Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"AI is like a super smart helper on a computer." No, it isn't. This is what #onted is supposed to be teaching K-3? "Sometimes things online are fake. Fake means it is not real or true." Incredibly reductive. Intention is everything. cybersecurityontario.gov.on.ca/_repo/K-12/T... 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Feel the cringe. We could be teaching students how universal computing devices actually operate, how networks share information and then get to what a virus actually is instead of this. Your #onpoli tax dollars at work everyone. cybersecurityontario.gov.on.ca/_repo/K-12/E... 120
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#cybersecurity is a teachable subject. The challenge is that we don't teach how technology works in the first place and set students on a path to oblivious media consumption from the beginning. #cybersecurityawarenessmonth is an opportunity to teach how tech works. We reduce it to nonsense and nos. 230
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Came across this in my morning reading. These general purpose AIs are what are prompting the doomed economics @doctorow.pluralistic.net describes. Context specific AIs don't need them. Context specific AIs are all that should be running in schools, but that isn't the case. 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Common sense is another way of saying confirmation bias. Scientific enquiry (a disciplined process of seeking the truth by testing ideas to ensure they're reliable & unbiased) is humbling. In a world of unconfirmed, decentralized media propaganda critical #medialiteracy is paramount #onted #cdned 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Epically cool #cdntech! "develop high-resolution subsea imaging by combining PhantomPhotonix' proprietary #quantum LiDAR technology – which delivers 10x the resolution of conventional SONAR systems – with a commercial Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) platform" oceansupercluster.ca/project/cana... 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Intelligence report: "A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program - armed members of the U.S. military were preparing to board the ship" www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Canada is going to the #European #Cybersecuriy Challenge once again. Watch out! We're aiming to recover our string of first place guest country finishes from the US. #cdnpoli #cdnbusiness www.cybersci.ca 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I ran the numbers for best middle and worst case oil shortage scenarios. It isn't pretty. Adjusted for Ontario prices. #onpoli 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"no company should deploy #AI accessible to children without child-specific safety testing & independent oversight" Should be a legal requirement. I'd love to see #onted school board testing & oversight. Each board must do their own since they're all doing their own thing. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Live demonstration of a Hadamard gate (a fundamental single-qubit quantum logic gate that turns a definite state into an equal superposition) Done with a laser and maple syrup! Via Institute Quantique. C'est formidable! #quantum #education 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"a 16-year-old from Canada, was assigned questions in English class about Night, by Elie Wiesel, he says his classmate “just copy and pasted the questions into ChatGPT, and then copy and pasted whatever ChatGPT spit out into the answer sheet.” #cdned Bad teaching, bad studenting #AI amplified. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's not smart phones or social media - blaming tech protects the acidic nature of k12 #education where putting bricks in the wall has always dehumanized. "No adult would willingly accept a job that is anything like the schooling we impose on our kids" petergray.substack.com/p/126-sticki... 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"collect 8 baby eagles, from the northeastern Canadian shield, where there were an estimated 3,000. 2 were going to Pennsylvania & New Jersey, but 6 were destined to go to Massachusetts because "currently we don't have any." www.cbc.ca/archives/whe... #cdnpoli Canadian eagles. You're welcome? 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Becoming common in #education where teachers meat proxy lessons and students meat proxy their responses, then we wonder how this latest #edtech 'advancement' has made learning even worse. In a world of meat proxies, the person anchored in reality is king. #onted #cdned 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Ontario" comes from Iroquoian or Huron (Wyandot) language. It is derived from Huron word onitariio ("great/beautiful lake") and the Iroquois word kanadario ("sparkling/beautiful water"). How about we go all the way and put them back to what they were? Amerigo Vespucci would approve. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/08/2026What caused our ongoing #digitalliteracy crisis? An even longer #scienceliteracy crisis. We could begin repairing the damage by showing up at IEEE's #quantum #education event at UofT in Sept: ed.quantum.ieee.org/2026-teacher... @staoapso.bsky.social @ecooorg.bsky.social #cdned #onted 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Penumbral eclipse begins: 9:23 p.m.Partial eclipse begins: 10:33 p.m.Maximum/Peak eclipse (96.2% covered): 12:12 a.m. (Friday, Aug 28)Partial eclipse ends: 1:51 a.m. (Friday, Aug 28) Blood moon along with aurora thanks to the sun burping. Twil be quite magical 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you work in #cybersecurity in #Canada - #CyberSci is always looking for volunteers to help deliver its regional and national competitions - which puts you in the room with Canada's top graduating cyber students. If you're into coaching cyber, they send Team Canada around the world! 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 14/08/2026#onted 16 out of 100 is 16%. Good to know. Good lesson design is an iterative, stochastic process. Does this replace that or is this not about pedagogy? With no new (clean, human) pedagogical data to feed these machines when teachers stop is this immediate efficiency gain as good as it'll get? 