Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Happy Lunar New Year!

International students are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate, faith leaders and community workers say.

But BC’s government isn’t tracking the problem. #bcpoli #cdnhealth

https://pressprogress.ca/international-students-overdoses-british-columbia-20230116/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=news

--Oh and Florida banning (banning!) AP African American history ought to be enough of a mask off moment to wake up anyone who thought this was about some kind of historically unstable, politically charged courses. This is the got dammed college board and all the most moderate of moderate and boring voices in history.

So cannon you could put balls in it and sink a ship.

I can only assume they want young people to learn literal myths and legends. Chopped cherry trees and all instead.

Meanwhile, on Scotland’s Isle Of Skye …
Photo by Juuso Hämäläinen

@zleap Some provinces are doing just that. BC has just launched a program to lower the barrier to entry for foreign and out-of-province workers, as well as providing bursaries and support for relocation, and Canada as a whole provides numerous means of procuring VISAs for nurses with a year or more experience.

First time of my life I spent an entire pen.

I normally lose them and never fully spend them entirelly.

@zleap I've heard it's been rough for NHS users and that the Tories have been pushing privatization. Just awful, I'm sorry. :(

I just added another anecdote that I just remembered to the part of my book about web scraping:

"Somewhere around 2002, when I was in high school, my friends and I decided to make a song lyrics website. Similar sites existed but they were incomplete. I thought it would be simple to just scrape the lyrics from all of those other sites and make a single site that had all of the lyrics. I wrote a script to scrape thousands of lyrics from one of these sites, but my script crashed while it was running, and I realized this was because the website had stopped working. A few days later, the site came back online with a message: The owner was overjoyed to learn how much traffic they were getting, but they had to raise money to keep their site online to keep up. I felt bad about it, and we never ended up launching that lyrics site."

Now we have a career panel on what you can do with a physics degree. Julie Claveau (program officer) from the Canadian Space Agency, Lisa Glass (medical physicist) from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Marie-Cecile Piro (research particle physicist) from University of Alberta, and Mia Scavella-Little (cybersecurity attorney) from Microsoft's digital crimes unit. This is going to be FASCINATING.

#ccuwip2023

Here's the FreeCAD model for it:
I'm not gonna publish it as a project as it's all designed for my hand-bodged PCB...