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A 55 year old cyclist was hit last Wednesday night and died in hospital early the next morning. Although at this point we do not have official confirmation, news reports interviewed people on the scene who called the deceased Rob or Robert Bragg (?). I visited the crash site last week, and today ARC followed up with a proper ghost bike installation.

We started at Jane and Annette, where we made a brief stop to buy more chain.

Our route west took just along Burnamthorpe.

Once Burnamthorpe crosses into Mississauga, there is an MUP on the north side.

Unlike the older MUP along the Queensway, each intersection has proper bicycle signals, instead of signs directing cyclists to dismount and to walk across the intersection.

Once puzzling feature of the MUP were these bollards, which we started calling the “black bollards of death”. I’m sure they are a joy to avoid at night.

Approaching Huronontario.

Joey takes the lane southbound on Huronontario. Believe me, the traffic was not this light all the way down to Dundas.

Approaching the crash site.

There was already a makeshift memorial.

Heartbreaking messages on the sidewalk.

Geoffrey in chains.

Installing and decorating the ghost bike.

Showing the banner.

One last photo at the crash site.

The return route was along Dundas

This bike lane around six points looks promising.

Unfortunately it ends well short of Islington.

Deepest condolences to Rob’s family and friends.

That makes four cyclists dead in the GTA in a little over three weeks:

• Safet Tairoski in Unionville
• Helen Xiang in Oakville
• Geoffrey Mitchell in Whitby
• Rob in Mississauga

Please no more. Ride safe, everyone.

UPDATES:

• Joey posted his pictures here.

RIP Robert Bragg #ghostbike @RespectTO @jnyyz #Mississauga pic.twitter.com/fr5kNK0SDV

— Janet Joy Wilson (@jsquaredink) July 15, 2020

Twitter has revealed what it knows so far about the unprecedented attack on its platform that targeted numerous high-profile accounts including Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

The social media giant states that its internal systems were compromised by hackers, which means they had access to the Twitter employees’ privileges.

“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” Twitter said in thread.

We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020

Twitter says the hackers used this access to take control of many highly-visible accounts and tweet from their profiles. The social media giant seems to be suggesting that several people were behind the attack and that numerous employees’ access was compromised.

Following its investigation into the attack, Motherboard says that it spoke to hackers who claim that they paid a Twitter employee to help them take over popular accounts. It’s unknown if this is how the attack happened, and Twitter has yet to comment on this report.

Twitter outlines it’s looking into “what other malicious activity [the hackers] may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it.”

The social media giant notes that it’s taken steps to limit access to internal systems and tools while its investigation is still on-going.

Source: Twitter, Motherboard

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Vishal Talreja, Sucheta Bhat, Qatar Foundation, Jul 16, 2020

This very short article makes the oft-repeated point that we cannot return the education system to 'normal' after the pandemic. "The oft-repeated assumption that children would have to face an uncertain job market and a fast-changing world a few years from now is already amidst us," write the authors. "Today we are rightly being forced to prioritize well-being over economic growth, for ourselves and the planet." I agree, and would encourage changing educational outcomes "from academic and economic outcomes to well-being and thriving of all students, communities, and the planet." But this is not the easy path forward, which makes it the less likely outcome.aa

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We’ve been very busy over the last few months and we’re finally ready to share with you another great major update to Pixelmator Pro. Pixelmator Pro 1.7 Sequoia brings text on a path, canvas rotation, a new welcome screen, and version 3 of ML Super Resolution. Let’s dive right into each of those features!

Type text on a path, in a circle, or any other shape

This long-awaited and much-requested feature is now available in Pixelmator Pro! And we spent a long time refining every detail to make it the simplest and most intuitive tool of its kind.

In Pixelmator Pro 1.7 Sequoia, you’ll find three new tools grouped together with the regular type tool. There’s the Circular Type, Path Type, and the Freeform Type tools. You can use those to quickly and easily create text layers on paths. And you can also create your own shapes or paths and then click them with any of the type tools to add text on a path. Here are a few neat facts about our new type tools:

• We use the native macOS text system, so things like SVG fonts and emoji are fully supported!
• The Shift–T keyboard shortcut will now cycle through the currently selected type tool

• We’ve also added support for the standard Shift and Option modifier keys when resizing text boxes on paths

Freely rotate the image canvas to any angle

Canvas rotation might be one of the most important features for digital painters and illustrators and it’s something we’ve wanted to add for a long time. We also spent a long time making sure it’s easy to find, and almost as importantly, easy to reset!

