Colin Finkle

Imagine buying BioWare, who was making peak games in well-loved franchises like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and running it into the ground. Basically a golden goose you just needed to feed. Yep, EA figured out how to f&$# it up.

EA laying off people and shutting down BioWare, which was working on the next Mass Effect game. Brutal. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/rip-bioware-ea-shuts-down-storied-rpg-studio-after-over-three-decades/

AI Agents shouldn't log in as humans. Give them agent-specific accounts linked to human accounts. This way, actions can be logged by type, and both individuals and companies can set clear policies on what agents are or aren't permitted to do.

Musk ordered a slowdown of military Starlink used by Ukraine, sparking panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration (WSJ). People died because of this unilateral decision by a civilian. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193

I can express how happy I am that a super majority of Albertans voted to keep Canada true, north, strong, free and united! 🍁🇨🇦

JJK 21 was a wild ride. And I didn't think it could get any more epic than 20! #jujutsukaisan #manga

If any company or nation calls this big, beautiful lake anything but Lake Ontario, the average American won't care but Canadians will never forget. #canadastrong

If Google or Apple changes the name of Lake Ontario on their maps products, whether viewed from either side of the border, Canadians like me will remember that forever.

Trump wants to be worshipped or hated. Just split the difference and ignore him.

I feel good reading and listening to the recent Canadian clap-backs, but the best response to Trump is indifference.

What a horrifying day for world news.

OMG. The 14 infants dying in a maternity ward fire in Pakistan is unbelievably tragic. My heart weeps for the parents, and what a loss. Those babies missed out on entire beautiful lives.

God help those affected by the Nepal-Tibet flash flood. That is the most horrifying natural disaster footage I have ever seen. My God!

I am so proud as a Canadian that we are standing firm against the US and their last-minute demands. We cannot accept either bad faith negotiating tactics or threats to our sovereignty, let alone both!

There is a real lack of appreciation for moral leadership. It's the "get your grift on" era. People don't equate financial success with value generation; instead, we assume there is a hidden scam.

As a Canadian, I am humbled, thankful, and grateful that wildfire fighters from Mexico and Costa Rica are joining the fight in Canada. Amazing allies!

Clearly LG thought they could bring their surveillance capitalism policies from their TVs to their monitors. It's bad on TVs, but it is completely unacceptable on computer monitors. People view far more intimate, sensitive, and private stuff on their computer monitors.

More info about LG's heinous treatment of their high-end monitor customers: https://gizmodo.com/lg-monitors-fill-pcs-with-adware-and-its-not-just-recent-displays-2000787737

From Gizmodo: "LG's privacy policy that's linked to the LG Monitor App Installer's listing on the Microsoft Store mentions LG can track device usage data and online activity, including what sites you visit and what activities you perform on those sites." Shameful.

LG used Windows Update to push adware onto computers connected to LG monitors. Their privacy policy states LG can track device usage, online activity, sites visited, and actions taken on those sites. Unbelievably invasive.

Lost my Uncle Doug this week. He was quietly one of the most influential people in my life — passionate about photography, tech, climate, and big ideas long before they were mainstream. He taught me what it looks like to care deeply about things. I'll miss him enormously.

Surreal Rain 1. Colin Finkle, 2026 Digital drawing on tablet, pencil and charcoal tools. A red umbrella, floating, with a man revealed in the reflection of a puddle holding the red umbrella.

There was a heat warning yesterday in the Northwest Territories. Can we take climate change seriously now?

I ban any reference to winter in advertisements that run in the summer. I have decreed it.

There was a virtual signing of the Iran peace deal?! Did Trump get sent a DocuSign? 🤣

I'm staying tuned.

Revoking Claude's fable and mythos could be a heroic story of safety and sober governance, or the start of access control and the corruption that follows.

Wow, the US government blocks Anthropic from serving Claude Fable and Mythos to any non-Americans, including foreign nationals on US soil, which is why Anthropic did a worldwide block of the models.

Congratulations to Louise Arbour, our 31st Governor General. I couldn't be more impressed with you as a person and the accomplishments of your life so far!

Watching Scott Pelley's NYT interview on leaving 60 Minutes after 37 years is heartbreaking. Corruption in an institution hurts everyone — management and workers alike. No one isn't struggling with their role in this history. Some simply had more choice than others.

I have a broad definition of corruption. Corruption is anything that displaces objective effectiveness from the highest value of a person, organization, or task. Money, ego, complacency, and outside influences are the most common reasons effectiveness takes a backseat.

Eric Schmidt presided over Google's shift from serving customers to generating ad impressions. Early Google benefitted from faith in tech built up by people like Steve Jobs. Now, graduates and the public are suspicious of technologists.

The graduates Eric Schmidt was talking to have never known anything other than the dark patterns era of the tech industry where they are the product, don't own anything, are siloed and pitted against one another.

Re. his commencement speech: Eric Schmidt presided over tech's shift from serving customers to generating ad impressions. Early Google benefited from faith in tech built up by people like Steve Jobs. Now, graduates he was delivering a speech to are suspicious of tech.

Early tech users paid for products, motivating companies to improve them or lose customers. Late tech users didn't pay, motivating companies to exploit data or lose users and advertisers to competitors.

It makes so much sense to put solar panels over irrigation and drainage canals. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/solar-panels-over-irrigation-canal-india/

Playing around with N8N is so much fun. My home server crashed, so now I am back on a more appropriate and hopefully more stable server running Open Media Vault on a Raspberry Pi 5.

I had a blast with Chainsaw Man. Both the first season and the Reze Arc. It's strangely one of the most true depictions of being a hormonal, love-starved teenage boy. My inner 16-year-old could relate.

Isn't a "stay in Canada" referendum question effectively a seperation question? Flipping the question just changes who votes "yes" and who votes "no". #alberta

May the Fourth be with you!

Since when did the Disney+ app turn into hot garbage on my Samsung TV? It took me 8 minutes, 2 infinite loading screens, and 1 accidental jump into the National Geographic section just to get to Mail Shadow Lord. The app is so slow, it feels like my remote doesn't work.

Built from a black canvas up... white pencil and charcoal strokes in Infinite Painter. The prompt was Light and Dark, but somewhere along the way it became about duality. The bright mask we show the world, and the honest, imperfect side we keep in the dark. What do you see in it?

Nice to see a daffodil blooming. These signs of spring are such a breath of fresh air after a challenging winter.

I am looking forward to more Forward Guidance video's from @mark-carney.bsky.social . If I were Prime Minister, I would do a weekly podcast! Take people along the journey!

Surveillance pricing poses an interesting question: do consumers have the right to know what everyone else is paying? We take for granted the transparency of the sign saying Strawberries $3/lb. But with surveillance pricing, you could be getting charged the most and have no idea you are the sucker.

Congratulations to Danielle Martin and Doly Begum on their bi-election wins, and I am excited to see what Mark Carney and the Liberals can achieve with their newfound majority! Fingers crossed for Terrebonne.

Congratulations to the people of Hungary for reclaiming your government and evicting the corrupt Viktor Orbán. Your ability to see the truth through the disinformation and gaslighting is admirable.