Brookfield Raises US$20 billion for green energy transition fund. bam.brookfield.com/press-releas...

#Solar keeps breaking records ☀️🏆 In the first half of 2025, 📈 solar generation jumped 306 TWh (+31%) – its FASTEST absolute growth on record 🌐 global solar share reached 8.8% as many countries worldwide hit new records https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

Coal, at least for now, drops out of the top spot for energy. Renewables squeaked, just barely, into first place. But progress nonetheless.

If you argue media is broken in America because of concentrated ownership, the data tells a different story: America ranks at the bottom of the list for media concentration. There’s more to the story … www.economist.com/briefing/202... via @economist.com

Total Reset⛓️‍💥

Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers economist.com/united-state... via @economist.com

🎶 Firestarter by Prodigy youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw

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“U.S. economic statistics have been considered the gold standard for decades, the product of concerted efforts … to better understand how the economy works. Trump’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.” - via @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Magic Decoder Ring I’m loving my CN Tower widget on my iPhone Home Screen. Now I seem so well informed when it comes to what those colour combos mean. Download the free iOS app here: apps.apple.com/ca/app/toron...

While I'm browsing through the 2021 folder, some more work

Should Toronto consider wins like these? 1. “… drives across the East River … which used to take an hour or more can now be as quick as 15 minutes.” 2. “… raising around $50m each month to update the subway and other public-transport systems …” economist.com/united-state... via @economist.com

'Tariff engineering' is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties via CNBC www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/b...

Our first conversation is focused on bike lanes in Toronto. Whether you're a cyclist, driver, pedestrian, or transit user, your insights are valuable. 🕒 The survey is open until the 30th of May. 👉 Click here to participate: publicsquareto.github.io/bikelanes.html

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Could #MCP, the open-standard adopted by the big AI-players, become as important as HTTP in the post-ChatGTP web era? Microsoft’s CTO makes a convincing case that it will be. From the web to the NLweb (not the Netherlands, Natural Language). via @theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

“… [magnetic] tape storage works out at three to five times cheaper than disk drives, and solid-state storage … [and] may explain why Google is also one of the world’s biggest purchasers of modern tape libraries.” via @economist.com www.economist.com/united-state...

🎶 Wait & See (Kris Menace’s Vocal Re-Interpretation) by Holy Ghost!, Kris Menace youtu.be/ymBU4e2L4Mw

Good Morning 🤗 today : Surfaces : Xanthopsia 81 format / media / size / speed / timing / éditions : 3840 x 2160 px / 4k mp4 / 118 MB / 8 fps / 59s / 1/1 objkt.com/tokens/KT1SP... #treeskulltown #tezos #abstract #subrealism #mixedmedia #digitalpainting #digitalanimation #art #procreate

AI Brain 'Wiring Diagram' Revealed: Anthropic Scientists Use New Tool to Crack Open the Black Box of LLM Neural Networks, Analogous to Brain Scans of Human Neural Networks Learn more about @anthropic.com’s new "microscope" in the 🧵 below …

Could @anthropic.com’s #ModelControlProtocol (#MCP) be the biggest thing to hit the tech world since the EU aligned gadget makers on USB-C and Tesla’s early lead got EV makers aligned on the North American Charging System (NACS)? OpenAI, Google, and @microsoft.com are on board with MCP, who’s next?

Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of Bluesky, wants to liberate social media from the “self-styled tech monarch.” @chaykak.bsky.social reports on Graber’s quest to build better digital town squares.

“Liberation Day” for America may go down in the history books—not as the celebration that Donald Trump intends but as economic malpractice of the highest order via @economist.com economist.com/finance-and-...

@budgetlab.bsky.social's latest tariff analysis featured in today's @axios.com. www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

#CanadaElection2025 With the Canadian Federal Elections coming April 28th, the four major party platforms have been updated. Checkout these comparison tools to see where they stand on the issues most important to Canadians.

🅵🅻🅾🆆🅴🆁 🆃🅾🆆🅴🆁 🪻🌼🌷💐🌺🌱🌺💐🌷🌼🪻 Wouldn’t it be cool to do this for the World Cup or Summer Olympics? CN Tower wrapped temporarily in a vertical garden. It would definitely be beautifully memorable if done right. A couple years back, I made this image using Bing Chat (now called Microsoft Copilot).

