a dawn walker

so ready to do some strollplaying on my evening walk!

Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 symposium this Saturday in Calgary w/ @pressprogress.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca and more + a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social show on Friday!

RSVP at
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BREAKING: Today, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which manages over $714 billion of Canadians’ retirement savings, quietly abandoned its commitment to net-zero by 2050. This is a shocking failure of responsibility from one of the world’s largest public investors.

My name is pretty common and I’ve had an email doppleganger for years, I get all her childcare and lately medical appointment notes. I still can’t wrap my head around what the other email is supposed to be

Speakers Corner and all the live Much Music segments overly coloured my mental map of Toronto as just that stretch of Queen Street. Perhaps not accurate to call those shows "about" Toronto however...

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Buy a Canadian book. Subscribe to a Canadian magazine.

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Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of U.S. business U.S. tour operators and American distilleries hit hard by surge in patriotism among Canadian shoppers

“if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Looking forward to this workshop on March 27! Come join me and @rachaelashe.com and bring a friend!

both and a secret third thing (to touch a stove)

Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology. Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

@envirodgi.bsky.social and public environmental data partners have been hosting an alternative

🙋🏻‍♀️ it’s me, i’m one. Tho I used then forgot how to subscribe to calendar in luma for a few months there

Yes! taken together with Lucy Suchman's Located accountabilities in technology production... www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucy...

What!?! Such a neat example for documents and user generated content <3, also the creator is here on bksy: hi @omarieclaire.bsky.social , loser lane is super cool+timely!

Low-Tech Bibliography and Inspiration: Minimal Computing Low Tech Magazine How To Get What You Want Hannah Perner-Wilson Out of Power Tower and Postnaturalia Kristof Kintera Sizzling Semiconductors Ioana Vreme Moser Tupperware Electronic Instruments ADACHI Tomomi Drift Mine Satellite Everest Pipkin No Tech Magazine Āmantēcayōtl: And When it Disappears, it is Said, the Moon has Died, Fernando Palma Rodríguez How to Build a Digital Brick Wall Allan Wexler Solar Server for Video Games Kara Stone Textile Instruments Agente Cosura / Lisa Simpson Lubricate Coil Engine Tabita Rezaire The New Way Things Work David Macaulay Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art Organized by Legacy Russell Neo-Luddite Reading Groups Imaginary Landscape No. 4 John Cage Queer Connections Faith Holland Vape Synth David Rios, Kari Love, Shuang Cai, and Becky Stern Permacomputing How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys Painting Machines Lolo y Sosaku Handmade Electronic Music Nicholas Collins Dark Matter Objects Zine Neta Bomani Super Mario Clouds Cory Archangel Low Power Electronics Case Mod by Janne Schimmel Uncomputable Ephemera Alex Galloway Handmade Computers Taeyoon Choi Bread Symphony Katya Rozanova, Ashley Jane Lewis, and Max Horwich Circuit Experiments Michelle Temple Tiny Internet Spencer Chang Open Garden Alice Yuan Zhang Minimal Computing and Ontologies Erik Radio Two Person Operating System Type 2 Martha Friedman and Susan Marshall Alt-Text as Poetry Finnegan and Bojana Towards a Folk Computer Cristóbal Sciutto Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Our Networks Conference

Look at this great bibliography!

I attended this last year, and it was 🌟. Given the toxicity + cowardice of FAANG, we need to imagine smaller, lower-tech, less evil tools + systems!

Now seeking proposals (due Jan 26!) for wrkshps, performances + art at this year's event, March 13-14, keynoted by the great @loriemerson.net!

Outpost vs SubStack There are big differences between sites powered by Ghost and Outpost versus by Substack: practical, technical, and philosophical.

The main one I’ve seen people switch to is Ghost, sometimes via Outpost which has extra membership features and I think a few more payment options outpost.pub/outpost-vs-s...

microblogging as arcades (project) monoskop.org/images/e/e4/...

Access to space! A community of peers! Starting locally! This incubator looks like it has all the best things 🤲🏼

NOT DEAD YET

Since the pandemic newsletters from Not Dead Yet www.ndygigs.info and Some Party: www.someparty.ca

Not sure “median voter” is a helpful concept to think about this issue. fwiw my family has farmers and ranchers and I have seen them reduce the amount of meat they eat intentionally

It has been over 30 years since the murder of 14 young women at Polytechnique Montréal (December 6, 1989) just for studying engineering as women

ISSUE 20: MEMORY Our 20th issue is here! Ft: inherited record collections! archiving the spontaneous sounds of a city! a forgotten early 00s indigenous alt rock classic! the challenge of institutional memory and more!

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Loookatthis phot-- brand new issue!!!

Issue 20: MEMORY is out now!

🎨 by : @therewasnosound.bsky.social

newfeeling.ca/issue-20-mem...

It’s hard! I’ve been ordering books from my local people’s coop bookstore and sort of use a heuristic of “try to find the thing 3 times somewhere else” but I still run into Canadian suppliers that only sell through Amazon (mostly around electronic kits/parts) 😩

CBC radio has regular “garden columnists” specific to the regions who are usually master gardeners. Plus sometimes there are call-ins where you can ask for advice. Here is is an example segment for BC: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

An ASCII art image that says "I survived 18 seconds without a bike lane" with a cyclist crashing into a weed store. The cyclist is saying "please don't write this in my obit". At the bottom it says "THANKS DOUG".

I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes

marieflanagan.com/loserlane

I think it’s available from the Internet archive: web.archive.org/web/20160604...

Cascadia flag, three horizontal stripes of blue at the top, white in the middle, and green on the bottom. The silhouette of a Douglas fir in the centre