Notices by May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)

Formal e-petition calling for the Government of Canada to move off Twitter for formal government communications.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Backed by Charlie Angus.

#canpoli

I often explain my work as "helping product teams do product management better." In this field, there's often an intuitive sense of "we're doing things wrong", but "good" or "right" are rarely well-defined.

That's what Product Conversations is digging into on Friday! Good Product Management with my friends @skinnylatte, @PamelaSchure, Rosemary King and Emily Reid.

Join us Friday Feb 21, noon EST, live in the comments or any time after.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/goodproductmanagement7297743319038578689/comments/

Youtube: [coming soon]

#product #productmanagement

@dave The fancy pants smoothie places use fresh bananas. It's the commercial purees that has the unripe and the rind that makes my mouth unhappy. I'm gonna try a ripe banana at some time to check.

@bobjonkman

@sundogplanets Is there an #asstodon equivalent for llamas?

@cwebber @spritely I would like to point out that you've now raise more than Free Our Feeds, despite all their big name support.

Huge accomplishment.

#cdnpoli We got a new set of Canadian millionaire influencers! Featuring such great people as the CEO of Shopify (residential school mass graves denier and Trump supporter), and all these other CEOs. https://www.buildcanada.com

The Canadian Tech Bros truly believe this. It's the first paragraph of their latest memo.
"In 1967 Canada introduced a points-based immigration system. It was the first genuinely meritocratic immigration system ever implemented. It didn’t care about a newcomer's ethnicity or religion but only looked at whether they would be an asset to Canada."

This is, of course, complete bullshit. Founder-itis "meritocracy" abound.

h/t @christine

@skinnylatte That's really cool. I don't speak any of my dad's village dialect (Hoklo), but he does speak a bit of Teochiu too. Some days I feel like I've already lost so much Cantonese as well.

I wonder how long these languages will stick around for. It's hard to keep them up when we're all so far from tradition.

@skinnylatte I was 17 before I realized that you could cook rice without a rice cooker.

As humans, we have a tendency to want to celebrate individual humans for major accomplishments.

When was the last time an individual accomplished something unbelievable on their own? Rarely. When they did, they had a system of support around them. When they don't scale their team, the initiative collapses.

When a team accomplishes something, we celebrate the director, or the funder, or the CEO. It's always about ONE individual, and all the labour that the rest of the team put into it is minimalized externally.

This cult of personality is making us forget that working together is how society is built. We need to start recognizing teams and entities over individuals (unless we are recognizing every individual). 🧵 1/2

#askfedi People who consider yourselves to be strictly or mostly cisgender, what is your understanding of and/or relationship with your own personal gender identity?

(I'm genuinely curious!)

#gender

@skinnylatte okay but what about this cake?

@tofticles Time to put "Gender" in all my docs and repos.

A lot of people are supporting Costco for "keeping DEI", but recall that 18,000 Costco Union workers are going on strike on Feb 1.

They are striking over: "seniority pay, paid family leave, bereavement policies, sick time, and safeguards against surveillance."

Don't wash out the labour power with your support of so-called DEI policies when they're not actively supporting the needs and rights of workers.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/business/costco-strike-teamsters/index.html

Read what the Teamsters are striking against. Union busting too.

"The Teamsters recently filed unfair labor practice charges against Costco for expelling union representatives, harassing workers for wearing union buttons, sending employees home, removing union literature, and even changing locks on union bulletin boards. Notably, Costco rejected a proposal that would protect the union’s right to post on bulletin boards without interference — an agreement that could have addressed some of these labor board complaints."

https://teamster.org/2024/12/costco-refuses-to-accept-98-of-teamsters-proposals/

#Costco #labor #DEI #solidarity

A while back, there was some buzz about this one guy who built a really good search engine in his basement or something like that. Anyone remember what that was and what happened to it?

Edit: This one! https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

@Fragglemuppet This is the best distraction. https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/113892903097486012

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?

If I feel like this person can't adequately push towards the society that I want to live in, I don't think I could vote for them. Period.

I'll consider voting for your centrist candidate when they propose truly universal mental health, dental care, and pharmacare without means testing.

@skinnylatte I had a story like this! It was my second last day in Yellowknife. I was wandering the city by myself and found myself back at the incredible fish and chips place that I absolutely loved.

I was in heaven with this fish, and the guy next to me hit up a conversation. Then invited me to an impromptu house party with the coolest people I had ever met.

I don't remember any of it, but that was when I figured it'd be a good place to move if I ever wanted to leave Toronto.

@va2lam That was the place! Sooooo good.

@cwebber When I was teaching, there was this one kid who struggled so hard with (probably) undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia that new never learned to read 3 letter words like "the" or "dog". At 14.

But he was smart and articulate. So while I forced him to practice writing and slowly start the extremely hard process of learning to read, I tested him on all the other subjects verbally. Kid was brilliant!

His mom knocked on my door when the report cards came out with tears in her eyes. He had never passed ANYTHING before.

He deserved that grade. He eventually graduated. Even now, he describes reading as trying to catch words floating down the rapids.