Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca), page 3

@evan
Thanks for continuing to work on this. I get a lot of notifications from tags.pub.

@evan @gwcoffey
The US federal government was originally designed to do little other than defence and foreign policy, but it has come to overshadow the state governments in many spheres. If Americans want to manage these matters at a federal level, they should really amend the constitution accordingly.

#uspol

@evan Will watch parts; have other things I need to do too.

#GoHabsGo

@evan Very true. There's a tendency to think that votes for a third-party candidate (so to speak) are wasted, but in fact the other candidates are wise to look at why winnable voters left them and to see what they can do to broaden their appeal.

@evan I don't have a confident opinion about this as an abstract matter...

Maybe where rights are intended to restrain government action (e.g., the right to free speech), it's best to be universal; but where rights are intended to ensure government action (e.g., provide minority language schooling) it's best to be specific.

It will be interesting to read other opinions.

@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?