{"id":16437,"date":"2024-12-01T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=16437"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:04:56","slug":"from-the-parking-lot-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/from-the-parking-lot-4\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is my monthly summary of some interesting finds from around the web from November and posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/mstdn.ca\/@chriscorrigan\">my Mastodon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>November 1 was All Souls Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AR4dRtzFvxM#AI\">What does that mean now<\/a>?\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christine Sinclair, the greatest international goal scorer in world football, played her last regular season game for the Portland Thorns tonight. Needing a win to clinch a playoff spot, she did the deed for her club team, scoring the opening goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sfOlM9DpHF4?si=e5OGxZy1YDmZlM-N\">Watch these highlights and listen to the sheer noise with every Thorns entry to the box<\/a>. The passion and love for these players &#8211; for this player &#8211; is astounding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cory Doctorow on <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2024\/11\/02\/ulysses-pact\/\">the inevitable enshittification of Bluesky<\/a> and why only Mastodon is worthy of social investment.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listen to Esperanza Spalding and Robert Glasper: <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/didnt-find-nothing-in-my-blues-song-blues-feat-esperanza\/1770172836?i=1770173322\">Didn\u2019t Find Nothing in my Blues Song Blues<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My friend Sarah Jane Scouten, a fellow Bowen Islander, has released a new album of her songs called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MsJ22vBErNE\">Transmutations<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A really good analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com\/2024\/11\/hacking-state.html\">where Conservatism is going in the UK<\/a> which makes me think about what might happen here if the Conservatives are elected.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia\u2019s modern hazelnut forests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years\">more than 7000 years ago.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I use a little ritual for closing workshops that comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/vault.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/200503\/profile.asp\">Soweto Mountain of Hope <\/a>in South Africa. It is a simple set of nine claps that honors ourselves, our communities, and our work in the world.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chelsey Vowel has updated <a href=\"https:\/\/apihtawikosisan.com\/2024\/11\/revisiting-beyond-territorial-acknowledgments\/\">her excellent 2016 article<\/a> on territorial acknowledgements.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canada\u2019s first-ever supporter-owned soccer club &#8211; my club &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontfundr.com\/tssrovers\">TSS Rovers is offering shares again!<\/a> Join us in investing in the future of Canadian soccer. \u00a0And read Corey Almond&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/soccerfieldsforever.substack.com\/p\/community-reigns-supreme-within-canadas\">terrific piece<\/a> on our endeavour\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thephilanthropist.ca\/2023\/10\/not-your-typical-conference-insights-about-hosting-from-the-circles-all-my-relations-gathering\/\">A beautiful podcas<\/a>t that tracks the experience of being hosted by The Circle, a national organization in Canada that is transforming philanthropy.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a62875397\/homelessness-in-america\/\">A Firsthand Account <\/a>of What Homelessness in America Is Really Like.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/2024\/11\/29\/end\">A Matt Webb contemplation<\/a> on list songs and endings.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avlwatchdog.org\/why-did-swannanoa-become-helenes-ground-zero-deadly-combination-of-topography-development-and-a-tidal-wave-of-water\/\">Why did Swannanoa become Helene&#8217;s &#8216;ground zero&#8217;?<\/a> Deadly combination of topography, development and a tidal wave of water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my monthly summary of some interesting finds from around the web from November and posted on my Mastodon page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[96,54,56,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-evaluation","category-featured","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6477-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4h7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16439,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions\/16439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}