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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(No Im not planning a presentation of these slides, though I may talk about CList at FediForum this week, and if I do, I want it handy as a reference)

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have uploaded a slide deck called An Introduction to CList summarizing at a high level what CList does and why clist.mooc.ca/introduction... (Yes I worked with Claude to create this deck, so I didn't miss anything - it took me a full day of back and forth with Claude to get it right)

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CList: An Introduction

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking of my Obituary halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/09/thin... Asking myself what my obituary to say isn't just some exercise to orient and make my life better, as suggested in this article.

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Thinking of My Obituary

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 visibl...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a number of projects on the go and it would be nice to get a sense of what people feel is valuable. I want to hear from everybody (it would make me feel really good, in fact, to get a lot of replies). My survey tool is completely anonymous. Take the survey here. survey.mooc.ca/s/f77996c2a0

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Work 2026

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

p.s. I don't know whether I'll ever do something like this again, but if I do, it will always be placed in a Substack and clearly labeled. Such articles aren't to explain stuff or communicate ideas, just a record of something I was thinking about, and carries no more meaning or importance than that.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As an experiment, I spent a part of the morning chatting with ChatGPT about why the speed of light is a constant. Quite illuminating and I learned a lot. I put the article in my Substack, separate from anything else I write, and clearly labeled. Enjoy. stephendownes.substack.com/p/the-speed-...

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The Speed of Light

Why is it a constant? Why can’t we change it?

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a good idea. By 'room' do you mean a physical room or a virtual room? It would be fun to participate.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I didn't even think of rental car delays! Glad you made it. :)

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think 'effort' would be a better word than 'struggle'.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I predict the flight lands on time but that you are late because of traffic.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

p.s. been so sick today *sigh,*

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't know who the author is -- it shows up as "I Fucking Love Australia" -- but NYT or Washpost Opinion could sub this person in for half their current stable of worn-out op-ed writers and their traffic would skyrocket. You really ought to read this, and you'll learn some terrific Aussie phrases

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Better no deal than a bad deal. We are not a U.S. colony.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Well me too. Here, though, the corporate ownership of the press has long been entrenched as has its bias toward corporate interests generally. From my perspective it's quite something to see the press pundits criticize the media as though, say, the chorus in favour of the Iraq war had never happened

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My latest: The Present and Future Landscape of AI in Scholarly Publishing. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 27(3), 31–50. doi.org/10.19173/irr...

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The Present and Future Landscape of AI in Scholarly Publishing | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's nice. But shouldn't it have content embedded in it? Eg. a public key and a URL where the skill can be verified by an institution using its corresponding private key?

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This should make you question the whole concept of learning outcomes and content knowledge.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The day journalism could be bought and sold was the day it lost the plot. For years, the only buyers were advertisers. But it was only a matter of time. Long before social media papers like the WSJ and the NYT were entrenched as political mouthpieces. The only thing new today is the new owners.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I never said anyone said it was only the U.S

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In Canada, every would cup team is a home team. It's not exceptional to be multicultural.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Slides and video from my workshop Personal Learning in the Age of AI are now available. www.downes.ca/presentation... demonstration of convergent fediverse discussion software; interactive practice using the software among participants to conduct an learning event

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Personal Learning in the Age of AI

Commentary on Personal Learning in the Age of AI by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It is the decentralized interactive learning workspace we've always wanted & it exists now I want to demo it June 15 at noon Eastern. Would you attend? (Important, as I want to present to more than 3 people)

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

CList currently supports: - read from feeds, Mastodon, Bluesky, search - decentralized DID (& following by DID) - fully decentralized chat, annotations, collections, collaborative authoring - multiple editor types - publish to Blogger, WordPress, social networks - save locally & much more .../2

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

<div id="post"><div id="post-title"></div><div id="post-content">Another test of multi-reply in CList, trying two Mastodon and one Bluesky account. Sadly, these services don't reply to each other :( nor do they support replying to more than one post at a time. :( </div><div id="post-references"></

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

<div id="post"><div id="post-title"></div><div id="post-content">We *have* created artificial intelligence and given it rights. But the AI isn't a computer program, it is a corporation. therealnews.com/citizens-united-del… id="post-references"></div></div>

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Long weekend bikepacking video www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sdI... I took advantage of the really nice weather from Saturday to Tuesday that I went on a bikepacking loop north to the Ottawa River and south to Avonmore, staying at a couple of Hipcamp sites along the way.

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Long Weekend Bikepacking

YouTube video by Stephen Downes

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My proposal , 'Personal Learning in the Age of AI' has been accepted by OTESSA. Online conference (June 8-9) otessa.org/news/final-c... I will be summarizing work to date on CList and outlining my community-based approach to learning while everyone else is making tutoring chatbots.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

After three days of the #OLDaily funding campaign, I'm at 7% of my subscriptions target.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Now that I am no longer employed, I have just launched the same model for my newsletter. www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily... Not anything like the same scale, but still the same idea, that access to news is a right, and necessary in a free society.

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OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

With my retirement now just a few days away I have added the subscription links to my page so you can support continued publication of OLDaily. www.downes.ca

Home page screen show with the new subscription links displayed

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I've posted my LinkedIn Newsletter publisher script on GitHub. github.com/Downes/linke... It's tailored pretty specifically to my own newsletter but your AI could use it as a starting point for your own LinkedIn newsletter. Runs in a Docker container on my cloud VPS.

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GitHub - Downes/linkedin_publisher

Contribute to Downes/linkedin_publisher development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have added two new repositories to github containing updated code from my CList project. KVStore github.com/Downes/kvstore is a very secure key-value store for account information; ProxyP github.com/Downes/proxyp is a proxy allowing web servers to access APIs where resource sharing is required.

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GitHub - Downes/kvstore: Securely store key-value information

Securely store key-value information. Contribute to Downes/kvstore development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am interviewed on the history, present and future of MOOCs by Saffron Mccullough for the MOOC Institute. Topics range from the origin of connectivism, neural networks and what they need to work, and the impact of AI on the future of learning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemf...

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MOOC Institute Interview

YouTube video by Stephen Downes

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