Dominique Joseph
@clearerworld.bsky.social
Curious, always learning, fan of things that work.
One of my main interests: how to create info and processes that work for real people in real life.
Also: Languages, communication, org. culture and culture change, art, classical music.
One of my main interests: how to create info and processes that work for real people in real life.
Also: Languages, communication, org. culture and culture change, art, classical music.
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I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.
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Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets — and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
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But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets — and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
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But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
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1/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
1/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
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2/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
2/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
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One of my favourite Canadian artists. She just does such an incredible job of capturing the sky in a dynamic way. 💙
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One of my favourite Canadian artists. She just does such an incredible job of capturing the sky in a dynamic way. 💙
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This is also a good way to think about "information".
“… any ‘sense of place’ I have is a combination of what I know to be true, what I’ve lived, as well as the things I’ve been told by others, whether true or not.” ~ Cameron Downey
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is also a good way to think about "information".
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UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Same tree, three photos. Oct 13, Oct 26, Nov 8. 🇨🇦
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Same tree, three photos. Oct 13, Oct 26, Nov 8. 🇨🇦
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
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Automating the system does not change the system.
September 23, 2024 at 5:02 AM
Automating the system does not change the system.
Oh, the joys of (some) academic discourse!
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"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”
I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences
When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Oh, the joys of (some) academic discourse!
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Something I hadn’t considered…
This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Something I hadn’t considered…
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Healthcare Infusions are being built in Kelowna, the Fraser Valley, and Guelph/Windsor!
⚠️ Hosts there are looking for co-hosts to help share the load!
CAN YOU HELP? If you've got light tech skills (Notion or basic web site creating) and are comfortable in Discord, join us!
b.link/hostsdiscord
⚠️ Hosts there are looking for co-hosts to help share the load!
CAN YOU HELP? If you've got light tech skills (Notion or basic web site creating) and are comfortable in Discord, join us!
b.link/hostsdiscord
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Healthcare Infusions are being built in Kelowna, the Fraser Valley, and Guelph/Windsor!
⚠️ Hosts there are looking for co-hosts to help share the load!
CAN YOU HELP? If you've got light tech skills (Notion or basic web site creating) and are comfortable in Discord, join us!
b.link/hostsdiscord
⚠️ Hosts there are looking for co-hosts to help share the load!
CAN YOU HELP? If you've got light tech skills (Notion or basic web site creating) and are comfortable in Discord, join us!
b.link/hostsdiscord
‘No faux-King way’!!!
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
‘No faux-King way’!!!
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ooh well done
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ooh well done
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Next week I’m participating in an editors panel to introduce the various levels of editing to first-time academic authors (because someone decided I’m qualified for that?) SO: question for academic authors—anything you wished you’d understood better about copyediting before you first published?
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Next week I’m participating in an editors panel to introduce the various levels of editing to first-time academic authors (because someone decided I’m qualified for that?) SO: question for academic authors—anything you wished you’d understood better about copyediting before you first published?
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Plus, and this may be the most important, try to find ways to get “effective use of shared resource” built into the users’ performance management and reward systems.
So often seen perverse incentives where not using the shared thing is rewarded directly or indirectly more than using it.
So often seen perverse incentives where not using the shared thing is rewarded directly or indirectly more than using it.
October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Plus, and this may be the most important, try to find ways to get “effective use of shared resource” built into the users’ performance management and reward systems.
So often seen perverse incentives where not using the shared thing is rewarded directly or indirectly more than using it.
So often seen perverse incentives where not using the shared thing is rewarded directly or indirectly more than using it.
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I love this. One of the main reasons I'm generally an optimistic person is that I notice and appreciate small kindnesses *all the time.* They sustain me. Years later, I remember the stranger who handed me a bandaid when I cut myself, the train conductor who drove me to my hostel at midnight.
Never underestimate the power of small kindness.
To you, it may be a moment. To someone else, it could be the difference between despair and hope.
You don’t always see the ripples your actions make, but they move through the world all the same, one small gesture at a time.
To you, it may be a moment. To someone else, it could be the difference between despair and hope.
You don’t always see the ripples your actions make, but they move through the world all the same, one small gesture at a time.
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I love this. One of the main reasons I'm generally an optimistic person is that I notice and appreciate small kindnesses *all the time.* They sustain me. Years later, I remember the stranger who handed me a bandaid when I cut myself, the train conductor who drove me to my hostel at midnight.
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Supper tonight: Thanksgiving-leftover cottage pie—with leftover green beans, broccoli, carrots, and turkey in the filling and mashed potatoes and rutabaga in the topping. Pages 18–19 in #AfterTheFeast!
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Supper tonight: Thanksgiving-leftover cottage pie—with leftover green beans, broccoli, carrots, and turkey in the filling and mashed potatoes and rutabaga in the topping. Pages 18–19 in #AfterTheFeast!
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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I Am the Very Model of a Modern Day Canadian - by Tod Maffin
October 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Day Canadian - by Tod Maffin
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hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...