My eyes have been aching all week, which I'd chalked up to sleep deprivation and too much screentime, but this afternoon, for the first time in my life, I used and learned the magic of eye drops. Holy heck!
I feel so silly for having wasted so much time in pain this week, while trying to power through with the work. Time to get caught up on some writing tasks that I kept putting off because my eyes hurt too much.
(✨ MAGIC! DROPS! ✨)
I haven't shared local news for a bit - I'm watching interesting trends in energy futures, environmental activism, & many internal armed conflicts, but still thinking through all the fiddly details.
But this was too perfect a news item not to share to really highlight what the country's overcoming. The headline reads "Armed groups use ceasefire to increase criminal activity in 10 regions."
The road to peace is *very* complicated. It requires accepting deep imperfection along the way. #Colombia
Wonderful refresher on #MutualAid in theory and in real-world praxis (especially in the UK). #Podcasts
Day 19:
Another early wake-up, with lots on the slate today. June was always going to be a packed month, though, so... time to get to it!
Hope everyone has lovely weekends planned for themselves. 👌🏻 It's a second long weekend here (religious holiday the last Monday, and again this one), but I've got big projects to finish around paid work, so I'm sticking to my usual routines for now.
(July, we celebrate! 🤞🏻)
This was an absolutely smashing episode of Past Present Future, which seamlessly interwove essays by Hume on suicide & national debt to illustrate key misreadings of the original position & how the possibility of "debt suicide" reveals what we owe to one another.
#Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #History
https://pca.st/episode/6d298427-2d30-4150-95c4-8e699bcf5bb8
"He's a bit of a mansplain-y essayist."
😅 I love this host. He hasn't tried to hedge in the slightest from Hume's racism and sexism while reflecting on his influence. It is absolutely possible to have serious conversations about philosophy and history that state plainly when the human behind the ideas is deeply flawed, full stop.
The United States is experiencing a once-in-a-generation manufacturing boom, reversing decades of decline. New factories are springing up across the country, building clean energy products that have never been made in America at this scale. The scale and speed of the shift has been stunning–clean energy is no niche industry anymore; it’s now a pillar of the national economy.
https://www.canarymedia.com/made-in-the-usa-ramping-up-clean-energy-manufacturing
Morning, CoSo! 💫
Today for #OnlySky, I have a news brief covering recent online platform news: on Reddit, on Twitter, and in relation to the general struggle for better digital rights in a world where public discourse plays out on privately owned platforms.
We have to do better. This nonsense game of providing public passes to exploitative private ventures is eroding our democracies, and our rights. ⬇️
#Humanism #AI #Technology https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-ongoing-ethical-erosion-of-popular-online-platforms/
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Day 18:
I keep trying to burn the midnight oíl, but a full night's sleep is always best - and my body isn't letting me cut corners these days!
At least getting up nice and early gives me a second chance to reclaim lost ground.
Yesterday I was FULL of doubts - kind of a super lonely week over here, which is never good for the noggin - but it happens. Now I'm waking with a clear sense of today's goals, and hopefully the energy to meet them all.
Onward to a better Thursday. 💫
Morning, CoSo.
🌲🌲🌲
🔥🔥🔥
We Aren't Helpless in the Face of Increasing Fires and Smoke
Seasonal hiring, when combined with low pay and other career challenges, means both countries end up short on the firefighters needed every year. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service started the summer lacking 1,300 firefighters. Things aren't much better on the northern side of the border—staffing shortages in Ontario left the province 50 crews short before the fires there began.
by Jay Balagna
https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/06/we-arent-helpless-in-the-face-of-increasing-fires-and.html
Oh my heart.
Will we ever have the maturity as a species to think globally and address migration crises properly?
#Humanism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece
Today at the Bar, I get a few things about my fellow Cubans off my chest.
¿Y TU ABUELA DONDE ESTA?
https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2023/06/y-tu-abuela-donde-esta.html
Squeaking in an hour of writing before class.
Still having a good chuckle, though, while thinking of two fellows who recently came out of the woodwork to tell me that even though they don't read much fiction they've got these great books they want to sell, so maybe we could swap manuscripts: they could give me some pointers & I could help them in turn? 😂
I don't deal in demographic absolutes, but BOY HOWDY. Some days I wish I had even a tenth of the unearned confidence of such fellow humans.
Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck • 🇨🇦n in 🇨🇴 • avoids pronouns, they/them if key