how much of adulting is just going to be pasting messages from one Slack channel to another? be honest.

real love is spending Sunday morning prepping fiscal briefings for your financially illiterate family.

a woman with red tape covering her mouth. image: shutterstock

As I'm putting the final touches to my dissertation, I'm deleting "controversial" content. truly breaks my heart. won't go into details but just want to say academic freedom is now a joke, retribution is real, ppl self-censor way beyond obvious hot topics & we all lose from this beige landscape.

Anthropic's weapons ban has always been on a collision course with the Dpt of War. They are fundamentally misaligned. For the past 7 months, I've been working on a report analyzing AI companies' practices. Here's my take (pre DoD renaming and current kerfuffle)

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

L’IA au service de la culture inuite Au Nunavik, une petite équipe a mis en place le projet AI! pour sauver la langue et la culture inuites.

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...
extremely dope project. Have the privilege to see how they work and this is proof that small scale, deliberate, slow AI is indeed possible.

Après une consultation éclair du gouvernement en matière d'IA, voici une occasion inclusive de participer en profondeur. Je salue cette initiative.
www.consultationpopulairesurlia.ca

two excellent choices because let's be real turkey is bland

cool job alert 👀

Don’t be fooled. The US is regulating AI – just not the way you think Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems

Is the US really hands-off on AI? Sacha Alanoca & I dispel the deregulatory narrative
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Telus | Rimouski et les premiers pas de l’IA souveraine Encore à ses balbutiements, l’écosystème d’intelligence artificielle entièrement canadien fait ses premiers pas au Québec, plus précisément à Rimouski. Le centre de Telus, parmi les premiers du genre ...

Vive le Québec libre ... de calculer. Développement intéressant en ce qui concerne la souveraineté de calcul. #Cdnpoli
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and many more including Wayne Marshall (Berklee/MIT), Jabari Evans (USC/BKC), Jason Lewis (Abundant Intelligences), Pablo Baquero (Sciences Po). Can't name all presenters & participants but grateful for everyone making space for exploring the frontier of AI governance with us.

In 2022 I started an AI working group at Berkman Klein. Tom Zick and Shira Gur-Arieh joined to co-lead, and over the years we've had many great discussions across disciplines and viewpoints. Here are some of the sessions we had with @brooksben.bsky.social, @schneier.com @mehtab.bsky.social ...

today in AI (de)regulation:

Got this beautiful book for a gift and ended up keeping it for myself!

Je suis très reconnaissante envers le @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca et le @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social pour avoir soutenu ma recherche au doctorat. Merci d'appuyer les chercheurs canadiens et québécois à travers le monde!

So thrilled to join this stellar cohort - in this uncertain times, Canada can play an important role both domestically and internationally.

Artists are always three steps ahead of everyone else. Inspiring conf this week touching on frugal, artisanal AI, data sovereignty and the importance of full-stack agency.
sat.qc.ca/en/events/sy... video: @dadabots.bsky.social

parking the term "feral government" here for a future article describing decivilization, points of no return, and the annihilation of the rule of law - longstanding phenomena tracing back to at least the War on Terror but rapidly accelerating.

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

Many aspects of the Action Plan raise concerns, but fastracking data centers and lowering clean water protections are chief among them. We've hit a point of no return on climate change, so the long tail, perhaps irreversible effects of such policies are v. high stake
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

White House Unveils America's AI Action Plan The White House today released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order on Removing

"We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape, as the Administration has done since Inauguration Day. Simply put, we need to “Build, Baby, Build!”

Claude is the COS of AI who disagrees

really well researched book by @parmy.bsky.social.

compelling piece on the distance between the rhetoric and the reality of sovereign AI

Shylock is among the most quintessential antisemitic stereotypes. This is not an accident. It follows years in which Trump has normalized antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories — and it’s deeply dangerous.

Bots all the way down

Boardroom Drama at OpenAI Portends a Looming AI Monoculture Driving the consolidation trend is an ever-expanding appetite for computing power.

I forgot about this piece. Maybe you'll enjoy it.
www.cigionline.org/articles/boa...

did I ever show you this perfect angel