Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)

@Paulatics

At the start of the speech, PM Trudeau explains how the US tariffs have real consequences for the citizens of the US, their jobs may be in jeopardy, and raise fuel and grocery costs. Five minutes later he tells us that he's imposing the same tariffs in Canada. So he's putting Canadian jobs in jeopardy, increasing household costs for Canadians, and causing Canadians to experience the same consequences he's warning US citizens about.

#CDNpoli CanPoli #Tariffs

At 11am on CKMS #Connections we talk to Lauren Weinberg and Mr. M of #IndependentJewishVoices of #WaterlooRegion about the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Listen to CKMS-FM 102.7 on the radio, https://radiowaterloo.ca/listen online, or YouTube live: https://youtu.be/w5QQd6oNtMA

@radiowaterloo.ca

#Holocaust #InternationalDay #Remembrance #FreePalestine

Listen to @radiowaterloo.ca on the radio at CKMS-FM 102.7, online at https://radiowaterloo.ca/listen, or watch https://youtube.com/@radiowaterloo for live video at 11:00am (EST, UTC -0500)

#RadioWaterloo #CommunityRadio #IndependentJewishVoices #IJVWR #WaterlooRegion #Holocaust #InternationalDay #Palestine #FreePalestine #Genocide

On the next CKMS #CommunityConnections, Monday 27 January 2025 at 11:00am (EST) I'll be interviewing two representatives from

Valentine's Day #protip: You can build custom boxes at sees.com! (We buy a pound box for each other and call it good.)

Also: Sees is a #union company. And their #chocolate is delicious.

https://www.sees.com/build-a-box

From https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

> The Electronic Intifada team stands in solidarity with Ali Abunimah. Speaking out against injustice in Palestine is not a crime. Journalism is not a crime.

I misread that as "Speaking out against injustice in Palestine is now a crime. Journalism is now a crime" and, sadly, that seems to fit...

@yogthos

@evan

I've changed. I used to prefer apps installed on my computer because the browser versions were inferior.

But my experience with sureveillance-ware on phones makes me prefer browsers now, even on the desktop, where I can manage (to some extent) the third-party Javascript that gets loaded, popups, &c.

I'm likely deluding myself that the in-browser apps are any safer than installed apps, tho.

@jacqueline

#Planturday

The people who ask leftists to not split the vote are always centrists.

Is it because the centrists are already compromising, and they feel like everyone should compromise with them on their vision of the future?

#BikeNite A1: Writing from #WaterlooRegion in Ontario, as usual.

The most recent thing I added to my bike was a cell phone holder (a gift from my sister), but that's purely practical.

The most recent decoration on my bike was a small rainbow heart I put on the front of the head tube. They were being handed out by the organizer of the Rainbow Ride in 2022. Sadly, it faded in the sun, and peeled off this year.

@ascentale
@bikenite

#BikeNite A6: I don't take many photos when biking.

The oldest that's easily accessible is from the #Waterloo #CriticalMass ride in 2010, with many riders in costumes. The Transformer was skateboarding...

The most recent photo is of damage to a bike lane, probably from a car that pushed the concrete curb blocks into the bike lane. Not much good for protection from traffic, apparently.

@ascentale
@pete
@bikenite

@evan

Add to #Intelligence and #Knowledge a third axis: #Wisdom.

I've know a number of intelligent people with lots of knowledge but absolutely no wisdom at all.

And an aside: There's a pretty good podcast "On Wisdom" with Igor Grossman @psywisdom and Charles Cassidy: https://evidencebasedwisdom.com/on-wisdom-podcast/

Safety reminders for these times:
- Direct messages on Fedi are not encrypted.
- If your instance is hosted in the US, the admin has to comply with US law.
- Discord text chat is not encrypted. Video is.
- Encrypted group chats are only as secure as the people with access and their security practices.

If you're interested in protecting the contents of your conversations or work, follow the #privacy tag. People posts some really interesting things on there.

Your privacy protects your friends too. Do it for all of us.

An excellent step-by-step executable guide to implementing better privacy. https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

Recommended privacy people:
- @Em0nM4stodon
- @techlore
- @privacyguides
- @thenewoil

More advice from smarter people:
- Passwords & General Privacy hygiene: https://infosec.exchange/@avoidthehack/113867140078775299
- VPNs: https://mas.to/@joeturner/113867181288155342

Recommended privacy communities:
- https://discuss.techlore.tech
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net

The rest of this thread describes options that I'm considering and my personal privacy journey.

(Thanks to @joeturner and everyone else in the community for your recommendations.)

@c_9

> If you search for “Blue 22” ...

Did that, and I've just come out of that rabbit hole after about three hours. Thanx, that was good!

#RailFan

@c_9

Obviously, I've never taken the UP Express (a weird little train that goes from Toronto's Union Station to the Pearson International Airport).

I was taking either the GO train or VIA Rail past there every day while they were building it and when it first ran. Never understood why it wasn't made as an aboveground subway extension or as an LRT on the streetcar system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UP_Express

#Toronto #YYZ #PublicTransit #UPExpress

Actually lol'd.

@david_megginson

That would be me, also in the early 1990s. I didn't take TTC to the airport regularly, but it took well over two hours from Woodbine and Gerard. And service was infrequent; I remember standing at some desolate bus stop along some stroad waiting for the transfer.

I'm not sure the UP Express train has really helped. Is it still $40 a ride?

@reece

Today you'll hear many people quote the "I have a dream" speech (including people on the right) but fewer people quote this:

"'And one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth."

1/2

#MLKjr #MLKday

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

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#ModernMajorGeneral

@mayintoronto

> So to the politicians promising economic growth, when will the people experience it?

We are experiencing it. As inflation, unaffordable housing, job losses.

The economic growth is going into the 1%'s pockets. And that 1% includes a good number of politicians, so as far as they're concerned, they've made good on their promise.