if 2025 was the year of people telling on themselves by accusing other people of engaging in conduct the accused was not but the accuser themselves was, 2026 is the year of doing that but with agentic workflows 🥸

Credit Karma is back with the hits: no option to say you don't drive a car. 🥴

During budget crunches, governments find the money to fund what is valued, so I guess what's valued here is checking a box, not delivering transformative transportation projects for a city that has long been undervalued, underappreciated, and the frequent victim of overpromises and underdelivery.

Hm, yes, if only the provincial government would provide an option as an alternative to driving to Pearson. Maybe some sort of… express? www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

as my spouse remarked to me this morning, "you can feel it too"

The thing missing from most city paid parking plans is VALUE. No one wants to pay for parking! It’s true. No one wants to pay for anything! If you pay for a meter or parking space that you had to circle the block forever to get, what was the value? Go big or go home on this.

Freedom's just another word for not having to sit in a car on a road at the same time as lots of other people who are also sitting in cars.

i spent all summer organizing for dedicated transit lanes against typical toronto nimbys who claimed that "emergency vehicles would get stuck in traffic and more people would die" anyways, here's real life:

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

If you're in the Baltimore area, interested in transportation, and haven't taken this course yet, please consider applying! It's a great way to network, but perhaps more importantly it arms you with the information you need to make a difference in your community.

I dunno, I feel like ultimately the goal should be to have zoning rules in place that don’t require “millions of little bylaw deviations” just to get housing built. www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

"you look happier" thanks i took the bus here

Recently I learned from my Chichén Itzá tour guide that the Maya sacrificed their best warriors and athletes to the gods. Your likeness was carved into stone to cement your legacy forever, and served as a kind of societal self-correction mechanism. *glares at today's billionares* 👀

Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Canada agreed to pay for the full cost of construction, land acquisition on the US side, and connecting Interstate highway links, AND also isn't charging tolls on the US side of the bridge. This amounts to saying America should be allowed to steal Canadian money.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

"Baltimore's transit riders cannot be left behind." #FundBmoreBus #MajorLeagueTransit #BetterTransitNOW www.thebanner.com/community/tr...

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

This is all that fucking matters to him, in the end.

quick someone tell brad bradford that they still haven't plowed the bike lane in front of my home

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” An elected Republican legislator in Minnesota ⬇️

so uh, yeah this is a lot of snow ☃️

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

i don't know how many times i'll have to quote post this but hopefully this is the last time

Incredible that were it not for a full legion of very brave citizen observers constantly filming these pricks, the completely fabricated “a dangerous criminal attacked our officers today” type stuff that the administration puts out would be totally unchallenged

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

My @thestar.com column this week: The Finch West LRT’s biggest problem isn’t signal priority. It’s not maintenance either. Instead, the biggest issue is a total lack of clear accountability. Without fixing that, this train’s always going to struggle. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

> "Canada relies too heavily on the US and takes advantage of us, it's unfair" > Canada starts taking steps to diversify its trade and labor > "Canada should be more grateful to us, shame on them" kneel before the king or have your finger wagged at by a very petty man

Transcript of Carney's speech today. Wow. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Alarmists say the emperor is building a “Death Star”. Even if he wanted to, I’m sure he’d be stopped by the Imperial Senate.

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

In pedestrian crashes, the story rarely refers to the driver, only the car as if it is an AV. But when an actual AV is hit then there is a driver. Fascinating. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

so, which state is gonna be the first to not make federal grant repayments or give the feds taxes collected from state employees?

I remember learning in my high school macroeconomics class that the independence of the central banking system of the United States is considered the cornerstone of the country's financial markets, so I'm sure this is fine. 🫠

friendly reminder that it's okay to not watch the various videos circulating on social media of an ICE agent murdering someone, but that is in fact what happened

"it’s about fleecing people without representation" Incredibly unselfconscious statement from a Congressperson from another state seeking to override the will of DC voters who have had traffic cameras since 1999 and have no vote in Congress

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

There's almost always money for governments to fund what they value, whether it be for transit or anything else; what governments have or generate the political will to fund shows what they value.

We're at the TTC Board talking about the BUDGET! A budget which includes a fare freeze and fare capping. Obviously, we're in support. Follow along for updates, or watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Zl...

The rally last year was a success insofar as over 100 people showed up to fight for better transit in Baltimore, so I have no reason to believe this year won't be at least twice as successful! Please, if you're in the area, consider attending. Free transportation to and from the rally.

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

I appreciate the spirit of this post so much. But I also think a government that people don’t think about is a lower bar than we think, leads to complacency, and is part of how we are where we are. People need to be paying attention to and think and care about government always.

Happy 2026, Toronto! 🎉

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade