Before The Far Right Threatened Democracy Neoliberalism Stripped It Down | Policy Note

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/before-the-far-right-threatened-democracy-neoliberalism-stripped-it-down/

Simon Enoch’s clear headed account of the history of neoliberalism and the decline of democracy is brilliant and brings all the receipts. #cclinks

I Am A Geologist | YouTube

https://youtu.be/vlkUzAV5vGE?si=cqXz9ko0TRjZ2Jl2

Very few people know more about the natural history of the place where I live than Bob Turner, my friend and our former Bowen Island mayor.

Enjoy his latest. #cclinks

Eyewitness to History: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens – Ingalls Weather

https://ingallswx.com/2025/05/18/eyewitness-to-history-the-1980-eruption-of-mount-st-helens/

A newly discovered account of the eruption. #cclinks #volcanos #MountStHelens

‘A living collective’: study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse

https://theconversation.com/a-living-collective-study-shows-trees-synchronise-electrical-signals-during-a-solar-eclipse-255499

Trees talk about solar eclipses with each other. #cclinks #trees #SolarEclipse

Positano : John Steinbeck

https://archive.org/details/positano-john-steinbeck

I am in Positano at the moment. Steinbeck is right. #cclinks

Illuminated Clementine | Literary Review of Canada

https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/05/illuminated-clementine/

Three small meditations on what the souls looks like by Patrick Warner. #cclinks

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/05/despair-eternity-and-other-such-fluff.html

An interesting take on Kierkegaard and despair in the light of better cosmology. #cclinks #philosophy #cosmology

Protocols Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Mike Masnick

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

This now classic essay has A LOT to say about how we do organizational change and facilitation, something I will write more on later at the blog. #cclinks

AI practice partners – jamie billingham

https://jamiebillingham.com/ai-practice-partners/

I most commonly use AI as a thinking partner as I can easily take inspiration from oblique ideas and ChatGPT isn’t afraid to look dumb or feed me nonsense that I can actually work with.

Jamie has been doing great work using ChatGPT to help with instructional design and her blog is worth a follow. #cclinks

https://www.emilyartist.ca/2025/04/ralph.html

These kinds of personal obituaries are the best. Ralph was a fellow Islander and my neighbour Emily has penned this most beautiful reflection of his life and death.

#cclinks #bowenisland