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Good Morning #Canada
Finally, arriving at our our 10th province, Manitoba, and putting this series to rest means no more nightmares. Friendly Manitoba, it says so right on their license plates, also has hundreds of abandoned towns, but today we'll focus on Scarf. Named for William Scarf, not for winter clothing or the more recent term for eating quickly, the settlement began in the 1880s, started to flourish after train service arrived in 1907, and died slowly after train service stopped, with the last residents leaving in the 1980s. But in 2013, the regional mayor decided to sell parcels of land in the ghost town for $10. I wasn't able to find out if this plan to bring Scarf back from the dead was successful, but perhaps the area is cursed. In 2020, a tornado touched down near Scarf, killing two teenagers when their vehicle was swept off the road.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rm-looks-to-sell-ghost-town-lots-for-10-1.2086700

Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street
-- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on
-- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
https://bsky.app/profile/mandophotos.bsky.social/post/3m3zsb6vurk2u

armando l sanchez (@mandophotos.bsky.social)
More from the scene

People up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.
This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.
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💸 “Earn €1,000 a week. 100% safe. Limited time only!”
It looks tempting. Everyone else seems to be doing it. And the inner voice says: what if it’s real?
That’s exactly how cyber criminals exploit social engineering tactics like curiosity, greed, and FOMO to get us to fall for the bait.
When something sounds too good to be true, pause & breathe. Try box breathing (4–4–4–4) to reset before you click.
🔗 Explore the 2025

Un train stationne Š Montparnasse Bienvenue vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 28/11 11:26

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.'s Second in Command (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p96#a251125p96

Just read an email from DigitalOcean.
They will be performing control *plane* maintenance.
It may impact the control *panel*.
Oof, those terms can be easily mixed up / typoed - be mindful!

Whooooooa. #MindBlown

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (Vismaya V/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/352685/bhutan-pledges-10000-bitcoin-worth-1b-fund-mind…

Bhutan Pledges 10,000 Bitcoin Worth $1B to Fund Mindfulness City
The 10,000 BTC will generate yields for GMC's growth while being held long-term, with Bhutan ruling out selling the reserves.