Excellent issue of IXP this week re Euro digital sovereignty showing the level of dependency (92% of Euro data sits in US clouds), the problem of lack of political will and “The Buy European Trap”. Lots of lessons! (Also some great links at the bottom including to #ProtocolsForPublishers 😉)
Travelogue by bullet point
When thinking about “sovereign” AI consider the difference between digital sovereignty and digital nationalism. Take the Swiss model vs the Korean. Listen to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and think about our approach in Canada as we pursue #publicAI.
Started listening to Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch 📚 on the plane back from New York. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is so great on audio!
16 days in Quebec. Just 4 days home before going to Kelowna flr a couple days for a baby shower. Then a week in New York. Now I am home… and have no more travel booked until I go to the monastery on retreat at the end of September. Feels good to be home! 😎 🏡
Thanks New York 🗽 Won’t forget you.
Final night in New York. Had a lovely meal and am now just hanging out in Madison Square Park watching the people and listening to a podcast about Robert Caro’s book about Robert Moses.
“Control the means of inference”
— @wang.social at #ATProto_NYC
After working the morning @betaworks.com I had a lobster roll in Chelsea Market like a real New York tourist and now heading to Hex House in Brooklyn for #ATProto_NYC
Coming down from #ProtocolsForPublishers. Lots of processing to do. Was great to meet people like @ivansigal.bsky.social | @ivansigal@social.coop and @werd.io | @ben@werd.social in person. @julietshen.bsky.social is a star 🤩 There were many more! Writing up reflections now…
Currently @betaworks.com in NYC ahead of #ProtocolsForPublishers. Tomorrow night a BUNCH of cool people will be in here to talk about how we can ensure both the distribution AND the app layer of the web can remain open using #openProtocols for #ai and #opensocial
I was a bit nervous trying to sleep last night before coming to the US, so I started Living Theravada by Brooke Schedneck 📚 #Buddhism
All packed and ready for flying to NYC early tomorrow morning. Excited to meet old friends and make new ones at #ProtocolsForPublishers and #ATProto_NYC
Look what arrived! 📚 othernetworks.net by @loriemerson@post.lurk.org 🎉 (with the @z-space.ca server rack in the background) Also see her talk (via pinhole security camera) from last year’s Our Networks youtu.be/LjS5_dsuF…
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Who is using literal.club I haven’t started and am thinking about giving it a go. There are already a couple of bookshelf apps on atproto. I want something that can track reading (which is why I haven’t had much joy with Bookwyrm or Storygraph. GR makes this easy) #amReading #books 📚
On the plane back to Vancouver. 🛫 Goodbye Ottawa! 🏛️ Thanks for the memories Kingston. 💍 Loved the Cirque, Montréal. 🎪 Quebec City, I hope to return to the Château Frontenac in 19+ to see the new colour of the ceiling! 🏰 Summer hols are almost over. Regular programming starts Monday. 👋
More Ottawa adventures: Stewart the Service dog who greets people at the hotel and lives in a castle in the lobby, the portrait of Churchill that was stolen from Château Laurier and wasn’t noticed for 8 months and later returned, and Hitler’s car.
Today’s exploration in Ottawa: the Canadian War Museum. This place has a massive collection of equipment you can walk around and view.
Today’s adventures in Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada and Canadian Museum of History 🇨🇦
