On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I believe that one of the more trustworthy Canadian info sources online at the moment re: COVID-19 is Tara Moriarty. Her main social media presence is still the Hellbirdsite, although she does maintain a Mastodon/Fediverse account as well.

https://x.com/MoriartyLab

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

Excuse me while I politely ask her to resume cross-posting to the latter...

Yes, we're hitting the eight-billion mark in living humans this week. When I was starting grade school, I think we were at four billion.

Now, though, we have some debate over how difficult things are expected to become, how quickly, and in what ways exactly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/8-billion-global-population-1.6646018

My current job search diary, begun on 14 March of this year, is now at 201 pages, and 5003 entries typed in Helvetica Neue 10 point.

I don't know how much of this is because of the Pandemic, how much is psychological self-sabotage, how much is just bad timing or whatever else. But here I am.

This is terrifying to my brain to read:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lowest-voter-turnout-ontario-history-elections-1.6476344

Yes, there's still ballot-counting to be done as of today. Even so, the drop in turnout is a horrible development. I'd been hoping over this past decade that people were still heeding advice (*) from the likes of Rick Mercer to show up in greater numbers with each election held and completed.

And we've got municipal elections in October in Ontario, right?

(*) - Yes, the video is from 2011, and the Rant is focused on people aged between 18 and 25, and the advice still holds for the wider public.

About my job search diary:

• 25 pages thus far as of noon today on the Numbers spreadsheet I've set up for it.
• Four columns: date; employer contacted/resource used; intended job if specific; activity undertaken and result if confirmed.
• 623 entries, and yes, I count Dreamwidth these days as a "networking + research" activity. I'm sure the Conservatives will change the rules to disallow that for (un)employment insurance purposes if they get to form government again.
• Four weeks, going on five.

So there's that.

A friend pointed out this article in The Daily Beast tonight.

Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.

I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.

Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:

https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/

And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."

Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)

All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.

(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)

Noting that my job search diary for 2021 has now reached 3700+ entries covering 150 pages and six and a half months. For some reason of statistics, that seems to matter right now.

More in space exploration.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/giant-planets-found-in-the-stellar-suburbs

As of this posting, per covidvax-dot-live's Canadian stats page, Canada is now at 2.04 % of our population being fully vaccinated. At this pace, we'd be at 70 % by the end of November.

Continuing to keep watch, of course...

Do any of you here reading this account use any of the software sold by this outfit? Asking for myself, because looking for alternatives to Delicious Library because Culling Project.

If you have other suggestions for alternatives in inventory-ware, please let me know.