To rotate the canvas, you can use the standard rotate Multi-Touch gesture. Or, if you’re using a graphics tablet or mouse, you can also press and hold the Spacebar–R keyboard shortcut and drag your canvas to rotate it. You’ll notice that, when the canvas is rotated, some very handy canvas rotation controls automatically appear, disappearing once the canvas rotation is set back to 0°.

A friendly new welcome screen

The first thing you see when you open an app makes a big impression. And we wanted to make it easier for new users to open and create images. That’s what this new welcome screen is all about! You’ll find quick ways to create an empty new document, open images from your Photos library, and browse images saved on your Mac.

If you’d rather see the native Open dialog, that hasn’t gone anywhere — simply turn off the “Show this window when Pixelmator Pro launches” option in the welcome screen.

Improvements to ML Super Resolution and RAW support

ML Super Resolution has been improved once more, this time, we’ve worked on the quality, added a progress bar, and added support for upscaling RAW photos while preserving all their RAW data!

The update is available today from the Mac App Store and is free to all existing Pixelmator Pro users. Visit the App Store to make sure you’re all up to date and let us know what you make of the additions and improvements!

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If you’re interested in a specific chart type, you can now browse FlowingData by all of the major ones. Find tutorials, guides, and examples for plenty of inspiration for the data you’re trying to visualize.

A few years ago, I added a new meta field to posts that indicated what kind of chart was used. I originally intended it as a way to make tutorials on FD easier to find and to categorize projects in some way. Then I started marking posts that served as a good examples of any given chart type.

I’ve been doing this off and on and adding new types as they come in. But I never made it obvious, and I don’t think many people noticed the extra field for some of the posts.

So it’s more obvious now. Browse all of the chart types so far.

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The first thing you do is to forget that I’m black.
Second, you must never forget that I’m black.

You should be able to dig Aretha,
but don’t play her every time I come over.
And if you decide to play Beethoven — don’t tell me
his life story. They make us take music appreciation, too.

Eat soul food if you like it, but don’t expect me
to locate your restaurants
or cook it for you.

And if some Black person insults you,
mugs you, rapes your sister, rapes you,
rips your house or is just being an ass —
please, do not apologize to me
for wanting to do them bodily harm.
It makes me wonder if you’re foolish.

And even if you really believe Blacks are better lovers than
whites — don’t tell me. I start thinking of charging stud fees.

In other words — if you really want to be my friend — don’t
make a labor of it. I’m lazy. Remember.

— Pat Parker

From Movement in Black

“You don’t get to pick your family of origin or the place you grow up. But you do get to choose your friends, and those choices say something about the kind of world you want for yourself. This is one of the many ways friendship is political. We’re not just talking about whether you have people in your life who voted for the opposite party or whether you’re carpooling to the protest march with your friends. We’re talking about small-p politics, or “the total complex of relations between people living in society,” as the dictionary puts it. White people can’t be surprised that white supremacists are marching in the streets if their own lives are racially segregated. The choices that each of us makes every day about who we include in our lives end up shaping the larger world we live in.”

There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial Friendships Including ours, By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Nick Punt writes a worthwile post (found via Roland Tanglao) on “De-Escalating Social Media, Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products”

He writes

This is why it’s my belief that as designed today, social media is out of balance. It is far easier to escalate than it is to de-escalate, and this is a major problem that companies like Twitter and Facebook need to address.

This got me thinking about what particular use cases need de-escalation, and whether there’s something simple we can do to test the waters and address these types of problems.

@nickpunt https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/

And goes on to explore how to create a path for admitting mistakes on Twitter. This currently isn’t encouraged by Twitter’s design. You see no social reinforcement, as no others visibly admit mistakes. You do see many people pilig onto someone for whatever perceived slight, and you do see people’s reflex of digging in when attacked.

Punt suggest three bits of added functionality for Twitter:

• The ability to add a ‘mea culpa’ to a tweet in the shape of “@ton_zylstra indicated they made a mistake in this tweet”. Doing that immediately stops the amplicifation of those messages. No more replies, likes or retweets without comments. Retweet with comment is still possible to amplify the correction, as opposed to the original message.
• Surfacing corrections: those that have seen the original tweet in their timelines will also get presented with the correction.
• Enabling forgiveness: works just like likes, but then to forgive the original poster for the mistake, as a form of positive reinforcement.

