This is wild

One could use this as an excuse to read more tech poasters instead Not saying one should, but one could

Infuriating for them to talk about "crossing mid-block" when there are literally no crossings and this is the road. Damn it, get out of the cruiser and go see what the actual problem is, then push the city to put some pedestrian signals, or _something_. This is a deadly road and you're not helping.

We’ve figured out something of a posting-to-policy pipeline for building regulations that are reasonably visible. How do we create momentum for reform of entrenched policies that are less visible?

It’s not just a meme — the social media AI writing plague is real. ChatGPT and Claude are doing the heavy lifting.

“Once the agencies decided that they wanted to cooperate, the technical obstacles were all surmountable.”

For a second I thought this was some high-speed GO train project and was very excited. But this is good too

Ford could cause way more housing to get built in Ontario Ford could provide funding so that there isn't the kind of urgent and growing shortage of shelter space and supportive housing as we have No, Ford is going to deploy populism and attacks on a judge very professionally doing his job

Okay but it is actually kind of wild that the 41st largest American city now somehow has the 3rd highest number of skyscrapers??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

this is what jurisdictions trying to radically transform regional mobility need to pay attention to. how do you make regional rapid transit that is both more accessible in an urban area *and* fast? it *has* to be electrified, have level boarding, with trains designed for high throughput.

Anyone who was an adult at the time knows this to be false. "Homeland" was a deeply weird choice. That word had never been in wide use to refer to the territory of the US, and had a distinctly fascist vibe. This was widely remarked upon at the time.

He could do something very funny (start a new political party and get elected in the by-election anyway)

Seeing @perimeterinstitute.ca never fails to bring me joy

The loudest “bang” last night was a ballistic missile landing about 200 metres from my apartment. No wonder the entire building was shaking. This footage has been approved for publication by the Ukrainian government.

As a new parent an observation I read (on Metafilter IIRC) stuck with me: some of the most insistent advice comes from over-generalizing parents of only one child — whereas kids are different and what works for one kid doesn’t always work for another

As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us already see: how much of this site (and blog posts, articles, scientific papers) are AI now.

If you attach wheels to your bike so you can ride on rail tracks, are those training wheels?

You’re not on Bluesky because you are afraid of people dunking on you I’m not on Bluesky because I’m going for a nice bike ride We are not the same

Lots of competition, but trying to starve out the Cuban people is probably the most evil thing the United States is doing abroad right now

Cab-over design, & city-sized. This Iceman truck is real cute imho.

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The news about streets, transit, and the shape of our cities in Waterloo Region for the last week or so:

See what I was saying about the need for weekend GO trains to/from Kitchener? Now we need more of them

You literally do not have to respond to engagement bait (intentional or not) or the discourse of the day* *except if I started it, then it’s fine

[looking at your social media feed] I’m glad al-Khwarizmi isn’t alive to see this

Russia is a terrorist state

Seems like a good time to use qualified but discarded tech workers to build nimble new tech companies with supportive organizational cultures, and some structural signalling (B-corp? Worker co-op?) that they won't turn evil

An absolutely delightful travel thread of Japanese urbanism:

This is dope

F- Russia

Exactly this. For Doug Ford to call this decision ridiculous, when he, as Premier, pulls the levers that could direct more funding to Waterloo Region to build the affordable housing we so desperately need would be laughable if it weren't so frustrating. #ONpoli

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

A game of telephone where you get more points the more people like your version of the story

Repulsive. Public money paying for fascist propaganda. Encampments are rare; they are not a danger; this government is doing nothing to help the people who live in them or to solve the underlying problems.

Hint: it was not the LRT that was charged

A very useful way of understanding modern policymaking is to think of it as the result of an endless series of group chats incubating bad ideas

Legalize it.

Memento Nori would be a good name for a sushi place

What happens at the end of the lifespan for the term "planned obsolescence"

There’s a lot of reasons this is bad policy but—sorry to be cringe here—as someone who met a partner and fell in love while holding a temporary immigration status, the cruelty of ripping families apart really galls me

The idea of a train carrying people stopping so it can be passed by a train carrying cargo is positively freightful

Trains _from_ Toronto _to_ Kitchener, what a concept!

Memento Nori would be a good name for a sushi place

this is the ideal car body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Me: I do not support drug driving. *crowd cheers* Me: Nor do I support drunk driving. *crowd cheers harder* Me: In fact, I don’t support any driving! *crowd cheers for a moment before stopping in confusion, as I rip off my face to reveal I’m the War On Cars Podcast*

> be a tech ceo of a major company > develop AI psychosis > harass your employees to use AI as much as possible > lay off 30% of your company because you think AI will transform the world and you can do more with less > you immediately run out of money for AI usage and now you have no employees

The thing about correctly pointing out the cynical way that "civility" and "decorum" are often employed is: You have to bear in mind that the utter refusal to cloak one's racism behind seven proxies is a *novel and meaningful* development Civility - and its absence - is laden with *meaning*

Bicycles are the mode of choice for those seeking maximal olfactory experience of the city

group A on here: hate AI slop images/writing as a moral failing and theft group B on here: hate AI slop images/writing because it sucks aesthetically group C on here: hate AI slop images/writing as a bad application of the technology most people in the real world: literally do not even notice it