Scott LeslieFinding it extremely difficult to feel anything about the Artemis launch. Read the room people!
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How many Copilots are there? Hysterical take https://youtu.be/KPtIx5ZFSOY?si=JGZkV57o8jI9or4r
The Copilot Problem
Stephen Rees 
Millions of Canadians trust the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to safeguard their futures, yet breaking research from Stand.Earth shows they have been investing our retirement savings in companies tied to ICE.
That means our pension funds are being used to profit off the violence ICE is unleashing in the US — kidnapping people off the street, separating families and ripping children out of their parents, arms, and violations of due process.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-canada-pension-plan-divest-from-ice?source=direct_link&
White paper from the Government of Canada on "digital sovereignty" proving what I have said for 2 decades, "data residency" is largely kabuki when it comes to nation state actors/courts
"Using a Canadian supplier or storing data in Canada does not guarantee data will be outside the jurisdiction of foreign courts. The GC can fully maintain legal control only when it delivers services itself or works with providers that operate entirely under Canadian jurisdiction."
It's that time again - the BC Libraries Cooperative is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's donations from our "Open Source Contribution Fund" https://bc.libraries.coop/news/2025-open-source-contribution-fund/ This year included Drupal, Kanboard, Composer and the individual who maintains all the back and forward ports of PHP for Debian.
And as always, I'll ask - if you or your organization benefits from open source (and whether you realize it or not, you do), how are you giving back?
Announcing Our 2025 Open Source Contribution Fund Recipients | BC Libraries Cooperative
Each year, BC Libraries Co-op employees nominate the open source projects they use and benefit from — so we can acknowledge and support the people and teams behind them in our small but meaningful way through our Open Source Contribution Fund. This year we are pleased to announce the following recipients: Ondřej Surý, the primary... Read more »
Dan GoodinWow, TeamPCP is hacking open-source developers faster than we can report on them. The latest (that I'm aware of, anyway) is LiteLLM. They worked with Trivy but didn't bother to change their credentials after Trivy was hacked, despite an ample amount of advice to do so.
Folks, if any of you used LiteLLM, now is the time to change your credentials, in an atomic way. Now, as in immediately.
This article on "Libraries as AI Sandboxes" (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2026/03/13/how-libraries-shape-ai-literacy-campus) offers up Boodlebox as one starting point, a service that gives access to multiple LLMs in a single interface, as a place for libraries and edus to start https://box.boodle.ai/ Anyone have experiences with it
Do Americans realize that literally the ENTIRE rest of the World, with maybe the exception of the Israelis, is looking at you like we're at a party and you're the one dude who got WAY to drunk and starts taking swings at people and we're like "Who brought this guy? Get him out of here!"
I am taking my Saskatchewan-born wife to Eastern Canada for her first trip this fall, and we timed it in part to be in Montreal for the Pop Montreal festival, which I've heard great things about. Found out today they are crowdsourcing their lineup on this site https://vote.popmontreal.com/ a very cool experiment. Forces you to listen for a certain time to each artist before casting a vote
"Bosses are haunted by the ego-shattering knowledge that they aren't in the driver's seat: if the boss doesn't show up for work, everything continues to operate just fine. If the workers all stay home, the business grinds to a halt. In their secret hearts, bosses know that they're not in the driver's seat – they're in the back seat, playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel." oof - https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism