how did we go from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building data centers everywhere

wild to turn on ctv and see the globe & mail’s queens park bureau chief calling steven guilbeault an environmental extremist. this country is so fucked on the climate front. mark carney is legitimizing a form of climate denial on all levels.

One of my longest held hot-takes: I maintain that the cheapest, fastest, most effective solution to traffic and gridlock in cities is safe and accessible bike infrastructure. Casual exercise, improved environment, and reducing fossil fuel reliance all come as a bonus.

looks like another consequence of carney’s cuts

Finally started reading Life After Cars last night, only to put the book down and see that a pedestrian had been killed by a driver in my city yesterday.

Honestly, I feel like Canada and the States are not prepared for how humiliatingly bad most of our transit infrastructure is compared to many other wealthy nations, and how on display that's going to be when we have visitors from the rest of the world for the World Cup.

IMO Canada Post is one of those services that should never be privatized. While I understand that the world has changed and we don't send physical letters as much any more, I think it is still a vital connection for communities, which is easily cut by a private profit-driven entity.

🛑 thinking that “bike lanes“ are just for “cyclist” Riding or rolling, people use this infrastructure to prioritize their safety as vulnerable road users from drivers. If your current or future elected municipal rep isn’t discussing NOW about expanding THIS, find someone else to VOTE for. #TOPoli

As we prepare to huff wildfire smoke for another summer, I am not finding this new pipeline to be any consolation.

The thing about the TTC is that despite its flaws, it's the most comprehensive and effective public transit system in Ontario (yes, I said what I said) and that is no thanks to Metrolinx. I also suspect that the provincial takeover is about hiking fares, cutting cost (service) and selling land.

It's truly fascinating how drivers who live and drive in car-centric communities are always the worst at driving.

For my newsletter, I wrote about the 22 foot tall golden statue of Trump that was dedicated by a host of conservative religious leaders and went long on how some sects of prosperity gospel worshipping in American religion are corrupting this country. www.burnsnotice.com/the-evangeli...

This article really speaks to me and how truly annoyed I am at the idea of people or organizations wasting my time with any kind of generated slop.

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

European tech sovereignty: cut the cord with US tech companies like Microsoft Canadian tech sovereignty: let's allow US tech companies to build data centres in our communities Carney talks big, but in action he's just been pro-corporation and selling it to us as """elbows up"""

This picture is more American than anything Norman Rockwell could have ever dreamed up

The excitement I feel at European countries cutting the cord on US tech platforms is real, and I wish there was more talk about it here.

I really truly hope that Waymo never gets to come to my city. I don't care how nifty they seem.

City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence It Doesn't.

Orban's loss was a breath of fresh air, but knowing that Vance, Wilders, and Le Pen were all there to help him campaign and he still lost just makes it all the sweeter.

Does anyone else remember how the opposition to windmills (at least in Ontario) was built on the claim that it caused (silent/unmeasurable) vibrations for neighbours?

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.” “Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney’s spending cuts (podcast)

i'm seeing a lot of separate the art from the artist in regards to jk. i listen to a lot of music from people who are assholes. but none of the are bankrolling a war against an entire class of people in order to eradicate them from society, for fucks sake

Hey leftists, it’s ok to discuss disagreements about strategy, but if you say people who take COVID precautions: - are too scared to leave the house - demand that everyone wear a mask 24/7 - are terrified of a just a "cold" You are using far right anti-science talking points.

In my @ms.now column from Sunday I noted how every time there's a vote on trans issues in congress, the NY Times runs an opinion piece calling for Democrats to abandon trans people. For the SAVE America Act, they ran two. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The Doug Ford government’s proposal to amalgamate conservation authorities received 14,000 public comments. Ontario now has a $20-million final plan to make it happen. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Listening this episode about 40 minutes after decaying the loss of a local (urban) hardware store within walking distance felt serendipitous.

I think this is what you call foreign interference, and it goes well beyond running an ad featuring a Ronald Reagan speech.

I didnt actually vote for Carney but my god is he a disappointment.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

Listening to the Project 1933 series from @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social is actually absolutely haunting, and moreso with every episode, (but I really do appreciate its existence).

We have spent more than a decade uploading our politics and civil society to a cloud owned by oligopolistic tech firms. As the Trump administration moves to take over those companies, it is a direct threat to democracies everywhere. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.

A Border Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles 🔗 www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption. In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Car supremacy is kind of a fascinating tic of conservative ideology to me: They can only conceive of liberty within the structures of the status quo. Driving in a dense city is *theoretical* freedom but in practice it’s oppression. Meaningful freedom is walking, biking and regular public transit.

Bloor & Spadina, 8:45 am. Toronto, we're approaching BIKE CONGESTION! This is one of the bike lanes the Ford government wants to remove. There are more people on bikes than people driving.

I've left my safe space of old city Toronto and am once again reminded of how much I loathe 90% of (sub)urban Canada, and why I would rather pay more rent than moving to """greener""" areas that rely on six lane suburban stroads.

A (temporary) reprieve at least. There is no world where we can drive ourselves out of gridlock—bike lanes and accessible public transit options are the only way to get out of gridlock. The climate, health and community benefits are a bonus.

So.... can we reassess that "safe third country" agreement we have with the United States yet?

Personally, I'm 100% on board for electoral reform. FPTP forces us to repeatedly accept majority governments that are elected by 30-40% of the population. A proportional system (I don't support the ranked ballots tbh) would allow opposition parties to actually WORK, and represent their constituents.

I am happy that the polls are showing a Liberal lead b/c Pollievre is the absolute worst, but I am not on the "Carney is above reproach" train wagon and I still don't think Carney has a strong platform. Its biggest strength is "not Pierre Pollievre".

NGL, I hate this election so much. I loathe Pollievre (I've paid enough attention to his career to know he's just an extremist with a filter) and I have a very strong dislike for Carney (even though that's the deal with the devil I'm ready to make). I like Singh, but NDP support has collapsed.

I wrote about Mitch McConnell’s retirement, and how his career eroded American democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is happening to trans people is an extension of what can happen to all people who could be redefined out of existence. Which is all people. What is happening to trans people is a universal threat.

Economic growth in the form of resource extraction can’t happen without Indigenous consultation — and it’s unclear how the provincial government hopes to fast-track that part of the process, writes @michellecyca.com

Words really cannot convey how much I actually truly hate seeing AI slop images. As an artist, I hate it no matter the context, but I'm getting particularly angry at it when I see AI-made images peppered into the political discourse regarding how the tech oligarchy that has taken over the US.