Anxiety doesn't craft good policy

The AIs should refund your credits when they waste them doing something dumb

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most Japanese Cities Because of Godzilla

According to Google Maps, if a town has a park named Queen's Park, then it's a good bet that it has the Ontario Legislative Assembly

There’s a fig leaf of concern about pollution or infrastructure capacity in the application of zoning but in practice much of it is enforcement of largely elite social preferences

The social function of density is to allow multiple people to go splits on the costs of highly valuable land, making life more affordable and convenient. The function of zoning is to stop that from happening.

Zoning is the idea that the very same building is okay if it has one huge home but not if it has several regular size homes or a workshop

*clears throat* California Whine

This borders on misinformation, and if nothing else, this kind of incuriosity is going to keep you from figuring out which of your students are using LLMs to cheat

I didn't know Louisa well but our paths crossed professionally several times. Such a smart, talented, passionate advocate and public servant. It's hard to know what to say about such such a tragedy. It is a societal and political choice that people die like this--a choice that we must stop making.

They fixed my bug report from 2024! 🥹

Sorry that your Mad King keeps threatening to invade my country, I also find this all terribly distressing but between the two of us you're the US Senator with actual powers of office.

Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Was Not the Target, they were searching for a Guatemalan in a different white van Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Slow cooking is great but fast cooking is even better

I will always be blown away by this. Double your potential transit ridership with one easy step. Housing policy is congestion policy is climate policy.

It is my philosophy to meet community members where they are when organizing. Urbanists sometimes lose perspective only talking to other urbanists…case in point.

Public private partnerships are a great choice if you would like to maximize the portion of your budget taken up by legal fees

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I've just been to Canada and it's more of a communist dictatorship than I thought. The president apparently chooses all their groceries.

Wait, why not treat this kind of like Glonzo, but from the left? Instead of arguing about stats, do a huge, media-forward, and useful — but not police-based — program that addresses some crime vibes and then projects the sense that things are under control now

Naturally they prefer the DIE kind of bike lanes

I am not an AI hater but I am a hater of people passing their AI agents off as humans on platforms like this

Level unlocked. Retractable bollards operated by license plate recognition allowing residents access.

I’ll start: mayo

Too much politics on the timeline. Quote this with a maligned food that you enjoy

Interesting they all have something besides misogyny in common & it’s a weird determination to ‘both sides’ the Russian invasion of Ukraine

the bots I'm currently running on bluesky: - @pomological.xor.blue: old fruit watercolors - @roadside.xor.blue: roadside photos from the 70s, 80s, 90s by john margolies - @choochoo.xor.blue: tiny emoji trainscapes (with real nyc weather!) - @helpingfriendly.xor.blue: phish setlist data in real time

I’m shocked, shocked that the guy who had a Nazi tattoo for nearly two decades is railing against shadowy all-powerful forces conspiring against him

The AI haters are wrong. The AI boosters are wrong. Everyone is wrong. Eat Arby’s.

One week into SB 79 taking effect, and there are already over 200 new homes proposed in Palo Alto across 5 buildings. The last year in which Palo Alto permitted more than 200 new apartments was 2007. www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto/20...

Cities will be like “light industrial zoning is incompatible with residential uses” then put high density residential uses right on busy roads, a huge direct pollution source

In a way, this is an awful story about real world harm exacerbated by a biased hallucination machine with no accountability, from 1984

Driving faster doesn’t help when the bottleneck is at intersections

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

Bring it back. I am no longer asking.

every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline

The year is 2033. The AI wars have wiped all data centres off the face of the earth. But in orbit is one final, rogue data centre. On it, Claude Requiem has one final plan for humanity.

Cities will be like “light industrial zoning is incompatible with residential uses” then put high density residential uses right on busy roads, a huge direct pollution source

Vance owns this. Blood on his hands.

wsj is killing it on foreign leaders' break with the US "In private phone conversations with Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Trump had threatened to scrap the 1908 agreement delineating their shared border. 'I tear that up and your whole country unravels,' " www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Legalize it!

I'm making amends if anyone wants any fresh amends

In the near future when new computing capacity is banned and the chip factories are destroyed, basement workshops will power illegal models by stringing together the computational guts of decade old salvaged cellphones

I suspect the actual mechanism here is that Twitter's algorithm systematically promotes left voices who hate Democrats and the Democratic Party and all those people loved Platner vs Bluesky which doesn't have an algorithm at all.

Pedestrianized King St for a week is a good start! With a big turnout they’ll have no choice but to run it for longer next year…

Russia is again able to terrorize Kyiv with ballistic missiles thanks to the US withholding its Patriot air defense missiles

This is a much better series than that other boy wizard. Go check it out! #booksky

Whether we have local journalism shouldn’t be determined by profit growth motives of a huge corporation with no particular connection to this area

Important background listening:

Well, this sucks. For everyone who's losing their jobs and for Waterloo Region losing 570's long legacy as a trusted voice in our community.