šŸ“ New post: on monocultures, institutional agency, and resilience

Canvas was hacked this week (starting around May 1, so over a week ago now). No details yet, and I’m not going to speculate or make assumptions. My heart goes out to the people at Instructure and the...

https://darcynorman.net/2026/05/10/on-monocultures-institutional-agency-and-resilience/

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@dnorman I know your post above is a few days older but it captures a starting piece of difference in UBC response cf treating just as a security incident. [I'm sidestepping the lms as a thing conversation for now at least]. But also looking at @brennacgray 's letter. I'm wondering how much having previously thought about data/ digital sovereignty has shaped being able to thinking about this differently. there's a $ scale / infrastructure in place but also mindset.
@dnorman really appreciate the thoughtful post, shared it with some colleagues even though we aren't in the ed tech game, some of the same lessons apply for us
@sleslie thanks. It turned into a useful thing to paste a link into messages to leaders on campus.