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Neil Thomson

@neiljt.bsky.social

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Ottawa.Kanata.Beaverbrook resident. Engaged in Community Assoc., City Issues since 1992. Runner, x-country, cyclist, and sometimes tri-athlete. Tech - Data/Analytics, Data Privacy, Decentralized Digital Identity (SSI). Active in DIF, ToIP, MyData

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 15h

A nice Linux Foundation micro-course on keys and digests for digital trust. Some of my Bite Size Trust videos for Trust over IP appear in it.

trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/courses/keys...

The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation online learning classes

trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 2d

My takeaway: Like PP, Carney has an ego. Both had a goal to be PM. One acquired the education and skills through experience in fields adjacent to and intertwined with politics - Finance - in Canada and the UK, acquiring an International reputation and respect. The other?

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 4d

Cities are complex. Increasing only housing via intensification ignores the "you can't change just one thing in complex systems.

Relying only on profit seeking private sector actors has meant substantial new home and apts in Kanata North, but all tailored to the top 40% of income earners.

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 7d

Canadian here; that's pretty much a US phenomenon.

Aside from Mennonites, who came to Canada to escape issues in the US, religion in Canada is much more low key. I don't recall anyone asking that question in Canada. In the US, sometimes.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 7d

I avoid them religiously

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 11d

I understand his daughter has acquired a large number of photo tickets...

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 14d

It was never about effectiveness. It's always been about the votes. That many in Ontario are complaining, and Ford sees those complaints as a threat an/or opportunity to keep himself and/or the OntPCs in office.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 16d

With the Province taking responsibility for building schools away from school boards in 2000, Ontario changed from in-community schools to regional, on major roads and intersections. Existing schools were expanded, expanding their catchment areas resulting in traffic nightmares near those schools.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 16d

It's actually baked into many vehicle manufacturers current generation of engine computers.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 16d

The simplest solution? Turn on speed-limiting features in the current generation of cars. Yes, it exists, but our happy speeding and tax-averse population will vote anyone out of office who even suggests it. The only other alternative is self-driving cars, which are only a few years away.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 17d

No.

that's why we have laws that's why we have highway traffic no

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 17d

A posted limit without enforcement (in Ontario) is 'just a suggestion".

And with cut backs in in-person police enforcement and objections to photo enforcement (cue Doug Ford), we have every incentive drive as fast as we want.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 17d

Montreal in the 1970's was a gateway for EU and Brit bands to test if they could make it in North America. Jethro Tull was a big part of that and I attended every Tull concert in that era. AQUALUNG was epic. Aqualung and Locomotive Breath live were memorable.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 17d

No.

Either we have a highway traffic act which defines legal behavior, or it's do-what-you-feel-like-today.

Data shows a high correlation between failing to drive within the law and accidents, injuries, and death.

If photo enforcement works, that's entirely appropriate.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 18d

That the mail service has flagged a social issue (isolated/shut-ins), points to solving that issue with the appropriate social supports, versus counting on a side effect of door-to-door mail delivery.

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 18d

Beaverbrook was one of the first communities in Canada to lose daily delivery to their home vs a 'down the street postbox'.

Complaints? Initial grumbling, but frankly key 'mail' is done via email or courier, so daily delivery is essentially irrelevant./e

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 18d

has moved back to a central post box-office type approach, for a fee, which has not been required in my community, but may only be a matter of time.

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 18d

Our community (Beaverbrook, Kanata, est. 1965) had a post office vs home delivery. We've largely gone back to that model with the impersonal post box model.

It works, including for many online deliveries, but is size limited.

The US, with a mixh higher porch pirate problem... /1

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 21d

What more needs to be said, given the video?

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 23d

I smell NFLization and gimmicks...

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 24d

Living the dream...

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 26d

Sing the bilingual version of Oh, Canada as sung by Roger Doucet

Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 26d

Wheat Kings

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 26d

Ahead by a Century

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Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social · 26d

Another is the Feds and Prov starving Cities of funding (Cretien, mid 90s, downloads to provinces, who download to cities)

Lastly, retired boomers who won't use transit who "already pay too much tax"/e