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 07/08/2026www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai... Engaging in Ukraine lets them flaunt their missile program. Guess who sells them the technology: www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f... While the US naval gazes, the world unravels. 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Rereading Shop Class as Soulcraft as I thought it'd resonate differently from the middle of our #AI dissonance. Turns out Matt's 2009 book shows you the Taylorist game plan that's been in play for a century - AI is just the latest step towards alienating us from our own efforts. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"ISBNdb facilitates bulk purchases of up to one million books for #AI training and acknowledges that destroying books on such a large scale could trigger public backlash." www.business-standard.com/world-news/h... Some of the greatest civilizations in history burned books, then ceased to exist. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/07/2026OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says the Singularity Has Arrived - Business Insider share.google/44D8KZhoOwkk... This clown can't stop (like) selling #Ai for what it isn't. Was he ever an engineer or always (like) a marketing spin doctor? 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If I see anything at all it's a 'quantum day' which consists of one period where a scattershot of quantum science is shown, usually without any opportunity for experimentation. I keep seeing films that describe our technology as alien. A popular approach considering how few understand our science. 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Streaming video? Working from home in the cloud? You're using data centres. Watching people make viral socmed anti-DC material is apex NIMBYism. I'd respect the effort if it was more self aware. DCs shouldn't be allowed to use drinking water and should be required to use carbon neutral energy. 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Data centers are the backstage workers of social media: when you post, scroll or share, your request goes to a DC where servers store, process & send information back. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/pap... In other words, when you complain about DCs on social media, you're using DCs to do it. 100
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 19/07/2026One of these days we'll use #AI to do what it does best instead of trying to disenfranchise human beings. The #AIbubble is entirely a result of marketing a failed opportunity wealth centralization & control. Billionaires got excited by a world without people a bit too soon. 010
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Turn your business processes into an income stream by selling what you're doing as #AI training data? Do that and it won't be your business any more. Ask all those ex-Meta employees what happens once AI has digitized your processes. 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Big enough fires create their own weather producing lighting that cause more fires. Can you feel the tipping point coming? www.rmets.org/metmatters/p... Meanwhile, in Toronto every day is a miserable commute putting another 25,000 tonnes of CO₂‑equivalent into the sky. #onpoli 130
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"Water-cooled systems have a higher potential for heat recovery, leading to greater environmental benefits. Future research will be focused on using the results from this study to investigate options for heat reuse from sea water cooled systems" vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/aaafcc... 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 04/07/2026" #AI is concentrated in high-income, English-language contexts. Economic studies are biased towards advanced economies, large firms & formal work. AI evaluation infrastructure remains linguistically & geographically concentrated" Modern colonialism automated, in'tit? www.un.org/independent-... 111
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 28/06/2026github.com/szaniewski/E... Entangled Cat is a hybrid rules-and-data project for a card game that teaches #quantum concepts. Players assemble quantum circuits, manage stability & execute algorithms before opponents collapse the system. #cdned #onted @staoapso.bsky.social Future skills. 031
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Remember that time everyone used data centres to complain about data centres? Like using nuclear generated electricity to complain about nuclear power, or complaining about the climate crisis from your Hummer. If you spend a lot of time on social media, you are directly supporting data centres. 011
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 26/06/2026metaviews.substack.com/p/310-the-end "We’re in a wilderness of pain and all the children are insane." The only way to face the end of the world is with poetry. Nicely done, Jesse. 011
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“was a hack executed by a well-known criminal who is wanted in the United States" A mighty hacker who knows how to inspect a webpage. www.wired.com/story/dialog... 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Despite clear prompts directing it to not fabricate data, the AI ignored them and answered using the least amount of time/resources preferring to fabricate. The long and the short of this? Human meticulous research beats the bot because the bot is constrained by a variety of hidden constraints. 110
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 22/06/2026#ai "lowers barriers for malicious actors and increases the speed & complexity of attacks, shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery & exploitation" Pretty much word for word what I said at RICET25 last year while Microsoft said, 'don't worry about it, buy our AI cloud solution.' 000
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The great Canadian connectivity project was railways back in the day. It should be developing a network backbone that requires Canadian businesses to communicate within our borders while offering privacy ensured connections between Europe & Asia. Not as sexy as AI? @mark-carney.bsky.social 111
Tim King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I went straight to level three because data sovereignty is impossible in #Canada when our monopolistic connectivity providers route most of our traffic through US IPXs because they are cheaper. As usual @canadianshieldinstitute.ca has their eye in on the scope of our dependency. #cdnpoli 143
