I’d say I’d start an all-in-one yarn boutique and cafe, but truly I would hope a business like that would be sustainable after overcoming start up costs.

Cargo bike-share cooperative/library.

Sorry if I've been swinging wildly between these two concepts lately. These times are really trying.

Cycling for me is not some sacrifice for the environment that I’m eager to replace with electric cars. I enjoy cycling. It makes me healthier and happier. It makes my city better. It saves me money I can spend on other things.

alms

One rugged, practical urban hauler and one ridiculously overpriced luxury toy (BUT WHICH IS WHICH??)

I know city living can be exciting and connected and nice and all that. But honestly, I desperately wish I could live somewhere quieter 😮‍💨. It’s beautiful out and the windows are all open but it just means constant bombardment of sudden loud noises instead of fresh air 😓

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

My fellow Ontarians : This is what happens when you don't go out to vote. This is what happens when you refuse to bring up politics at family gatherings. You end up with a Premier who is a corrupt goon who would rather a late night vote to change the law than be accountable to us, the people.

It’s just 9am #ldnont and I’ve already seen well over a dozen cyclists in the past ten minutes down by the cafe as I chill before my workday starts. Despite construction! Tell me there isn’t a hunger for cycling infrastructure in London. I dare you.

I don’t have the mental fortitude to read this, but if you do, go for it. Let me know if there’s anything helpful in there to actually make change.

Is it really so weird to see two people work well together as a team without being in a romantic relationship?! I’m getting a bit weirded out by people assuming or asking if my colleague and I are married — and voicing it to me!! We happily have our own spouses and kids!! Yall wtaf 🤣!!

Literally everyone should stay away from Palantir.

The Hidden Majority: Americans Are More Ready to Go Car-Free Than You Think. momentummag.com/the-hidden-m...

I have spent the last two days far too tired or busy with things and haven’t taken any random photos of small pretty things and I am sad ☹️. Not enough mind and foot wandering time. Blegh.

"“Keep out new families” sounds harsh and even embarrassing, but “defending neighborhood character” sounds noble. The underlying policy is identical in either case, but the narrative frame transforms how people feel about the policy."

“In Weatherby’s words, “intelligence itself has a formal-semiotic aspect,” and language is a “choke point through which other forms of meaning must pass,” or “language is not thought or meaning as such, but I cannot convey this fact outside of language.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

I took half a year out of the workplace and my husband paid the bills. I still did housework, but I also created a tonne of things for myself and to gift to friends/family during this time. Sewing, crochet, knitting, cooking and baking. Safe to say I’d do the same.

In a nutshell. 😊

My kids asked *multiple* times while watching the moon mission footage of it was “real life” or “is this made up”, which I would have thought was cute (because: MOON) if they didn’t also ask me if that cool tree I showed a picture of was made up. NOTHING they see digitally is real to them

Lot of people discussing this with the idea of failing faster. I would put it to you that failure doesn’t actually have to exist at all in this conception. One of the great mistakes of the AI brouhaha is the belief that art is good because of its craft or content. It is good because it connects us.

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

What jet fuel crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Education is not a business.

I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.

I've inherited generational trauma - not wealth. I've never had Baby Fever but I had House Fever for yeaaaars. There's real mourning that comes from realizing that it'll never happen for you. And as David points out, in our current climate, even if you DO get that house, the vibes are off.

Another one of those pesky artists who didn’t want my livelihood stolen by Ai douche-canoes here. Whether or not you think LLM’s are “useful” there’s no *ethical* use that currently exists. I want my children to have functioning frontal lobes and water to drink, thanks.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

Good.

I’m criticizing this because it’s a bad public policy move, regardless of what “team” it comes from. Would you criticize it if Poilievre did it? Then you have to if Carney does it. I criticized it when Poilievre raised it as an idea, because it was wrong. Carney is smart enough to know it’s wrong.

Hope =

What's wild about all the folks freaking out over the expensive luxury car story is that U.S. carmakers started openly telling everyone ~ 10 years ago that they would stop making affordable cars and only make giant, luxury trucks and SUVs. And then, they did exactly what they said they would do.

Alt text: image of Greta Thunberg and text “Greta Thunberg used to say her goal was to protect the planet from climate change but she now admits it’s to overthrow “the whole capitalist system” which she says is responsible for “imperialism, oppression, genocide… racist, oppressive extractionism.”

I need everyone to understand this is eugenics in action—not just “quackery.” Much like the “anti vax” movement as a whole.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

BREAKING: Deco Labels wins contract to build Ontario's new wind propellor things.

I'm an atheist. I dislike all religions equally, yet I find myself defending Muslims against Israel, left-wing Jews against Zionists, and now Catholics against Evangelicals. Please, will you all just go away and worship your god quietly and keep out of governments and the lives of the rest of us.

“Bikes are toys” - person with a life sized hot wheels vehicle

City To Increase Sidewalk Width To Accommodate Parking Needs Of Supersized Vehicles.

What is the deal with drivers who keep rolling towards you when you're crossing the street?? Drivers, if you're planning on *not* hitting someone with your car, don't drive your car at them!

Hope:

What a cool way to think about art and process and thinking and everything! 🤩😍

We can do do things differently, we just have to want to.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday: “The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.” Israel: