What a weekend. After seeing the sunset on the beach we had Indian-Chinese food for dinner, then the next day my wife baked roht at her Afghan cooking class, after which we popped over to the farmer’s market to shop for nuts at the Armenian dealer. Surrey is great!
What a talk from Ajahn Nisabho 🙏 🪷
The Buddha said “I praise the killing of one thing: anger.”
Take care of your heart ❤️ my friends.
#buddhism #politics
Finally started Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 📚
Tracking on Hardcover here
Pre-ordered the special edition a few months ago: micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/0…
Spent the afternoon by the water, watching this sunset 🌅 (Crescent Beach, Surrey and White Rock BC)
Been enjoying Hardcover so much I went ahead and imported all my Goodreads stuff into it. Come join us!
Last week the Canadian Competition Bureau released the report Your Data, Your Control: How data portability can unlock competition and empower consumers. The surprisingly readable report centers around an experiment exploring data portability in the insurance sector, calculating that “introducing data portability could save Canadians “between $1.10 billion and $3.83 billion in both time and money on their annual costs.” I decided to read the report to understand how the Canadian federal government thinks about data portability in general, with an eye towards other digital spaces like social media, cloud, AI, and the types of stuff I am interested in.
I LOL’d when I saw Ajahn Kovilo say this during the full talk 🤣 I am so glad they turned it into a Short:
Full talk is here if you want to hear more.
Finished A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚
Here is a short review: hardcover.app/books/a-p…
Nice walk in a very sunny forest 🌞🌲🌳
Who do I know that lives in the Fraser Lowland? A friend has started a fellowship program to support projects focusing on localism there. If you know anyone please tag me and share them this: fraserlowland.org
Clear Mountain Monastery found land just outside of #Seattle! 🪷 They have a beautiful vision and raised 99% of the funds. I really love this community and have made a small contribution. If you are interested in having authentic #Buddhism nearby learn more: www.friendsofclearmountain.org 🙏
Good first ep in @themaybe.org’s new series on Digital Public Infrastructure with a wild story about how Walmart and Google ended up owning the digital pay rails in India 🫨
Wife brought back a nice Ebisu omamori for from Osaka for my home office. Keep the house safe, business successful, and also a bag to hold happiness 💰🧧
Interviewing Surrey and Vancouver school officials @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social learns about how they teach critical media literacy. Luckily all of them have defunct Twitter accounts except BC gov. However they all still list X on their sites.
Chapter 5 of A People’s History of Computing in the United States has this amazing anecdote of how the statewide computer network was governed by the users via a bill of rights!
This interview with legendary translator Red Pine is pure poetry! From his story of learning Chinese at random, moving to Taiwan on a whim, and “dancing” with the Chinese masters… all with his earthy, saintly, demeanor. Profound and joyful (and a side of swear words)
Ooooh! Massive list of #opensource events. Will need to parse and integrate into my own list of conferences for 2026
A People’s History of Computing in the United States 📚
Ch3 (41%) BASIC becomes the people’s language. Meant for networked computing and timesharing, easy to mod and fork… much easier than FORTRAN which biz uses and less likely to share programs… READ MORE →
Damn! Riz Ahmed is brilliant and this looks intense
Every time I am at the grocery store standing in front of a glass case waiting 5 mins for someone to come unlock a stick of deodorant, I reflect that we went from family-run neighborhood shops who knew your kids, to impersonal big box stores, to every customer being criminalized. 😔