Notices by Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)

@wdlindsy Ellul predicted this would happen. Those that own the media control the propaganda.

@wdlindsy It's only a 'marketplace of ideas' when all vendors have equal access to the market. And Billionaires have achieved a near monopoly on the 'marketplace of ideas'.

Do not celebrate war this coming Nov. 11 but remember how stupid war is by remembering the young people who died or came back with missing limbs. Don't glorify war. Please.

#History #RememberanceDay

@MattMerk https://www.freebsd.org/ *whistles innocently*

https://thewalrus.ca/wellness-industry-is-making-us-sick/

#Health #CriticalThinking #TheWalrus

Dang I can smell my fresh bread now.

All the articles on "Induced demand" that I have seen so far (Apparently there is Induced traffic vs. Induced demand) are automobile-centric eg. even this recent CBC one https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lanes-impacts-1.7358319
Seems pretty clear to me (Even if I am not a transportation engineer, I only play one on the Internets 😀) that it also applies to bus/LRT transit and bicycle lanes. Build them and people will use them. Something our mayor here in Ottawa (and our Premier) do not seem to understand.

#Ottawa #LRT #OttBike #Transit #Transportation #TransportationEngineering

@uxmark @HopelessDemigod Ah ha!

If you don't understand computer programs are also non-physical you'll never understand consciousness.

Out of curiosity, how many of you fine folks would know the word "milch" and what it means (Please no spoilers and no cheating by looking it up until after you have thought about it at least!)

#Language #Linguistics #LanguageChange

For those who know me, it's surprisingly similar how programming and baking are. That is all!

@david_megginson @RickiTarr Doctors still (?) use those damn things or did last I checked. Pharmacies still (?) talk about faxxing in prescriptions. And we all remember the horror stories of wrong numbers with sensitive drug prescription renewals sent to wrong numbers...

@dan613 @david_megginson @RickiTarr Yep. I actually set up a desktop fax years ago for a company. Why buy a device when you can use software? (aside that's also true for those of us who do amateur radio packet or rtty!) I had read somewhere there were moves to do secure email prescription instead hence my hedging. Yes point to point lessens the chances of MiM attacks. Just make sure you get the phone number right.

I suspect Muskie's Trump card is encouraging a lot more migrations from Xitter to Mastodon. I'd imagine it would be the last straw.

#Mastodon #Twittermigration

Once in a while I post to a hashtag then almost immediately get a boost from a stupid bot. Argh despite having #nobot in my profile. I am going to be blocking bots from now on. I'd much rather get real people than bots boosting me.

#Mastodon

If the Ontario Science Centre was a sports stadium Ford would have had the money to repair it immediately.

#Ontario #OntarioScienceCentre

@BeAware @saturata And many of us choose to boost introduction posts to help newbies find their people. Welcome aboard!

I had given up on pleading for more alt-text but I'll try again!

Please add alt-text to your photos/pictures it only takes a minute and does not have to be fancy. My policy is not to boost images without alt-text and I am not the only one.

This is one of the cultural things I like about Mastodon, the inclusiveness. Please don't ruin it.

#Mastodon #Alt-Text #Ottawa #Blind #Accessibility

I have always liked (Quote from Emily Adlam) “If you always make every possible decision, that does seem to severely undermine the sense in which you are exercising any meaningful kind of choice” this sums up my thoughts about MWI does not give us free will either.

And here is the Apple pie with maple sugar…
(Edit) It is delicious!

#Ottawa #Baking #ApplePie #BakingExperiment