Sylvain Carle
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Sylvain Carle
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Curious and generous. I believe we need entrepreneurs and innovation to face the challenges of this world, but I am not a techno-optimist. Pragmatic optimist?

LANG=FR @sylvain.social
Professional (serious?) profile at
www.linkedin.com/in/sylvaincarle
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As someone working on climate based in Montreal, I say: let's do it. cc @ericstpierre.bsky.social ‪@energyvsclimate.bsky.social‬ @climategroup.bsky.social @davidkeith.bsky.social @carobrouillette.bsky.social @froginthevalley.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sad to have lost Omnivore to save pages and build my personal knowledge archive. Back to Pocket App. It's stable and sturdy but has not been updated in a while...

Still can't edit the title or summary of the saved page. And auto-tagging from AI summary of content, please? Aren't we in 2025?
February 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
From a comment I made in a small group of friends, reading the constant stream of #facepalm news in the recent weeks.

When every news article looks like a parody. When the real world is worse than in dystopian movies...
Expired: Gamification
Tired: Enshittification
Wired: Onionification™ of the news cycle

@froginthevalley.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Link of the day, timely topic if there is one: What DeepSeek means for energy (and climate).

climatemoney.substack.com/p/what-deeps...
What DeepSeek means for energy (and climate)
The AI acceleration is officially on. How screwed are we?
climatemoney.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Social network tip of the day: find someone you respect and that you find insightful, someone you love to read and who inspires you. Check the ratio of followers vs following, and if they only follow a handful of accounts, check that list, cherrypick 5 to 10, and start following them. Voilà!
January 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Would be curious to see the results of a poll like this one in Canada... I'm not sure we would have the same results (although I hope for it and would be happy to be surprised).

The economic situation in Canada is different with Big Oil being one of our largest industry & the most active lobbyists.
🧵As the Government unveils plans to boost clean power, worth noting how much public sentiment has shifted to seeing clean energy not just as good, but as a no-brainer. All voter groups (inc Reform) are more likely to think renewables will cut cost of living than raise it
December 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Sad to miss this! lu.ma/01jbzdiz

Hope it will be recorded, @bmann.ca do you know?
Dev Discussion: Geo Data on AT Protocol · Zoom · Luma
Recently, Foursquare open sourced places, a 100M point of interest data set, and we ended up having a discussion about how geo and this dataset would be used…
lu.ma
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I met a scientist/founder at #CDL who is working on an innovative approach to sea-based carbon capture. Best place for them to publish a white paper describing their approach and get comments and reviews?

Open science approach, free publication, not pay to play. Where are these online communities?
December 3, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Setting up your domain name as your Bluesky handle on Wordpress.com is a piece of cake. Done!

wordpress.com/blog/2023/03...
November 29, 2024 at 11:27 PM
When your idea for a fun thing to share on the network is so common that a simple search returns thousands of results!

bsky.app/search?q=bla...
bsky.app
November 27, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I should probably re-read The New Capitalist Manifesto by @umairh.bsky.social. This quote popped up in my @readwise.bsky.social app this morning. Pretty sure 21st-century capitalism is not (yet?) much better...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/93...
November 26, 2024 at 1:47 PM
My real superpower is context-switching.
November 25, 2024 at 7:01 PM
"The idea that people are always more important than institutions is fundamental to creating a healthy startup community."

From Brad Field in the book Startup Communities.
November 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Idea of the day (easy). A new AtProto meetup in Montréal.
@beaudoin.social I am sure you could help? Who else?
November 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I miss this kind of conversation from the "old days" of the Internet. It never disappeared, but it has been more challenging to discover in recent years. I'm glad to find it here! I love these public forums where we can share semi-formed thoughts, questions, findings, roadblocks, and hacks. #OpenFTW
I've seen a lot of discussions lately about handle verification, so I wrote about extending the "alsoKnownAs" feature of the did-plc spec. As it is currently written, the spec supports multiple handles and identities, and some (relatively) small changes could resolve some of the gripes.
Extending Also Known As | Smoke Signal
The did-plc spec has room for backwards compatible improvement to support multiple identity associations.
docs.smokesignal.events
November 21, 2024 at 5:14 PM
This will make a few of my old #geolocal #nerds friends smile. It's cool to see this legacy continue.

"Meet Foursquare Open Source. Easy, democratized access to high-quality data and tools drives innovation and the success of the entire geospatial community."

opensource.foursquare.com
Home
opensource.foursquare.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:52 PM
"To reduce reactance, catalysts allow for agency, not by telling people what to do or by being completely hands-off, but by finding the middle ground. By guiding their path. Four key ways to do that are: (1) Provide a menu, (2) ask, don’t tell, (3) highlight a gap, and (4) start with understanding."
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Pour ceux et celles qui veulent suivre mon compte en français, vous pouvez le trouver à @sylvaincarle.bsky.social.

This account will mostly be in English from now on, carrying over the same pattern I had deployed on other social networks. Not a perfect setup, but probably better for readers.
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM

Avez vous suivi le développement de la "Nouvelle Place"?

J'ai adhéré comme membre à la coopérative, je crois qu'il va être intéressant d'explorer comment ça se relie, connecte, développe par rapport à ce qui se passe ici...

www.nouvelleplace.ca
Accueil | La nouvelle place
www.nouvelleplace.ca
November 15, 2024 at 1:51 PM
November 14, 2024 at 11:26 PM
J'adore! Je vais investir du temps là dedans. Je suis est allumé cette idée!

On pourrait aussi dire procrastiner mais de manière intellectuellement stimulante... C'est ça la vraie définition: s'épancher l'esprit en s'amusant, en mettant sa todo liste sur pause, pour plus longtemps que (pas) prévu.
Bluesky permet de se créer son propre algorithme!

Certains services rudimentaires émergent pour nous permettre de faire ça. En voici un qui sélectionne les publications qui contiennent certains mots clé bien québécois.
November 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Pas original, mais ça vaut le coup de l'écrire quand même pour marquer le temps. Ça commence à prendre forme ces réseaux sociaux émergents et distribués. Ce #fedivers n'est pas un fait divers...
November 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Just started using @openvibe and wow, this sure feels like a winner for the age of the #fediverse! Wish I could have multiple mastodon accounts and my legacy twitter accounts in there too...
November 1, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Is is just me or is it a huge missed opportunity that there is no messaging API for LinkedIn? Seems so obvious.
November 1, 2024 at 6:13 PM