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Back in Vancouver 🇨🇦

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Landed in Iceland 🇮🇸. It’s cold and foggy here 6°C 🥶 Getting a slice of NY pizza and whatever the hell this guy is 🤷‍♂️

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Thanks Germany 🇩🇪 🙇‍♂️ I had a wonderful time at my friend’s wedding, was able to meet with someone I hadn’t seen for 25 years, and came to some interesting conclusions about history and the future. Next stop Reykjavik 🇮🇸 then on to Vancouver 🇨🇦

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@andypiper Good luck Andy!

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Final day. Did some souvenir shopping near city center then randomly ran into the Frankfurt Grüne Soße “Green Sauce” festival! There was a little jazz band, the mayor, a TV station and they threw bundles of herbs like wedding bouquets! After I walked the old star moat which is a giant park now.

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Today I hung out with the German GOAT Goethe at his house, learned a bunch about the Romantics, meditated in a glass prism, and now it is time to say Gute Nacht to Frankfurt. Tomorrow is my last day before I fly back to Canada.

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Have some journaling to do. What better pace than the warm platz at Römerberg, just a couple of blocks from Goethe House

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A few more shots from Heidelberg 🏰 on a warm sunny day 🌞

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Lovely warm spring day at Heidelberg Castle

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Made it to the little southern German village where the wedding is happening. Lovely bucolic view from my top-floor (4) hotel window. My ears ring with the sound of music 🎶 but @expede.wtf says she hears the WinXP startup sound 🪟

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As part of the pre-wedding I just did a West Coast Swing lesson in German! 🕺🏼 🇩🇪

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Made it to Germany!

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🤯 At the Frankfurt Airport Train station\n⛲️ at the Wasserturm in Mannheim\n🍟🌭 vegan currywurst

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Off to Germany! 🇩🇪

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Thanks London, was a blast.

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Wow I got 英語お上手ですね’d by a London cabbie this morning on the way to the train station!

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Last day in London. Visited Westminster Abbey. A few fun wide angle shots of the complex interior design. 🇬🇧

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@chadkoh.com I will look for them! Currently in the Samurai exhibition by @olegb.bsky.social. It is pretty impressive!

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Round 2 at the British Museum 🥊

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Had so much fun reconnecting with everyone at Newspeak House last night (and meeting some of the other fellow-candidates I hadn’t met before) that I am going to go again tonight for Ration Club to hang out more. If you are in London, come by for 7pm

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newspeak.house

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As is the custom, I got lost in the Barbican

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Spending some time at the British Library 📚

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The Treasures exhibition is such a brilliant reminder of why books are important, and how they can be such beautiful objects.

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@kevindeyoungster.com What is up with that Dragon Pagoda? Did you get a pic of the inscription? Curious as to its history

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Somewhat embarrassing that I got lost trying to find the tea room at the Royal Geographical Society 😅

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On an absolutely brilliant day I am at the Royal Geographical Society about to check off a 20+ year bucket list item: examining Sir Francis Younghusband’s notes on Tibet, Kashgar, and the Roof of the World 🏔️

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(No, I did not intentionally wear the brand colours 😅)

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@chadkoh.com Yep, pretty much.

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But still… a church!?

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I suppose the Internet Archive is also in a church, but that seems somehow more fitting than a wework

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England is kinda like Japan in how it blends old and new…

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“EAT, REST, & PRAY”

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wework

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@chadkoh.com This kinda thing doesn’t happen in Canada…

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Chat, what do you say when the Finnish guy sitting at the table next to you, with a fresh commemorative military tat on his arm, says he just got back from 2 years in Ukraine and he would go back if it weren’t for his 15 year old son sitting across from him eating a plant-based burger? 😳

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Well I got the Shard! ☝️

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Been wandering around all afternoon. Hopefully between the sun ☀️ this cookie 🍪 and this Colombian handdrip ☕️ I can stay awake until the evening.

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Landed at Gatwick 🇬🇧

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Just having a toastie and a coffee before heading into London. Gorgeous sunny day 😎

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#DXC2026 was a great time! Got to chat with legends like Cory Doctorow and Bruce Schneier, meet my pals at Hypha and The Dais, folks from CivicTechTO, CBC, Torstar, The Local, and the federal gov. 🤝 Evan Solomon the AI Minister popped in, and I saw Bob Rae! Thank you for the invite! 🙇‍♂️

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@chadkoh.com “Lederhosen full of poutine”

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What a day…

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Back here tomorrow

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@chadkoh.com This discussion is mostly about making a standards-based way to express preferences (which may or may not have legal implications, but that is out of scope). Agenda is here if you are interested: ietf-wg-aipref.github.io/wg-materials…

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@chadkoh.com Thanks for sharing Blaine. Will review and see where it can inform the debate in this room

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@chadkoh.com Link to the research. Find your country! web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j…

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Link to the research. Find your country! web.stanford.edu/group/efm…

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@chadkoh.com I only learned of the term recently from this jacobin.com/2025/12/digi…

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@chadkoh More photos from the afternoon here 🌸 www.flickr.com/photos/sa…

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@jimray.locket.computer Oh boy. RIP your mentions Jim 🪦

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@akurjata.ca Wow! Really reminds me of the Surrey Library. Same architect?

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@writingslowly Thank you for the kind words! 🌸

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@laurenshof.online Great writing as always, but I am super glad you got to go to MoA and experience some of the west coast culture

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@thisismissem.social I agree totally that “for now” a single org makes sense, just to get started. I am just saying there needs to be “make a new shape” right from the beginning. Otherwise you end up with CSSWG extending its 2 year time box… for 25 years.

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Centralized Foundations are just too convenient.

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@thisismissem.social If it starts with a single foundation it either needs to be time-limited or have a requirement to spin off other foundations: drive to polycentricity.

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How do we slice it up, and in a way where the parts must work together and no one can filibuster?

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@kevindeyoungster.com Super happy I ran into you there! We gotta get together IRL in Vancouver some time.

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@schlage.town 🎂 We coulda had a pre-birthday party for you on the weekend! Congrats!

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@manton Lovely. I want a 4K version for my desktop!

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@kawamataryo.bsky.social 来てくれてありがとうございました！お疲れ様でした。Hopefully we will see you in Japan at an AtmosphereConf in the future!

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@werd.io My daughter’s reply: “He can read?”

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@david.eurosky.social Did the algorithm go to my high school?

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@jlin.bsky.social Oh! I am glad I didn’t miss you then.

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It was a great time. Love ATmosphere. ❤️

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