thanks it felt rather on-point. 🙏

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“Please Use AI”\nby Shawn Smucker

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Be sure to use AI when making\nyour next, I don’t know, meal plan,\nfor example. Definitely do not call\nyour friend who loves to cook and ask her\nfor her favorite recipes or tips or ways\nto save time making meals,\nbecause you will end\nup talking for longer than you had hoped,...

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Inspired, again, by the runners of the Victoria Marathon, and the glorious land and sea that host and dazzle them.

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@biancawylie.com 👏

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“From Indigenous leader and former justice minister of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould—and educator and lawyer Roshan Danesh—comes a how-to guide for a new type of leadership.

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We live in a time of paradox. At once, it feels like we are pulling together and pulling apart.

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In this era of extreme polarization,...

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@rumon.ca See also, some grist for our mill, @gordonr.ca …

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“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.”

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~ Francis Weller

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“The analogy that’s often made [in comparison to ‘our slop-ridden, brain-rotting [postliterate] environment, as James Marriott, the author of, The New Dark Ages describes it], is the flooding of our nutrition environment in the ’60s and ’70s with junk food. It made a lot of people...

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