#DXC2026 was a great time! Got to chat with legends like Cory Doctorow and Bruce Schneier, meet my pals at Hypha and The Dais, folks from CivicTechTO, CBC, Torstar, The Local, and the federal gov. 🤝 Evan Solomon the AI Minister popped in, and I saw Bob Rae! Thank you for the invite! 🙇♂️
I’ll see you all next in London 🇬🇧 @newspeak.house for luma.com/qjj9c8d7 /cc @protocolsforpublishers.com
Stressful day when checking into my flight realizing I was not allowed to check any luggage! Full flight! And me on middle leg of a 3 country journey 😵💫 Came to the airport 4 hours early and they were able to squeeze my bag (with my wedding suit!) onto the plane! Relaxxxing now 💆♂️
What a day. Wrapped up IETF AIPREFs WG, hung out with Hypha at 1RG, then went to the DXC opener got to meet Cory Doctorow and talk about cool spots in London. 🤩
A few snaps from a rainy and foggy downtown Toronto. 📸
After the IETF AIPREF WG meeting I went downtown for a Goodbot social ahead of DXC.
Tomorrow morning will the last of the IETF and then in the evening the DXC conference starts with a talk from Cory Doctorow.
Stopped in a coffee shop. Guy asked what I normally drink. When I said “Yemeni pourovers” he was like “Uh, we don’t have any of that” but then told me about a bunch of cool #coffee places in #Toronto, so I’m sharing! 🤲
There it is! #CNtower🗼☀️
View from our meeting room for IETF AIPREF working group this morning
Started this on the plane The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 📚
So poetic! I have only ever read This Is How You Lose the Time War which was brilliant.
#amreading #booksky #bookstodon
Made it to Toronto
✈️ At the Rivers Monument in YVR, about to head to Toronto for IETF AIPREF WG, then DemocracyXchange. After that will be London and Germany. Expect photos!
The poles represent the Columbia and Fraser rivers, and are topped by eagles.
Started reading: A Short History of London The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins 📚
Prepping for going back to London next Sunday.
#amreading #booksky #bookstodon #London #travel
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Canada is on the list of 50 countries producing over 50% of their electricity with #renewable #energy
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy This episode of Peoples & Things completely nerd sniped me. On recommendation from Biella Coleman, hosts Lee Vinsel and Paula Bialski interview Ben Collier about his new book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (available Open Access from MIT Press. I love ethnographic works on computing history and especially admire Biella’s book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking.
“Connect, don’t collect”
Protocols and federation > data hoarding silos
Inspired by the film, my daughter hand-sewed her own PROJECT HAIL MARY mission patch. Amaze amaze amaze!
The launching gantry for the SkyTrain extension is getting close to my future local train station. It is cool to see how it lifts and lines up those big concrete blocks for the elevated guideway. surreylangleyskytrain.gov.bc.ca #SurreyBC
I’ve been really looking forward to the StatsCan results for the 2025 census to see if we are on track for Surrey to overtake Vancouver as BC’s biggest municipality soon. The old projections from BCStats signaled the overtake to happen in 2027, but a lot has changed since the census of 2021.
Started reading Bob Williams “Using Power Well”
#amreading #booksky #bookstodon
Enjoying the sakura by the sea in Steveston
#hanami #花見