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href weekly | April 20 – Apr 27 2025

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“as long as anything is centralized it is subject to one day experiencing exactly what Twitter experienced and why using domains to verify anybody is who they say they are is so important bc it’s one thing the platform does *not* have a say over” https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lndkshqgxs2r

“There’s camaraderie here. People come in to chat about their lives while we fix their items, and it does wonders for their mental health.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/fixing-more-than-broken-stuff-the-growing-impact-of-repair-cafes/104727868

“The deity of the Hebrew Bible should not be confused, of course, with GOD (the Generalized Omniscient Dialoguebot), which is included with your LMS. You can ask it for help with your homework, request advice about relationships or major life decisions, or simply talk to it when you’re lonely or afraid.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ten-commandments-annotated-for-use-in-your-ai-enhanced-classroom

Music! Art! Games! Poetry! Dreams beyond the Walled gardensl New programs daily! A celebration of the handmade web! A patchwork quilt of hypertext! Nothing on-demand! Nothing algorithmic! Enjoy the moment! https://hypertext.tv

Film & Video

“the government had created the incentive in 1975 wherein 100 percent of an investment in a film could be written off, the heyday of this inglorious period of Canadian filmmaking began toward the end of the decade, as word of this insane loophole spread, and continued through the early ’80s.” https://thewalrus.ca/david-cronenberg-cinema/

Music & Sound

Let me feel my dory lift
To the broad Atlantic combers
Where the tide rip swirls and the wild ducks whirl
And old Neptune calls the numbers
https://www.cshf.ca/let-me-fish-off-cape-st-marys-song-induction/

Politics & Economics

“What do we have if the freedom to read isn’t ours anymore?” https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16141613-libraries-fighting-freedom-democracy

tooth fairy .. https://thewalrus.ca/tax-cuts-election/

href weekly | Feb 2 – Feb 8 2025

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Supervillains in – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/148678

“In a situation where the outcome is valued more than the process, a shortcut to the desired outcome will always be attractive.” https://archive.ph/h1Pz8

“We cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from Anna’s Archive ..” https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/

Politics & Economics

“Our assignment is to prove that a trade-off between openness and adaptability is not necessary—that a highly decentralized system, designed to respect individual freedom and community rights, can also respond nimbly to looming dangers.” https://thewalrus.ca/canada-has-spent-over-a-century-avoiding-collapse-can-it-keep-going/

“a future in which surviving the seemingly unsurvivable requires people to show some emotional dexterity, some ability to surrender whatever selfishness they’ve been harboring and see if they have something that someone else needs.” https://archive.ph/fJoZQ

“What’s standing in the way of a Canadian industrial policy that focuses on raiding the sky-high margins of American monopolists with third-party add-ons, mods and jailbreaks? Only the IP laws that Canada has agreed to in order to get tariff-free access to American markets.” https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham