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“Canada Bread did not comment.”

Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years

And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could cost as much as $150-million.

Terrible photography returns to the Internet

i’ve got my photos back online, and this time they’re accessible within WordPress, where before i used a subdomain and separate software (tried a few, didn’t much like any of them). In a few minutes photos.mooresie.net will work, or you can hit the link at the top menu right now.
Learning lots lately.

Dan Harmon on depression

Girl Asks Rick And Morty’s Co-Author How To Cope With Depression, Does Not Expect His Response

Dark thoughts will echo off the walls of your skull, they will distort and magnify. When you open your mouth (or an anonymous journal or blog or sketchpad), these thoughts go out. They’ll be back but you gotta get em OUT. Vent them. Tap them. I know you don’t want to but try it.

Marlene Bird

 

Marlene Bird, dead at 50, survived vicious assault that led to loss of her legs

“I liked that apology,” she told media. “It feels good. I don’t have to have bad dreams, I hope.”

Back from the garbage

Lessons learned:

  • Digitalocean or another cloud hosting service is the way to go, unless you don’t want to learn how servers work, in which case you’ll get ripped off.
  • Following from the above, you can’t know for sure you’re safe enough from hacking, unless you have backend control.  If you don’t, again, you’ll get ripped off.
  • A proper backup procedure is necessary.  Restoring from an SQL dump was painful.

Not expecting everything to work and i need to remember what all my plugins were, but it’s serviceable now.

 

Another record

https://soundcloud.com/red_noise/sets/pseudofolk

Austerity Ecology

Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical

The left — especially Marxist left — has a long history of glorifying technological progress and proposing it as the solution to humanity’s woes. Rather than blaming the machine for pollution, Marxists blame capitalism for being a system that demands that firms pollute to whatever extent they can, right up the point where the fines outweigh the savings.
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The only way to create a sustainable future is to soak the left in technological expertise, not to turn our back on it. We need to figure out how to make a lot more with a lot less, more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff: by Leigh Phillips

And that is the end of me clearing the draft post backlog.

Almost didn’t renew hosting this time, but it seems i can justify it for self-employment purposes (and it qualifies for the Great Canadian Writeoff). So i had a bunch of draft posts that i wasn’t quite motivated to finish.

Scrawl

Scrawl–Punk Rock for Grown-Ups: A Retrospective

So what does it mean to make rock music that speaks for the responsible older sibling; for the friend who cleans up after the party; for the people who won’t leave work early for the party, because they need the extra hours; for Mom? How would that sound? It might sound like Scrawl.

ended up screwed by the record industry. of course! but what a great band.

Rooting

‘Is this what the west is really like?’ How it felt to leave China for Britain

In the evenings, I hid my long hair in my coat and walked along the graffiti-smeared streets and piss-drenched alleyways, passing beggars with their dogs, and I asked myself: “So is this what the rich west is really like?” If that was the case, I wanted to cry. Cry for my own stupid illusions. What an idiot I was. Now I realised there had been some truth to my own country’s communist education: the west was not milk and honey.