I like this line of thinking, although I think it won’t be added to existing silo’d networks. This type of nudging of constructive behaviour as well as adding specific types of friction are however of interest. Maybe it is easier for other platforms and newer players to adopt as a distinguishing feature. E.g. in Mastodon.

I’ve been keeping Zettelkasten style notes in Obisidian for about a week now, and this morning I made the first new connection between some of my notes / thoughts. It was a bit of a ‘well duh’ realisation, but one I never made explicit for myself before even if in hindsight it is obvious those two things were connected. I currently have 30-40 notes, and I was rather surprised I got a new insight at this stage where I’m still basically doing an ongoing braindump of the key elements of what I’m doing. A good way to stay motivated.

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Reminder: it’s a zillion times easier to hack Twitter and take over accounts of Apple, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, and others than it would be to hack their separate websites.

Distributed systems are safer.

Style Check is like a having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés and filler words as you type. It’s simple, different, and powerful. ... iA Writer 5.6 offers Style Check for English, German and French. We’ll be bringing support for more languages soon.

One of the great benefits of returning to iPad is having the best version of iA Writer.

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if you're getting organized right now, consider self-hosted server infrastructure. here's what @ExtinctionR is running, by @julian0liver and here is the key slide https://t.co/WpTPlVozyJ pic.twitter.com/Tq5MRNerNW

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 7, 2020

A week or so ago Lori Emerson shared the above Tweet by Kyle McDonald who was sharing a slide from a talk by Julian Oliver. I have been using it as talking point for Reclaim Cloud since. One of the beautiful things about this Tweet is it highlights the fact there’s a whole new generation of elegant, powerful, and open source applications that you can run as an alternative to all those “free” sites that only cost your freedom I think folks might start realizing free is not free and that to truly control your data you have to spend some time, money, and professional energy to do so. Not everyone will, but for those that do it’s a real alternative that helps organizations protect their members from re-living the whole “do no evil” with our data, lord tech conglomerate.

While thinking through how we are going to roll-out Reclaim Cloud, Tim and I started brainstorming clusters of applications that folks might use, such as Etherpad, Jitsi Meet, and Discourse for your courses; or ShinyApps, R-Studio, JupyterHub, Jekyl, and Voyant Tools for Digital Humanists; or for an organization/department NextCloud, Mattermost, Ghost, and MailTrain, etc. You get the idea, frame groups of applications for targeted uses that begin to frame an open-source ecosystem that we can create not only one-click installers for in Reclaim Cloud, as well as focused professional development and expertise to support those tools. Which is why this graphic was so useful, it does a one-to-one comparison and it helps us focus what we can and should offer folks as a real alternative to the less than ideal status quo.

Then yesterday I had a call with the awesome folks at Michigan State University to show them Reclaim Cloud, and Kristen Mapes mentioned that she was interested in an open source alternative to her current teaching suite of Google Docs, Slack, and Zoom, to which the graphic brilliant maps as Mattermost, Etherpad, and Jitsi Meet—a perfect fit and we already have one-click installer for all of them

Interesting that they use the terminology ownership given that has caused some concern in the past with “owning” your domain. But in this case ownership is premised around the idea of self-hosting your applications in order to have increased security and control over your personal, organizational, or professional presence. It makes damn good sense to me, but I am biased

While Cineplex is currently seeking damages over Cineworld’s $2.18 billion failed acquisition, the company is taking extra precautions to protect its customers in Ontario.

Stage 3 begins in Ontario this Friday, which would mean that Cineplex could begin to open its doors to eager moviegoers with physical distancing guidelines in place.

However, Sarah Van Lange, executive director of communications for Cineplex, stated, “We are still reviewing what’s being proposed by the province, so as a result, we aren’t in a position to open our theatres in Ontario on Friday.”

“While we are certainly excited for the day our operations can resume, our top priority has always been the health and safety of our employees and guests and ensuring that their time with us is safe, comfortable and welcoming,” said Van Lange.

Like most businesses, Cineplex closed its theatres across the country due to the coronavirus in mid-March and there currently is no date set for theatre openings in Ontario. Theatres in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are now open.

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Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has launched a VPN service in Canada and other countries.

