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. 🪖
💀💀💀
You live the story you write
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
Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
Started the Andy Serkis narrated version. Already 10% in but is it only Ch2! There have already been about 8 prologues and prefaces and various philological treatises. I just wanted to get to the bloomin’ party! 🍖🎇
Going through some old photos. Here’s the Lions Gate Bridge in 1959
#vancouver #history
Sound on. Let’s chant together:
#jomo #jomo #jomo 🧘 😂
Happy Diwali! 🪔
Last year it fell on Halloween which was lots of fun. All the kids would say “Trick-or-treat! Happy Diwali!” 🎃 🪔
This year it falls on the anniversary of us viewing and putting an offer on our house 🏡
And Bandi Chhor Divas is when the offer was accepted 🤝 🥰
Light to you all!
A slip of the tongue talking about social issues in Canada and USA gave me a particularly useful new word: 北米人 → 白米人 😜
The existence of hakubeijin implies the existence of 玄米人 🙃