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and they generously let us take home as much as we wanted (they got extra take home boxes). I will tell you I'm stocked for food for a solid week, and good healthy food at that! I'm quite broke, so every little bit helps. All in all, I'm gonna consider this meetup a successful start. Thanks.

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As this first meet was about info gathering, the next stage is planning, and so the next planned meet is in the Spring. In time this could be something, but not quite yet. Finally, some good news for me: Because only half the registered attendees showed up, there was a lot of leftover free lunch,

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a project which I might be able to consult or participate in at a later stage (2027). I'm interested, but I might not be the best match. Given I have time I could prepare just in case, we'll see. Other than that I connected with a game developer on LinkedIn. Maybe that'll lead to something later?

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skills, etc. while answering questions. I connected with two people. One was a representative of the UofA, we connected in the fact that we're both math majors, and she said it's the first time in 25 years she's met another, haha. She has my email, I'm waiting to be contacted. The other discussed

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get larger contracts as a last resort even though they have a good track record. Others voiced concerns about issues with raising capital, and how as soon as you use the word "Indigenous" people think it's a "handout." I'm hoping I didn't go so far as brag, but I pointed out some of my experiences,

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corporate gift if you're running a conference or similar: "Indigenous Box" It's Indigenous owned: It's a good product, and there's good talk about how the business is run. As for me: Any job offers or leads? Not quite. Some of the Indigenous folk there voiced concern over the fact that they only

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interests and concerns first. I raised mine as well since as far as I'm concerned I represented Inuit in that room. I wish more Cree / Blackfoot tech folk had been there, I would have preferred to give privilege to their voices over mine since these are their lands. Next, I learned of a nice

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I use to shy away from rooms like this with a lot of expertise (also a reasonable number of folk in the room were settlers), but after all I've seen and done, and with my recent public speaking, I feel more comfortable in these situations these days. I let other Indigenous folk raise their

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Most in attendance were either Indigenous folk with small to medium size businesses, or governmental types. Years ago when I was in school under Keavy's mentorship I had access to and gained experience with governmental types. Lately I seem to be interacting more with business types.

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We went through the questions I mentioned on my previous post, and gave post-it note anonymous answers whiteboards in the room. We then discussed the answers publicly. The main goal was to take a collaborative approach in deciding what Indigenous Tech Circle's role would be here in Edmonton.

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associated with a business or institute. It was physically hosted at the UofA so there was a university representative there as well. All I could tell them was I was planning to start a business in a few years (which is not untrue). They did in fact have free coffee, so that helped (4 hours sleep).

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Daniel Nikpayuk @nikpayuk.bsky.social · 13h

Attended the first meeting of Indigenous Tech Circle, Edmonton. I'm told about 30 people registered, but only about half showed up. It was sponsored by the city, so there was a strong Indigenous business accelerator aspect to it. I think I was the only one there (who showed up mind you) who wasn't

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I'm awake. I don't feel very awake though, I'm quite tired. I will probably nap when I return after my first tech meetup. I hope it goes well.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026

Norway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05

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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23h

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Daniel Nikpayuk @nikpayuk.bsky.social · 19h

I'm actually worried about sleeping in, haha. They booked it for 8am, meaning I have to get up at 6am and it's 1am as I write this. It ends at 1pm. I will update. I hope they're serving free coffee there!

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Daniel Nikpayuk @nikpayuk.bsky.social · 19h

Semantically def x : concord_A = 5 : int : compile time ("define x from concord A to be a compile time int of value 5") would make more sense. What interests me is when you split up the memory space into concords, the idea of a variable is also partitioned.

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like white folk and value the world the way they do, and understand tech in that way as well. By no means am I assuming this is the case, I'm really hoping I meet genuine Indigenous tech folk, that it leads to something good, but I've also lived long enough to consider all possibilities. Thanks.

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Anyway, I will go and see what this Indigenous Tech Circle group is all about. My fear is it's a facade, and is pretty much just white people trying to assimilate and indoctrinate us yet again---that there'll be folk there who have already drank the kool-aid claiming Indigeneity but otherwise act

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This in the sense that we have different ways of operating in life and relationships, and so Indigenous youth might have the talent and education but not the understanding of industry culture, its norms and expectations. This inevitably prevents hiring, and prevents recognition of expertise.

From my experience, there needs to be more interop between the mainstream tech industry community and Indigenous communities.

and by extension interop between the C++ and Rust communities. Thanks @lefticus.bsky.social for continuing CppCast! I have no idea if I can get a job in tech, I've pretty much lost hope, but I would still like to see Indigenous youth succeed where I couldn't, if I couldn't.

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Safety and Interoperability with C++ and Rust with Jon Bauman - CppCast 412 / C++ Weekly 553

I spent a large part of last night thinking about it more deeply though, and the answer I've come up with is: "community interop." I got the idea (and I think wording) from the latest CppCast episode, although in that case it was interop between C++ and Rust, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gNQ...

