Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Petition to replace “wrote” with “prompted” in any discussion about the use of AI in generating papers. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...washingtonpost.comUsing AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions. 65020
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 23/09/2026and here it is... oxd.com/insights/a-y...oxd.comMy year of reading about sovereignty | OXDPractical perspectives from nearly three decades of delivering digital services for Canadian governments and public and private sector organizations. We write about digital government and transformati... 030
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦snowded.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm starting to pull a set of posts that define anthro-complexity & position it against other approaches. This one on Practice Theory also links to the whole series, which I will soon consolidate into a booklet: the provisional section two of 'The Book'. thecynefin.co/practice-the...thecynefin.coPractice Theory and Anthro-complexity: - The Cynefin CoLeopards break into the temple and drink dry the sacrificial vessels; this happens again and again; in the end it can be predicted, and it becomes part of 021
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 20/09/2026See also, Jenny Davis and How Artifacts Afford: “A materialized action approach recognizes technological efficacy (technologies do things) but rejects the idea of technological agency. Agency is reserved for human subjects.” www.tumblr.com/blog/view/go...tumblr.comPost by @gordonr💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · How Artifacts Afford, Jenny Davis, Chapter 3, page 56-57 Technology as materialized action: technological efficacy and human agency The main premise of Ernst Schraube’s notion of… 132
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 18/09/2026Making the most of soccer practice and a glorious September. 020
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 11/09/20261/As @pkrugman.bsky.social says, Weaponized Interdependence is now everywhere. But where did it come from? US-China is all over the news, but its origins go back 25 years. 9/11 transformed the world and we are still grappling with its repercussions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/weaponized...paulkrugman.substack.comWeaponized InterdependenceWho has the power in a trading world? 21611
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 11/09/2026Just wrote 5800 words about sovereignty, starting with a blank page and a lot of thoughts this morning. Feeling oddly satisfied that I can still do something like that. Unclear as to its quality, but feels good to get that out of my head. 121
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thanks, but actually my favorite line didn't make it to the piece. Does Odysseus feel guilty about the Trojan war? Lots of discourse on this question even though he doesn't exist! Is he conscious? AI agents are fictive characters abstracted from text - like Odysseus. 28918
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 05/08/2026Courage, Dave. Not surprising riding a bike was entangled in all of this… ;) 010
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Along the Coastal Shores of the Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx 2023 015636
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 30/06/2026As @swardley.bsky.social once said, "GPTs / LLMs are a non kinetic form of warfare designed to embed its makers values into the decision making processes of a wider community." www.economist.com/briefing/202...economist.comAI models’ values are very different from most people’sThey are more secular and more liberal—unless they’re made in China 000
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 30/06/2026Cathal Kelly: Now is the moment of real danger – before the big game, with many days of airtime left to fill. Clusters of politicians will be launching themselves from a great distance at the bandwagon." Doug McCallum: "Hold my beer" www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/socce...theglobeandmail.comPoliticians pounce at the opportunity to use the World Cup to be seen and heardWe don’t need our politicians to be cheerleaders to the latest sports moment 000
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I'm in the grip of about 10000 massive deadlines, so I've obviously spent this morning writing a newsletter about a topic that is completely and utterly tangential buttondown.com/justenoughin...buttondown.comThe Sports Car Theory of LLM AdoptionIf LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them? 65314
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦OXD @oxd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026OXD and sister company ThoughtFarmer turned 30, and we threw a party to celebrate! Along with great food, rooftop vibes, and epic karaoke, @darrengibbons.bsky.social and @gordonr shared 9 lessons they‘d tell their 1996 selves. Read the lessons and see photos from the night: oxd.com/blog/2026/06... 111
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Ben Steiner @bensteiner00.bsky.social · 18/06/2026NEW: Alphonso Davies knows BC Place — and 29 days short of the decade mark of his 2016 Whitecaps debut, he could make that that stadium buzz again. How might the #CanMNT use the biggest star? ✍️On his journey and today for SI www.si.com/soccer/canad...si.comCanada Must Still Decide How to Use Alphonso Davies in First Appearance for 15 MonthsDavies made his MLS debut at BC Place, where Canada will play Qatar on Thursday. 1256
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 18/06/2026Seen a lot of soccer matches at BC Place over the years. Today feels different. Not long now… Allez les rouges! 🇨🇦⚽️ #CanMNT 000
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 16/06/202630 years of OpenRoad + @oxd.bsky.social + ThoughtFarmer. Had the privilege to reflect and celebrate the milestone with staff, clients, and friends recently. Still trying to sense-make three decades of it all. Captured a few things for our celebration speech, summary here: oxd.com/blog/2026/06...oxd.comNine things we learned in thirty years | oxd.comOXD and ThoughtFarmer (formerly OpenRoad) turned 30 this year. Read what we’d tell our 1996 selves and check out photos from our celebration. 140
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“The great achievement of modern capitalism was to move activity from the household into the market—converting domestic production into paid specialisation…AI-enabled self-service is quietly reversing that centuries-long trend” (Pre-industrial household economy?) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.com‘Can a machine do this job?’ is the wrong questionBy shifting work to the consumer, AI will usher in a self-service economy 002
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 12/06/2026Ontology, inevitability, disruption, safety, and regulatory: the 5 decoys of the AI Project. Using this to analyze Canada's AI Strategy this last week, you can see the decoys floating out there in the AI Project duck pond... 🦆 Also, gotta love some Castells Network Power theory (long time fan). 130
