Good start! Next up, Shinkansen-shaped bento boxes and Takoyaki.

What I wouldn't give to have something like Shin-Osaka built as part of this

Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources — Toronto Star A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.

This article from the Star says:
"While Ontario premiers have had access to private planes for generations, the current government fleet is limited to Beechcraft King Air turboprops with limited range". They also charter private jets for travel to the US.
apple.news/AvNll11z5RP-...

No kidding. Hope this is wrong

I had zero idea Nirvanna existed. Sounds entertaining.

To be fair, #3 is a big accomplishment

The Iran war and higher education YouTube video by Bryan Alexander

I spent some time yesterday with @edufuturist.bsky.social and others talking about the war in the middle east and the effects on higher education.

Really helpful perspective. Thanks for sharing.

Data Governance as Risk Management, Not Documentation One of the most common failure modes in data governance initiatives is an overemphasis on documentation. Institutions build large data glossaries, establish committees, and catalogue new definitions. ...

Many data governance initiatives start with documentation.
Glossaries. Definitions. Committees.
But failures show up as:
• conflicting enrollment numbers
• dashboards w/ wrong definitions
• analysts reconciling reports for weeks
It's about risk management, not documentation.

at.plaid.is/dg-risk

Doug Ford acknowledges transparency clamp-down is to protect his personal phone — Global News The province is in the process of overhauling how freedom of information works in Ontario to retroactively exempt all calls and texts from the premier and others.

The Premier ought to know that personal health information is generally excluded from FOI requests, no? apple.news/A_NXckktXQpW...

Thanks for sharing!

Shadow Systems: The Data Infrastructure Nobody Wants to Talk About Shadow systems are rarely documented centrally. As a result, it may not be obvious who owns a dataset, business definitions may diverge across units, and institutional data may be duplicated across do...

Universities talk a lot about data silos.

But the bigger issue is often shadow systems.

Spreadsheets, extracts, local databases, shared folders - tools people build to get work done.

They solve real problems.
But they also introduce risk.

www.plaid.is/blog/shadow-...

When my Ontario clients make a remark that they hope I’m surviving this tough winter, and the west coaster in me immediately thinks “oh yeah, it’s been reeeaaaal tough. I think we brought the flowers in from the balcony overnight while it dropped to 10 degrees”. Skier in me would like colder tho.

And confidently tell you that it did it!
Apparently my clock setting skills are now redundant - not because of AI but because the province decided to jettison the biannual time change. Farewell, standard time.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University fires president Bruce Choy — Vancouver Sun Newly hired president Bruce Choy was absent for weeks and the Surrey school's faculty association didn't know why

well this explains the silence the last month. apple.news/AvrHeyiG7S56...

I've heard in Nursing it's extremely common to province-hop because it can result in noticeably higher raises (at least for those going BC -> AB -> BC). But given you're looking at nearly a decade I'd expect things like that to smooth out, so not quite sure what leads to the AB drop.

Spoke with one person today who was flying there on Friday and got turned around mid-Atlantic. So maybe not?

Governments also aren’t exactly known for their quick decision making so the irony they want universities to decide faster is noticeable.

I think there’s also an element in both MOOCs and AI where they have largely been designed by (and arguably for) CS oriented people or concepts and consequently work well given assumptions, bias, design choices made.

Great thread

Sure feels like a narrative approach is going to lead to being evaluated by AI instead of rigid machine rules.

For me, co-founder has been excellent as it has been a big benefit for visioning and creating products our customers love. Biggest trick is making sure you're clear on who makes what kind of decision and when decisions should be joint so you don't get stuck in a bad loop.

Oh now that’s an interesting idea. I’m skeptical too but what a time for them to try

Ok, below is data for 2023-24 (the last year for which I have data). ON handed out $1.3B in grants, $239M in loans. But the cost of a loan is about 25 cents on dollar. So actual cost to government of student loan is $1.3B = ($239M * 0.25) or $1.36B in total.

This explains so many things. Great analysis.

Absolutely fair. Had a feeling it was too good to be true I found it quickly!

"Costly and unsustainable:" After spending $75 million, a troubled UT System technology institute shuts its doors - The Texas Tribune The University of Texas System has closed its Institute for Transformational Learning, a startup-like technology initiative. The system spent tens of millions of dollars on the project, but struggled ...

Was it this? www.texastribune.org/2018/02/07/u...

I clearly should spend more time in NS. We could help this for a fraction of what Huron would charge and deeply know Canadian context.

Cockroach Labs 2026 AI Report Finds AI Scale Is Pushing Enterprise Infrastructure Toward Failure /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the pioneer in cloud-agnostic distributed SQL databases with CockroachDB, today announced findings from its second...

Saw this article today where 1/3 of survey respondents felt the database layer as the first point of failure in AI overload scenario. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Fewer hallucinations I suspect! And less job security for data governance and data engineering professionals.