The Conference Board of Canada is changing its name to Signal49 Research. Because decades of name recognition has no value, I guess.

Here's the big news I have to start 2026. halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/01/step...

I have written an RSS reader that runs locally on your Windows / Mac / Linux desktop, coded with help from ChatGPT 5.2 (it took a *lot* of guidance to get what I wanted). It's PRE-ALPHA (please read the readme)

There has been a *deluge* of new resources in the learning and technology space over the last few days. The @oldaily.bsky.social account will be busy - you might want to unfollow it for a bit. I'll be spacing all the new stuff over the next week or so of email, RSS, LinkedIn and web editions.

A remarkable hour-and-a-half video from one of my go-to channels, Not Just Bikes. The video is a detailed take-down of 'vehicular cycling' as advocated by John Forester. According to Forester, cyclists should act like cars, and that bike infrastructure is dangerous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...

Convert your name to a Norwegian one. ainovakit.com/converter/no...

Slides, audio and transcript for the presentation I gave yesterday, 'Training and Educational Data Analytics: An Overview', are now available: www.downes.ca/presentation...

Slides and audio for my talk AI Applications: A Taxonomy www.downes.ca/presentation...

Slides and audio for my talk Federated Open Learning Resources www.downes.ca/presentation...

Now if I could only remember what I promised to present.... ;)

35 Days in Iceland - 13 - Breiðdalsvík - Day 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk5...

Podcast interview: Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes. www.downes.ca/post/78346

Another bikepacking video: 35 Days in Iceland - 12 - Djúpivogur to Breiðdalsvík - Days 17-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oQ...

ShiftED Podcast number 69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning www.buzzsprout.com/2404304/epis...

On Social Media as a Public Servant halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-s...

Higher ed should be free so that democracy doesn't crumble again. TGIF

35 Days in Iceland - 11 - Stafafel to Djúpivogur - Day 16 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_X... #Iceland #Bikepacking

35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9g...

35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14 video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzju...

Beyond Democratic Socialism - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/09/beyo...

35 Days in Iceland - 8 - Skogar to Vik to Hofn - Day 13 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0h...

35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtu... #bikepacking #iceland

A society that replaces 90 percent of its workforce with automation still has a responsibility to that 90 percent; otherwise, it ceases to be a society. www.downes.ca/post/78207

On Intelligence halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-i...

"Every single problem we attribute to AI is a human problem with silicon makeup." hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/the-lies-w...

The grist of assessment in the AI era is not 'AI-Resilience', it is (to coin a phrase) 'AI-Agnosticism', which is evaluation design that sets a genuine tasks and doesn't care how it accomplished, only that it is accomplished as well as possible. www.downes.ca/post/78110

Autonomy and freedom depend on the constitution of the people, not the constitution of the nation.

My July 1 newsletter tells a story, from start to finish. It's not a simple story, it's a long and complex story, and many parts are missing, but I'm hoping readers will see the thread here. www.downes.ca/archive/25/0...

Creative Commons launches Signals. www.downes.ca/post/78065

We were at Petrie Island today and I discovered a Redwing Blackbird nest in the reeds by accident. I didn't want to get too close but I had the big lens with me. You have to look closely but in the sequence of three photos you can see the chicks beg for food, the mother feed them, and them sleeping.

Slides, audio, video and (automated) transcript from my presentation "Convergent Discussions in the Fediverse" are now available at www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page...

Slides, audio, transcript (auto-generated) from my talk yesterday "Reframing Togetherness: Advances in artificial intelligence and the intersection of open learning" are all here: www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page...

On Ethical AI Principles - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-e...

Audio, edited transcript, and slides are available for my presentation: Connectivism and Artificial Intelligence in Education, www.downes.ca/presentation...

When new technology arrives, we can either serve the same client base with fewer staff or a much larger population with the same staff. www.downes.ca/post/77907

For those who aren't allowed to discuss these, a reminder... cca-reports.ca/wp-content/u...

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ap... "While Poilievre portrays himself as defending Canada against Trump’s economic aggression, his cultural rhetoric tells a different story. He’s not resisting Trump’s tactics. He’s importing them."

From the DeSmog Blog: www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/p...

Wired: cross-posting on Mastodon and Bluesky Tired: images of X/Twitter posts on Bluesky

I agree with Steve Boots. The Liberal housing plan is a good plan (and something the NDP really should have come up with first). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcLN...

What's Pierre Poilievre afraid of? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbUF...

Grappa-Ling With Mark Carney (2) - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/02/grap...

I am once again supporting the CHEO fundraising campaign by cycling 100km. cheofoundation.donordrive.com/participant/...

Grappa-Ling With Mark Carney (1) halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/02/grap...

Welcome to all my new followers - if you're looking for my newsletter posts here on Bluesky you can find them at my OLDaily account - bsky.app/profile/olda... - I keep things separate so I can use this account for general chatter and that account for news and opinion.

In a world where people are valued strictly and only by the work they do, AI is an oppressor. But if we reject the abstractions that define our society, AI becomes a liberator. AI tells us: what we had was never wealth, what we had was never knowledge. www.downes.ca/post/77614

Back from the days when blogging was important for the first time: How to be Heard: www.downes.ca/post/2

AI and Environmental Justice. halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/02/ai-a...