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 12/06/2026On this day in 1996, Sloan released their third studio album One Chord To Another. The album was certified gold in Canada and acclaimed by critics. It won the Juno Award for Best Alternative Album of the Year. Today, it is considered one of the greatest Canadian albums ever made. 15912
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/06/2026“We wanted to give a pathway to Canadian players, especially in B.C., to make it to the national team and maybe one day play in a World Cup,” Chris Corrigan told The Tyee. “We had no idea it would be this fast.” ⚽️ @martinbauman.com reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...thetyee.caThe Tiny Fan-Owned BC Team Behind Canada’s World Cup Talent | The TyeeHow a Burnaby club helped launch a new generation of soccer stars. 03814
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 05/06/2026Was there any ever doubt? Now if we could only #savethecaps 040
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 05/06/2026Had a Trillian flashback instead looking at this. Then searched for Trillian. Then found out it still exists!?!? What?! 020
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦David Eaves @eaves.ca · 02/06/2026New report I co-authored just dropped: three US firms control 85% of cloud computing in Canada. Your country probably faces a similar number. Sharing it widely — the problem, and the way out, matter well beyond Canada. 🧵 284
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 02/06/2026Blog from @snowded.bsky.social on what theory of change models afford [in the Jenny Davis sense of request / demand / allow / encourage / discourage / refuse and for whom in what circumstances]. What do our other representations foreclose in exchange for convenience? thecynefin.co/toc-1-3-fore... 010
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 26/05/2026The stars of track and field are beautiful people, you know. 010
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...amacad.orgField Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & ToolUses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools... 28329
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦The Canadian Shield Institute @canadianshieldinstitute.ca · 12/05/2026In @betakit.com, Shield managing director @vassb.bsky.social talks to Josh Scott about our Foundations of Digital Sovereignty project, and why governance is the most important way to strengthen Canada's digital sovereignty. Read the Q&A here: betakit.com/qa-vass-bedn...betakit.comQ&A: Vass Bednar on why Canada is at risk of remaining a digital 51st state | BetaKitThe Canadian Shield Institute leader talks digital sovereignty ahead of an upcoming CUSMA review. 075
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.knightcolumbia.orgAI as Social Technology 719475
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/05/2026🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web. Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓 More 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c... #Classof96 1030997
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 26/04/2026Trees are noble things to be compared to. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Midlife isn’t a crisis, it’s a compressionLike the narrow rings of a tree during lean years, this dense period of life is more about perseverance than expansion 000
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 22/04/2026Excited for half a second when I saw this. Then realized it wasn't about Sloan. And that's too bad. May your Wednesday morning be filled with the other Chris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRn... 000
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 18/04/2026Still floating though space-time after experiencing the End of Greatness at the Cultch last night. Lovely theatre, so many ideas. And well done @debcha.bsky.social for being the “nerd on call” and hosting a special talk-back discussion. “We appreciate all of you!” colinthomas.ca/the-end-of-g...colinthomas.caTHE END OF GREATNESS: TRANSCENDENT | Fresh Sheet Reviews 010
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 17/04/2026Cory Doctorow with a banger of an opening keynote at DemocracyXChange conference - appreciate the livestream for those of us on the other side of 🇨🇦 010
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 16/04/2026Watching with the UCL IIPP Notify case webinar with @eaves.ca and friends with my 🍿 this morning... "How to finance it?" Can't wait for them to dig in. 110
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I'll Wait For You David Wilson 2025 219944
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Howe Sound, British Columbia Walter J. Phillips 1935 219045
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 04/04/2026Some lovely turns of phrase and concepts regarding risk, institutional memory, accountability, and bureaucracy in this piece from the weekend Globe. Mnemonic Capital and epistemic negligence had me thinking of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3be31b0...theglobeandmail.comWe have destroyed our capacity to convert historical experience into judgmentThe connection between institutional memory and civilizational decline is not metaphorical – the library of Alexandria has been burning, in one form or another, for two millennia 020
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 11/03/2026New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...sboots.caGenerative AI vegetarianismHello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian. The tech industry is convinced this is the future; I don’t want any of it, full stop. Why choose generative AI vegetarianism? Just like real-life veget... 33113
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 03/03/2026@swardley.bsky.social often evokes Thwaites' toaster when contemplating the value chain required in our contemporary tech circumstances. Still a very useful analogy after all these years. 020
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The Tusk Sandra Harris 2024 314131
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The Other Side of the Inlet Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx 2021 119448
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Big Spruce Forest, BC Arthur Lismer 1959 212926
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca · 24/02/2026For my service design and delivery friends in govt… this paragraph caught my attn. Even with co-design and participatory methods, is the rhetoric of “easy” and “effortless” govt services undermining the more active forms of democracy Peter is advocating for, creating passive consumer publics? 120
Reposted by Gordon Ross 🇨🇦Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/02/2026Last fall, I testified before Quebec's Gallant Commission, which was investigating a $900M software debacle at their DMV. This week, after a year of work, they issued their final report. I'm impressed with how the whole commission worked. We have nothing like this in the U.S., but we really should.cbc.caQuebec auto board officials lied to hide costs of botched SAAQclic launch, report concludes | CBC NewsTop officials at Quebec's automobile insurance board, known as the SAAQ, deliberately lied to the provincial government for years to conceal colossal cost overruns and issues with its digital transiti... 4449