one other earth day – Harold Jarche

On the final Friday of every month I curate a number of the observations and insights that had been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.

“Falsehood flies, and reality comes limping after it, in order that when males come to be undeceived, it’s too late; the jest is over, and the story hath had its impact: like a person, who hath considered a superb repartee when the discourse is modified, or the corporate parted; or like a doctor, who hath came upon an infallible medication, after the affected person is useless.” —Jonathan Swift, by way of Ron Dyck

“If there’s one factor I want I burn solely to the bottom and wipe away all traces and remnants of, its the misplaced notion that the productiveness of Data Work will be managed, measured, analyzed, and optimized as if all one wanted to do was drip feed heroin up the arse of their hapless staff … In brief, understanding Data Work means understanding the human situation itself, and taking a darkish take a look at how we managed to show people from a social equitable animal that has limitless curiosity and a need to assist one another succeed right into a raving, bloodthirsty mass of hyperindividualistic demons solely bent on hedonistic self exploitation on the expense of the opposite.” —@HazelWeakly

“All main constructive change in individuals’s civic and labour rights have come from protest. You’re having fun with the fruits of activists’ labour. So to talk of them as fringe or lower than, whereas wanting to carry onto their positive aspects is astonishing. I can not imagine how ungrateful so many snug center class individuals are. Hold appearing as a shill for the state, see what’s left if you do. And preserve disparaging activists, see who shall be left to battle on your lazy ass.” —@LALegault

“Subsequent time you’re on the freeway, take a look at the autos round you. Likelihood is you’ll see loads of extraordinary automobiles. However that’s about to alter: in 2008, 54% of latest autos in Canada had been automobiles, whereas in 2022 it was simply 17%. As outdated autos die, we are going to quickly be surrounded by behemoths, solely vans and SUVs.” —@MadeleineBonsma on Canada’s best-selling automobiles

“I believe one of many main classes that I realized from this pandemic is that there are lengthy tails to pandemics. And sure, we will focus all we wish on the acute part, or the tip of the iceberg, however the actuality is that there’s a actually a lot bigger chunk of incapacity and illness beneath that tip of the iceberg.” —Dr Ziyad Al-Aly — COVID infections are inflicting drops in IQ and years of mind ageing

The highest spender for sponsored journey (2023) for Canadian Members of Parliament was The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) at C$335,264.99 — Workplace of the Battle of Curiosity and Ethics Commissioner