Dubbed Mozilla VPN, the service replaces the ‘Firefox Private Network’ VPN that the company was previously testing. Mozilla charges $5 USD (about $6.81 CAD) per month for the service roughly in the middle of VPN pricing. Options like TunnelBear are cheaper at $3.33 (approximately $4.53 CAD), while Express VPN can cost almost $13 per month ($17.69 CAD).

Although there are a variety of VPNs available, Mozilla thinks its offering is among the best. The company boasts that its VPN is faster as it uses fewer lines of code than the competition.

Mozilla also uses WireGuard for its VPN service. WireGuard is a free and open-source software (FOSS) communication protocol used to secure VPN traffic.

On top of that, Mozilla has a record when it comes to online privacy. It says it won’t partner with third-party analytics firms and doesn’t keep user data logs. That second isn’t totally up to Mozilla, however. The company partnered with VPN provider Mullvad to handle Mozilla VPN. The company’s privacy details say Mozilla VPN encrypts users’ internet traffic and sends it to Mullvad to provide the service. Further, Mozilla says Mullvad committed not to log any data it receives, something that the VPN service also does for its customers.

If you’re wondering why you shouldn’t just skip the middle man and use Mullvad directly, well, there are a few reasons. For one, Mozilla says its VPN software is much simpler to use, which should help people new to VPNs get started. Further, Mozilla does it’s pricing in USD, while Mullvad charges in Euros. Based on the current exchange rate, it makes Mozilla VPN slightly cheaper for Canadians.

Mozilla VPN will also be available in the U.S., U.K., Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand starting July 15th. It’s available on Windows, Android and iOS with Mac and Linux versions coming in the future. Subscribers can connect up to five devices through Mozilla VPN.

It’s worth noting that Mozilla VPN’s website still links to the Firefox Private Network apps on iOS and Android at the time of writing. The website says these apps will be updated “soon.” Also, at the time of writing, the Firefox Private Network VPN app on Android says it is not available in Canada. Again, this will likely get resolved shortly.

Source: Mozilla

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If you work for Amazon, you might be working from home until next year.

Amazon has told CNBC that it’s allowing employees who can work from home to do so until January 8th, extending the work-from-home timeline.

“We continue to prioritize the health of our employees and follow local government guidance,” an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC. “Employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home are welcome to do so until January 8.”

Amazon says it has invested “significant funds and resources” to ensure that the employees who choose to come back to work are safe, whether it be through social distancing measures, deep cleaning, temperature checks and by providing face masks and hand sanitizers.

This is a three-month extension, as Amazon previously told its employees that they could work remotely until October 2nd.

However, it’s unclear how much of the company’s workforce will have this option.

Source: CNBC

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The newest e-reader from Japan-based Rakuten-owned Kobo feels instantly at home in your hand and begs to be read, but it’s going to be up to you if you want a basic e-reader like this, or something with a little more under the hood.

In my time with the Nia, I had no significant issues with the e-reader, but the more I compared it to last year’s Kobo Libra H20, the harder it was to justify its $130 CAD price tag.

That said, the Nia’s small size and elegant simplicity make me want to pick it up and travel with it more than the Libra.

What it offers

The Nia comes in at roughly 16cm tall, 12cm wide and a reasonable 1cm thick. This small footprint makes it tiny to hold in your hand, and it even fits in most of my pants’ pockets, which is a nice plus if you want to carry it around. It’s also super light, so it should be easy for small children to hold and read for hours.

That said, the Nia feels small to me, so I preferred using it with the Kobo SleepCover, which made it a bit more comfortable and only costs $19.99 CAD. That said, my girlfriend preferred the small size without the cover. However, the fact that you can make it a bit wider with a case means it’s adaptable to smaller and larger hands.

Other than that, it features an adjustable backlight that can dim quite low, making it easy to use in pitch black rooms, and the six-inch touchscreen has 212 pixels per inch (PPI), so it always looks super crisp when reading. As I mentioned, it’s a touchscreen like many of the other Kobos, but there are no physical buttons this time around to change pages, which isn’t a huge downside and helps keeps the e-reader’s footprint small.

Beyond all of that, it has a 1,000mAh battery that seemed to last for days. This was nice since knowing that I could take it camping without worrying about finding an outlet is reassuring. Kobo is also only selling the e-reader with 8GB of storage, which offers more than enough space and holds roughly 6,000 books.

There isn’t much else to say, really. It’s a very serviceable e-reader that I think many casual readers would be stoked to use.

