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When AI Becomes the Water We Swim In
Carlo Iacono, Hybrid Horizons, 2025/07/11

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I think this is true: "AI browsers are becoming our water. They're the invisible medium through which we experience the digital world, so pervasive and fundamental that we forget they're there. The risk isn't that we'll rely too heavily on AI or that students will cheat. The risk is that we'll forget there was ever a different way of thinking." Think of things like BoodleBox, which make AI part of browsing (or is it browsing part of AI?). Can you imagine there was a time that the only way to have music in your house was to make it yourself? This was the reality for almost all of us just a century ago. Can you imagine a would of the future where learning is everywhere you need it, like water or electricity? I've written about that often. This is what a world with AI looks like. 

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the parting glass
Bonnie Stewart, the belonging project, 2025/07/11

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You can read Bonnie Stewart's report on belonging and place here though I actually preferred this blog post. I share less of a sense of belonging to place - though I now live near where I grew up, Ottawa and eastern Ontario are aswirl with change. Still - this holds: "belonging is relations. It is always relational, tied to relations of connection, relations of power, relations of place." I came back to eastern Ontario because of family, and have no desire to leave, because for me there is nothing like a dirt road cutting through a forest or corn field.

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Liam Proven, The Register, 2025/07/11

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I still use Firefox and have no desire to change (though of course if I started seeing advertsing on it I'd be looking for an alternative in less than a minute). Firefox is a great product, says Liam proven in this article, but its management is terrible. "Is there a way to encourage Mozilla to be an organized, focused, professional business, with eyes keenly set on a clearly defined goal? Perhaps that's the wrong question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all."

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