i really wasted my name change on not calling myself Through-much-tribulation-we-enter-the-kingdom-of-heaven

Steve Kerr spot on as usual

HALF its workforce? This is a company raking in billions of profit every year. We should be regulating oligopolies within an inch of their miserable lives.

It's literally the same people running the same playbook.

I've noticed this too, and I think the sign of a fundamental problem with LLM's. They're trained on good, structured writing, but used by people, particularly tech folk, who've never been taught/barely been exposed to good, structured writing. So whenever they see it, it "must" be the product of AI.

Fascinated by the people who now suddenly claim a campus is a public space when so many didn’t when people where arrested during the Palestinian protests. Almost as though their views shift with the situation 🤔

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Will any provincial government be held to account for this? Don't be silly. Provincial governments don't get held to account for anything, including negligent homicide.

This so-called "scandal" is already pissing me off. 1) The provinces wanted a prescription software platform 2) The federal government had one built for them 3) Pretty much none of the provinces decided to use it after it was built 4) The federal government ceased funding it. "SCANDAL!"

The 100th pedestrian incident in 2026 happened on Apr 26 at 17:37. It took place at Red Embers Gate and 128 Avenue NE in Redstone. This was the 5th incident in ward 5 this year. ##yyccc##yycwalk

I've learned a lot from following Dr. Lindsay Tedds on various socials media, but the most important piece of knowledge that I've gleaned over the years is that Jack Mintz is just the absolute worst.

Make streets fun again. 🎼

Using what age verification tools, exactly? This is going to end so very badly. This is just more internet surveillance, and politicians cannot get that through their heads.

thinking tonight of Amal Khalil and the 264 other journalists who’ve been killed in the line of duty in the wars in Gaza and Iran.

9 GW is flat out insane. If you assume 80% utilization, that's 56 TWh of electricity. That's more than 26 states used in 2024.

*incredible* ten minutes for this rule

Regular reminder (unfortunately)

My hot #urbanism take is that while speedbumps and raised crosswalks help, they induce more pickups and SUVs, because the bigger the car, the least effective they are. On the other hand, curb extensions and chicanes have the opposite effect: smaller (less dangerous) vehicles handle them better

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

This is an astute distinction and makes me realize why I DO still like Bluesky — as I use it, it’s the 2010s model (chronological, relational, active as well as passive, made by humans) vs a Reels, say

This might be a good solution to the problem, if the problem was a dire shortage of people qualified to teach, which it isn't.

found this on tumblr, mostly meant for headcanon territory, but I feel like it relates

"they have more stuff in the basement" implies "all this shit is interchangeable," which, my eagle eyed readers will recognize, is both the attitude of a uncultured boor, and also the attitude of 19th century tomb raiders pilfering cultural treasures in the colonies

i like following international news as a reminder that ALL of this [waves hand at everything] is optional

When I was hired, my department had 28 faulty. Now we have 13.5 (as a joint appointment, I’m the 0.5).

This story gets crazier by the day. It reveals so much about the dark and seedy side of YouTube and of the conjunction between AI slopaganda, foreign political interference, and old fashioned greed.

What I dont get is why in this period anyone would put any money on these markets WITHOUT having inside info! You're literally gambling against people who can pick their own hand.

not a coincidence that men who have healthy relationships with women also have healthier relationships with other men!

Let cities be weird and varied and interesting. Let cities be cities!

An unused park is a clean park, I guess. But seems like it misses the point of having a park.

Cities, man.

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Impressed at LC's ability to get me to read theory and actually enjoy it

Mark Carney came into power with a promise that he was going to build homes at levels not seen in decades, and so far what we've gotten is his government refusing to hold some of our largest cities accountable for deliberately breaking agreements they signed on regulatory reform.

Bartenders are particularly skilled at dealing with assholes

Oh my god. The success of the housing accelerator fund depended on the federal government holding municipalities to their word. Gregor Robertson has singlehandedly destroyed this policy initiatives if this is true. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

Fascinating story by @charlesrusnell.bsky.social on intersection of AI and foreign interference in Alberta’s separation campaign. It raises many troubling questions. Who is paying for AI slop disinformation? And who is consuming it? And how on earth can those on the No side compete? #ableg #abpoli

Six months of asking for better security and those idiots in ops decide what we need are weapons lockers. My people are technicians, not guards! Best case it's just more to get stolen since the code on the lockers is just 0000. I'm going straight to Miller with this, I think she's in Environmental.

i think the thing with the pope, and this is true for many people so it's kind of ridiculous to say it about him in particular, is the more progressive and anti-fascist his messaging the more it stings that it doesn't extend to trans people

📊 Data update: NVIDIA's data center & AI revenue has grown nearly 15-fold since early 2023— Most of the chips used to train and run AI models come from NVIDIA. This makes NVIDIA's data center & AI revenue one of the clearest public figures available for tracking demand for AI hardware.

Saving this for my next discussion of shadow policies with Toronto City Planning.

A key component of worldbuilding that amateur media critics don't understand is that just because something is patently ridiculous or full of obvious problems does NOT mean it's impossible, or even unlikely to happen. Our world had Juicero; there is no reason a fictional one would be any different.

Land use policy is climate policy.