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...

Sometimes I wonder if these experts understand that research requires judgment?

This is going to lead us directly to the kind of politics we're seeing in the USA, mark my words. We have to do something about it.

Low effective tax rates on the rich while allowing them to stash wealth offshore is bad enough. More distressing is not taxing wealth at all. As wealth becomes more concentrated there is no mechanism to redistribute it shows a BC Policy Solutions @c4tf.bsky.social report.

I know, you'll think I'm already really good at this, but I am actively seeking to read more about how to train myself to be more willing to look stupid.

Is the answer "leave the car at home"?

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form. If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure. Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

If you were registered to vote in the riding of Vancouver-Quilchena on October 19, 2024, you're eligible to sign the petition to recall Dallas Brodie ⬇️ www.recallbrodie.com

ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST STARTER PACK! These are accounts with unusually effective communications or marketing/branding of issues and ideas for better city-building. Sharing the truth more persausively, and calling out disinformation & lies! Please follow & SHARE WIDELY! #UrbanTruth go.bsky.app/47w5jKk

This is a good question. I think the answer is that artists can't afford it here because it's expensive to live here and we don't pay them enough.

This one.

Big damn heroes. Actually.

A note on why I shared an accessible playbook for measuring rapid agentic coding experiments, so they have legibility in your org. Software metrics were designed for past assumptions, and I am advising against most right now. We need human-centered measures. www.linkedin.com/posts/drcath...

Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Ohhhh it's Twitter brain

Gotta read this. I've had a vague gut feeling that this may answer.

If this works, Sim will lean even more into gangster politics in the future.

Tomorrow 6:30 pm PT: Health care budget cuts will be felt in rural, underserved communities. A BC Health Coalition webinar: senior economist Iglika Ivanova, a paramedic, northern deputy mayor on possible consequences for access to care. #BCBudget us02web.zoom.us/webi...

Investing in the public sector can grow the economy to benefit all and is critical to private sector growth senior economist Iglika Ivanova told the @LeftEasttoWest podcast. And increasing revenue—not focusing on the deficit—makes life more affordable.

Can someone explain why this is not legally actionable?

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

if you want to help you can donate to rent funds at standwithminnesota.com and you can help shout

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing. everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

The raise of AI coding tools isn't a surprise because they have the potential to eliminate one of the largest software development productivity killers: searching for usage examples.

Couple people tonight have asked me a variation of "if you're so sure, what's The Solution to The Problem" so like, as you might suspect, it's not so neat and tidy. But you can make a real difference, and "a lot of people making real differences" is how it's done. So here's some ideas: 1/

Couple people tonight have asked me a variation of "if you're so sure, what's The Solution to The Problem" so like, as you might suspect, it's not so neat and tidy. But you can make a real difference, and "a lot of people making real differences" is how it's done. So here's some ideas: 1/

This is a good thread & I hope people reflect on how it relates to what happened in 2020-2022, and the ongoing pandemic—how most people, at the Democrats’ urging, decided to throw anyone who might need airborne virus mitigations in the trash🚮. And in doing so helped our slide into more brutality:

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site. I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is gross, and I wonder why reviews don't disappear at refund time

I am still disappointed I couldn't immediately get this to run on Proton

This is a hell of a read. Turns out I care about Powell River's name and the people using it to create the type of division that lead to Brexit. www.bchistoryboy.ca/p/the-big-mo...

I wish @sarahtaggart.bsky.social 's Twitter thread about internment and the white farm lobby was here on Bluesky for me to point at today.

Check this out!

I love these threads

Tomorrow noon PT attend our post-budget webinar with senior economist Iglika Ivanova, policy analyst Véronique Sioufi who were in the budget lock up and Stand.earth climate campaigner Sven Biggs Read their analysis and join us!

Time to park your motorcycle for a while.

“I am happy to see no major cuts,” said Iglika Ivanova, senior economist, BC Policy Solutions, noting the budget failed on affordability. "It’s encouraging the government is taking steps to raise revenue but it could have extended increases across tax brackets."

Getting ready to head into the BC budget lock-up this morning. I'll be looking at whether the budget strengthens core services, including mental health & provides relief to BC families struggling with the affordability crisis. #bcbudget @bcpolicy.bsky.social #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I really wish the government would just plainly say this was the consequence of their decision. I follow right wing BC Reddit closely. Eby has to understand that the communication vacuum is being filled with absolutely heinous stuff.

BC has large deficits. BC also has an unrelenting affordability crisis, growing food insecurity & homelessness, ER closures, schools that can't support kids' mental health & inadequate services in rural areas. Which of these will #BCBudget2026 tackle? #bcpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

When BC's consumer carbon tax was first introduced, it was accompanied by tax cuts to both personal and corporate taxes to make it revenue-neutral. But when it was eliminated last spring, these tax cuts were not reversed. The result is a $2 billion hole in BC's finances. #BCBudget

Our BC Budget team, senior economist Iglika Ivanova and policy analyst Véronique Sioufi, are joined by Stand.earth climate campaigner Sven Biggs to analyze #BCBudget26—what it means for you and your community. Webinar, Feb 19 12:00 pm PT. Join Us!

This is my "desert island," most distilled, most succinct piece of advice right now for all the technical people I am talking to who are worried about their learning.