Mastodawn

Secret History of Twin Peaks

Thoughtworks's "Radar" (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar) is a nice occasional overview of interesting tools and practices in the tech industry. From the mundane "Pre-commit hooks" (who isn't using these?) — to the shocking "LLM as judge" (meaning evaluator, not legal adjudicator).

Technology Radar | Guide to technology landscape

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to today's technology landscape. Read the latest here.

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Sancho McCann Jul 23, 2025

https://bartalk.org/article/the-profession/displacement-an-ai-future

Displacement: An AI Future | BarTalk

BarTalk is a publication of the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch and covers analysis and commentary relevant to the legal profession in B.C.

Sancho McCann Jul 14, 2025

https://sanchom.github.io/leaky-links.html

Avoid leaky links: don’t reveal your research

Some basic URL hygiene practices to avoid sharing more than you mean to share.

Sancho McCann Jul 14, 2025

Dan Simmons, The Terror. Got me interested in the real history of the Franklin expedition. Maybe too detailed, or the wrong details, lots of depth to each character, but only factual depth. I found myself heavily skimming through much of this book to see how the fantastical elements resolved.

Sancho McCann Nov 5, 2024

CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) has sued the owners/operators of caseway AI for allegedly performing a bulk download of material from CanLII. Here's CanLII's opening summary of its allegations. Read the full claim here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ZN0xStUJgp9ggmaI6AUXlHF9rkMSp1v/view?usp=sharing

To be clear, these are CanLII's own allegations, and Caseway hasn't responded yet.

BCSC No. 247574 - CanLII v. Caseway - Notice of Civil Claim.pdf

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Sancho McCann Nov 3, 2024

Did not have a debate about the intrinsic dimensionality of a line vs its presence in ambient R³ space on my SCC bingo card.

They're discussing paragraph 84 of the FCA judgment (https://canlii.ca/t/jwn6d#par84).

Full hearing here: https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/webcastview-webdiffusionvue-eng.aspx?cas=40776&id=2024/2024-10-16--40776&date=2024-10-16

2023 FCA 79 (CanLII) | Telus Communications Inc. v. Federation of Canadian Municipalities | CanLII

Access all information related to judgment Telus Communications Inc. v. Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 2023 FCA 79 (CanLII) on CanLII.

Sancho McCann Nov 7, 2023

mattbrehmer Nov 6, 2023

Drawing inspiration from Mark Fisher's writing about genre fiction, film, and music, I recently wrote (and spoke) about communicating the Weird and the Eerie in the context of data #visualization design. #ieeevis #altVIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYT0e5GFDM

https://open.substack.com/pub/ubix/p/visualizing-the-weird-and-the-eerie?r=1ndp4b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

alt.VIS 2023: Visualizing the Weird and the Eerie

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Sancho McCann Nov 6, 2023

Appeal being heard and streamed this Tuesday (https://bccourts.ca/court_of_appeal/hearing_list/lists/weekly_hearing_list/November%206,%202023.pdf). It is an appeal of this 2022 judicial review (https://canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2022/2022bcsc1302/2022bcsc1302.html) that struck down a Vancouver SRO rent-control by-law.

Two Qs I have:

1. How to assess vires under the Vancouver Charter: pith and substance? or impossibility of dual compliance? (Discussed at [44-62] of the BCSC judgment.) In my view, this should depend on the delegation at issue.

2. Can a councillor or staff's response reveal council's reasoning?

Sancho McCann Sep 24, 2023

Consenting to reverse under s. 70 of the Supreme Court Act. What does this mean for precedent?

https://sanchom.github.io/consent-reversal.html

#law #lawcanada

Consenting to reverse under s. 70 of the Supreme Court Act

Consenting to reverse under s. 70 of the Supreme Court Act. What does this mean for precedent?

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