Many thanks to the Tragically Hip, the City of Kingston, and the CBC for the amazing concert replay event this weekend in downtown Kingston. It was really great. You could feel the love. #ForeverHip #KingstonOntario

I ♥ the metric system. That is all. #metric

#RBC #BMO should be blocked from selling #Moneris. If you can't control your greed, the government should control it for you.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/moneris-deal-canadian-digital-sovereignty-9.7304962

A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around what the deal means for Canada's digital sovereignty amid the country's trade war with the U.S.

We lost such an incredibly amazingly talented musician today and I'm so so sad about it. My heart goes out to his family and friends. Glen Hansard passed away in a tragic motorcycle accident in Dublin. His music will continue to mean so much to me and I'm deeply grateful he shared his gift with the world while we was here. My favourite song moment was hearing Falling Slowly peacefully playing in the background as my daughter was being born. Thank you, Glen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ekn9d37qvo

#music #glenhansard #favouritemusic

Glen Hansard: Oscar-winning songwriter killed in crash

Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.

An open-weight AI strategy is the right one. The closed, locked down, API-only, "we are Frontier" eliteness is doomed to failure, and at best, will result in hollowed out companies eventually piggybacking off the work of others instead of innovating. Most ubiquitous tech we all use today, under the hood or at its origin is open source or based on open source.

This article isn't taking into account Gemma, GPT-OSS, and others. There are lots of good open-weight non-Chinese models, but China is releasing the best ones right now.

I thought this was interesting: "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing."

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

It absolutely sucks being in the server infrastructure buying market right now. The costs are completely out of control. No one can afford this. It's almost all BS they're blaming it on the #AI industry. No, this is simply capitalism gone wrong and an aggressive push by industry to force organisations into renting everything.