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
Just finished the penultimate ep of 99 Percent Invisible’s breakdown of The Powerbroker, an excellent episode where we see both petards and hoists. It also features an interview of Brennan Lee Mulligan who talks about using an undead Robert Moses as the Big Bad in his D&D campaign! ⚔️ 🎲 🧟♂️
Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too.
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!
There and back again
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 😉)
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.