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"Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress’. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure." - Ludwig Wittgenstein ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61...
some specific points re: context and testing for smes from same panelist
as well as funding for ai adoption in the uk - this is being shared by a rep from british standards institution. now talking about the bridge ai program, what is the psychology behind resistance to adopting in AI from smes, how to use that learning to inform programming.
panelist from japan making good points here. if SMEs are so important then?
some suggestions from panelist for change management policy to adopt ai for small and medium sized businesses. says it helps to be done with real-world use cases, not top-down admin.
from the OECD presenter - companies that have recently reported back on implementation of HAIP
so bringing those questions - and others - to processes that already exist in your organization. applying high-level thinking to specific, contextual processes where authority + incentives are well-known and mapped. self-organizing around important and old considerations, putting them into practice.
"In other words, we need to develop forms of thinking and practice that are willing to produce fragile knowledge because, as Édouard Glissant (2020, 9) wrote, “Fragile knowledge is not imperious science.” - Fernando Domínguez Rubio direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Background Information - staff report for committee meeting: (April 24, 2025) - Report and Attachments 1 to 3 from the General Manager, Transportation Services on Automated Vehicle Pilot Deployment in Toronto Under the Highway Traffic Act - (17 pages) www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
here's the item dealing with this Magna pilot: "IE21.7 - Automated Vehicle Pilot Deployment in Toronto Under the Highway Traffic Act" - it goes to the City of Toronto Infrastructure and Environment Committee on Wed. May 7, 2025 @ 9:30 AM secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
"“This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,” spokesperson Caty Gray said in an email statement" - new from @muradhem.bsky.social thelogic.co/news/shopify...
in the context of this discussion about tech procurement in cities, some of the grounding framings: 4. the "innovation hustle" creates a context in which rhetoric about the future, magical thinking about boring problems, community capture and conflict, and neglected investments are all in play.
you can read more about it here, and you can also submit comments or sign-up to speak: secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
also pairs well w this. and as Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan writes "the author is grateful for conversations over the years with Martha Poon & Seda Gürses, whose critical perspectives on computational infrastructure force new questions about equity and justice" bayareaequityatlas.org/sites/defaul...