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Students presented their work in my Canadian history grad seminar today: 2 papers on hockey (obviously) - QC and ON pro women's hockey in WWI and 1900-20s men's hockey in BC (refrigerated rinks); a venerable QC cookbook (La cuisine raisonnée); women in the RCAF and (un)sanctioned leisure in the 1950s; the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (the best building in Toronto?); police repression post-October Crisis; currency in BC mining towns; and Heritage Minutes (burnt toast!). 3 hours of …

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So... I assume we'll be renaming all the towns/streets/schools named after saints? And that Montréal will be taking down the giant crucifix from the mountain? And that Easter, Good Friday, C…

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'Serious cyberattack' impacts phones, public safety systems in Massachusetts towns
https://www.wcvb.com/article/cyberattack-town-public-safety-systems-patriot-regional/70908585

Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out #Chile

Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out
Wildfires that have killed 20 people in southern Chile and wiped out entire towns raged for a third day Monday, fanned by warm temperatures and strong winds at the height of the southern hemisphere summer.

Removing the United States as
co-host of the 2026 World Cup
would hurt for pretty much everyone.
Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby).
Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on.
It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale,
the likes of which have never been seen before in sports.
It would be eminently sad.

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America | The New Republic #ice

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America
ICE has a plan to install its mass detention centers in small towns across the country.

I will call it Irk Town, as did Engels when it was a previously overcrowded inner suburb.
Huge Victoria North project named in Government-backed list of 'new towns' - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

Huge Victoria North project named in Government-backed list of 'new towns'
The project on the edge of Manchester city centre will see 15,000 homes built across 390-acres of land

Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns
https://gizmodo.com/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns-2000731145

Super Bowl 60 Seahawks vs. Patriots cross-sport props, picks vs. Karl-Anthony Towns, other NBA stars Sunday

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/sup

@… The other wrinkle I think about a lot is how GIANT megacorps or investors can fund a free or near-free service at a loss to completely change the incentives of customers to be less friendly to existing creators trying to succeed sustainably in the same space.
Reminds me of Walmart/Amazon decimating the economy of small towns

A place named for it's center, then abstracted from it. Towns given life from a river valley now irrelevant to most of their residents.

Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K products are eligible (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/amazon-rolls-out-1-ho…

Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery as ultrafast shipping trend grows in the U.S.
Amazon is speeding up deliveries even further after investing significant money and resources to make same-day shipping the standard.

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White Town:
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#WhiteTown
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Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel's war on Lebanon intensifies (William Christou/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-war-deaths
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p19#a260314p19

Aerial view flying eastward into a frozen #Minneapolis, #Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka with its many bays, plus other lakes and the western suburbs.

An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to ⚠️consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply.
PennLive reported on Monday that Carlisle Development Partners,
a joint venture created by developers Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse
Data Centers, had signed a $14.1 million agreement that will let it tap into the public water and sewer systems of Middlesex Township, Pennsylva…

Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water
The data center will get access to 400,000 gallons of water per day—enough to serve over 2,300 homes.

Signal can help you organize a group
I have been amazed at the stories about neighbors helping neighbors in Minneapolis and in other towns and cities. Nothing can replace the courage and kindness of the people who have risen to the occasion to help others. And one tool they use to organize their neighbors and friends is Signal.
You might think of Signal as a messaging app. It is that, but it is so much more. In addition to messages, Signal supports private video meetings, phone …

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #21!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-21/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome February light has a new confidence. In northern towns, snowdrops spear the soil and maples hold a quiet pressure of sap. South of the equator, cicadas stitch the warm air and late sunsets float like lanterns. It feels like the world is leaning toward growth. That same lift runs

The Olympics arrive with the US a favorite, rekindling fond memories of 1980's 'Miracle on Ice' https://www.foxsports.com/articles/summer/the-olympics-arrive-with-the-us-a-favorite-rekindling-fond-mem…

'Whata Bod': An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho (Ruby Mellen/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/01/06/nws-ai-map-fake-names/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p47#a260107p47

Australia heat wave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires #Australia

'Hectic' bushfires threaten rural towns in Australian heat wave
Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.

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White Town:
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#WhiteTown
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Bob Weir:
🎵 Ghost Towns
#BobWeir
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Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement,
setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.
Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days,
posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022.
Another round of demon…

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project | TPR https://www.tpr.org/education/2026-03-06/tiny-texas-school-district-rejects-tax-deal-with-6-billion-lng-project

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project
Officials in Port Isabel and nearby towns have consistently opposed plans to build large industrial complexes at the mouth of the Rio Grande.