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YouTube video by C++ Weekly With Jason Turner

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My initial answer to these questions in general is that I'm disconnected from Indigenous communities in many ways, plus being Inuit I'm on Cree/Blackfoot land, so mostly I'm attending to find out what the Indigenous tech scene is like in Edmonton.

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2) What are the biggest technology-related opportunities or barriers facing Indigenous entrepreneurs and organizations right now? 3) If we were sitting together again three years from now, what would tell us that Indigenous Tech Circle Edmonton had been successful?

I'm attending the first Edmonton Indigenous Tech Circle meetup this morning. They sent an email asking the following three questions to get the ball rolling: 1) What does “Indigenous technology and innovation” mean to us here in Edmonton?

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[concord pl] Thinking about possible grammar for my concord programming language. At the moment, I'm brainstorming "value : type" (5 : int) extensions. For example: x = 5 : int : compile time : concord_A

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Excellent interview with @angierasmussen.bsky.social on CNN about the reported case of plague in Russia It’s good to hear from an actual expert like Dr Rasmussen (there are plenty of “armchair” commentators who don’t really know what they’re talking about!) www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/w...

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Virologist tells CNN about infection at Russian plague lab | CNN

Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and Science Chair for Save America Movement, joins Omar Jimenez to discuss what we know about the worker at the Russian plague lab who is dead of an “unknown” infection....

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Kate in Pittsburgh ⚾️ @katechase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Outside of my usual, but we’re seeing a lot of plague fear posts so I’m linking this interview with @angierasmussen.bsky.social where she explains how not freaked out almost everyone on the planet needs to be over what’s happening with the Russia lab situation. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...

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Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN

Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 06/10/2026

Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade censorship, says it will leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form.

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Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill

Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country

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and influence tactics rather than expertise + recognition of it. Then again, as an Indigenous person: White folk have never put stock in Indigenous worldviews, cosmologies, expertise, etc. So maybe things are just more of the same. Either way people skills will be more valuable in the near future.

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this kind of behaviour, and with AI both taking "expertise" style jobs as well as planting seeds of doubt in the value of education diplomas and degrees, I feel like the world is changing. I'm worried that for a generation at least we should expect a system of status based more on political favours

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giving the appearance theirs outweighs yours. This person early on told me they never finished high school, and that whenever anyone asks they say they did, after all: "nobody checks." Their influence is contained, which is why I'm still willing to work this job, but with Donald Trump legitimizing

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everyone else is saying and doing. Not much room to plant seeds. Even then, one tactic this person still uses I've observed is you can say something factual from experience and this person will shrug and say: "I dunno..." It's such a low cost tactic: It brings into question your expertise while

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[not a true story] A coworker at my one job reminds me of the narcissist coworker at my previous job (the one I ultimately left). The situation here is different though, because their toxic behaviour was reined in pretty quick. It's close quarters, and everyone can see and hear everything

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Meeting C++ schedule is complete! meetingcpp.com/mcpp/schedule/ My keynote is Friday

Screenshot of a schedule. Picture of me. Title "Center Keynote - Brains And Belonging". Kate Gregory, 10:30

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The major purpose of this new goal would be to have a functional programming language with its own static reflection. Certainly still within C++, but given the constexpr nature of it all, it wouldn't be difficult to use C++ and my library to turn it into an actual compiler and programming language.

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I'm recognizing now the power of concords is such that it likely makes more sense to implement an embedded functional programming language DSL in C++ where in this given language you can also have concords. This wouldn't break its type system because concords are just specific types and values.

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From there I would build an embedded DSL (still in C++) with simpler and cleaner grammar than C++ to assist in implementing future concords for other embedded DSLs as well as compiler tools. The embedded concord DSL would "become" mini-functional languages which returned C++ concords for C++ use.

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Instead I took an Inuit philosophy of design approach and felt out the flow, rather the breath of my library, such that it breathed easy and healthy. I also aligned my designs with math and type theory. In any case, I arrived at concord theory. The plan was to build a C++ DSL for concord theory.

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It's origins were in many ways a means to an end: I wanted a compile time functional type system to effectively replace all the C++ compile time hacks I'd learned over the years. If all I wanted to do was implement, I could have reshaped my proof of concept code from nearly 3 years ago.

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[cctmp] I'm taking a short break from working on my parser generator's FOLLOW algorithm. Currently I'm reevaluating my goals for this project. As I'm finally starting to build actual compiler tools, I'm realizing this "concord theory" I've developed is more significant than its origins.

Safety and Interoperability with C++ and Rust with Jon Bauman - CppCast 412 / C++ Weekly 553

Good episode, offering community perspectives on today's relevant topics. It helps me stay informed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gNQ...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 05/10/2026

For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing

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