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Yowza. 😂😭
Great read! The comparaison with vegeterianism works!
« I don’t want [these new AI features]. I want to write my own emails…to write my own (mediocre) software code…to learn and think and ponder with other humans, not with a text-prediction system built by consuming all the text on the internet. »
Thanks Cathy! ☺️
Oh wow, YES. This approach to AI usage strikes such a chord with me. ❤️ (via @ethanmarcotte.com)
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I enjoyed @bluesky.sboots.ca’s essay on becoming a “generative AI vegetarian”, and for a few reasons: it’s a great read, first and foremost, but also my GOODNESS is this well-sourced.
Sean pulls together many, many threads here; always grateful for a map like this.
Thanks Dominique!! ☺️ Très gentil!
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The “generative AI vegetarianism” metaphor is very useful if you want to explain to people why you don’t use generative AI. Sean breaks it down masterfully in this post.
Also if you live in the Yukon, don’t miss next week’s Tech Yukon AI & Data event series, where (among other events) I’ll be on this panel as the obligatory “but what if… less AI?” person. 😁 Should be fun! techyukon.ca/event/ai-us-... #Yukon #Whitehorse
Aw thanks Sameer – means a lot!! ☺️
With gratitude to folks like @phirephoenix.com, @blairaf.com, @aworkinglibrary.com, and @ethanmarcotte.com. And everyone on Mastodon, who is …universally against generative AI? 😜 Thoughts and reactions super welcome!
New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
Partial list of alphabetically arranged countries with a white empty circle in front of them; one is shown per line, 38 items are listed; the first list item is ‘Congo’, the last one is ‘Iceland’
#FixTheForms, dear @ec.europa.eu — cause 200+ countries should not be displayed as a radio button list.
@edwardhorsford.bsky.social and colleagues developed a useful alternative almost a decade ago: designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2017/04/20/w...
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New work blog post! 📊 Happy open data day: yukon.ca/en/digital-b... #opendata #CKAN #OpenDataDay #ODD26
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What a lovely gesture from my PhD supervisor at the University of Guelph, Dr. Ryan Gibson, to put in a news item about my CRPA award: www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/news/2...
AI enthusiasts should really grapple with the fact that their fellow Americans would probably be a lot less mean to them on the Internet if our country actually had a semi-functional social safety net.
Yep.
A bit about a pattern I've been seeing in how ordinary people are using coding tools in probably unproductive ways. If you are new to coding, you may thing the problem you want to solve is build more things. The reality is you want to build *less* things.
Library and Archives Canada has been hobbled by underfunding for decades, as anyone trying to use their online tools knows. This will effectively be a death-blow to its basic functionality.
A country facing multiple credible threats to its sovereignty but that also cares this little about its own history isn't long for this world.
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This is a terrific, must read piece for anyone in or bear the Canadian govt
In a world of potlucks, Canada cannot rely on nostalgia for past parties. As the conflict in Iran deepens uncertainty about the global order, the states shaping the future will be those able to bring real capabilities to the table – and invitations to do so will hinge on what we bring. Operationalizing Davos means aligning rhetoric with resources, choosing partners with purpose, showing up when it counts and ensuring our institutions can backstop our promises. If we fail to adapt, the risk won’t just be a lingering sense of exclusion, but diminished prosperity, reduced influence and, ultimately, weakened sovereignty in a far less forgiving international order.
I have a new Op-Ed on how the Carney government can operationalize Davos.
Based on an idea I developed with @thomasjuneau.bsky.social a few years ago but tweaked a bit for our ruptured times.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
If it’s not a regime change operation; if there is no intention to advance to a ground invasion; if the strategy is to provoke inter-ethnic uprisings and conflicts; if the plan is to smart bomb until there is none left, then switch to dumb bombs, then the practical objective is tacit: Genocide.
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
Even a Costco membership, which saves me so much money every year, is not accessible for many people on fixed incomes or living in rural areas. And people in places like Minnesota are already dealing with mass trauma from the volume of violent immigration raids.
beyond switching to an electric vehicle and installing solar panels (financially out of reach for many people), there is little people can personally do to mitigate the costs of prolonged energy and gas price spikes, tariffs and/or disruptions from immigration raids