Observation 045Field Notes is a series of short essays on issues related to technology and culture that resists tech essentialism and any form of lock-in.
The first of three essays on the UN scientific panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa, and information nobody can verify at the point of use.
Read the field note“Information nobody can any longer verify, deployed by tools built specifically to make sure they can't.”
On Audre Lorde, Meta’s new gigawatt data centre in Alberta, and a communications environment that has learned to only reproduce itself.
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A circle that contains circles. What Canada’s National AI Strategy diagram reveals about adoption, trust, and frames all the way down.
ReadTreating tech as a practical reality to be critiqued and repurposed for everyday use by everyday people.
Field Notes is a series of short essays on issues related to technology and culture that is resistant to tech essentialism and any form of lock-in.
Observations 037—045
Institutional authority, authenticity, and AI in the public sphere.
Vancouver can demand something better than a server room on unceded territory.
Five hundred people marched because an 18-year-old organized it with a week’s notice.
A governance-first framework for deploying AI without surrendering institutional control.
The adoption is already over. It just didn’t go through governance.