It's been a long couple of weeks with the heat.

Now that the reading diary is over I'm planning to start using this space as a proxy to post news on my FB account. Keep doing the "educate yourself on this issue" stuff I used to do before the news ban, which is my way of getting around the obligation to be politically neutral as a public servant.

I am rarely here but FB is such an absolute shitshow, I am drifting to here as a source of interesting news and such. Mostly just following friends, authors I like and some local (to me) social justice folks.

I'll choose to believe it's the rink in Victoria Park.

😲

Not to mention a potential increase in needle-sharing and the spread of blood-borne diseases in an already vulnerable population.

You're not alone! I'm working through the end of August, but then I go hiking.

So that's why Winnipeg smells like it does in the summer...🤢

Neither an academic nor an intellectual, but I usually start with "what genre?" and try to narrow it down from there.

To my mind, equality needs to be built from the ground up, not the top down.

Technocracy is not democracy. It's a model where technocrats lead and everyone else follows.

Rigid social categorization. Little if no movement between the leader class and the masses.

whether they approach it on the basis of "from each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs" or by creating a populace in which everyone has a roughly consistent level of ability and need, which means the extermination of outliers.

Well, in any situation where equality and what equality means is defined by a small group of people holding themselves external to the larger mass of society, the egalitarian society they build will be predicated on