Kobo Plus

Unsurprisingly, Kobo has seen an uptick in readers on its platform amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, so it seemed like a good time for the company to release its new reading subscription service Kobo Plus.

You can use the service on any Kobo e-reader or with the Kobo app, and it provides access to hundreds of thousands of books for the low monthly fee of $9.99 CAD. With the influx of readers around the world, this seems like it might be worth it for many people since it offers more books to choose from and the ability to try them out without having to make individual purchases.

Combining this with the ability to borrow e-books from your local library on Kobo gives readers even more choice regarding what they want to read.

I always find it tricky to find books to read when I’m using e-readers. I like using the library function since the Toronto Public Library has impressive curation. Kobo Plus also offers another section of curated books, so I can see myself at least testing it out for the 30-day free trial.

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Abigail Hess, CNBC, Jul 15, 2020

As the story says, "Google announced three new online certificate programs in data analytics, project management and user experience design... Google says it will consider all of its certificates as the equivalent of a four-year college degree for related roles at the company." More. The response from some in higher ed? "I can feel the rage building. Hey Google instead of trying to address educational inequality by dismantling higher ed in the middle of a pandemic maybe you could f****in **fund scholarships** in higher ed." But what do they expect? Donald Clark asks, "Are we finally seeing the flip away from Universities towards a balanced educational landscape... It needed a plague?" And George Siemens comments, "the growth of capability assessment outside of universities is one of the most significant trends."

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My only running tip of any substance, and this is important, is if you choose to get married you must marry someone… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

It’s only been a few days that I’ve been feeding myself a diet of “on this day” blog posts, but I’ve already found it enormously helpful.

Not for insight or research or resurfacing old ideas (although there are small touches of that), but simply for stitching together the arc of my last 20 years.

Every night for weeks now I have been watching an episode of the German TV series Dark on Netflix. Dark plays with time and relationships more than any other work of fiction I’ve encountered, and trying to keep track of it all pushes my brain to its limits (while I’m certain Catherine would never abide watching it, as she had no taste for the post-apocalyptic, it sure would help to have her around for that, as that was something she was really good at).

The dramatic fulcrum of Dark is movement back and forth through time on the same day of the year, and that is what my On This Day page (and RSS feed) provide me.

July 15 has a very particular feel to it. So do July 12 and July 13 and, I’m certain, September 17 and November 22.

Being able to wake up on July 15 and smell July 15’s smells and experience July 15’s feel, and then to read myself writing about things I was thinking and feeling on July 15s-past, draws the years closer together, and helps me understand, in a new and visceral way, how my life is proceeding.

I did not expect that, but I welcome it.

Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust. The Mozilla VPN (Virtual Private Network) is now available on Windows, Android and iOS devices. This fast and easy-to-use VPN service is brought to you by Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, and a trusted name in online consumer security and privacy services.

See for yourself how the Mozilla VPN works:

 

The first thing you may notice when you install the Mozilla VPN is how fast your browsing experience is. That’s because the Mozilla VPN is based on modern and lean technology, the WireGuard protocol’s 4,000 lines of code, is a fraction in size of legacy protocols used by other VPN service providers.

You will also see an easy-to-use and simple interface for anyone who is new to VPN, or those who want to set it and get onto the web.

With no long-term contracts required, the Mozilla VPN is available for just $4.99 USD per month and will initially be available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand, with plans to expand to other countries this Fall.

In a market crowded by companies making promises about privacy and security, it can be hard to know who to trust. Mozilla has a reputation for building products that help you keep your information safe. We follow our easy to read, no-nonsense Data Privacy Principles which allow us to focus only on the information we need to provide a service. We don’t keep user data logs.

We don’t partner with third-party analytics platforms who want to build a profile of what you do online. And since the makers of this VPN are backed by a mission-driven company you can trust that the dollars you spend for this product will not only ensure you have a top-notch VPN, but also are making the internet better for everyone.

Last year, we beta tested our VPN service which provided encryption and device-level protection of your connection and information on the Web. Many users shared their thoughts on why they needed this service.

