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.
Started listening to Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch 📚 on the plane back from New York. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is so great on audio!
16 days in Quebec. Just 4 days home before going to Kelowna flr a couple days for a baby shower. Then a week in New York. Now I am home… and have no more travel booked until I go to the monastery on retreat at the end of September. Feels good to be home! 😎 🏡
Thanks New York 🗽 Won’t forget you.
Final night in New York. Had a lovely meal and am now just hanging out in Madison Square Park watching the people and listening to a podcast about Robert Caro’s book about Robert Moses.
“Control the means of inference”
— @wang.social at #ATProto_NYC
After working the morning @betaworks.com I had a lobster roll in Chelsea Market like a real New York tourist and now heading to Hex House in Brooklyn for #ATProto_NYC
Coming down from #ProtocolsForPublishers. Lots of processing to do. Was great to meet people like @ivansigal.bsky.social | @ivansigal@social.coop and @werd.io | @ben@werd.social in person. @julietshen.bsky.social is a star 🤩 There were many more! Writing up reflections now…
Currently @betaworks.com in NYC ahead of #ProtocolsForPublishers. Tomorrow night a BUNCH of cool people will be in here to talk about how we can ensure both the distribution AND the app layer of the web can remain open using #openProtocols for #ai and #opensocial
I was a bit nervous trying to sleep last night before coming to the US, so I started Living Theravada by Brooke Schedneck 📚 #Buddhism
All packed and ready for flying to NYC early tomorrow morning. Excited to meet old friends and make new ones at #ProtocolsForPublishers and #ATProto_NYC
Look what arrived! 📚 othernetworks.net by @loriemerson@post.lurk.org 🎉 (with the @z-space.ca server rack in the background) Also see her talk (via pinhole security camera) from last year’s Our Networks youtu.be/LjS5_dsuF…
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Who is using literal.club I haven’t started and am thinking about giving it a go. There are already a couple of bookshelf apps on atproto. I want something that can track reading (which is why I haven’t had much joy with Bookwyrm or Storygraph. GR makes this easy) #amReading #books 📚
On the plane back to Vancouver. 🛫 Goodbye Ottawa! 🏛️ Thanks for the memories Kingston. 💍 Loved the Cirque, Montréal. 🎪 Quebec City, I hope to return to the Château Frontenac in 19+ to see the new colour of the ceiling! 🏰 Summer hols are almost over. Regular programming starts Monday. 👋
More Ottawa adventures: Stewart the Service dog who greets people at the hotel and lives in a castle in the lobby, the portrait of Churchill that was stolen from Château Laurier and wasn’t noticed for 8 months and later returned, and Hitler’s car.
Today’s exploration in Ottawa: the Canadian War Museum. This place has a massive collection of equipment you can walk around and view.
Today’s adventures in Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada and Canadian Museum of History 🇨🇦
Found this cool beer called Yasuke, named after the famous African samurai who first landed in Shimabara Japan in 1579. The company Mascot is from Toronto and apparently the only Black-owned brewery in Ontario. mascotbrewery.com
Updated my “Interesting Conferences in 2025” list. Tomorrow is the start of #DWebCampCascadia which I helped out with a bit but can’t attend due to being in Ottawa right now 😅, but there are some others coming up. Any suggestions, leave a comment!