I'm trying to find the modern equivalent of a Xennial classic genre.MECC logo c. 1978

"it would also include giving police access to location data and the ability to turn on a microphone to listen to conversations without people at either end being informed"

I'm going to take some running notes. First up is Eirini Kalliamvakou, GitHub, talking about developer identity shifts. Since I studied AI threat from a social identity perspective in 2024 this is interesting to me! I think identity theory needs to be brought in far more than it has been in DevEx

Today I'm at the UC Irvine research forum on developer experience with researchers from across industry and academia. If you're curious about the future of developer science, what do YOU want me to ask about, talk about, and think about with this crowd? isr.uci.edu/event/uc-irv...

Black is white, up is down, pipelines bring us closer to net-zero

I like the framing of this; there needs to be accountability for failing to heed warnings.

BREAKING

Sigh. This is bad for Canada.

Look, all I'm saying is if you read this quote it's a common sense, level-headed, grownup statement that obviously believes in us as a community and as a city. The person who said this - who is running for mayor - trusts that we are smart and that we can take care of ourselves and our neighbours.

How bad do you need to fuck up to lose to the fucking UCP

1. The CLC took a strong & principled stance against apartheid South Africa. In 2026, it must stand in solidarity with Palestinian trade unions and oppose Israeli apartheid, occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing 🧵 #hotcargo

I looked at the exact prices, ridership stats and ship capacity for B.C. Ferries for all 66 years of its existence. Here's my deep dive into why everyone's favourite marine passenger transportation service has suffered in the last decade. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Visited senakw today - omg. It’s pretty epic, and cheap for the location.

Any students & other interested folks in Vancouver for the Cdn Economics Assoc meetings is welcome to attend the Progressive Economics Forum's one-day Summer School, at SFU downtown campus May 28. Registration details here www.progressive-economics.ca/2026/05/pefs.... It's free--even lunch! #cdnecon

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

So if Carney is worse than Harper for the climate (and many other things) how do we regain the movements we built under Harper?

In order to create a just, sustainable, innovative economy we need to make a decisive break with “markets know best” governance.

holy shit, check out this treasure

This is fascinating, Remember this as an example: nobody is allowed to point out that you did something you really did do, if it's embarrassing. Pointing it out is humiliating or degrading, and therefore a violation. We should therefore report ALL such cases.

This is fantastic reporting, based on real facts and law and not goofy ideology.

In this essay, a meditation on how the war against Iran has revealed the tech industry's puniness: vdgasjournal.com/2026/05/02/r...

Calling all economics students: Earn renown and money for your undergrad or grad essays, by submitting to the Progressive Economics Forum's annual essay contest. Details here, deadline May 4: www.progressive-economics.ca/pef-student-.... Broad criteria below: #cdnecon

Economist DT Cochrane calls Pierre Poilievre's plan to cut all taxes on fuel "a handout to the oil and gas companies."

This person knows that they're talking about. Campus is excellent value. Pairs well with the Kokuyo notebook covers!

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

This won't be great news for the economy either. The IEA warns that by the time any new LNG projects the Carney government greenlights today can get up & running, the global LNG market will already have a glut of 65 billion cubic meters in oversupply. 7/ www.iea.org/reports/gas-...

what Tara Armstrong spoke into the BC legislature Hansard record is one of the grossest, racist, fascist rants ever - she needs to be kicked out by the Speaker - that cannot stand #BCpoli

Tara Armstrong needs to get recalled and never allowed near public office again.

New halloween costume ideas just dropped

This is the kind of language I want to read more of.

How are we able to perform affective theory of mind so quickly? Out of all the hundreds of possible socio-emotional states, how are we able to make a judgment of what a person is expressing (e.g. in their facial expression) in less than a second?

Sovereignty preferred, but not mandated: Canadian AI Sovereign Compute program prioritizes but doesn’t mandate data residency, is ok with companies contractually controlled but not owned by Canadians, and must only limit instances of foreign access to data. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

I wonder what the CO2 impact is *just* from the reduction in running car air conditioning to cool them down after being left in the hot sun.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

Hey you know how the Right was laser focused on learning illiberal strategies from Orbán in order to pervert and weaponize the state? Now is the time to learn from the dismantling of that regime, including a relentless effort to prosecute them for their crimes.

Canadians + Americans go to Europe and Asia, ride fast electric trains, come back home, and ask: "Why can't we have nice things here?" It's because, at a crucial point, commentators like Andrew Coyne make the tired argument that sustainable transport is just too darned expensive.

There are many things I’m very proud of as a Canadian. MANY things. But every time I watch another media story about another ambitious push in renewable energy from China, I’m embarrassed that Canada isn’t aggressively working to quickly become a true global powerhouse in renewable energy.

oh my god

This enrages me

Exactly it. Love the video of him answering 311 calls too, taking advice from the expert showing him how to do it.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

As a Vancouver homeowner, I want this. The lack of city revenue is making living here less attractive already - I don't want to own my home if the city it's in sucks.

RVSPs are now open for the next Infer Vancouver meetup. We have engineers coming from WealthSimple, Cresta, and Gumloop to share things they've learned building with LLMs. Thursday, Apr 9 – spots tend to fill up fast. luma.com/4i1dyhyf

Lynn Parramore nails it: "The real engine of inequality is structural: corporate and financial practices that concentrate wealth among shareholders while shortchanging other stakeholders who should be benefiting from corporate profits." @ineteconomics.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/refo...

LNG prices go up: 1. Fools like Eby rush in with supply. 2. Smart economies destroy demand. The Asian importers go renewable and nuke. Inevitably, prices then go down. But now BC has spent the money, and built a vocal constituency demanding government support.

Maybe he'll listen to Brent.

Phew, I was worried

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date. This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsserv...