yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

And this is why we are the top of the food chain.

"When I bake bread, I give thousands of yeast organisms false hope by feeding them sugar, before ruthlessly baking them to death in an oven and eating their corpses."

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tweeted a link to this article about hydrogen fuel cell trucks saying:

"Just another way technology (not carbon taxes) is leading the way to a lower emissions future."

Which is a weird thing to say, considering the trucks are funded with $7.3 million from Alberta's carbon tax:

https://www.eralberta.ca/projects/details/alberta-zero-emissions-truck-electrification-collaboration-azetec/

(Emissions Reductions Alberta gets its money from the province's carbon tax on large emitters.)

#alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli #climate #climatechange

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Hello Canadians looking for Canadian news (especially if you’ve been dependent on Facebook or Instagram links).

CBC has created an index of Canadian news media which is searchable by location. It brings up an interesting pot-pourri of digital, tv and radio sources although you can search for just one. There’s a French version as well.

I’ve already discovered some new (to me) small newspapers from nearby regions 😃

#CBC #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #Canada

https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/local-news-directory

Record labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing obsolete vintage records

The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-obsolete-vintage-records/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I think we all know Canada is especially hot and on fire at the moment.

But in case you were wondering just HOW hot and on fire it is...

The CBC Climate Dashboard gives you a ton of at-a-glance data:

🔗 : https://cbc.ca/climate

#canada #cdnpoli #climatechange #climate #environment #wildfire #wildfires #heat #heatwave #dataviz

Let me spin a yarn for you.

The Marion County Record story has had us chasing shiny objects, those being police abuses of power, salacious allegations about the police chief, and a 15-yea-old DUI charge.

Any of those things could be the cause of that unheard of raid, but in my experience these kinds of abuses in small towns are usually tied to three things: Money, family, and politics.

What if the Marion County Record hit the trifecta?
#Kansas #MarionCountyRecord
#NewspaperRaided
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The bad old days

Antonina and her two children escaped #Ukraine last year, evacuating their beloved city of #Kyiv for a safer home in #Germany.

But what happened next was like a slap in the face.

Her son, eight years old, was enrolled in temporary schooling for refugees – and was given an atlas that took Russia’s side in the conflict.

It did not depict #Crimea as part of #Ukraine. The map showed it as part of Russia.

The Nib made all 15 issues free for PDF download this month: you can donate to keep the archives alive or buy print copies before it closes this summer https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads

Fork Yeah! Examining open source history after Red Hat's move https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/fork-yeah-examining-open-source-history-after-red-hats-move #opensource

Michael DeHaan (original author of Ansible) thinks the time is ripe for the world to see a Rust-based Ansible alternative—with potentially 90-95% compatibility with exsiting playbooks—that can scale to 50-100k systems through a new message bus option.

https://laserllama.substack.com/p/a-new-it-automation-project-moving

Calgary medical clinic charging nearly $5K per year for family 'membership' — and it's not the only one

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-medicial-clinic-memberships-alberta-canada-healthcare-1.6915978

#cdnpoli #ableg #canada #health #healthcare

BY THE WAY ITS BEEN OVER A CENT...
*coughs*
By the way, it has been over a century, folks.

In the 175 years since boredom was discovered it has become increasingly rare and precious. People once thought it was limitless but now many have to live with constant anxiety of having insufficient boredom. We all need to do more to preserve and restore this important resource.

It's 6:30am, I'm in Singapore Airport and Mastodon, do I have a story for YOU.

It all began... with an asteroid grain. Again.

whenever my boss says "think of the big picture" I'm immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth and nothing he says seems important or even relevant so this tactic has backfired on him more than once is what I'm saying

If you need to be delighted by something this morning, I present the tree goats of Morocco.

I was driving near Essaouira the first time I saw this and literally slammed on my brakes because I thought I was suddenly hallucinating. But then you learn how common it is and after a day or two it's, oh, yeah, more goats in trees.

Really good Washington Post piece on the breach of Microsoft 365’s email service.

- hackers accessed customer emails for a month
- Microsoft didn’t notice
- USG had to tell them
- The access to generate tokens very likely came from MS being hacked and not realising

https://archive.is/2023.07.12-230927/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/microsoft-hack-china/

I never thought I'd see the day where I agree with Oracle on some #opensource matter more than Red Hat, but, well... https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff

Launched in 2004, the company once sought to be the world's brain dump.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/evernote-the-memory-app-people-forgot-about-lays-off-entire-us-staff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social