Thing I missed about italy: church bells ringing. Thing I miss about canada: friends and family, of course.
Merry Christmas all! I've been up since five a.m. and now I'm ready for sleep again.
What is up with this weather? Honestly! I had to drive to Hfx yesterday for a 10 minute appointment with my doctor. I thought it was bad yesterday, but at least the bridge was open!
This bloody cold has kicked my ass. I'm so tired all the time. Yesterday, I had six naps. Does that even count as waking up? 😅 Anyway, that's my update. It's raining and dreary and we have to pack for our trip home this week. !!!
Ah, the morning of a strike and the alarms at the train station near my bedroom have been going for an hour. Normally there's someone there to turn them off, I guess? Anyway, it's a dreary, rainy day that involves a ton of laundry and sushi lunch with a friend.
how we envisioned the dark future: you wear leather and buy brain stims from a small store in an alley. your wrist computer helps you hack actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss
“endless growth above all” has been such a cancerous development for the world it’s no longer acceptable to have a sustainable, profitable enterprise that simply does something well - the machine must be fed
I'm pretty proud with my latest research project assignment for homeschooling, "Volcanism in Italy: Live Long and Phosphor".
The doctor should ask how often you miss your mouth entirely when drinking
“Amnesty International said Palantir’s involvement in “serious human rights abuses” meant NHS England should have rejected the bid”. Meanwhile, Palantir “has also supplied technology to governments that allows them to spy on their citizens.” How in the heck did this company get the contract?
A company named after Sauron's and Saruman's seeing orbs is getting all of our NHS data. The company wouldn't be more blatantly named if it was called "All your data are belong to us".
Awarding of contract to create new data platform prompts immediate concerns about security of medical records