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Back to Birken
A travel report from my 7 day silent retreat
OpenMedia ran a survey on #AI regulation and #DigitalSovereignty.
The findings show a “strong preference for self-hosted, locally developed AI” and a rejection of “one-size-fits-all” policy.
Meanwhile ISED is running a public consultation on #Canada’s AI strategy open until Oct 31.
Tried to hold off, since I want First Law to last forever, but I just was itching for some Steven Pacey-narrated Joe Abercrombie grimdark fantasy: A Little Hatred Book 1 of the final trilogy (and the 8th I have read in the series) 📚
common needs need commons
and:
We believe in proliferation, not scale
Both statements got me right in the cockles. 🫀
Check out the folktechnology.org Principles and come to Vancouver on Oct 18 for their event at Z-Space.
#folktech #technology #event
This 👇
If you want to learn about how the Greeks influenced early #Buddhism (writing, analytical thinking) this lecture by Ajahn Sona is pretty mind-bending
Started this for our Metagov book club later this week The Dispossessed: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Read this during my meditation retreat. It is a bit academic, and there are many more simpler takes, bit it did bring some clarity that I appreciated. Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Bhikkhu Anālayo 📚
Just returned from my 7 day silent retreat at Birken Forest Monastery. I’ve been offline the entire time. It was really lovely. Still somehow took 120+ photos. Will post a travelogue tomorrow. May you all be safe, healthy, and happy 🙏 #Buddhism #Meditation
Just finished the penultimate ep of 99 Percent Invisible’s breakdown of The Powerbroker, an excellent episode where we see both petards and hoists. It also features an interview of Brennan Lee Mulligan who talks about using an undead Robert Moses as the Big Bad in his D&D campaign! ⚔️ 🎲 🧟♂️
Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too.
Me: How many flamingos 🦩 will you have at your wedding?
Daughter massively eye-rolling like she talking to a boomer: OMG dad… that’s a funeral thing 😒🪦
‘Carney also said he will ask the MPO [Major Projects Office] to help with the development of a “Canadian Sovereign Cloud” that would build data centres and computing capacity in a way that ensures the country’s competitiveness and digital sovereignty.’
One of the 5 Nation-Building projects announced by our PM
Inspired by listening to The Powerbroker podcast about Robert Caro’s classic book on NYC master planner Robert Moses, I picked up this recent and well-regarded history: Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis 📚
New #book haul! 📚
Gotta catch ‘em all!
Last week I pre-ordered a GR IV. Last night I had my first dream using it in different light conditions.
It’s gonna be a long wait until that order is fulfilled.
Started listening to What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch 📚🦊
I started listening to 99pi’s series on The Powerbroker about Robert Moses while sitting in a park in Manhattan. I left NYC the next day but I am still many hours into the podcast series because it is so good! So many lessons on leadership and community building (mostly what not to do 😅)
The 1982 Put-That-There demo by the Architecture Machine Group at MIT as an example of intent-based computer interaction.
From @genmon.org’s post on AI interfaces
Would love to buy a Neverpost shirt (I like the cleaver one because I am a fan of split keyboards 🙃) but it is USD$26 to ship to Canada making the total CAD$77 (plus I will get dinged for import fees). Sad. But just because I can’t buy one doesn’t mean you shouldn’t! Support @neverpo.st!