Are you a neurodivergent woman in a communications-related role who was diagnosed or self-diagnosed as an adult? Do you work in Canada? Do you have 15 minutes?

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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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In all the current discussion, I see the concern about iteration on the world, but the issue isn’t iteration, that is life. Everything and everyone refines and grows (and dies) through iterative processes. The issue is iterating without ethics, without consideration for impacts. Short-termers.

Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

The actual cure for loneliness is genuine connection and self-reflection. And probably really interesting pursuits.

Thinking about this in an environment beset by chatbots.

“…exerting effort ‘seems to be the key route, maybe the only route, by which you can fulfill certain needs, like the needs for competence and mastery and maybe even self-understanding. You can’t get those without pushing yourself.’”

Evil is banal (Arendt, 1963) and has wickedly crap typography and design skills. Shallow, short-term, selfish.

Is it the lack of introspection or reflection? A gross inability to respect anyone else’s PoV? The servile cognitive abdication to power (and now genAI)?

Goodness takes purposeful effort.

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I get how not having links on Twitter runs counter to the old principles the open web, but this story (by the great-as-usual @issielapowsky.bsky.social) is even bigger. Instead of global businesses being on the internet, they become part of More Facebook. restofworld.org/2024/how-wha...

Do you crave connection? Have a hankering for genuine conversation? Are you a communicator in Waterloo Region?

Then I’d like to see the beautiful whole of you, starting in January, 2025.

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Ringo is extra graceful first thing in the morning during “attack the hand” yoga.

#ringo #orangecat

The afternoon sky was a gradient from the larimar horizon to the deep blue overhead. Ominous stony clouds lumbered across it, cooling the light.

#natureIsAPoem #blueSkyDay #hello

Just orange things.