South Korea's President on energy crisis: 'It’s a situation so serious that even I can’t sleep. South Korea needs to transition to renewable energy quickly. If we rely on fossil energy, the future will be extremely risky.'

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Suburban, exurban, and rural people vote against their economic interests for the 5829594th time.

The NHL has had this problem for decades in the salary cap era. Teams make bank (losing) while players get taxed more heavily, lowering the effective salary cap for Canadian teams, producing American winners. Just as Gary Bettman wants it.

Here's the new electric vehicle you can buy for $8k in the USA

The Glebe BIA had a report done about the area. We think this image perfectly encapsulates the reason for hesitancy by the business owners to get rid of parking. While 86% of the respondents who come to shop said they get there by means other than driving, 94% of the owners said they drove.

Former politician and longtime Canadian social activist Stephen Lewis has died.

I grew up in a town where it was dangerous to be openly gay. This resonates with me (as a white hetero man). Protect Trans people. Especially kids.

It can be dangerous to be visibly transgender or nonbinary in the U.S. WA has some of the strongest protections. We partner with communities to create safer, more affirming spaces. This Trans Day of Visibility, ask how you can support transgender & nonbinary people, so being visible is truly safe.

Happy trans day of visibility! Friends of Ruby is still running this trans ID clinic! And consider donating to the important work they do here: www.friendsofruby.ca/support/

The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]

Every time a politician talks about pipelines, LNG, or good old drilling for oil, remember them as the ones insisting Henry Ford should focus on better horses.

I think this is right. China is all-in on solar, batteries, etc., while the U.S. is absolutely refusing to leave the 20th century. Once you dig up and burn a barrel of oil or a ton of coal, it's gone—you've gotta dig up more. Solar panels will produce power for decades. We're going to get wrecked.

This....

As a person who is typically meat in this scenario - someone who walks more often than I drive - I do not want government agencies yelling things at me that I already know. I want them to yell at drivers to slow the fuck down, get off their fucking phones, and stop at fucking crosswalks.

Happy Calvin’s Dad Places A Curse On All Motorists Day to all who celebrate

This.

if you think this temperature is "unseasonable," I have some very bad news for you about the future

No: don't call it a mid-transition war This is not a mid-transition impact, this is the same oil shock/disruptive impact as the last however many times, moderated somewhat and for some countries because there are actually alternatives available and in some cases deployed H/t @gruberte.bsky.social

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

That's right

Disc brakes are great for commuting in seattle, but a nice canti frame, well, it makes me feel kinda funny. I mean, just look it.

When an elected person "represents" more than a few thousand people, they must necessarily construct a mental image of those people, and that mental image may be completely at odds with reality. With a smaller number of people, that mental image can more accurately reflect reality.

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

This is the part so many get stuck on: "When we can..." is the goal. Don't get hung up on absolutes. Remember: Never let perfection get in the way of better. #yyccc #yycbike

Democrats are too ambivalent about fossil fuels to see what’s right in front of their noses: how right wing climate denial is intertwined with affordability, elite impunity, general dissatisfaction, distrust of government — everything voters care about. This is why they have no vision or fight. 5/n

Taking this opportunity to shill for induction stoves.

Far from having fallen off the political agenda, climate change is at the center of Trumpism. 3/n

A domestic and foreign policy so maniacally focused on promoting oil and gas and suppressing anything leading to decarbonization is governance about the climate crisis, full stop. 4/n

We need a (methane) Gas-Free CRD.

Never forget, for many years Uber insisted it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion. Now boosters lie about driverless cars. Don’t believe them either.

Technology changes but geometry endures.

Research from McGill: AI firms steal Canadian news, often without payment or attribution, contributing to its decline. “'The chatbots surface journalistic content because it has accurate information … so these companies recognize the enormous value that journalism provides,'” (a researcher said)."

“Research from Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, indicates that our attention spans are about one-third as long as they were in 2004, with the biggest drops happening around 2012”

The main "use case" of AI and crypto is to kill democracy as quickly as possible. Here's yet another AI group planning to spend zillions ($100 million) to buy elections and support the Trump agenda. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/b...

Base towing capacity 1995: 3,500lbs Base towing capacity 2025: 3,500lbs Bed length 1995: 73 1/2″ Bed length 2025: 73 1/2" Bed width 1995: 57 1/8″ Bed width 2025: 56 3/8"

Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs

I spent ~five weeks in Fake London recently and guess what? Building cities just for cars makes *driving* suck, too. Driving in Victoria is 10X better & safer than anywhere in Ontario, AND we have great bike, walk, and transit infrastructure so we don’t have to drive. Wonder if those are related?

Cars suck. Even if you think you understand the scope of the impacts, you're probably underestimating. Watch this.

Just riding along.

A paradigm shift so many of Canada's politicians are outright failing at navigating #EnergyTransition #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #abpoli #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #abpoli www.ft.com/content/b122...

🧵Canadian politicians pushing pipelines in 2026 are just flat out wrong "There is every reason to believe that the war will accelerate the fossil fuel decline that was already under way before the missiles & drones began to fly across the Middle East" energymixweekender.substack.com/p/an-energy-...

March 29, 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann writes a letter to a colleague in which she argues that seismic waves- specifically the faster traveling Primary-waves - recorded from distant earthquakes show some anomalous characteristics suggesting the existence of Earth's inner core

Dear transportation officials. “Roads” and “streets” are NOT the same things in cities. “Roads” suggest rural or suburban contexts, and a big focus on vehicle movement (“traffic sewers”). Streets suggest urban contexts, multi-modal movement, and a LOT MORE than just movement. Language matters.

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

Widening roads makes more traffic.

“Angered by Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs and annexation threats – and compounded by fears of border detentions and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdowns – Canadians have stayed away”. One of the most concise problem definition of the US boycott. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...