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I remember hearing about this cutoff when I was younger and being like NO I’M GONNA OUTLAST THEM OUT OF SPITE and now I’m 36 and like hmmmmmmmmm I might be over it
Someone asked me at a conf once what I would say, as a psychologist and a queer woman in tech who has stayed in tech longer than the classic cutoff at 35, to a younger woman approaching the 35 cliff and thinking about leaving, and I said I would say I'm sorry we failed you and I want you to be happy
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I remember hearing about this cutoff when I was younger and being like NO I’M GONNA OUTLAST THEM OUT OF SPITE and now I’m 36 and like hmmmmmmmmm I might be over it
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OK, here is a 5-minute sketch, @tomski.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
OK, here is a 5-minute sketch, @tomski.com
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User needs first
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
User needs first
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
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I love this line. It's so true it hurts.
"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. "
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. "
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I love this line. It's so true it hurts.
"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. "
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. "
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
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I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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"Devant la commission Gallant chargée de faire la lumière sur le fiasco SAAQclic, l’expert américain Waldo Jaquith a fait un lien entre ces amusantes expériences de sandwichs et les (beaucoup moins amusants) flops entraînés par les virages numériques des gouvernements."
C'est moi.
C'est moi.
Dossier | Contrats publics | Comment éviter les fiascos ? (3 articles)
Dépassements de coûts, échéanciers qui explosent, résultats inadéquats… Pas facile pour le contribuable de garder confiance dans les grands projets gouvernementaux. À l’heure des virages numériques et...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"Devant la commission Gallant chargée de faire la lumière sur le fiasco SAAQclic, l’expert américain Waldo Jaquith a fait un lien entre ces amusantes expériences de sandwichs et les (beaucoup moins amusants) flops entraînés par les virages numériques des gouvernements."
C'est moi.
C'est moi.
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I feel this so deeply. I’ve been told I belonged somewhere. I’ve been told I was valued and appreciated and accepted.
I’ve also *been* valued, appreciated, and accepted.
Almost never by the same groups. And never in the same places.
I’ve also *been* valued, appreciated, and accepted.
Almost never by the same groups. And never in the same places.
"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I feel this so deeply. I’ve been told I belonged somewhere. I’ve been told I was valued and appreciated and accepted.
I’ve also *been* valued, appreciated, and accepted.
Almost never by the same groups. And never in the same places.
I’ve also *been* valued, appreciated, and accepted.
Almost never by the same groups. And never in the same places.
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"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
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Whoa, this kinda took off on me! Look at all the love for CanCon!
(And I happened to write a piece on Schitt's Creek a few years ago - which we then developed into an undergrad seminar course! - you can find here: theconversation.com/schitts-cree...)
(And I happened to write a piece on Schitt's Creek a few years ago - which we then developed into an undergrad seminar course! - you can find here: theconversation.com/schitts-cree...)
‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Letterkenny’ are love letters to rural Canada
Shows like ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Letterkenny’ upend how we imagine rural Canada to be. The small-town dynamics represented are wonderful presentations of what it means to be human.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Whoa, this kinda took off on me! Look at all the love for CanCon!
(And I happened to write a piece on Schitt's Creek a few years ago - which we then developed into an undergrad seminar course! - you can find here: theconversation.com/schitts-cree...)
(And I happened to write a piece on Schitt's Creek a few years ago - which we then developed into an undergrad seminar course! - you can find here: theconversation.com/schitts-cree...)
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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And Canada is going all in on pipelines and fossil fuels. Setting ourselves up to be both climate criminals and years behind the rest of the world.
Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for 3 hours per day.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/m...
Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom | TechCrunch
Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.
techcrunch.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
And Canada is going all in on pipelines and fossil fuels. Setting ourselves up to be both climate criminals and years behind the rest of the world.
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well, it’s an understatement to say that this put me on the floor. as beautiful and devastating as you might expect from @amalelmohtar.com
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
well, it’s an understatement to say that this put me on the floor. as beautiful and devastating as you might expect from @amalelmohtar.com
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"[The Deloitte report] included fictional papers coauthored by researchers who said they had never worked together."
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"[The Deloitte report] included fictional papers coauthored by researchers who said they had never worked together."
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"The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found."
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found."
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"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."
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Always looking for an excuse to buy (and use!) new stamps, so this is just a delight: www.cbc.ca/books/new-st...
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Always looking for an excuse to buy (and use!) new stamps, so this is just a delight: www.cbc.ca/books/new-st...
My team is hiring! 👩💻 Product manager for digital credentials, deadline to apply is December 9th. (Based locally in Whitehorse, Yukon.) It’s a great crew! yukon.ca/en/digital-b...
Looking for a product manager for digital credentials and identity management program | Yukon.ca
Details about a job competition at eServices for the digital credentials and identity management project manager position.
yukon.ca
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My team is hiring! 👩💻 Product manager for digital credentials, deadline to apply is December 9th. (Based locally in Whitehorse, Yukon.) It’s a great crew! yukon.ca/en/digital-b...
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My guess: the BOM got taken for a ride by Accenture, who turned a $20M contract into a $62M contract, because BOM didn't have empowered technologists who knew better. I've got no special knowledge here—this is just how these projects tend to go.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My guess: the BOM got taken for a ride by Accenture, who turned a $20M contract into a $62M contract, because BOM didn't have empowered technologists who knew better. I've got no special knowledge here—this is just how these projects tend to go.
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A big failure like this, naturally people started asking how much the project cost. At the time of the launch, BOM said that it cost $4.1 million. That's a fair and reasonable price tag for a project of that scale. But it turns out that was part of a USD $62.5M contract to Accenture.
BOM website questions intensify over true cost of redesign
Tender documents and sources show the Bureau of Meteorology's new website may have cost between $78m and $150m — much higher than initially reported.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A big failure like this, naturally people started asking how much the project cost. At the time of the launch, BOM said that it cost $4.1 million. That's a fair and reasonable price tag for a project of that scale. But it turns out that was part of a USD $62.5M contract to Accenture.
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A month ago, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) launched a new version of their weather forecast website for the country. It has *not* been well received, and with a price tag somewhere between USD $2.6–62.5M (it's unclear), this has become a small scandal. www.bom.gov.au
www.bom.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A month ago, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) launched a new version of their weather forecast website for the country. It has *not* been well received, and with a price tag somewhere between USD $2.6–62.5M (it's unclear), this has become a small scandal. www.bom.gov.au
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Today's @showuptoronto.ca newsletter includes some thoughts on Bill 60 and not losing heart in the face of defeat, as well as another incredible 60+ events for this upcoming week. Subscribe and tell your friends buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto
Show Up Toronto - November 25, 2025
Hi friends and neighbours, Yesterday protestors packed the public gallery at Queen's Park and created an organized disruption of the Bill 60 vote (including...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Today's @showuptoronto.ca newsletter includes some thoughts on Bill 60 and not losing heart in the face of defeat, as well as another incredible 60+ events for this upcoming week. Subscribe and tell your friends buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto