Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)

@evan It's not as if the Patriotes were good.

@darrel_miller

@evan Just teasing.

@evan Y'a trop de Français sur le Plateau
https://youtu.be/F0iAfgJesZU?si=kCZRGyE7Y8_RLn13

What do you think about https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116584611459859042 , @evan ?

#ActivityPub

@evan This is the best anthem I know of:
https://youtu.be/5WkLoOvm2Yo?si=1tT73qrqg0iCAKUM

South Africa's is good too.

#USSR

@dansup You should spend your time where you think best. That said, do you have any idea when the Android client for Loops will be available on the Play Store or F-Droid?

@evan It's always been fractured to some degree: Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Tumblr, etc. had only semi-overlapping posters, readers and topics.

My sense is that social media have become more fractured since 2022. Haven't seen any stats, but they probably exist.

@dyckron Pharmacare is good. Shared federal/provincial programmes are bad. Let the provinces handle it and the feds manage their proper responsibilities.

With a bit of research I see that Québec has had a pharmacare plan for 30 years; BC for 50 years.

#CanPol #cdnpoli #pharmacare

@evan Not exactly what I was thinking. In Minecraft (let's say), you want to keep growing, not just in absolute terms, but sufficiently that your strength relative to others remains stable, or else your nation will be destroyed by aggressors.

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@evan I was wondering why Wikipedia can't be a "little barley field and a little wood lot and a little university and you just chill and eat mushroom barley soup and write poetry by your wood fire". One of the links you posted ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Schiste/what-now ) gives some answers.

But on reflection, I'm not so sure. I see how the lack of articles in Bengali is a problem; but in 2026, if someone wants to read about Pytheas in Bengali, she can easily use machine translation to do so.

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@evan It's true that she (and other people benefitting from Wikipedia) would be less likely to write an article about that interesting monument in Chittagong than she once was: editing is less at-hand for people who find Wikipedia information via a search engine or an LLM, and mobile devices are ill-suited to writing long, serious texts. The trend seems to be that Wikipedia will have fewer editors and fewer new articles, but like the barley farm, that could remain sustainable.

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@evan Yeah, but to some degree we make our own luck.

@evan It would be interesting to see more statistics, e.g., top ten most posted tags, top ten most followed tags, etc.

This doesn't sound much like you, @dansup . Consider that you might be in the early stages of burn-out. Maybe book a vacation somewhere you can put your cares aside?

@evan I never met the man, never moved in his circles, and my name stays out of publication. Why would my name be in the files?

@evan I looked for Canadian politicians — not because I can think of any who seem particularly likely to indulge in sexual debauchery, but because I could think of a few who might hang out with wealthy New Yorkers, there or in Florida. Didn't find anything questionable.

@evan So when you block someone, it's normally temporary? I'd bet that an extreme minority practice.

@icedquinn You mean "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"? Or some other thing Mussolini said?

#fascism

@evan Yes, but. When I've had a conversation and then been blocked, I've often wished that the person would tell me why, or offer me a chance to apologise. Maybe the other person is right and I'm wrong; maybe I've said something that, on reflection, I regret.

Muting I think is less serious: sometimes it's just someone wanting a pause, which is perfectly reasonable.

If there's someone you just don't want to read, generally not following suffices, but sometimes a quiet block is the solution.

Thanks, @evan

@cogdog