This was a good podcast interview with Shannon Vallor nominally about her new book THE AI MIRROR but it was much broader and even included her first book TECHNOLOGY AND THE VIRTUES. It gives a good sense of her approach if you haven’t read her stuff before.
Oh! Tomorrow! 🧎🏼📿☸️🪷
Wow look at the lineup for this conference! Ceclia Rikap and Evgeny Morozov and more! Online reg is still available #DigitalSovereignty #event
Making quesadillas just like that Sri Lankan chef taught me at the Buddhist monastery deep in the Canadian mountain forest. 🙃
Life can be stranger than fiction. Love it! 😊
Fun gallery of laptops covered in stickers
Here’s mine. You may be able to spot some of your favs.
Moseyed on down to 0th Avenue to have a gander over the ditch and see how things are going in America.
Fascinating discussion at PITG.network with Fiona Alexander about her new book “Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core” 📚
Appreciated her professional take as an insider.
#InternetGovernance #PublicInterestTechnologist
Talking a walk in the forest listening to a Dhamma talk contemplating wisdom, surrounded by many handfuls of leaves. ☸️
Gorgeous documentary on kathina featuring Wat Marp Jan (Ajahn Anan’s monastery). Anumodana! 🙏
#Buddhism
Currently reading: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson 📚
Here’s to the next thousand pages …
Last night we gathered community builders to ideate on how we can rebuild Vancouver’s once-thriving meetup scene. 🥳 What resources can we pool for the betterment of the ecosystem? 🤔 It was a total blast and we are collating our findings and planning Stage 2. 📈 If you’re an organizer, REACH OUT 🤝
Dosa time
Daddy daughter time at the #archery
Excellent interview with Joe Watkins about his new book “Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future” by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. I learned about Shakushain’s Revolt. Upopoy is the only National Museum I have not been to. Gonna get this book! 📚
#Japan #history #ainu
Sent out my monthly newsletter a little early. We got everything from reflecting on history, legacy, “moments”, and of course AI — which I am sure you haven’t heard enough about yet 😏
(Oh and also a million photographs, but that is just a given 🤷♂️)
Started The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social 📚
GenAI shows us what we already are. A mirror can be useful, showing us what we cannot normally see, but it can occlude and distort.
Also re-reading her Technology and the Virtues which I used teaching Digital Ethics at UBC
Photos from around my city today
Me: Look! Here is a picture of me in 1995! 🎞️
My 16 year old daughter: OMG when you said that the first thing that popped into my mind was World War 1. 🪖
💀💀💀
But you don’t remember that you wrote it… and that is what makes life fun
Started Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Jayasaro 📚
#Buddhism