Half an Hour

I'm getting old enough now that thinking about what I want my obituary to say is not some vague hypothetical but instead is something visible on the horizon.

Here's the question I asked and the responses: What work would you think is most useful and valuable for me to do over the coming months?

Oh, is it that time of the year again?

This post is inspired by Doug Belshaw's review of what he has been up to over the summer.

I was introduced to a thing called the 'internet' in a pub in Edmonton after a softball game in 1988 or so.

Decentralized Identifiers (DID) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification for, well, distributed identities.

This is the edited version of my contribution to Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining the Digital Future Center by Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson.

I've stolen the format for this from Wouter Groeneveld, proving I guess that copy-paste is one of my favourite tools.

I'd like to offer a rejoinder to Junhong Xiao and David CL Lim's paper Is AI the solution to the problems that make higher education “ill” in the first place?

Inspired by Brain Baking's article like this, "Inspired by Tom’s One Album for Every Year of Life compilation, Robert created his own list."

This article was written by ChatGPT 5.2 based on some prompts provided by myself.

Responding to Alan Levine: On “Building” Community I Got Bubkis I totally get what you're feeling.

AI generated image, 100% human-authored text Artificial Intelligence has entered the world of education like an explosion, leaving us reeling in its wake.

(From my social media a month ago, but I lost it when I went to reference it, so I'm posting it here so I don't lost it again).

As you may have deduced from the title, I am retiring from my position at NRC.

So, I was trying to make an infographic of my 1,000 page manuscript on ethics and AI, and I entered this into Google Gemini.

On LinkedIn today the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat published a short slide deck entitled 'Navigating Social Media as a Public Servant'.

What is there's no democratic road to socialism?

What would it take to go from reforms within the capitalist system to a democratic socialist society?

LinkedIn can be a pain to work with.

When I read Simon Wardley's post on LinkedIn from a couple of days ago, I was immediately struct by its resemblance to criticisms of another medium: the news (you can read Wardley's post here on LinkedIn if the subscription wall lets you, but no matter, I…

Intelligence is knowing when to quit I used to participate in debate competitions in high school.

Sign posted in the common kitchen at the campground in Selfoss, Iceland, where this article was written I understand.

I have commented in my newsletter that what people have been describing as 'ethical AI principles' actually represents a specific political agenda, and not an ethical agenda at all.

Edited transcript of recording by Google Audio Recorder.

I'll quote Alan Levine in full: For a refreshing break from the sameness of GenAI imagery, immerse yourself into the still vital act of photography in 50 winning images from All About Photo Awards 2025.

(This post is really short, but it was banned by the moderators on Reddit, so it's here) I've been researching freeze-dried food companies for my upcoming bike-packing trip.