A programming language resembling magical circles 🧙‍♂️

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“I have friends everywhere.”

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Five stars.

Key findings and recommendations from the Critical Infrastructure Lab’s new report on the EU’s digital innovation funding (like Horizon) and tech sovereignty. Lessons for Canada 🤔 #tech #techpolicy #digitalSovereignty

Key findings
&10;1. There is an overreliance on the potential and promise of "disruptive"
&10;technologies. The EU's funding strategies are heavily influenced by the idea
&10;that breakthroughs in Al, quantum computing, and other emerging fields
&10;will be a silver bullet that will turn things around for Europe's
&10;competitiveness.
&10;2. The approach to R&I funding is technology-centric rather than need-centric.
&10;Funding for digital innovation remains overwhelmingly focused on
&10;developing new technologies ("digitization for the sake of digitization")
&10;rather than addressing well-defined, evidence-based needs and solving
&10;problems ("digitization as a means to an end").
&10;3. Funding agencies fall for tech hype. EU funding programs often reflect
&10;industry-driven narratives about new technologies and their potential. This
&10;approach lacks critical rigor and analytical nuance in assessing the actual
&10;potential of different technology areas.
&10;Recommendations
&10;1. Prioritize Public Digital Infrastructure (PDI) - EU funding should
&10;strengthen public digital infrastructure rather than chase disruption. It
&10;should ensure that publicly funded digital tools serve the public interest.
&10;2. Align industry support with public interest - EU funding decisions in
&10;support of industry should prioritize meeting public needs, with the goal of
&10;enhancing both individual and collective autonomy.
&10;3. Adopt a more critical approach to technology investments - Decision-
&10;makers should move beyond techno-deterministic and techno-optimistic
&10;narratives and take a more critical approach to assessing technologies.

Why Bell Labs Worked from @1517.bsky.social

This is familiar and correct… and very hard to do in today’s economic climate (as noted in the piece). Le sigh 😮‍💨

Read in 2025: The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚

Stopped at the end of The Summer Tree. Struggled. This book is dated… that is the kindest thing I can say. Not going to continue.

Downtown Kelowna at the marina. Happy Mother’s Day!

Chad selfie at a marina on Okanagan Lake. He is wearing sunglasses but the sky is a bit overcast

Started What’s Left by Malcolm Harris 📚

Timeline of web features: Baseline timeline

Started listening to Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚

Been having these weird recurring dreams of being photographed in train stations in the Netherlands 🤷‍♂️ I’ve never even been to the Netherlands 🤔 What could this mean? 😳

Checking in on online media usage

The latest Neverpo.st roundtable asks: “Is the internet driving you to the brink?” Mike points out that a first Trump admin, followed by Covid, and then another Trump admin, has turned many people’s online brains into mush. How do you keep up or stay informed, without driving yourself insane? A dozen years ago I tackled this problem, taking an information fast and reading The Information Diet by Clay Johnson. Things have gotten away from me over the past few years, but recently I have been leaning more into RSS and trying to read more blogs.

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Lovely Saturday. Bought some handmade chili crunch and chocolate at the Nikkei Centre market, took a bunch of photos with family at our local wisteria trellis, and watched 2 eps of Andor.

Chad holds up a jar of chili sauce and a package of sugar free chocolate in one hand. In the background blurred is Nikkei CenterChad selfie surrounded by fronds of wisteriaWide shot of wisteria in full bloom. People are walking around and taking photos The entrance to the wisteria trellis, a 12 foot tall arched walkway that goes about 30 feet. This is one of 2

One of my all time fav photos came up in my Memories today: the eaves of Bukko-ji, our neighbourhood temple in Kyoto, against a clear blue sky. Shot on this day 2 years ago.

Brass fittings on the roof top of a temple glint in bright sun above eaves criss-crossing in the foreground

Opera time! #vancouveropera

Chad selfie from the balcony at the Vancouver Opera house. People are just being seated

Excellent ep of @techwontsave.us I’ve known Son from way back, but did not know about the Sheldon Adelson connection. @lalehkhalili.bsky.social’s story of Trump teaching Son how to comb his hair is wild

techwontsave.us/episode/2…

Just a note and some links from April for you:

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Wow this is pretty great! #localfirstsoftware #lofisoftware

www.localfirst.fm/landscape

Boats to Nanaimo for the National Association of Japanese Canadians conference

This past weekend we were blessed with gorgeous clear blue skies as we took the ferry from Tsawwassen across the Georgia Strait to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island. Swartz Bay? But, it says “Nanaimo” in the title? you observe. And yes, you are correct. Although there is a ferry from Tsawwassen direct to Nanaimo, we decided to land at the southern end of the island and spend the Friday afternoon driving up the east coast of the island, visiting all those tiny little towns that I have heard about but have never actually visited before.

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Hit a nice meditation milestone today. 🧘

Chad's Insight Timer profile showing a streak of 400 days of meditation

Went on a short walk in the rain 💦 and did the thing! 🙌 Also took some shots of wet flower petals and small waterfalls 🌸

An Elections Canada sign indicating a voting location for the federal electionCloseup of a red flower covered in raindropsfallen cherry blossom petals on a lawn by a small human-made waterfall and stream