The Open Journal

Long-form writing on technology, society, and the alternatives we are building. Ordered by date, newest first. No algorithm.

PolicyMay 14, 202610 min
Sovereign Compute for the Rest of Us
The federal government calls it 'sovereign AI.' But the GPU clusters being built in Vancouver will be governed by the same companies that built the infrastructure we're trying to escape.
David Chen · Open Source Advocate, Victoria BC
Care WorkMay 12, 20266 min
Care Work in the Age of AI
The invisible labour of care cannot be optimised by a large language model. Here's what people proposing AI-assisted caregiving consistently get wrong.
Sarah Jenkins · Community Caregiver, Halifax NS
Tech CritiqueMay 10, 20268 min
The Architecture of Extraction
Cloud infrastructure isn't neutral. It was redesigned over a decade to maximise data harvesting, not public utility. Here's what that looks like from the inside.
Founder · Former AWS Software Engineer

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