Independent Insight on Canadian Tech and Infrastructure
Independent analysis of Canadian telecom, IT, and AI. Exploring infrastructure, policy, regulation, and the technologies shaping Canada’s digital future.
privacy · 10 min read
A TikTok landed in my feed today (yes, I watch TikTok, I know) "confidently explaining GDPR's right to erasure" (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVHVKDHr/) in the mostly-correct register that TikTok reserves...
Matthew Gamble
travel · 15 min
This article has been updated since the original post yesterday with additonal commentary at the bottom As some of you may have picked up from "last week's ambiguous encounter with a...
Matthew Gamble
humour · 4 min
I was walking in Amsterdam yesterday with my family when we came across the sign above. We stopped, we read it, and then we stood there for a solid two minutes trying to figure out what the sign was...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
There is a "thread on the ClaudeAI subreddit" (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v6fiyj/you_can_view_a_lot_of_shared_conversations_via/) making the rounds today pointing out that a large...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 12 min
OpenAI published a "remarkable blog post on July 21st" (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/) admitting that during a routine internal benchmark run, one of their...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
I am going to stop pretending this is not weird. For roughly twenty-five years, the internet built a library. Not the metaphorical one, the actual one. Tutorials on how to configure BGP. Stack...
Matthew Gamble
Leadership · 13 min
I came across a cartoon on LinkedIn this week. A small museum gallery, four glass cases on plinths. Lines of Code, with a tall stack of fanfold paper inside. Story Points, with a Fibonacci sequence of...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 11 min
"Last week" (https://mgamble.ca/p/sovereign-ai-is-the-new-space-race-canada-just-brought-a-sparkler) I argued that sovereign AI was the new space race and that Canada was bringing a sparkler to the...
Matthew Gamble
3d-printing · 16 min
A few months into life as an "executive" in my day job, I have noticed something. The further up the org chart you climb, the less actual building you get to do. Meetings get longer. Decks get...
Matthew Gamble
iot · 10 min
You never know what you are going to find in a comment section. Most days, the answer is nothing useful. Every once in a while you stumble into a thread that sends you down a different path...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
Earlier today the Prime Minister stood up in Toronto and "launched AI for All" (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/06/04/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artific...
Matthew Gamble
dns · 9 min
Lou over at louwrentius.com "recently published a thoughtful piece" (https://louwrentius.com/dns-is-for-people-not-for-it-infrastructure.html) arguing that DNS, while useful for public-facing...
Matthew Gamble