Some of the top reasons users cited for using a VPN:

• Security for all your devices – Users are flocking to VPNs for added protection online. With Mozilla VPN you can be sure your activity is encrypted across all applications and websites, whatever device you are on.
• Added protection for your private information – Over 50 percent of VPN users in the US and UK said that seeking protection when using public wi-fi was a top reason for choosing a VPN service.
• Browse more anonymously – Users care immensely about being anonymous when they choose to. A VPN is a key component as it encrypts all your traffic and protects your IP address and location.
• Communicate more securely – Using a VPN can give an added layer of protection, ensuring every conversation you have is encrypted over the network.

In a world where unpredictability has become the “new normal,” we know that it’s more important than ever for you to feel safe, and for you to know that what you do online is your own business.

Check out the Mozilla VPN and download it from our website,  Google Play store or Apple App store.

*Updated July 27, 2020 to reflect the availability of Mozilla VPN on iOS devices

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Pedaling Through Pandemic: How (E-) Cycling Can Keep Post-COVID Cities Moving

In a short time, the coronavirus crisis has forced communities worldwide to reevaluate their mobility networks, especially as public transportation faces reduced capacity for the foreseeable future.

Enter the bicycle, which—in combination with an electric pedal assist—is filling a portion of the gap.

Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network  as Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett, authors of Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, discuss how cities across the globe are adapting their streets to this new reality and are working to ensure this ‘bike boom’ sticks long-term.

Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2020

Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Time

Register here by clicking this link.

Images: BikeAuckland

Banksy is a British artist who has achieved fame by leaving public statements of art in the public realm in many countries. Yesterday he released an instagram video of his latest installation on one of London’s iconic subway train cars.

Banksy dresses as a maintenance worker as he gets down to prepping the walls with stencils of rats after shooing transit riders away. It’s all an allegory of what happens when you don’t use masks in public places during Covid times, and a bit of a directed  comment on the debate over mask wearing in public that is raging on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The artwork “If you Don’t Mask, You Don’t Get” shows a rat that is sneezing, and another rat spraying anti-bacterial soap. Banksy even signed his name on the train door.

Sadly and I hope it’s not really true, BBC News reports that Transport for London was not amused and has already removed the art because of their strict anti-graffiti policy.

I hope when they said they removed the art that they really meant they removed the car from service, as I expect that train car is probably worth substantially more with the  video documented Banksy work on board. Here’s the YouTube video below.

Image: ITV.com

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The current guidance here on PEI regarding masks is this:

The PEI Chief Public Health Officer recommends that individuals, who can wear a non-medical mask, should do so, especially indoors when physical distancing cannot always be maintained.

Picking up groceries at Sobeys this afternoon, an environment that clearly qualifies as one where “physical distancing cannot always be maintained,” only about a quarter of shoppers were wearing masks (and, additionally, any pretence of social distancing was abandoned by many).

I don’t understand this.

A month ago, sure, wearing a mask branded you a communist.

But today? It’s normal. It’s standard operating procedure. And the Chief Public Health Officer, much respected and not known for outlandish flights of fancy, has done everything but make it a rule.

Why isn’t everyone wearing a mask?

This makes it real:

I once worked with a director of community who had a simple policy; she would always pick up the tab for the IT team.

This wasn’t cheap, sometimes the bill ran up to a few hundred dollars.

But to her, it was a bargain. It meant she could ask for a favour, get help quicker than other departments, and help get her priorities on their agenda.

Far too many lofty visions for a community becomes grounded because they can’t get the support from the IT team they need. The problem isn’t usually money or expertise, it’s simply implementing the changes to execute the next step in the strategy.

Maybe picking up the tab isn’t the right approach for you, but I’d start building up credit with the IT team long before you need it.

Karen Swisher, in a NY Times column about the many troubling aspects of Facebook and Zuckerbergs centralised power, seeks a fitting metaphor for how he and FB behave regarding their responsibilities as a platform content distributor and editor and curator of that content. (FB should not be seen as a platform, until they have open API’s. That they removed FB apps and APIs over time is a sign they do not regard themselves as platform either, it’s just a convenient legal position to claim.)

She ends up with comparing Zuckerberg to a butcher disavowing responsibility for the meatproducts he sells, as most are made by others. Yes some meatproducts are rotten, but who is he to take people’s freedom to poison themselves, even he’d never eat it himself.

Jason Kottke lifts the metaphor out of Karen Swisher’s column and adds a very peculiar anecdote from 2011 when Zuckerberg only wanted to eat meat of animals killed by himself.

Bookmarked Zuckerberg and Facebook Never Fail to Disappoint

He cannot hold on to such enormous power and avoid responsibility when things get tough.