ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

Look, we tried to tell them. Don’t blame this one on the Greens for being a home for folks who became disillusioned with the corporate centre-right NDP Eby represented. (My concerns in 2023 were over Henry’s refusal to follow the best science on COVID as an airborne disease among other things).

Well I’m off to read a book about the mathematics of machine learning because I’m sick of everyone telling me the best way to save the fish is to rely on tech to model them and not like, just freaking stopping the capitalist destruction of their habitats and refusing the related hustle that is AI.

Ps: if math could save fish it already would have. Turning them into numbers is one of the great tricks of western science that robs us of remembering that fish are relatives and ancestors first, objects of slippery measurement second.

Well I’m off to read a book about the mathematics of machine learning because I’m sick of everyone telling me the best way to save the fish is to rely on tech to model them and not like, just freaking stopping the capitalist destruction of their habitats and refusing the related hustle that is AI.

Perhaps being an Alberta born+raised lefty, the thing I had to learn at a young age is: you have to fight like hell to build a community that actually cares for everyone no matter who is in power because electoral politics was always designed for the ruling elite. It‘s a luxury to give up.

And those of us with the energy and capacity to do so have to do the heavy lifting now. Nobody is coming to save us. We will save us. We deserve better than this pendulum swinging colonial capitalist political system. 🐟

Remember when we wanted Anjali Appadurai to lead the NDP + party brass said heck no & installed Eby and that alone was the first dire warning. Anyway. Yeah. me too. This was Eby’s election to lose & provincial NDP across the country are that unreliable oil guzzling ex you shouldn’t trust.

The weirdest mystery in my life is that an award-winning American scholar and his wife (who I have never met) appear to use my personal email account as their throwaway address for increasingly random internet purchases and signups. Intentionally? Unintentionally? Who knows. Why? How? What for?

Or it’s the most elaborate alumni donation scheme an American university has ever launched.

Congrats to the progressive & green candidates who won seats in Vancouver and Nanaimo. And to former NDP MLA Adam Walker who is now mayor of Qualicum Beach. the future looks promising & engaged in Nanaimo-Oceanside.

Joe, who handily won, was touted by some for his work the mining sector & in corporate social responsibility, so I have a feeling the public may have some questions about his experiences as CEO of this company from ~2013-2019. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @thetyee.ca @thenarwhal.ca 5/5

Congrats to the progressive & green candidates who won seats in Vancouver and Nanaimo. And to former NDP MLA Adam Walker who is now mayor of Qualicum Beach. the future looks promising & engaged in Nanaimo-Oceanside.

Electoral Area Director Incumbents Vanessa Craig (Gabriola), Jessica Stanley (Area A), Lehann Wallace (Area G), Stuart McLean (Area H), and Lauren Melanson (Area C) are all returning.

Congrats to the progressive & green candidates who won seats in Vancouver and Nanaimo. And to former NDP MLA Adam Walker who is now mayor of Qualicum Beach. the future looks promising & engaged in Nanaimo-Oceanside.

fish have existed for ~510 million years, manifested the first fully recognizable three division brain, and some scientists STILL insist they do not feel pain and do not have complex emotions or intelligence. but statistical analysis software dressed up in mythology is automatically sentient?

Unrestrained ego is killing the planet. Buddha figured that out 2600 years ago, as have myriad non-western/Indigenous anti-imperial anti-white supremacist anti-patriarchal collectives/societies/peoples. Will we collectively divest from ego/individualism and build together again?

Ego exists everywhere. That's kind of the evil genius of capital, colonialism: it works hard to make us think we want to live in suspended animation. But even with false heuristics of so-called separate space/time/matter/causality & the illusion of individualism, your heart aches for co-constitution

Unrestrained ego is killing the planet. Buddha figured that out 2600 years ago, as have myriad non-western/Indigenous anti-imperial anti-white supremacist anti-patriarchal collectives/societies/peoples. Will we collectively divest from ego/individualism and build together again?

We cannot reconcile to systems of death/destruction. We cannot 'bridge' to the very algorithms destroying everything worth being in relation with on the planet. Deloria, Jr. wrote in 1979 that the quantum revolution was the 'west' catching up to the rest. Let them divest from ego & enter interbeing.

Unrestrained ego is killing the planet. Buddha figured that out 2600 years ago, as have myriad non-western/Indigenous anti-imperial anti-white supremacist anti-patriarchal collectives/societies/peoples. Will we collectively divest from ego/individualism and build together again?

about to read this piece by Tristan Ahtone on revelations of a pretendian in the high level international climate/environmental advocacy world -- maybe you want to as well. grist.org/indigenous/t...

regarding frauds who speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples at the UN level: "Because the U.N. system relies heavily on NGO credentials and self-identification, it inadvertently creates a pathway to undeserved international legitimacy." This happens in Canada with 'environmental' research grants too