#cclinks — Public Fediverse posts

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

Occasional paper: The Suplex Bird — Crooked Timber

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/25/occasional-paper-the-suplex-bird/

It’s spring time and the murder birds are back. #cclinks #shrike

What's Happening to Students? - by Ted Gioia

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/whats-happening-to-students

I have this deep seated worry for our future that we will become a species that forgets how to learn. #cclinks

Getting clear on the role of superspreaders | Mary Alice Arthur

https://www.getsoaring.com/blog/getting-clear-on-the-role-of-superspreaders

My friend Mary Alice Arthur on r he role of super spreaders of story and possibility. #cclinks

The Great Whale Conveyer Belt | Nautilus

https://nautil.us/the-great-whale-conveyor-belt-1197608/

It's well known that salmon transfer ocean nitrogen from the sea to the forests, to the extent that 30% of the nitrogen in BC forests historically arrives that way.

But the whale transfer of nutrients is a whole other things. Sysco of the Seas!

#cclinks #whales #humpbacks #ocean

Stephen Harper's Revisionist History of the Great Financial Crisis in Canada | Dougald Lamont

https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/stephen-harpers-revisionist-history

More timely brilliance from Dougald to counter the myths and lies of the austerity brigade. #CanPoli #cclinks

Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice and Democracy. | Dougald Lamont's Substack

https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/s/clean-slate-new-ideas-for-justice

There are very few people in Canada who provide economic and policy analysis of the present moment with such depth as Dougald Lamont. I am not an expert in macro-economics and public finance, but his blog posts provide me with lots of back ground and questions to follow up. I have learned a great deal reading him in recent months and I encourage you to read him too. #cclinks

We Really Are Entering a New Age of Romanticism | The Honest Broker.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/we-really-are-entering-a-new-age

I will follow Ted Gioia deep into this movement. His name alone is reason to believe him! #cclinks

Features of Effective Boycotts | Peter Levine

https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33673

I remember boycotts from my days in the anti-apartheid solidarity movement in the 1980s. With boycotts all the rage now, it's worth reflecting again on the strategy for using them to drive change. Intention and containment matters. #cclinks

Will tariffs threat override Indigenous sovereignty in B.C? | The Narwhal

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-eby-indigenous-rights-trump-tariffs/

My experience of 39 years in this space confirms that colonial governments will ALWAYS try to duck the duty for meaningful consultation and inclusion of First Nations despite what the courts and the Constitution says. Doing so doesn’t speed things up. It just pushes more stuff into the courts, where governments usually lose in the end. Big. #cclinks #BcPoli

Tokyo Notes

https://www.jamesreeves.co/tokyo-notes/

If you’re a North American and you’ve ever been to Tokyo you will recognize this evocative piece on what your first 24 hours is like. #cclinks #japan #tokyo

"Everything" is just a small part of what I'm interested in | Bayo Akomolafe

https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/everything-is-just-a-small-part-of-what-im-interested-in

Falling in love with the question posed by "The James Webb Telescope, a distant cousin fabricated with steel and story,..." #cclinks

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections

Happy 25th anniversary to Matt Webb’s blog Interconnected, which is always an important read for me. What a lovely post to celebrate his history. And a lovely invitation to all of us: no one values your words more than you. So collect them somewhere important. #cclinks @mattwebb

Small is beautiful - and other thoughts on university governance | Crooked Timber

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/02/16/small-is-beautiful-and-other-thoughts-about-university-governance

A thoughtful discussion on making universities more self-governing at different levels. Can apply also to other large, public serving organizations. #cclinks

Cultivating Change Amidst Collapse | Stanford Social Innovation Review

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/cultivating_change_amidst_collapse

A good survey on options for a strategic change in emergent contexts. #cclinks

‘It’s a Crisis’: Cuts Hit Immigrant Settlement Support | The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/17/Cuts-Hit-Immigrant-Settlement-Support/

Cutting services that help newcomers become active members of their communities has so many long term costs associated with it that the only rationale I can think of that makes this decision possible is straight up xenophobia. #cclinks

A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler | Common Good Collective

https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/

It’s impossible to predict the future but if you want to make some good guesses, take it from the woman that did a pretty good job of it thirty years ago. #cclinks #octaviabutler

To better understand the world, follow the paths of mathematics | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/to-better-understand-the-world-follow-the-paths-of-mathematics

I’ve spent a few hours thinking about this article. While it posits mathematics as a way of thinking about the world that transcends the differences between science and humanities, it is also a nice discussion of causality and how we understand it. #complexity #cclinks

Science : What really makes water wet? | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15320693-200-science-what-really-makes-water-wet/

The New Scientist article from way back in 1997 documenting the experiment showing that it takes six water molecules to produce “wetness”. You cannot infer wetness from one or two or even five molecules of water. #complexity #emergence #cclinks

For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/for-mary-midgley-philosophy-must-be-entangled-in-daily-life

Such an interesting essay on Midgely and epistemic justice. #cclinks

manual sensemaking – Harold Jarche

https://jarche.com/2023/10/manual-sensemaking/

A great post from @harold on simple practices for learning knowledge and making sense of things. #cclinks

Listen to my friend Kameron Perez-Verdia tell the story of his first whale.

#Alaska #Barrow #cclinks

https://m.soundcloud.com/arctic-entries/kameron-perez-verdia-first-whale

‘Lightning’ Bill comes in from the storms – Methow Valley News

https://methowvalleynews.com/2024/08/29/lightning-bill-comes-in-from-the-storms/

Met this guy selling his art in the Pybus Market in Wenatchee today. An absolute legend.

#Wenatchee #cclinks

One of the most significant pieces of work I am currently doing is helping the Squamish Nation develop their Constitution by supporting large in person community gatherings. It's hard work and important work for the Nation and I'm really happy to be a part of it.

https://constitutionproject.net/event/constitution-gathering-2/?link_id=4&can_id=4f52094b8f1a67fe20b2e4425abc8052&source=email-re-zoom-link-to-join-todays-gathering-online&email_referrer=email_2544182&email_subject=re-firstname-title_case-default-friend-heres-what-happened

#SquamishNation #Facilitation #FirstNations #CCLinks