Dana McFarland 🍁 πŸ”₯🐎

@danamcfarland
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Bad gardener, good soup maker, settler in stz'uminus territory
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The Beaverton!

"Sauces that pair nicely with eating the rich."

NEW YORK – As yet another news cycle confirms that extreme wealth functions as a force field against accountability, the discourse has evolved. We’re no longer debating whether to eat the rich; we’ve moved on to the more pressing culinary question: how best to season them.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/sauces-that-pair-nicely-with-eating-the-rich/

#cdnpoli #uspol

Avi Lewis is the new leader of the NDP, and if you want to know what that means, you should read his platform on labour & AI.
https://lewisforleader.ca/ideas/dignified-work-full-plan

This might be a new era of Canadian politics. It's so very, very exciting!

#cdnpoli

Dignified Work in a Digital Age - Avi Lewis for NDP Leader

Among the crises we face today, few are as urgent as the loss of fair and secure work. Our campaign's five-point plan offers real solutions to the problems faci

Avi Lewis for NDP Leader

@davidakin Any provincial NDP that does this just wants to be Liberals, which is to say, they are neoliberal ideologically. The BC "NDP" are exactly the same.

We're witnessing a new battle in the definition of the left in Canada.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116297834084118285

Wikipedia has higher standards than most universities in the world (if not all of them)

#Wikipedia #NoAI #LLM #AISlop #Education

The Bee That Everyone Wants to Save

My neighbour has 50 hives, the road has 30 more. That's 4 million honeybees, and not one of them is the bee that actually needs saving.

The Naturalist’s Rabbit Hole

@iwritelike Not a coder but I've technically been writing Markdown since before it was announced in 2004, because I was already writing plain-text emails with almost exactly that syntax and adapting to the Markdown bits took like a day.

(That said I kind of hate Markdown for complex or living documents, Pandoc is amazing but it's reinventing a somehow even worse AsciiDoc by strapping a rocket to a Web 1.0 blogging tool.)

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-cbcnews

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News

American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

CBC

Happy Feature Friday! πŸ’«

Among our latest Registry updates include improvements to the Add Works menu option within the Works section of the ORCID record to support the new "Import works from other services" option.

Read more here: https://info.orcid.org/feature-friday/

#ORCID #FeatureFriday

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