the conditions that produce inaction remain untouched: our scripts about crisis have not yet disturbed our day-to-day ​At the same time, our decisions, interactions, and language are increasingly scripted by systems with no body, no home, and no existential stake luma.com/tocw-zu1d?tr...

"Time’s Lie [by @leocookman.com] analyses the history, the science and the philosophy behind the creation of linear stories, or ‘Narrativisation’ as this book dubs it." www.simonandschuster.com/books/Times-...

Great article and nice to read someone talking about Narrativisation. I wrote a whole book on the subject, published back in 2020 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Times-...

democracy without philosophy is how we got to the current empty discussions about trust in govt

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books

"​The night begins with a talk: “Feral ecologies & mythologies for a feral public imagination” with Bianca Wylie, Xuan Ye, and facilitated by Luisa Ji - and ends with performances by artists Doraa, Ben McCarthy, and more..." Join us at Allan Gardens, Saturday June 6 at 5.30 pm :) luma.com/tocw-zu1d

remember to luxuriate in the context collapse

from passive democratic participation to the recruitment of active capacity for self-governance and community control, from a focus on rights to a focus on responsibilities, and in the tech space, from a focus on digital rights to a focus on digital responsibilities: medium.com/p/fbfc612d3d7

newsletter 6 out monday. topics include: summary of the AI-note taker etiquette session, creating AI use guidelines at your organization, and how artists can help us deal with the constant influx of new technologies. it's a monthly thing (at most) - sign up here: time-and-space-studios.ghost.io

the things that need to be said and repeated right now about computers and society feel so obvious and repetitive that you don’t want to say them. say them anyway. that instinct to silence has been how bad practices have normalized. don’t get into advocacy if you don’t want to repeat yourself.

@biancawylie.com: “Opinions cannot be automated. Opinions that seek to build a different future cannot be wholesale modeled on the past. Friction is where slowness and specificity can take root, and these are necessary ingredients…” (V good) biancawylie.medium.com/consensus-do...

Consensus is a myth. This idea was shared with me years ago, handed down through others that have worked for decades in facilitation. It’s a phrase that stuck, challenging me constantly to accurately retell events that I’m part of, or witness to. biancawylie.medium.com/consensus-do...

Toronto - come get feral with us :) Saturday June 6 from 5.30 - 11.00 pm at Allan Gardens, as part of Toronto Climate Week. UKAI Projects is doing some of the best work out there on tech and culture, if you don’t know them come out and change that, you’ll be happy you did. luma.com/tocw-zu1d?tr...

Sometimes it is only after I publish my newsletter, that I realize that what I had just shared had an obvious through-line or theme. But I only notice it in retrospect. In this case, the three items that I shared all concerned themselves with a collective harmony www.uofwinds.com/438/

In The Power of Cute, Simon May "argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to today’s pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

paradox of canada - its potential lies in its disinterest to wrap itself in the flag

newsletter 6 out monday. topics include: summary of the AI-note taker etiquette session, creating AI use guidelines at your organization, and how artists can help us deal with the constant influx of new technologies. it's a monthly thing (at most) - sign up here: time-and-space-studios.ghost.io

we had a great conversation about AI in the context of municipal operations, history, and hype.

every conversation about nationalism is an opportunity to talk about colonialism - come talk with us about it.

new Sarah Sharma book www.dukeupress.edu/insufferable...

Last call to join us this Friday May 29th at 12.15 pm ET to talk about AI note-taking tools and related etiquette. How we use tech within our teams and in the broader world has consequences on our relationships, and there is power here to make intentional choices. luma.com/eclgzpj1

Replay is up: Boring Tiny Tools for Transportation - aka Just Enough AI m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws-G...

Toronto - come get feral with us :) Saturday June 6 from 5.30 - 11.00 pm at Allan Gardens, as part of Toronto Climate Week. UKAI Projects is doing some of the best work out there on tech and culture, if you don’t know them come out and change that, you’ll be happy you did. luma.com/tocw-zu1d?tr...

Join us Thursday, June 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. CT at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg - Advancing the conversation on digital sovereignty. Hosted by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Free to attend, register here: www.cira.ca/en/resources...

We're not starting at operations and talking about AI, which would make sense. We're starting at AI, then talking about operations, which doesn't. newsletter 5: time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/meeting-hype...

there is no reason to ante up on self-surveillance by increasing your use of transcripts and automated note-taking and other AI tools just because they’re there

“Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. The author implores critics to reject structural dependencies on digital tools rather than naturalize their integration via critique/reform“ J.Penn www.policyready.ca/policymaking...

Consensus is a myth. This idea was shared with me years ago, handed down through others that have worked for decades in facilitation. It’s a phrase that stuck, challenging me constantly to accurately retell events that I’m part of, or witness to. biancawylie.medium.com/consensus-do...

every conversation about nationalism is an opportunity to talk about colonialism

UofWinds 429, Week 03 2026: Human Intelligence, Everything is Gender, Bird by Bird www.uofwinds.com/429/

“…waiting could be conceived of both as a form of resistance and as a warranted insistence on the space for deliberation and reflection, which are the preconditions of freedom.“ - @lmsacasas.bsky.social theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/waiting-is...

The path we’re on instead is techno-solutionism: the cheapest, straightest line governments can choose towards efficiency and savings, and the most impoverished innovation strategy possible for a young country with every opportunity to do differently. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The idea that a country wants to have agency over its technology systems is understandable. But let’s take care not to confuse this desire with anything resembling progressive politics. My latest for @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

tech companies using society as a staging server

I mask everywhere to reduce the chances of getting sick. If someone asks me if I’m sick (rare) I say no, I wouldn’t be here if I was - I’m trying not to get sick. I also understand why others may want medical privacy and answer otherwise. or they have to be out sick. diversity of tactics out there.

“Can one change the world one has escaped from by powers gained in imaginary worlds? I think so. Imagination contains the yeast of world-making. If so, this is consistency.” - Andrei Codrescu lareviewofbooks.org/article/cons...

now reading : the history of a tenth of a second by Jimena Canales “it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound.” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep. www.policyready.ca/policymaking...