Finding secure bike parking in Toronto is challenging, especially in warmer months. The free bikespace.ca lets you find parking, report issues, and view open data. It helps City officials make data-driven decisions to improve cycling citywide and avoid situations like this AI image.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

2024 Q4 transit stats are out from @apta-info.bsky.social . Top 5 busiest rail systems by avg weekday ridership in 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦: 1. NYC MTA (incl SIRR): 6.75 M 2. Toronto TTC (all modes): 1.34 M 3. Montreal STM: 1.15 M 4. Washington DC Metro: 520k 5. Vancouver GVTA: 467k Cc @yfreemark.bsky.social

The Toronto subway station near my home has had snowy sidewalks left unploughed for days, making access difficult for citizens with mobility issues. Today, instead of waiting for city services to do something, one kind citizen picked up a shovel and took care of it on his own.

With the Ontario provincial elections on the way, wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple way to compare MPP voting records? To get a feel for what is possible with open data, check out Civics Project’s app to compare the voting records of federal MPs. www.civicsproject.org

Canadian Federal outsourcing spending: $6B → $17.8B (2009-2024) Interesting trend that's continued regardless of who's been in charge. In the most recents years reported, it has accelerated. Analysis in link 📈 via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

🚨 WOW, @mikhailsirenko.bsky.social @trivikrama.bsky.social and I won the Michael Breheny Prize for cityaccessmap.com 🤯 We calculated accessibility for *any city in the world and revealed stark inequalities. journals.sagepub.com/page/epb/col... Lookout for a V2 of the app later this year 🚨

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

We often hear about Steve Job’s reality distortion field, but there’s another type of illusion that has had a much bigger impact, Mercador projection. It turns out Greenland is tiny. The Economist figured this all out way back in 2016. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I'm a big Economist infographic fan. Every week the magazine's data team publishes the Off The Charts data newsletter, frequently written by @mariesegger.bsky.social. They go behind the scenes on how those visuals are put together, including the decision making of what to include or not include.

13642, the Executive Order signed on May 9, 2013, set a new north star for the United States federal government. The new default for government data would be "open and machine readable." The full order is available after the link www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

The growth of Africa’s towns and small cities is transforming the continent via @economist.com www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Relatable. Work by Jean Jullien

A data journalist at a Humber Story Lab event I recently attended, stressed that data stories need a human face and narrative to transform abstract numbers into something relatable for general audiences.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ That’s the final piece before any story she works on is packaged and aired.

The revolution Africa needs: less paternalism, less complacency and corruption—and more capitalism econ.st/4hrmXYf via @economist.com

Beware the dangers of data: Numbers have an authority that disguises their flaws via @economist.com www.economist.com/business/202...

“Horse race polling serves its purpose, but it is only a fragment of what polls can reveal about our democracy.” NORC's @jennybenz.bsky.social writes about the value of measuring public mood—and why this can tell us more than the ups and downs of the pre-election horse race: go.norc.org/4iNTitE

Chart comparing Real GDP growth in 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 during Premierships of Pierre Trudeau (1968–79) and his son Justin (2015–24). Pierre: 🇨🇦’s GDP growth significantly outpaced 🇺🇸. Justin: 🇨🇦’s GDP growth lagged behind 🇺🇸, with slower recovery after Covid. via @theglobeandmail.com’s Jan 7th Business Brief

“In 2025, some 80 gigawatts (gw) of new grid-scale energy storage will be added globally, an eight-fold increase from 2021.” Battery / storage costs also continue to decline. Another reason to be optimistic about solar. ~ via @economist.com’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran: www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

An optimist may say there’s “an opportunity,” or “there is the least light before the dawn,” when reviewing these two charts on Africa from @wsj.com . Could humanitarian tech like solar, desalination and farming help end war, and make the US visit more (business opps)? www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Of all the charts in the @economist.com this past year, this one gave me and many lots of hope: Imagine the impacts on farming and famine, a global south awash in fresh water made possible by desalination plants fueled by low cost and unlimited solar power. www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

Complainers about how awful Pearsons is should look at this image, that airport has way more to deal with than the others in Canada, like way more. via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...