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Revisiting Malazan
There and back again
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!
From today’s iOS Memories… I miss this big guy!
#ikijima
Finished Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch 📚
Good episode. Nice to have Kobna back in my ears. And Abigail! The two first-person characters, not to mention the rest of the fam getting involved, was well-handled, especially in a new setting. More: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…
Amazing track from Jesse 📿
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 😉)
Summer Travel
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.