One of biggest scandal reveals in Canada, and it barely gets a mention in the media. Remember the Kamloops Indian School scandal that CNN published in 2021? Much outrage was generated. Well the area was finally excavated, and there were no bodies in the ground. It was all just hype. Think CNN will cover this?
Why everyone is leaving Portland. (It's not the weather. We've had this weather before.)
The Polish Festival and Occidental Oktoberfest are back. Sadly, the risks are just too high for me. Not going.
The COVID song and dance is returning. This time, the risk of contracting the EG.6 and BA.2.86 variants is higher in the vaxxed, according to the CDC.
Increasing commercial surveillance. Someone else has noticed that more companies are encouraging use of their own mobile phone apps. What better way of tracking your consumption and habits? Like the Internet in general, it was all innocent in the beginning. Having an app was fun and cool. Now it's creepy and dangerous.
Organic Maps. This is really cool. I'll be spending time with this, seeing if it can replace Gaia Maps or Caltopo Maps for hiking and outdoors activities. It's free and you don't need a subscription. Wow!
Animated Knots. This will come in handy, I'm sure.
King County to surpass fentanyl death toll. Way to go, Seattle. Keep on doing that DEI, climate change, anti-racist, tax-the-rich strategy that you do.
The last of the fungus. The economy built around the Cordyceps fungus constitutes a tenth of Tibet's GDP. And it's being harvested to extinction. Read this - fascinating writing.
Killed by Google. All the apps, services and hardware Google created or bought out, then later killed. One person in a forum said that the difference between Microsoft and Google is that when you try to connect to someone a few years later at Microsoft regarding a project, that person is still there.