Colin Macdonald

@colinmac
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based in Honolulu, Hawaii

currently: web designer / photographer at University of Hawaii;
previously: UH Professor of Communication; Creative Director, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Art Director, A&M Records of Canada

into #politics, #journalism, #technology, #music, #photography, #web design, #cinema and #films, #travel, #cooking, and especially #pizza

Timeline cleanse: The Boogie Woogie Twins - Dr. John & Jools Holland's legendary duet from NBC's Night Music show, 1988. (It's now on Jools Holland's album Pianola: Piano & Friends)

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥳

#Canada election: Liberals will form next government, CBC News projects!!!

https://www.cbc.ca/9.6738893

Canada election: Liberals will form next government, CBC News projects | CBC

CBC
This is sobering, but worth reading if you want to understand how badly Trump is destroying the economy. Just data. And entirely Trump-inflicted. https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/042625-ConsumerandFirms_v2.pdf
What I wrote tonight instead of attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner: https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/acts-of-war?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Acts of War

A weekend in Washington for history lessons

Timothy Snyder gave a presentation at the New York Public Library on Monday.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/04/01/timothy-snyder

Timothy Snyder: The New Paganism—A Framework for Understanding Our Politics

In this age of strife and turmoil, how do we think deeply and differently about the changes in our politics and our societies? The Yale professor of history and award-winning author delivers the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture.

The New York Public Library
Timothy Snyder: “The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous
Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous

Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University

The Guardian

Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.

The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.
https://www.propublica.org/article/salvador-cavazos-valere-pay-pushback?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Education #School

Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.

The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.

ProPublica

2017: Trump invites Code Talkers to the White House. "from the heart, from the absolute heart, we appreciate what you have done... the bravery you have displayed and the love you have for your country." (Then he made a Pocahontas crack. Fuckin' guy.)

Now: DoD removes references to the Code Talkers from the web

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

Axios Salt Lake City
Atlassian, a 10,000-person organization reduced office space by 50%, making office visits optional but intentional. The result? An increase in productivity of approximately 40 min per employee per day, along with cost savings from reduced office expenses.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/solangecharas/2025/03/01/why-rigid-rto-mandates-cost-more-than-they-save/
Why Rigid RTO Mandates Cost More Than They Save

As companies wrestle with return-to-office (RTO) mandates, many executives frame the debate as a binary choice: remote work versus in-office work.

Forbes

I made a version of @MeanwhileinCanada’s post with open captions:
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/114104777281677912

@packy made a transcript:
https://fosstodon.org/@packy/114104869513668888

I can’t do much about stupid American decisions, but I can do this.

Meanwhile in Canada (@[email protected])

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ohai.social