AI executives can only promise to build a digital god that might destroy the world, declare that they're going to replace a vast swath of everyone's jobs, and work directly to subvert democracy for so long before people, some of whom *take their words at face value*, will decide to act.

A whole tonne of building better cities appears to be: elect women to power (Yes, former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan wasn't great)

Hey @victoria.ca hoping the work in Banfield Park isn't done as the new gravel is incredibly rough & drainage is still an issue

Here's one small trick to save a nation: Invest in the welfare state. Countries exist to serve their people. Canada should remember that. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/one-small-...

In Austin, Waymo robotaxis keep driving past stopped school buses with their lights flashing. The school district bent over backwards to help Waymo fix the problem. Nothing worked, and Waymo won't comment. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence about AV safety. www.wired.com/story/a-scho...

Time for the Alberta "NDP" to be kicked out of the NDP tent

Don't build stuff not near other things. This is basically urbanism 101. And yet we keep failing again & again

Early-morning thought: even if we did "separate the art from the artist", it'd still be racist, antisemitic, poorly-conceived shit.

What does the region’s and Saanich’s 3.3% vacancy rate actually mean? Let’s look into it:

I love the Montreal implementation of this, where straight-through traffic is permitted with the LPI. Just makes sense. seanmarshall.ca/2020/08/11/d...

Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit.

BC Transit had already been unable to keep up with local governments’ requests for improved transit projects in recent years. Now, all expansions for 2027 are on hold. 🚏 @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Yikes

This also applies to data analysis . The exploratory & cleaning parts are how you start spotting trends (or errors)

"Delaying housing does not save money; it shifts costs to other parts of the system, where they are far more expensive." Read this new commentary from community housing sector leaders Jill Atkey, Margaret Pfoh and Thom Armstrong. https://ow.ly/61Go50YvB3Z

I was a commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission for 4 years, starting in 2020. I sat in hundreds of hours of meetings. In these oversight and governance meetings, I asked questions to police officers. They would often lie in their responses to me, as a regular practice. 1/

As usual, the anti-housing argument includes a kernel of truth: housing starts depend on external factors as well But all those external factors are equal between neighbouring CRD municipalities. The remaining huge differences in home building is mostly explained by internal factors

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

An MP in our current federal government: Climate change is a threat, especially to our national sovereignty Our federal government: Funding solutions to it, like transit & AT. Whoa! Slow down. That's too expensive

Indeed. My corporate office is not a terrible location by US standards, but we moved from downtown and I still miss it.

Autonomous vehicles are going to be great!

The absolutely insane level of illegality here. It boggles the mind & yet with police is sadly almost expected

Substitute Oak Bay for Mercer Island

While this is true for driving, we should keep counting deaths/injuries per km/mile travelled for bikes. Why? Because otherwise it looks like safety is getting worse as numbers increase, when it might not actually be so

Hey @christineboyle.bsky.social - time to step on Oak Bay for being dumb again

Concrete should damage cars before drivers damage people

Maybe let's not give the jesus toast machine the power to decide who gets to decide who lives and who doesn't

This is a really interesting & good opinion piece. Comments are good too. Really shows the limitations of "side street first" bikeways. Also highlights that our Go By Bike Week is also an invaluable tool 1/2

Amalgamation is great! Let's empower the suburban and rural folk who think they're subsidizing downtown over the urban who are actually subsidizing the suburban/rural

Another big reason obsessive poll-sniffing is silly: “Public opinion” on most issues quite literally does not exist. It is an ephemeral artifact of the process of polling itself. Ask again a day later with slightly different wording & the numbers change radically.

Folks, I hate to add to the stack, but... I need help Bailey, my pitbull-corgi, may have cancer. An emergency late-night visit just led to this horrible discovery. Bailey is my whole world and I failed to plan. I am sorry. Any help you can offer at this link is welcome. ko-fi.com/E1E168F96#ch...

American planning in a nutshell: building apartments in a wealthy neighborhood? You need special permission and must rent 20% of them at a loss to poor people. Combining 10 apartments into a mansion for one extremely rich family? By-right process, no subsidized housing requirement, and a tax break.

As a bike adovcate, I've noticed that the truly ragingly anti-bike are almost always transphobic (and racist, w the men being misogynistic). I have no idea why, but the correlation is strong

In Canada - replace with Mulroney In the UK - Thatcher Same crap, different tin

It isn't often the cops get (rightly) called out for misusing data, thanks @cheknews.ca for doing so

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Hey @victoria.ca - the Goose detour sign at Cecilia is a little worse for wear

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

I was thinking as I rode home today about how boringly normal Victoria's "biking culture" is. I fact, I dont even think we have "bicycle culture"

Part of why I strongly prefer cast-in-place concrete barriers. They don't move like this

Love this "hill of hysteria" concept 🎯! During every street redesign in Seattle, NIMBYs say it's going to "ruin the neighborhood"... but it doesn't. "Change is hard and even if a decision maker is convinced it's going to be for the better there is always resistance" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRT...

Almost literally sewer socialism

My thoughts about the success story the City of Victoria bike lanes have been #yyj #bikelanes open.substack.com/pub/bern99/p...

Leftists can learn a lot from Mamdani, lesson #2039383

Indeed. Words not found in this article: walk, bike, cycling, transit, bus, pedestrian

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Horrific read. Also good to remember that letting regular cops get away with hiding their identity is pretty common north of the border too & absolutely needs to be stopped to prevent normalizing much worse

Milwaukee Road is a spectacular trail & one day I'd love to ride more of it. When the insanity south of the border ends...