Revisiting Malazan

There and back again

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From today’s iOS Memories… I miss this big guy!

#ikijima

Saruiwa, the Monkey Rock of Iki. A 40m tall rock formation that looks like a giant monkey. In the background is the open, blue sea

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 😉)

Summer Travel

Travelogue by bullet point

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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.

Inside curved wall of Newark airport. Blue skyChad inside the plane points at the wing outside the plane

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

Chad selfie pointing at the Betaworks sign on a bright clear dayChad points to the Betaworks map which features companies like Digg and Bit.lyA lobster roll and fries

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

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Wide angle interior of a large bright room with many tables and chairs. In the foreground is a MacBook with the Luma event for Protocols for Publishers displayed

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

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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…

Chad holds up a shrink-wrapped red book with the title "Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook" by Lori Emerson

The broken image icon is just the 🍒

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Four panel cartoon.&10;&10;Panel 1: boy asks “papa what was the internet like when you were a boy?”&10;&10;Father sitting in recliner replies “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”&10;&10;Panel 2: Father sitting in recliner replies “BWONG BWONG BWONG”&10;&10;Panel 3: Father sitting in recliner replies “KRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”&10;&10;Boy asks “papa are u ok”&10;&10;Panel 4: father replies with the classic “broken image” icon

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 📚