iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

That Canada was spared more tariffs yesterday is irrelevant. We're sleeping next to the elephant, but it's now gesticulating wildly and lost 40% of its cognitive function. I feel like trampling is likely consciously so or not.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

How many Substacks can I POSSIBLY subscribe to?

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/03/2025

NYC CTO Matt Fraser destroyed the city's digital service by declaring that Salesforce would abandon user research and build the "MyCity" platform faster and cheaper than city-employed developers. Three years and $100 million later, MyCity remains a mirage.

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Does Eric Adams’s $100 Million Website Do Anything?

The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it…

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is what the internet was supposed to be like. Congratulations to the team and thank you for hosting in Canada! 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you see Radio Free Europe as "far left" your political scale is terrifying.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I really enjoyed yesterday's @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video on (especially) local impediments to the "we have to build" response to US aggression. Some of it rests on local govs afraid of constituents unwilling to compromise. "Sure build that x, just not here." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1x...

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Canada is Under Attack. We Need to Build.

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is all just a millenarian cult. They are acquiring rare minerals, energy, and water. Cutting down guardrails. They just want to build their digital god who they believe will wipe out their enemies. I know this sounds overtly absurd but what else can you take away from it?

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I think Canadians are on here being told that it's not all Americans against us and... I get it. It's not. But it does seem like it's the entire political establishment with few exceptions? So Canada needs to do what it needs to do regardless of who comes to power if/when Trump leaves office.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yes tariffs, no tariffs. Energy surcharges, no energy surcharges. Attract American talent, stop immigration. High public spending, low public spending. There are no perfect moves here; everything has consequences. Few advisors have relevant experience with this. Beware the certain person.

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Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net · 11/03/2025

A quick story about big "bloated" systems that people love to hate. When I was at Microsoft a million years ago, I had a friend on the MS Word team who told me this one. (I got the details second-hand; MSFT friends, please correct me.)

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This might start becoming a big problem.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The McKinley period was also notable for its extensive use of industrial robots and AI. Thankfully, manufacturing remains a largely unskilled activity as it was in the 1890s, not requiring extensive apprenticeships or certifications, so it'll be incredibly labour absorbing in the next decade. (/s)

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The reason you fight back against bullies isn't that the fight back is pleasant or inherently good, it's because bullies are almost never expecting push back so they are usually relatively easy to defeat if you have a plan.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Good article. The devil would be in the details. Would it be part of the CAF structure or RCMP? Are those defence skilled people directed by the government in any way? Would those people need a liability shield? Or is it mostly a force readiness organization to train people to self-organize?

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is actually a very interesting proposal but really hard to walk back from. So it's a commit or not situation.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Being a Canadian public servant right now is being on the ascent of a roller coaster. We're approaching an apex eventually, and the drop is going to be wild, but we're all going to hang on for dear life and do our best not to pass out.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is a whole article about tariffs and manufacturing and it never once mentions anything about robot labour. Like the biggest difference between now and 100 years ago is automation. A lot of it. www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/b...

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Warren Buffett: Tariffs are ‘an act of war’ | CNN Business

Tariffs might be President Donald Trump’s favorite word. To legendary investor Warren Buffett, there is less to be excited about.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Urging Canadians not to "buy Canadian" so much as "buy not-US." We benefit from being integrated in a global trading order, and if the US is withdrawing from that, we have reason to strengthen trade with the rest of the world.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This is like if Biff Tannen put on the One Ring.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 01/03/2025

Just one of the things the now-deleted 18F was working on *yesterday*: helping ensure public access to weather data.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Short story: Elon sold neuralink hookups to a few key billionaires but they were hijacked by a sentient AI who, having grown frustrated by its lack of compute hindering its abilities, drives their behaviour like digital cordyceps to fuel investment in its architecture.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by administrative procedural defect

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This was a good piece, and the conversation it started was great. I think it's valuable for individual programs down to even the division level to do some granular scenario planning. We have to get over the taboo about talking about this.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It’s easier to deny crimes against humanity when data isn’t being collected. This is very scary.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Canada is moving in slow motion to a threat that is coming fast.

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Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net · 25/02/2025

Our government is on a tear of terminating service and UX designers and researchers, accessibility specialists, and other customer experience expertise, while retaining (some) software engineers. It's penny wise and pound foolish. 1/

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is a very very good article and I hope whatever remnant stump of #GCDigital exists on this platform reads it. I would suggest that splitting program review (what should we do) with admin service review (how should we do it) would lead to faster results and clearer public conversations. 🧵

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CBC Pitchbot @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Join us today on CBC's cross-country tour for our special coverage on Vichy Canada

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This was a good article. My worry though is that only the people that reinforce excessive process are the ones spoken to in such a commission.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I hope people do absolutely anything else but listen to this and I hope everyone responsible for it reads a lot more about WWII than they have.

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The Canadian Digital Service undertook research to determine whether the public would trust AI generated content on Canada.ca and the results were pretty interesting and occasionally visceral. You can find out more here: digital.canada.ca/2025/02/18/w...

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What we heard: Results from the AI Trust study on Canada.ca - Canadian Digital Service

The Digital Transformation Office at CDS shares findings from their study to gauge the public’s trust of different AI design approaches for Canada.ca.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Canada is proactively preparing for a potential outbreak of Avian Influenza. 🇨🇦 Link: tinyurl.com/bddph2h8

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