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Michael Karlin

@supergovernance.bsky.social
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Digital policy @ Canadian Digital Service. Reasonably subversive. Husband of Amy. Skeets entirely my nonsense and not my employer. He/him. Jewish/🏳️‍🌈

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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"It can be difficult putting your makeup on in front of a camera to be cool rather than providing oversight that citizens demand at Ottawa City Hall." Way over the line that does nothing for your thesis. And Diane Deans was councillor for 28 years. This is a worthless, petty attack.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Should be 60-70 years minimum.
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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.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm sadly helpless to resist replying to this: Great Yuan, which was probably the largest empire of its time.
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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 · 01/04/2025
Mujadara. Just need to use dehydrated onions.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How have you not fallen in love with the internet yet? youtu.be/6R8VWXk9uo8?...
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Scatman John – A Marxist Analysis
YouTube video by Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It was known as neither of those things when it was founded (Byzantion) so it depends on what this person is characterizing as "art" in the city. So if we're being pedantic with them (which we should be it's hilarious) we should correct him to Ḳosṭanṭīnīye, specifically.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If I asked someone to name me any work of art and they answered "Constantinople" I would cry from laughter. What a hysterical reply.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is how Warhammer 40K happens.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
He's there with FCM. Whether that'll do anything or not (unlikely) is a separate issue. bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
How many Substacks can I POSSIBLY subscribe to?
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I had the exact same experience with #2 this week. I contorted from how much cringe I felt being congratulated. It's the best/worst feeling.
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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
Completely agree, plus the UK was exhausted in '38 after a horrific World War, almost going bankrupt, Spanish Flu, the Anglo-Irish War, and the Depression. It was a shell of itself. The US has not gone through that degree of trauma at all over the last 20 years.
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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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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Yair knows what's up.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
And yeah unlike some I hold a lot of empathy in me for Americans looking at this in horror.
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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
Registration and electronic travel authority is a global phenomenon these days (we need an ETA for the UK too!) but historically there would probably be exemptions for Canadians for stuff like this. No longer! Tbh it's a red herring. The lack of due process is much worse.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It's a clarification of s.7 of this EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Protecting The American People Against Invasion
PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST INVASION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
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Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.
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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 · 08/03/2025
They've got NOTHING on Clausewitz bros.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thank you!! Every year purim always sneaks up on me and I'm completely unprepared. I think this skeet may have actually forewarned me enough to get hamantaschen together.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Misinformation is bad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Social media users claim Ford vacationed in Florida as trade war loomed. Here's what we found | CBC News
Social media users claim that Doug Ford flew to Florida over the weekend, just after his election victory as the U.S. tariff threat loomed. But CBC’s visual investigations team has found that Ford cou...
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ailish Campbell is a very skilled diplomat. She has a decades-long trade background and experience in defence financing. The PhD in International Relations is a cherry on top. She's also innovative and takes a diversity of advice. We're incredibly lucky to have her in the post.
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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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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I follow you for this content :)
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This focus on rare earth metals *everywhere* really does explain the posture towards Canada. At least partially.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's there on mobile. Could be an app error.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Because provinces can set their own regulations on lots of things. These are often not intentional barriers.
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Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Is the LLM also perennially tired?
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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
This was a very "perfect is the enemy of the good" reasoning on his part
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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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