{"id":19424,"date":"2025-12-10T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=19424"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:31:05","slug":"closing-tabs-stories-trade-wars-the-internet-and-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/closing-tabs-stories-trade-wars-the-internet-and-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing tabs: stories, trade wars, the internet and tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My neighbour Alejandro Frid is an ecologist<\/strong> and works extensively with Coastal First Nations in British Columbia. I love his work as a scientist and as an author<\/a> and I love the way he shares wheat he is doing such as in this story on Kitaspo\/Xai\u2019xais fisheries management.<\/a> Last night he spoke at Speak the Spark<\/a>, a n every-two-months storytelling even here on Bowen Island where local folks share stories around a theme. It’s a bit like The Moth<\/a>. Last night the theme was Faux Pas’s and Unexpected Turns and we heard stories about giving up wealth for happiness, photographing New York on the morning of 9\/11. accidentaly dressing up as a clown for a school carnival, making an innocent comment to a friend on a train that was taken the wrong way, and we heard Alejandro’s story about how a handwritten request for computer help led to a decades long collaboration with his dearest research partner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cory Doctorow is travelling around <\/strong>discussing the history of, and the antidote to, enshittification. Here a transcript of a recent talk which is a kind of call to arms for our participation in the current and ongoing trade wars<\/a> by creating and selling tools that liberate the users of technology of all kinds, lower fees and prices, and secure some degree of tech sovereignty for Canada and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short story from Thea Lim<\/strong> about a private investigator, his technique and his subject and how it is that we all fade into the totality of a city. The story takes place near where I grew up in Toronto so the setting is vivid to me. Anyone Could Be Anyone <\/a>is published in The Walrus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life in the vast lane.<\/strong> Doc Searles reflects<\/a> on how the internet has changed over the past 25 years for those of us who create and share our own stuff here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything that, as Mark McKergow puts it “offloads cognitive strain” is valuable<\/strong> especially when a person needs to bring all of their cognitive abilities to the task at hand. Not surprisingly then, you find that the situations where there is likely to be chaos or catastrophic failure, tools like checklists are everywhere: in operating rooms, flight decks, factories, fire halls, kitchens. Mark shares some solid thoughts on these humble tools.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My neighbour Alejandro Frid is an ecologist and works extensively with Coastal First Nations in British Columbia. I love his work as a scientist and as an author and I love the way he shares wheat he is doing such as in this story on Kitaspo\/Xai\u2019xais fisheries management. Last night he spoke at Speak the Spark, a n every-two-months storytelling even here on Bowen Island where local folks share stories around a theme. It’s a bit like The Moth. Last night the theme was Faux Pas’s and Unexpected Turns and we heard stories about giving up wealth for happiness, photographing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A collection of interesting links with a story on First Nations fisheries, trade wars and technology opportunities, tools for reducing cognitive load, the way the internet has changed and a short story to enjoy.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,64,96,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-culture","category-democracy","category-facilitation","category-first-nations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-53i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424","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=19424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19532,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}