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Matt Simpson

@mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

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A senior technology professional and technical leader with a passion for a socially positive mission and building teams that love what they do.

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253 Following

9 Posts

Joined November 10, 2022

Website:

https://mattsimpson.ca

GitHub:

https://github.com/mattsimpson

Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

We lost such an incredibly amazingly talented musician today and I'm so so sad about it. My heart goes out to his family and friends. Glen Hansard passed away in a tragic motorcycle accident in Dublin. His music will continue to mean so much to me and I'm deeply grateful he shared his gift with the world while we was here. My favourite song moment was hearing Falling Slowly peacefully playing in the background as my daughter was being born. Thank you, Glen. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ekn9d37qvo #music #glenhansard #favouritemusic

Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash

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Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash

Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.

Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 1mo ago

Many thanks to the Tragically Hip, the City of Kingston, and the CBC for the amazing concert replay event this weekend in downtown Kingston. It was really great. You could feel the love. #ForeverHip #KingstonOntario

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Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 1mo ago

I ♥ the metric system. That is all. #metric

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Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

An open-weight AI strategy is the right one. The closed, locked down, API-only, "we are Frontier" eliteness is doomed to failure, and at best, will result in hollowed out companies eventually piggybacking off the work of others instead of innovating. Most ubiquitous tech we all use today, under the hood or at its origin is open source or based on open source. This article isn't taking into account Gemma, GPT-OSS, and others. There are lots of good open-weight non-Chinese models, but China is releasing the best ones right now. I thought this was interesting: "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing." https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

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Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

It absolutely sucks being in the server infrastructure buying market right now. The costs are completely out of control. No one can afford this. It's almost all BS they're blaming it on the #AI industry. No, this is simply capitalism gone wrong and an aggressive push by industry to force organisations into renting everything.

Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

And since I've been talking about #music recently, a new Playdeaf album Goldfish Bowl was released today! https://tidal.com/album/528547337/u Damn, so good to hear a new album from these guys. My favourite is Window.

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Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 1mo ago

#RBC #BMO should be blocked from selling #Moneris. If you can't control your greed, the government should control it for you.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/moneris-deal-canadian-digital-sovereignty-9.7304962

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A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around what the deal means for Canada's digital sovereignty amid the country's trade war with the U.S.

Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

Hi Ren, by Ren... what an intense song that I could feel every moment of. Wow. It's been a while since something has caught me like that. Give it a listen: https://tidal.com/track/309105297/u

#Artist #RealFeels

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Matt Simpson @mattsimpson@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

From Awareness to Agency: What to Know About AI and Algorithmic Safety

I recently gave a talk to a university and health care audience on an important topic to me: AI and algorithmic awareness and safety. And in the weeks since, barely one has gone by without something new crossing my desk that tells me this topic is only becoming more relevant. So I thought I would take the essence of what I taught and distill it into a blog post.

http://mattsimpson.ca/2026/06/21/from-awareness-to-agency-what-to-know-about-ai-and-algorithmic-safety

#AI #Awareness #Productivity #Cybersecurity

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