A brilliant example of cross #Canada #education collaboration between UBC and @ictc-ctic.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social Want a sense of just how cross Canada it is? Here we are at Gonzaga High School in St John's on UBC's Geering Up #Quantum Arcade yesterday! www.quantumarcade.org #cnded #IYQ2025

It’s often the most vulnerable Canadians who don’t file their taxes and miss out on the benefits they need or have paid into. So we’re introducing Automatic Federal Benefits — pre-filing taxes for up to 5.5 million lower-income Canadians.

"Japan is the only country known to have fitted lithium-ion batteries into SSKs, with South Korea expected to be the next country to do so with 3 3,600-ton Batch 2 submarines" navalnews.com/naval-news/2... That with an SMR (a Canadian strength) would be long range & silent. #cdnpoli

“The study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, found that children who had a smartphone by age 12 were at higher risk of depression, obesity and insufficient sleep than those who did not yet have one." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w... Not doing the adults much good either.

FBI warns of cyber criminals impersonating financial institutions to steal money or information in Account Takeover (ATO) fraud schemes www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...

"They are framed as legitimate domestic policies, but their function is to weaken American technology leadership in favor of domestic champions" itif.org/publications... Domestic policies that support local tech aren't 'framed' as legitimate, they are legitimate. #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social

"#Canada’s digital index score stands at 23/100. The global average is 33. Canadian managers are overestimating their team’s digital readiness" pmctraining.com/articles-and...

Whoever is doing social media for the Canadian Forces... You've got game! I hope it encourages more Canadians to consider the many opportunities this pathway offers. #cdned

"there is no reason Calandra could not have analyzed the results at the same time as everyone else" #onted www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Who teaches kids #cybersecurity skills and builds their confidence on Wednesday and then has them doing a live demo on CBC Radio on Thursday? This guy! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... The only thing preventing #cdned from resolving our multi-generational #digitalskills gap is the doing of it!

Who teaches kids #cybersecurity skills and builds their confidence on Wednesday and then has them doing a live demo on CBC Radio on Thursday? This guy! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... The only thing preventing #cdned from resolving our multi-generational #digitalskills gap is the doing of it!

How about some support for sectors hammered by shitty provincial governments?

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A brilliant example of cross #Canada #education collaboration between UBC and @ictc-ctic.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social Want a sense of just how cross Canada it is? Here we are at Gonzaga High School in St John's on UBC's Geering Up #Quantum Arcade yesterday! www.quantumarcade.org #cnded #IYQ2025

Think you need a PhD for a job in quantum computing? Not necessarily, our quantum researchers joined from physics, engineering & even cryogenics. What unites them is curiosity and a drive for excellence. Learn more about Google #Quantum #AI team here → goo.gle/48tCV2A

Gripen E vs F-35? The Wrong Question to Ask nordicdefencesector.com/en/article/g...

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges cnb.cx/4pyM1k5 You can substitute 'Facebook' for whatever the kids are on today. It's the same algorithms doing the same damage, just a different UI.

"only 30% of the Canadian population is currently 'very prepared with workplace #digitalskills' and this number is expected to drop to 23% in the next 5 years as #technology continues to evolve" #cdned abclifeliteracy.ca/news/ai-and-...

Isn't everyone? 🙂 The pen is mightier than the #AI

Building Global Impact with #Canada’s #Quantum Leadership With centres in QC, ON, AB & BC... www.waterlooedc.ca/blog/buildin... I'm reading this as I travel to NL and once again I'm left wondering where Atlantic Canada's quantum cluster is. #cdnpoli

The exact same conclusion was reached through research data at ISED's IP conference last month: www.linkedin.com/posts/temkin... It's easy to blame research universities and foreign students, but #Canada has a business culture that doesn't take responsibility for development. A colonial mindset?

Traditional web search introduces friction: users must click, read, and synthesize across different sources, building a deeper and more original mental model. Anyone selling you on frictionless learning (or teaching) is blowing smoke. Learning is mental heavy lifting and hard work, and should be.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers. The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social

Watch PixelPalooza! Jen Looper's Proustian talk is a philosophical look across #webdevelopment from the early days of hand built sites to the 'everything is purple' world of #AI generated content today - it's absolutely brilliant. www.youtube.com/live/QUWCK1G... starts ~ 26 mins in.

