Is the Swiss national anthem just “...Gold! Gold! Gold!”?

My spirit animal

In sum:

I heard Boaty McBoatface is his Chief of Staff.

The best bit was when he told me that if I wanted to use the data for a client that would be an additional license 😂

Another day. Another meeting with a well-intentioned corporate salesperson who insisting I need a swiss-army multitool (software dashboard thing) when I really just need a good, sharp knife (api + endpoint). I explicitly asked for an API person but got dashboard sales guy instead.

Personally, I feel like home solar/battery is the next frontier. Majority view (here) seems to be that it is expensive, impractical due to Cdn winter, PV becoming obsolete, etc. But they said that about EVs and now I have one , I would never go back to ICE. Also… 1/2

Trump phone call?

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Shame this guy can’t do the commentary for (ENG|NOR) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B...

The award for alt text should go to…

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Yes! Yes! Yes!

Happy Canada day! A good place for those who identify as “Miscellaneous”.

A takeaway I have is that media outlets have not done enough stories saying, "The climate scientists have been right along and right now we are literally feeling the effects of climate change."

see how unhinged these guys get when the stock no longer moons?

Dropping my #WorldCup PK alternative. After extra time comes… Extra balls! One added every minute from a random vector! Maximum number of balls… infinite! Balls continue to be added until a goal is scored. Pure. Unadulterated. Chaos.

Quand ça ne concerne pas l'automobile, Ensemble Montréal s'en torche.

The Canada Day holiday should be the whole week.

"The report calls for hood height caps of 85 cm (33.5 inches), width limits of 192 cm (75.6 inches), taxes tied to vehicle dimensions, parking fees based on size, and regulatory incentives reserved for smaller EVs measuring less than 4.2 meters (165.4 inches) long."

See also: Inwood, Sunset Park, etc

Montreal knows how to party.

T'en veux tu du monde, en v'la! ⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫

Here on Gabriola Island, BC, someone started a society to do this years ago. They just buy one make & model, the most efficient, and therefore get a huge bulk discount which they pass on directly to the consumer. islandfutures.ca/heat-pumps/

How are we cooling these reactors in a warming climate?

"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Guess everyone went to the Angine de Poitrine show

📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social

When I tried to answer last week… “Le sondage est temporairement indisponible afin de permettre certaines modifications et d’améliorer différents éléments. Notre équipe procède actuellement aux correctifs nécessaires et le sondage sera remis en service sous peu, dès cette semaine.”

Soraya Martinez Ferrada demande des modifications au sondage, qui maintenant invite à retirer ou réduire des aménagements cyclables. Voici donc, en primeur, les résultats du 1er sondage retiré, ainsi que les cartes interactives du 1er et du 2e sondage. www.realisonsmontrealpourvrai.ca

New Gwar cover band, Gwrrr.

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

“Landlords say insurance, taxes and repair costs have surged, and the broader rental market is tighter.” Translation: Landlords say that business expenses they can legitimately deduct from their tax bill are higher, so renters should pay them more non-deductible rent. 🤔

Tired: “Economics could also earn graduates significantly more but other subjects, including creative arts, philosophy and languages, offer little to negative financial return when compared to the earnings of someone similar without a degree, the research suggests.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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He’s simply the least imaginative human alive.

Why does my brain associate Alphaville’s “Forever Young” to some 80s movie I watched as a kid? Weirdly powerful and vivid false memory there…

This is the way. “Di Mino used Claude Code to build a suite of Python scripts that query, cross-reference, and organize the digitized Linear A corpus … enabling systematic hypothesis testing at a scale that would have been impractical to do manually.” aiclambake.com/clamtakes/li...

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

AI can't dance. It may make images (videos etc) of people dancing… but it cannot make actual people dancing. Pull yourselves together. And go for a dance.

Don’t forget what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth and infrastructure politics. It’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.

Wab Kinew on US booze ban: No CUSMA, no BOOZMA.

I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

It’s always about privatizing profits and socializing losses. Landlords raising rents above inflation should lose the ability to offset costs against income (so higher taxes) and be charged a penalty tax by the city.

The Tour de France will take a special TGV after the Alpe d'Huez stage to reach Paris, no more air transfers www.franceinfo.fr/tour-de-fran... (🇫🇷)

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.