Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

NYC "remains the only municipality in the US to guarantee the right to shelter, a commitment established through decades of advocacy + litigation. Public Address, by artist Alex Strada, is a citywide public artwork that centers the lived experience of those most impacted by housing insecurity."

Oh boooo! 👎🏻

It brought you into my life! ❤️

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🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"

Right, so listen. If Dolly, ya know, on top of everything else?

I won’t be okay.

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So ... he's an expert in profits? That's all this program is going to create.

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

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My latest newsletter is about how the generative AI industry made us fear the wrong things.

AGI won't kill us all, and AI won't take our jobs. But it'll still harm us.

Generative AI a paper tiger, with a real tiger behind it.

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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

The crazy thing is, the latter scenario is actually really awesome and I promise it won't hurt. The therapists ya'll desperately need for your massive status anxiety will be covered.

Newsflash: Either Trump breaks it all and everybody dies in a long series of horrendous wars, political chaos, and climate collapse, or we shut this shit down and do the fucking obvious: tax the rich, UBI, universal healthcare, K-16, sensible consumer protections across the board.

Absolutely!

This almost feels like a pipedream considering our current political climate but I would love, love, love to see a civil society group or hell, even the NDP, putting out information on taxes; what the hell they are and how they work. Mutual aid at scale is taxation! Taxes can be good!

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Here’s me at a similar line about a decade behind you, reflecting on the same and just clapping so hard for you (and excited to soak up some of your badassery in November, Dr. Robson) - you are such a beacon.

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It was a real joy to do this with @bojanfurst.bsky.social - a kindred spirit and fellow fan of “good trouble”. I love the concept of the Futures Possible series and participating in this in the aftermath of my beloved Dad’s death was powerful. I’m still thinking about the questions Bojan asked...

I think closest analog I can think of is green entrepreneurship — a lot of slushy capital needing to go somewhere, no real valuation method of “good” outcomes, a lot of entrepreneurial activity looking to externalize risk, and a lot of greenwashing metrics emerge.

It’s a hard one to get at empirically. It’s part social network analysis and part textual analysis, I think. And I think there’s a bit in how qualitative assessments of a business person’s value becomes quantified. Because they use these board placements as metrics

Just talking about this recently given our state’s current shenanigans. I sincerely believe that this happened because of the business influencer consulting industry. Whole guide books out there about getting appointed to a university board to build your brand.