“while Canada’s competition watchdog may have determined it don’t have enough evidence to pursue a case, Canadians should know much more about the current use of these platforms, and the role they’ve already played in the affordability crisis.”

teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one

Blog entry: The past-performance trap. When government agencies need to have custom software built, as a matter of course they require that the bidding vendors have built that exact thing before. I understand why this seems like a good idea, but it’s a mistake.

The advanced mental yoga some people are doing to reframe this as a nothingburger and advocate pushing ahead without deep reflection is staggering, if not at all surprising. 🎁 link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d...

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I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.

Social change needs activism, but we have gotten stuck with ‘datavism’, that is, a push to define all outcomes of social programmes in quantifiable, visible ways idronline.org/article/pers...

Folks may or may not know that I am working on a tool for design rationale and project planning for when the job of determining what the job *is*, is a big part (if not most) of the job: senseatlas.net

Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social. Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb

everything is on the table

There's no silver bullet.

in the top ten of a technocrat’s favourite framing devices: “we need to have a grown-up conversation about …”