The Internet Society's 2026 Action Plan: "Our Action Plan is a roadmap for progress, powered by collaboration with our global community. Together, we can make the Internet a force for good — today, tomorrow, and for generations to come." www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/...

IBM and Cisco Announce Plans to Build a Network of Large-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers newsroom.ibm.com/2025-11-20-i...

Ruin them! From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social: “Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim” secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Join well-known developers from around the world to explore how media is used across the web. Bring cutting-edge techniques back to your team. cfe.dev/events/pixel...

www.independent.co.uk/tech/cloudfl... "Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare." How long are we going to keep shoving our infrastructure onto this rickety house of cards we've built for 'convenience'?

"To know assembly was to know the CPU itself—what it could & couldn’t do. A chip’s physical design, how the circuits connecting the logic gates of AND and XOR are actually laid, defines how it works" www.wired.com/story/progra... Which is why I always included it in #coding.

The #ai could "autonomously inspect digital infrastructure, identify “the highest-value databases,” write exploit code, harvest user credentials, and organize stolen data" fortune.com/2025/11/14/a... Just needs to be autonomous then.

@wired.com is pulling no punches - a must read: "big #tech companies became The Phone Company—pernicious behemoths who enshittify their products to extract more profits" www.wired.com/story/silico... Is our only solution clinging to neoliberalism as a defence against authoritarianism?

#AI firm claims Chinese spies used its tech to automate #cyberattacks bbc.com/news/article...

“Worryingly, nearly one in 10 terrorism investigations at CSIS now includes at least one subject of investigation under the age of 18" cbc.ca/news/politic... Extremist groups find un-supervised Canadian kids online everywhere. They make for easy targets. #cdnpoli #cdned

US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Trump administration signed an $80bn deal with Westinghouse, which had been struggling financially, the Trump administration could end up taking a stake in the company"

Stage seperation complete: www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...

Rohit Gupta, the TDSB supervisor, will earn $350,000 a year +$20,000 in expenses to get the board “back on track” despite an auditor finding no evidence of financial mismanagement. [email protected] [email protected] A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.

"They’re fueled by hype & ebullient valuations. When the heat rises — when capital tightens or customers scrutinize ROI — they go up in seconds." open.substack.com/pub/ceodinne... "Infrastructure clones in crowded categories — 1 more LLM gateway, 1 more vector database" #ai #aibubble

Working out migration strategies to Substack this morning... substack.com/profile/1387...

"As data increasingly drives economic and social power, current models – dominated by a handful of Big Tech platforms – entrench structural inequalities, diminish user control, and undermine public trust." t20southafrica.org/publications... #T20Summit #digitalcitizenship #cdnpoli

The technical obliviousness I see in #cdned is often seated in science obliviousness. We need this kind of communications focus across all STEM programs. If you can't explain it so people understand it, you're part of the problem. #cdnpoli

Xanadu’s $3.6B SPAC, Quantinuum’s 98-Qubit Helios Debut, psiQuantum & Lockheed Martin, Princeton Qubit - The Week in #QuantumComputing, November 3rd, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/quantump...

EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... We need something similar in #Canada, along with laws with teeth for the treasonous types who happily take foreign money to destabilize our country. #cdnpoli

"Advanced solar panels represent more than just a technological evolution—they symbolize a paradigm shift. From external, visible objects, they will become an integral part of the environments we live in" quantum2025.org/news-link/ad... Another quantum mechanically enabled modern device.

AI race heats up as Chinese start-up Moonshot launches Kimi K2 Thinking www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ai-...

Canadian #quantum company Photonic Inc. Advances to Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative photonic.com/news/photoni... #cdnpoli

Happy with the final edit: temkblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/leve... "You are surrounded by #quantum mechanics. Celebrate this centenary of our discovery of #quantummechanics by recognizing that it isn't coming soon but is something you've been surrounded by your whole life." #cdned #onted #IYQ2025

#Quantum isn't the next big thing, you've been surrounded by quantum engineering for your entire life. A good way to end the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics during #IYQ2025? #cdned #onted temkblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/leve...