Resharing this mostly for the puns in the comments.

Nice - thanks Doug! (Said with the utmost sarcasm).

This! 🏳️‍⚧️💜

Best silver lining I've seen in a while.

Subvert is live! Proud to be a member of this awesome cooperative music experiment. Check it out, join us!

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

In a nutshell. 😊

“People are elected to perform not govern” Zinger from @loreleikelly.bsky.social #DXC26

Funny to realize that all the work I used to do in relation to open data was unintentionally in service of feeding the LLM maw

‘Canada is a collection of provinces, loosely held together by fear’ Zita Cobb gets some knowing laughs from the audience #DXC26

And once again with the actual hashtag #DXC26

Zita Cobb says Canadians need to be in love with their geography. First step in building happier and more resilient communities. I’m biased but co-ops are a good way of doing this #DXC20

My excellent colleague @lexa.fyi is talking about the possibilities of media based on open protocols & the dream of controlling your data #DXC26

‘In fighting misinformation, there is no silver bullet, we’ve got about three bronze bullets but we can keep using them over and over’ - Bruce MacCormack #DXC26

Just learned about Press Forward - support local journalism! It’s ‘literally’ fundamental to a healthy democracy #DXC26 www.pressforward.news

‘AI sucks problems’ are also ‘capitalism sucks problems’ - Bruce Schneier #DXC26

Schneier - AI security is a “disaster.” “We don’t know how to build trustworthy AI”🥸 #DXC26

Bruce Schneier and Charles Finley talking about benefits of AI to governments & civic society. Regulations are fundamental. #DXC26

On the topic of AI: “Agenda of Big Tech leaves no room for shared prosperity” @dacemoglumit.bsky.social #DXC26

What is the fate of liberal democracy? 🇨🇦@dacemoglumit.bsky.social w/ CBC at #DXC26

‘The inequality in the US and other places was a choice’ @dacemoglumit.bsky.social So let’s choose otherwise, yes? How do we unchoose? #DXC2026

If you're at #dxc2026, come to "Knowing What's Really Real: Content Provenance, the Media & Democracy" at 11am. Hypha member @lexa.fyi is speaking alongside an awesome panel www.democracyxchange.org/sessions/med...

Starting the day off with a light topic… the fate of liberal democracy #DXC2026

Foray into new bougie coffee place on College. I’m into it.

My colleagues went to Vancouver, had a great time, and also released this neat lil tool. Check it out!

I contributed to these long discussions. Impressive how well Iz and Hannah synthesized it all.

"When the server goes dark, we go dark, too. We’ve built an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack while hallucinating it as literally anything else. We condemn AI today for making shit up, but what about us?" newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

First week of PollinateTO training and how nice to spend an (online) evening talking about pollinator insects. TIL that we have over 300 species of native bees in Toronto! Also, this is great resource for ppl interested in native trees/plants/shrubs www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Some sane and pithy thoughts amidst the AI froth: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/no...

It's a Tom Petty/War on Drugs/matcha with ashwagandha type morning. Dog snoozing at my feet. Things are good in the bubble.

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"...I cannot stress enough how much this story is not really about the role of AI in open source software. This is about our systems of reputation, identity, and trust breaking down." This whole epic makes me realize how far behind the curve our 'institutions' are theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

"Obsession, craft, improvement, and learning are all inefficient parts of life. They are also the part of life where you are actually doing the living." Don't wholly agree with @annehelen.bsky.social's take on AI, but love this emphasis on the importance of friction www.patreon.com/posts/dont-l...

Adults love to talk about the impact of technology on kids, but we so rarely listen to the kids themselves. Next week's Wayfinding event is trying to change that: a panel of teenagers talking about their relationship with technology. Join us on Wednesday

Very happy to see this lovely little thing out in the world. It was fun to watch it come together in the past few weeks, from idea to garden. Kudos to @charlebois.info and @lexa.fyi 💜

Love this story in pictures by @thelocal.to about the infamous Eglinton Crosstown thelocal.to/understandin...

Wow.

3-ish weeks after the big snow here in Toronto, they finally plowed the counterflow bike lane on my street. At 11:30pm. Pro: safer biking for all! Con: 5-year-old woken up by crazy bobcat & backhoe combo and refusing to gtfbts 🥱

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

I wrote a thing last week. Check it oot

Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians. Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...

"Paid advertising in AI search, and AI models generally, could look very different from traditional web search. It has the potential to influence your thinking, spending patterns and even personal beliefs in much more subtle ways." Are you paying attention yet? theconversation.com/could-chatgp...

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Add this to your must-reads this week, yes?

Interesting post and thread about the loooong awaited community centre in my hood. Agree that Canadians generally have a consultation problem but the characterization of public input as 'loud neighbours' seems dismissive. Ultimately, it would be nice to get the darn thing built tho

*Looks outside* sNooooooooo

Toronto!! This is next week! I'm really excited about this conversation, Parker is very smart and has lots of interesting things to say that you should come listen to.