A local resident is gathering community input to help organize a neighbourhood meeting focused on safety, accessibility, construction impacts, and quality-of-life issues in the Main Street / Danforth / Stephenson area. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Winter Tobogganing Cornelius Krieghoff 1855

I mean, why? Why bother creating this slop?

"Hey Satya, how do we convince shareholders that Copilot adoption is through the roof, even though nobody is using it?"

Oh wow - a wild guess worked out after a very unpromising start. But it was actually hard to think of a word with that yellow letter in a different place and none of the eliminated letters. (Monday January 5) Wordle 1,661 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"The fact that psychological control has become more important to employers than productivity is one of the many paradoxes wrought by capitalism. Employers want to control their employees not only physically but also psychologically because they feel like they have bought their employees’ time."

'The London Underground' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek

A lot of people who were really worked up about "free speech" a few years ago and they've gone really quiet in the past year.

"The number of people who were seriously injured in a car crash decreased citywide, but the improvement was more pronounced in the congestion relief zone." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Re-upping this because unfortunately, it’s still relevant.

I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Call it decongestion pricing. 27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I want to be skeptical because this reads like a shitpost, but who knows…

About Trump - this is well spotted.

Nice to get back to a 3 on a bit of a flyer after a string of 4s and 5s (Sunday January 4) Wordle 1,660 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"The lamplighter going his rounds, like an executioner to a despotic king, strikes off the little heads of fire that have aspired to lessen the darkness." - Charles Dickens, Bleak House What a brilliant and sadly apt simile

Marco Rubio’s history and connection to the drug world is pretty insane prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Making the Northland an overnight train going north seems odd to me. It used to leave early in the morning, getting to Muskoka in the morning. Arriving in Muskoka late at night - and in the middle of the night further north - doesn't seem very convenient. www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/northlander

Our back yard lilac just got visited by a whole flock of finches! #birdTO

"... regarding the fossil fuel industry as inseparable from government and making its interests the top priority."

Fascinating 1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry 2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude 3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding

Who did this 😂

Trump is going to revive what had been largely collapsed Venezuelan support for the regime, isn't he.

January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400

Earlier today, I checked out the Scarborough Junction Community's temporary art installation in support of the West Scarborough Rail Trail, as well as walked along a short part of the trail route. You can read about it on my blog. #BikeTO #ScarbTO #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/01/lets...

for real

In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

I still love it, but it's hard to find. Murchie's Russian Caravan is a delicious blend that uses it.

As someone who has been riding buses for almost half a century, this is very true. Especially the knowing that the bus is coming, and when. In high school I wrote a short story about freezing to death waiting for the bus at an Ottawa bus stop in a winter blizzard.

A delightful thread

Going to post "the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth" in my syllabi statements on AI. And probably on my office door. 😏 What I wouldn't give to be able to write a phrase like that!

they put 3 reporters on this story and there’s just a throwaway line about private equity buying it….

Not obvious here, but the city’s urban bones are all wrong—cars run almost up to the Falls, pedestrians wait at “beg buttons,” and transit is an afterthought. #NiagaraFalls (2/3)

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

This is brilliant

uh holy SHIT?

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

The painfully funny thing is that the new regime and CBS, in its support for that regime, are directly undermining liberty, the rule of law, and equality.

New speed camera replacement just dropped in Ford’s Ontario

Toronto has tried something like this, but on a much more modest scale.

The same mistake is happening in Windsor and elsewhere. Mississauga is the only place the province hasn’t botched this. Ontario is ignoring its own planning rules, moving hospitals to greenfield sites far from transit and urban cores. nextmetro.substack.com/p/an-urgent-... #ONpoli

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Very happy to discover the washrooms in the old fire station at Biidaasige Park are open in the winter!

Confirmation finally came in November 2025. The government agreed to a fee of $9.1 million for a company to study if the tunnel was possible. Work that civil servants had at least partially looked at. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1151529...

Ok but this one was basically right

Took me a while to figure out the last word (Thursday January 1) Wordle 1,657 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Endings can really make or break novels, I find. Or even just subtly shift it from all time fave to just good, or vice versa.

Before Gen AI, 2-3 students out of 150 would fail my Death and Dying course. This semester 17 failed the entire course and 16 received 0 on the final assignment.