Canada has adopted the IHRA's definition of antisemitism, which includes categorizing anti-Zionism as inherently antisemitic. Antisemitism is a serious problem and is genuinely on the rise in Canada, but the IHRA's definition is problematic in a number of ways, and there were good reasons the previous Liberal government decided not to use it.
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August C. Bourré
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Writer, critic, editor. Bylines: Brick, CNQ, Carousel, Dalhousie Review, Globe & Mail, National Post, Quill & Quire. Master of Information candidate at the University of Toronto's iSchool. Gomi no sensei. Archival maximalist.
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One of my readings this week is by Woodrow Hartzog, which sounds like store brand Werner Herzog.
My final assignment for my privacy class will be to make a digital privacy toolkit in any format I want, and I'm considering making a physical zine.
@bookgaga@mastodon.social I only just now realized you are the Vicki who made the pillow! Kirby was absolutely over the moon about it when I stopped by the book fair yesterday.
A forum I'm on has a "stupid ideas" thread, in which people talk about passion projects they doubt they'll ever realize because they are, typically, labour and capital intensive with virtually no hope of generating a reasonable income, or even any income at all. Pretty much all of them involve making art, food, labour, care, and space available to the public in a thoughtful way. None of them are about phones, computers, or "tech." The world needs these stupid ideas.
I have uploaded another game jam thing. Obscure Sins: D100 things that make the gods in your fantasy setting irrationally angry.
https://reflexgames.itch.io/obscure-sins
(It will no longer prompt for a donation; I have figured out how to actually make things free.)
Dad and I are at an old man diner that I found by literally googling "old people restaurants in Hamilton."
Also, if a Canadian restaurant has liver & onions on the menu you can rest assured they have not served a fresh vegetable since the invention of canning.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Having spent a lot of time in helicopters for work, those circles are pretty consistent with making observations of locations on the ground.
The train I’m on just did an automated land acknowledgment.
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@serialdeviant@mstdn.social @julianlawson@beige.party Interesting! To be clear, none of the ideas in the thread are actually stupid from the point of view of social utility or personal gratification, but they're almost all the sort of thing you'd need to quit your job to accomplish and would basically ruin you economically if you didn't already start from a position of wealth.
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@bookgaga I do not. I used to, until I read The Witches of Eastwick, which remains one of the worst books I've ever read. It took me three years. Never again will I let a bad book beat me.
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@cindyweinstein@mastodon.world @usluck@channels.im When my mother died and I tried to claim the life insurance policy, initially they wouldn't speak to me because I wasn't the policy holder. I was like, dude, she died. I'm the beneficiary. She can't come to the phone because she's dead.
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Other long-term projects include restoring my grandfather's almost 100 year old handmade toolbox, restoring my father's 40 year old steel toolbox, and cleaning up/restoring their tools.
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(It's intended to be entirely free, but every time I drop the "recommended price" to zero, the site automatically bumps it back up to $2. If you download, just skip the payment. I didn't make it for money.)
Playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon tonight trying to see how many hops to my high school celebrity crushes. I managed 3 to Winona Ryder. Haven’t figured out Nicole Kidman yet.
DJ Shadow tickets acquired.
My final paper is done, no more school until my final term in the fall.
Also from today's writing: Note, also, that “content” is a term for cultural goods that artificially separates the material and ethical conditions of their production from the material and ethical realities of the distribution channels through which they are explicitly commodified.
The best boiled egg. Bring water to a rolling boil. Add egg. Boil for 6 minutes if straight from the fridge, 7 minutes if already at room temperature. Place directly into an ice bath, and then peel. Enjoy!
You can also marinate them for extra flavour.
Oof. I genuinely thought places like Spain had a better handle on shit like this. It was absolute hell when my dad got evicted a couple years ago. I can't imagine what would have happened if I hadn't been around to help. (Or if I hadn't had the resources.)
Daniel Tate, the guy behind integrityTO, a local right-wing "action group" or whatever you want to call it, is running for city council in my ward. His street team (all middle-aged white women, from what I could see) were here today. I didn't speak to them, but they dropped off a flyer that had more dog whistles than the pound.
FLOL. I just got an ad for The Road to Serfdom on another site. The algorithm does not get me at all.
The text of Bill C-39 doesn't seem to be available online anywhere yet, and I am extremely interested in reading it after that press conference.
For All Mankind, as much as I am enjoying it, has triggered a big spike in my anxiety levels, and I'm trying to figure out why. Maybe it's bringing back the white noise of '80s culture for me: the idea that no matter what else we did, in the background there was always the idea that we might be vaporized by a mushroom cloud at any moment for reasons we would never know or understand. I didn't feel it at the time, but it was *there*. For All Mankind taps into that anxiety really well.
"Some people are so poor all they have is money."
"Are you sure this is the hill you want to die on?"
"*Somebody's* going to die on this hill."