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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 6d

What a treat to have Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social visit us in Vancouver last week. A real pleasure hosting her at @oxd.bsky.social and for a great presentation on service organizations at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Catch her keynote tomorrow at CanUX in Ottawa 🇨🇦

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 9d

Big news! I've been working with @sladner.bsky.social on "Off the Path" -- a limited series podcast where we talk about user research careers, especially our own. Episodes come out October 10. In this hype video, I reflect on why I decided to take on this new project together.

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 9d

I am here for this Cancon. 🇨🇦

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Ben Steiner @bensteiner00.bsky.social · 11d

WORLD CHAMPION CANADA

Magdeleine Vallieres wins a shock World Championship in road cycling on a punishing 164.6-km circuit in Kigali, Rwanda.

Steep climbs. Constant elevation changes. An unexpected world champion.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 13d

A couple of years ago, we did a scientific illustration project for the national parks of Quebec. They were to be used by tour guides. We begged and begged but never got pictures of them in action.

That is, until one of us (Celia) went there this summer and snapped this picture. Glorious! 😍

A beaded man wearing hiking gear is standing outside next to a fence holding a cardboard with an illustration of a map of Canada covered in ice. Next to him are two more cardobards with illustrations about the fjord of Saguenay.

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 13d

To add another link to this growing thread, Borsook's ideas from Cyberselfish (2000) are detailed in length in Chp 1 of David Golumbia's Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology (2024) published posthumously last November. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791814...

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 13d

Hey Vancouver! Kate Tarling (@kateldn.bsky.social) is tomorrow! Where did the week go? And there are 3 tickets left...
Last chance to register:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/kate-tarli...

Kate Tarling: How to create great service organizations

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with author and service design expert Kate Tarling on how to build great service organizations.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 15d

It's Tuesday and we're almost sold out for Friday!

Last call for tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/kate-tarli...

Kate Tarling: How to create great service organizations

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with author and service design expert Kate Tarling on how to build great service organizations.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 16d

“Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike” The Verge continuing its awesome e-bike coverage: www.theverge.com/transportati... @andyjayhawk.bsky.social

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

Rewiring cities for more human-centric transportation

www.theverge.com

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 16d

Sent this to someone this morning. I live in a big place.
www.bcrobyn.com/2012/12/how-...

How Big is British Columbia?

How big is British Columbia? It's big. Vast. Bigger than most US states, bigger than most countries.

www.bcrobyn.com

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 21d

Vancouver! Don't miss author and service design expert Kate Tarling (@kateldn.bsky.social) speak on what it takes to create great service organizations on Friday Sept 26 at Emily Carr University. Join us for a presentation and Q&A. Register now: www.eventbrite.ca/e/kate-tarli... #servicedesign

Kate Tarling: How to create great service organizations

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with author and service design expert Kate Tarling on how to build great service organizations.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21d

Acres
Billie Rae Busby
2019

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20d

Canmore
W.J. Phillips
1949

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OXD @oxd.bsky.social · 21d

Want to transform your service delivery? Join us Sep 26 for an exclusive session with @kateldn.bsky.social, author of "The Service Organization." Open to Vancouver service designers and leaders who want to create great service organizations. Secure your free spot! www.eventbrite.ca/e/kate-tarli...

Kate Tarling: How to create great service organizations

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with author and service design expert Kate Tarling on how to build great service organizations.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 21d

Vancouver! Don't miss author and service design expert Kate Tarling (@kateldn.bsky.social) speak on what it takes to create great service organizations on Friday Sept 26 at Emily Carr University. Join us for a presentation and Q&A. Register now: www.eventbrite.ca/e/kate-tarli... #servicedesign

Kate Tarling: How to create great service organizations

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with author and service design expert Kate Tarling on how to build great service organizations.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · Sep 8

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · Sep 8

Sharrows aren't bike lanes.

Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · Sep 8

you don't even want to know about the bike lane at the intersection of technology, power, and culture

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · Sep 5

Brilliant reflections on value chains, knowledge, and the evolution of technology from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social. Couldn't help think of @swardley.bsky.social and wondering what a map of brompton-ness might look like... backofmind.substack.com/p/the-brompt...

the brompton-ness of it all

process knowledge and such like

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · Sep 5

"So even from the middle of the industrial revolution, there has always been some sense that process knowledge, tacit knowledge, 'Brompton-ness' and similar concepts are always contingently defined; the boundary between 'techne' and 'metis' is itself technologically determined." 1/2

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Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · Sep 4

"Being a legitimate self now requires one to be publicly identifiable, authentic and, increasingly, fully authenticated."

Brilliant bit of writing from Ordinal Society authors Fourcade and Healy: aeon.co/essays/the-s...

The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays

Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything

aeon.co

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · Sep 4

New Newsletter Episode!

s20e08: Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human?

newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s20e...

My favorite bit of this one: "finishing school for LLMs"

s20e08: Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human?

0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 3 September 2025 in Portland Oregon and we’re back through a hot spell. Also it’s the first day back of school, and that’s an...

newsletter.danhon.com

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HUB Cycling @wearehub.bsky.social · Aug 29

Chris and Melissa Bruntlett @modacitylife.com are returning to Vancouver for a week of inspiring events around active transportation produced by Voor Urban Labs from Oct 6-11. Find out more: www.eventbrite.com/cc/a-week-of...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 14

Quebec Farm
Anne Savage
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 15

Killer Whale
Robert Davidson ~ Haida
1970

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 23

Flaming Summer Sky
Robert Newton Hurley
1974

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