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Exploring AI and American Fascism
@mikerugnetta.com’s excellent essay on slopaganda, agit slop, and what it really says about power
Finished A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie 📚
The last 20% of the book was basically setup for the next book. That said, he sure packed in a lot in those two closing chapters.
5th Abercrombie I have read this year. Sheesh! can I hold off for the last two of the series!?
The #polyglotunconf afterparty was held at the False Creek Yacht Club. The organizers did a great job at making the weather nice 😎 Had a good time connecting with some very interesting folks. This is a great conf for bringing together people from many different walks of computing life.
Just finished #polyglotunconf 🎉 300 people showed up and collaboratively created a multi track conference. I went to sessions on building an eng team post-AI, LoFi software, self-hosting, and managing context in enterprise. Met a TON of new people. Now off to the afterparty 🍻
Gotta go to sleep early tonight since I need to bring the energy to www.polyglotsoftware.com unconf tomorrow!! 🎉🙌
#polyglotconf
Been a year so I updated my Uses/Don’t Uses page: chadkohalyk.com/about/use…
Share me yours!
New Kit! Ricoh GR IV
Early Xmas!🎄🎁 New kit! 📷 I mulled getting a Fujifilm X100VI when they came out but wanted something smaller. Been watching the iteration of GRs and when they announced the IV I signed up right away. Gonna carry this thing everywhere! #photography
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Indigenous Nations Plan a Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across the US-Canada border
We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.
Tsukimi Moon Viewing celebration at Vancouver Public Library featured shakuhachi, calligraphy, ikebana, poetry, dance, and of course viewing the moon from the roof garden of the library! 🌕🎑
Younger daughter made dango 🍡 (coloured for hanami 😅) with kinako and Okinawan kuromitsu. A moon cake 🥮. A full moon stream on YouTube. And some of that grass that cut me earlier today 🌾
Happy Moon Viewing! 🎑
Gorgeous day for a walk in the forest. The leaves are turning in the warm sun and I sliced my finger pulling wheatgrass for the moon viewing fest tonight 🎑
Last trip to the Richmond Night Market before it closes for the season
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
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If you want to learn about how the Greeks influenced early #Buddhism (writing, analytical thinking) this lecture by Ajahn Sona is pretty mind-bending
Back to Birken
A travel report from my 7 day silent retreat
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
