Computer Gripe

You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.

- Helms Jarrell

Government of Nova Scotia Novascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.

You can impact this budget bill. Present to the Public Accounts Committee. It's your chance to tell this government face-to-face how these cruel cuts will affect you and your family.

Sign up to speak on Bill 198, the Financial Measures Act:
Call: 902-424-8941
Email: Legc.office@novascotia.ca

My official government petition to give Canadians rights over our likeness to combat deepfakes and AI companies claiming ownership of likeness is now live!

Please sign here:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#AI #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy

Remarks from @benmacleod.bsky.social at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2

So interesting point that I couldn’t help check into: for those curious / worried, I suspect the QEII’s new robot, the Intuitive da Vinci Xi, while having extremely positive mechanical benefits, is not an AI tool.

A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.

U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

Thank you for making it!

Two black and white zines sitting on a shelf. On the left is a larger half page zine titled "What's up with Covid and what we can do about it 2026 edition by Hazel Newlevant" and on the left is a single page minizine titled "Clean air in your school and everywhere"

Printed out some COVID mitigation zines today!
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...

Mini-comic titled: Clean Air in Your School and Everywhere. Two masked kids in capes are flying in the air like superheroes, followed by an air-cleaner with a face, like a little robot sidekick. The comic is on a wooden table top.

Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...

Posting this again because I'm printing it today and it's a really good zine and you should check it out/compensate Hazel if you can afford to do so.

Welcome to the BIOL 2321 Cell Biology Class Blog! This space is dedicated to showing off my students! This semester there are two writing assignments as part of the Cell Biology class…

I'm sure my students would LOVE your positive and constructive feedback. They would love to know that they're not screaming into the void, that people read their stuff and think it's cool, too! So I'm going to start posting my Medium blog, created specifically for this course, here.

My first post:

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

David Lynch sitting in a chair with headphones and a bullhorn saying "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:

Donate to Support the Halifax Game Collective Archive, organized by Adam Hartling Hello, Since 2018, I have maintained a citizen-led archive project to… Adam Hartling needs your support for Support the Halifax Game Collective Archive

Also, if you'd like to assist with the archive's goal of preserving Nova Scotia video game and interactive digital arts history I have a Gofundme page. All funds go towards acquiring games and artifacts, as well as items to preserve them with.

gofund.me/11c2641e5

#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax

Adam's work curating and archiving the Nova Scotian game dev scene, past and present, is admirable.

Check out all these new games!

a dashboard screen showing current CO₂ levels in ppm (parts per million) for 15 rooms / spaces at the Chaos Computer Club’s 39C3 conference the levels are illustrated with tachometer-style indicators that are colour-coded using standard green (good) -> yellow (medium) -> red (bad) colour scheme correlating with the ppm measured in each room the raw ppm value for each room is also visible in the middle of its respective “tachometer”

This is incredible: CCC #39C3 (hacker conference in Germany) is doing CO2 room monitoring this year just like @kawaiicon.bsky.social so attendees can assess risk!

- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...

I love winter solstice. Not because it is the beginning of winter or the darkest day of the year but because from this day on, the light slowly starts to come back.

We've done it! Ubisoft Halifax has voted yes to unionize with @cwacanada1.bsky.social

Nvm Gnome Web/Epiphany just won’t install via flatpak for some reason 😔

One of the most difficult things you will navigate if you develop a serious illness/disability (before you're retirement home aged) is every corner of society is telling you to "just go away". Everyone--government and even many folks you counted as friends--wants you to be someone else's problem.

COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says

COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says

The Canadian Press
December 15, 2025
By Nicole Ireland

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi...

#COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver

This will result in more effective infection control!

If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at:

▫️Venus Envy
▫️Cape & Cowl Comics
▫️HFX Community Fridge
▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge
▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge

I'm thinking of trying Vivaldi vivaldi.com across platforms and maybe Gnome Web welcome.gnome.org/app/Epiphany/ on my Linux machine.

Also I really need a new default web browser because apparently Mozilla has also decided to double down on being not cool™️

Bummed to hear Larian is not cool™️

My zoomer spouse informed me that scene is making a comeback just as my wide leg maternity jeans arrived.

I will say that I find it very shady and mildly undemocratic that the Liberals are trying to obtain a majority they weren’t elected on through floor crossings

That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate

OH WELL

CHAIR Canada A coalition of members working on introducing engineered solutions to reduce HAIs.

CHAIR is offering to fund facility-wide installation of Upper Air UV disinfection to a select number of acute care & long-term care facilities in 🇨🇦 as part of the world’s first large-scale UV pilot project for healthcare.

chaircoalition.org