Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”
Powerful and principled statement by Mark Carney, PM of Canada at Davos.
Well done, #Canada. #ElbowsUp and lead the coalition.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older softw...
I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.
It was a *really* good app.
New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
Reporting on Homeland Security’s seige of Minneapolis. “No one…is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers.” https://www.theverge.com/policy/864195/minneapolis-ice-invasion-organizing-immigration
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
Always-on music recognition for your Mac. Local first. Supports scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, writing to local files, automation.
Here's my new #macOS app. I hope you guys like #music!
*Listening Post* brings always-on music recognition to your Mac. Supports scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, Apple Music, writing to local files, and automation. With a bit of #LocalFirst and #DigitalSovereignty baked in. (Still uses big tech for some features, because I'm not a sorcerer.)
PUBLIC BETA! Help me test this thing, please 😅
On The Vergecast: EV wars, AI health records, and screen time debates.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Which raises the question: what if the people on the other side of the divide aren't more trusting, less curious, less experienced or otherwise less suited or less capable of making use of the tools? What if they're simply humanities people? Or worse, mechanical engineers?
This is an incredibly good essay by Iris Meredith about the cultures of technology and how LLMs coding tools have cast the conflict of those cultures (honor vs engineering) into active strife, and then subsequently framing *that* in terms of gender
> code agents are the spears that the high and mighty of the tech culture fight with for glory in battle. They're a way for men to assert their masculinity and their skill in producing much new and innovative code, and they demonstrate to the men that use them that they are fighters and effective on the field of combat that is innovation
© 2021 IN2 Digital Innovations GmbH . All rights reserved.