Nevin Thompson

'For the girls': New film tells a coming-of-age story of Somali American women in Minneapolis A new short film by Minneapolis filmmaker Yasmin Yassin follows two Somali American sisters running a social-media matchmaking business as they move through Lake Street, exploring friendship, feminini...

“I really think of Lake Street as kind of like the heartbeat of the city,” filmmaker Yasmin Yassin says. “Depending on where you go, it has different significance, based on the landmarks that are there.”

Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/

POS company. You saw this but wtaf

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うめくウィシュマさんの前で談笑――監視カメラには何が映っていたのか - Dialogue for People（ダイアローグフォーピープル／D4P） 取材レポート 2021年３月６日に名古屋入管で亡くなったウィシュマ・サンダマリさんの遺族による国賠訴訟が続いている。2023

名古屋入管の収容施設でスリランカ人女性のウィシュマ・サンダマリさんが亡くなってから５年。入管のいびつな構造は今も変わっていない。
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Really??? Any reason given?

Oh, I see. I mean, I have been groped more than once (as in, more times than I can count) in Japan because I am a foreigner.

#photography

Hopefully some explanation of the personal display of affection by the Japanese PM here. Although I suppose Canadians in mid-century-cut suits are cute and cuddly.

It's sort of like an even more depressing Ken Loach film

Dreading to see what they are doing to Tehran. Just monstrous.

YouTube video by Damian Brody WW3 - News Broadcast from the British movie Threads (1984)

Threads. The first third or so of the movie is everyone ignoring the gradual increase of tension in the Middle East. youtu.be/jkSnL9v39Ak?...

Friend of my youth

Tagging @stateofthecity.bsky.social , who is interested in such things. (I got to SF 1-2 a year... I get Lurie content recommended to me on FB. It's pretty interesting, although I think generic retail muni politics?

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In a word (actually two), "absolute degenerates"

Confusingly, it's called the 'Spring 2025 Survey' but it's released in Spring 2026???

Methodology About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online interviews

Something like 3600 successful interviews across 25 countries. Interviews were English and Spanish only (I think?) which might narrow the demographic in India....? www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

What spiking gas prices mean for Canadians, even those who don't drive or rely on EVs:
> Higher food inflation, particularly if you live outside a logistics node (I live on an island)
> Stressed public services that are already being cut to the bone; fuel is an input
> A super-charged AB referendum

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die

> “The initial joy of the regime’s leaders paying the price is soon turning into fear. Who will be left in free Iran if we all get killed?”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Got a question — did Cook ever suggest that the Canadian Corps pioneered what would be known as blitzkrieg? I seem to have come across this a couple of times but can never find the source.

“We are trapped between the regime that is killing us with machine guns, and a foreign power has likely decided that we are collateral damage.”

NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN Every day, thousands of removal requests flow into the Lumen Database — the public archive where the internet's most powerful actors are forced to show their work. Most requests are routine. Some are weapons. When copyright attorney Marcus Vega files a takedown notice targeting Clearwire, a scrappy digital rights nonprofit, he expects the usual: compliance, a form letter, maybe a sternly worded reply. What he gets instead is Eli Marsh - Clearwire's counternotice specialist, former EFF researcher, and the most infuriating person Marcus has ever had the professional misfortune of opposing. Eli knows the law. He also knows Marcus - knows his firm's clients, his win rate, the pattern of industries he protects. What Eli can't account for is what happens when the two of them end up at the same internet governance conference in Geneva, arguing in bad faith over cocktails until they're not arguing at all.

The notices keep coming. So do the counternotices. So do the emails that start as legal correspondence and become something neither of them can quite name. Marcus has spent his career making inconvenient things disappear. Eli has spent his making sure they can't. Between them sits every question the internet has failed to answer about who gets to control what's public, what's private, and who decides. Some things, it turns out, can't be taken down. For readers of Heated Rivalry, Better Than People, and anyone who has ever found themselves deeply, inconveniently attracted to someone who sends documents with tracked changes turned on.

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

I live in Victoria. I think permanent DLST is super dumb, but good grief, everyone here seems to love it. We’re getting our own time zone???

ARTT: Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust Our main tool, the ARTT Guide, is a Web-based software assistant that provides a framework of possible responses for everyday conversations around tricky topics.

You may be interested in this project I worked on, funded by NSF. artt.discourselabs.org

I do think people have agency, though. It is objectively wrong and bad to harass people. I suppose this is what reconciliation is for.

Thanks for that context. Living in the city -- Victoria -- it really did seem like the convoy people hated us just for being Victoria. Train horns, tugboat horns, mounted on trucks outside my front door. So I suppose I know where I would sit on this Pew scale!

I'm just an Internet rando, so no need to engage with me (so, thank you), but I'd suggest that actually the convoy movement is antithetical to Canadian values, in that it prioritizes violence over dialogue. The ostrich farm is one example. Links to white supremacists and accelerationism (Coutts).

They occupied my neighbourhood here in Victoria. It was horrible and the intimidation was deliberate.

What about the convoy clowns?

Indeed, when we relocated to the Island twenty years ago, I generally refrained from mentioning I had lived and worked in Japan, and had achieved fluency. It was considered outlandish. Now when I mention I'm taking a trip to Japan ("home" for us), the reply is, "You, too? Wow, you'll love it!"