Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

While institutions are incorporated to live beyond the lifetime of a single human being, perhaps fulfilling its mission can lead to a conclusion that the best course is to wind itself down. Courage at the #IveyFoundation , led by #BruceLourie

> One of Canada’s largest and oldest philanthropic organizations has decided to wind down and distribute its entire endowment – $100-million – to expedite efforts to align the economy with net-zero emission targets.

> The Ivey Foundation has determined that the need to transform industrial policies to meet climate goals is too acute to keep funding projects at its current rate, said Bruce Lourie, the foundation’s chief executive officer. The money will be dispersed to its slate of economic and environmental partner organizations over the next five years.

> Dr. Lourie said slashing carbon emissions by 40 per cent to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and getting to net zero by 2050, as per Ottawa’s international commitments, are only getting tougher to achieve. [....]

> From the foundation’s perspective, the two biggest risks facing the country are failing to adequately deal with climate change and missing related economic opportunities, such as electric vehicle and battery manufacturing and transforming the power grid, as other countries establish dominance in those areas. “So, in our philanthropic work, we’re really trying to integrate those two things – Canada’s competitiveness and prosperousness, together with the need to address our emissions,” Dr. Lourie said.

"Ivey Foundation will distribute $100-million endowment to causes aimed at accelerating progress on climate change" | Jeffrey Jones | Globe & Mail | 2021-11-29 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ivey-foundation-endowment-climate-change/

If you're at #RubyConf and see someone using Twitter, why not nudge them towards Ruby.social? 🙏 😆

I often am asked by people fleeing anti-trans states, "where should I move to?"

I created the anti-trans legislative risk map to help answer that question.

I am releasing my first post-election legislative risk map today. Subscribe to support my work.

https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/the-post-election-anti-trans-legislative

This article from 2018 piqued my interest as we enter #Advent.

TLDR: Religiosity and organized religion are decoupling, and even atheist Americans tend to demonstrate more religious activities or beliefs than European Christians. This makes measuring religious adherence and affiliation difficult.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/atheists-are-sometimes-more-religious-than-christians?

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“We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them... get taken over by them.”

Madeleine L'Engle, born OTD in 1918 https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/dare-to-be-creative-madeleine-l-engle/

Y'all listening?

Y'all as a second-person plural pronoun is not just “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” A linguist has found uses going back to a 1631 in England, hundreds of years before the more recent usages cited by the Oxford English Dictionary.

And its inclusiveness is also gaining new respect, you hear?

https://theconversation.com/yall-that-most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265

#pronouns #YAll #LanguageMastodon #Etymology #words

☀️ This morning’s must read co-authored by Lisa Tucker

“The Supreme Court is increasingly setting aside legally significant decisions from the lower courts as if they had never happened, invalidating them in brief procedural orders. The pace of these actions has increased in the past 22 months, neutralizing important civil rights and civil liberties decisions.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/opinion/supreme-court-decisions-vacated.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Especially our peeps from Trek Twitter seem to be having trouble finding others from other servers, so how about we make this a #StarTrek roll call post, where everybody reply with a 🖖🏻 or something similar, so others can see and find you. And please make sure to boost the heck out of this.

Elf on a Shelf? Nah, this is better!
Only in Canada! 😆

Interesting report by Sysdig on malicious resources on DockerHub and related #supplychain attacks. Useful for thinking about #SBOM and related transparency efforts.

https://sysdig.com/blog/analysis-of-supply-chain-attacks-through-public-docker-images/

(h/t @campuscodi and the @riskybusiness News podcast)

@anildash Fastly edge as a (minimum viable) edge platform for fedi could be fun, especially paired with some edge database platform like planet scale

@anildash CDN would be nice for caching/serving assets from a VPS or S3.

DDoS protection could be good. Cloudflare offers it but there are some critics in the fediverse around their business practices so an alternative would be great.

Thanks for collecting feedback around this!

I know a good number of Masto admins and moderators follow me here, as we get Fastly’s Fast Forward program up & running (designed to support open source & the good internet), what would you ideally like to see as support for the fediverse from Fastly? CDN services, the edge compute platform, security protection, etc.? https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward

I despair about how many talented people are using Substack when we know exactly where that whole mess is headed.

Unfortunately I have to stop actively working on #Metatext for a while due to health issues. I really wish I could implement Mastodon 4 features and squash every bug, but it's not possible for me to do so right now.

I know the app has become important to a lot people, so I'm open to a new maintainer who can carry on its values of privacy and accessibility taking it over if there's interest and a fit. Email info@metabolist.org if you (or your organization) are interested

We need a well-organized civilian defense force to combat #psyops.

Have you seen the Viola Desmond interactive monument on Gottingen St?

Female Northern Cardinal, taken earlier today, under a beautiful Fall day. As always, female Cardinals look so elegant. #birdwatching #birds #nature #birdphotography #wildlife #ottawa

Hey friends! https://ottawa.place is now open for signups 🎉🇨🇦❤️

@andrew and I built it as a hosted-in-Canada, capital-region-focused (but open to all Canadians) instance.

Please boost so folks can find us! 👀

#fediverse #twittermigration #canada #ontario #ottawa #canpoli