I forget how I first followed @jeffperera.bsky.social but I think our first conversation online came up on today's date. December 6 - it's a weird moment we shared despite a gap in age, context, and distance when December 6, 1989 events affected us.
Thoughtful and timely, though not exactly cheering, post from Jeff, as always.
This crossed my timeline just minutes past midnight, as I was reading an article on the Gen-AI enabled online abuse of women and girls. Only days after learning of a young welder in Minnesota brutally beaten to death at work, by a male coworker who "didn't like how she looked at him".
Thirty-six damn years ago we said "First mourn then work for change."
I am so. Damn. Tired. of the mourning part.
I should only ever have learned these names if I had met them as graduates or working in professional roles in the Canadian engineering sector.
Instead I memorized them decades ago while laying white roses at memorial gardens at other engineering schools.
Johanna, CanCon variety
David Michaels