this is so insane

The flag that was installed on the slopes of North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain is so huge that it can easily be seen from 28 km (over 17 miles) away, south of the Alex Fraser Bridge.

It is noteworthy how 2+ years after BC enacted its Transit-Oriented Areas policy, the zoning in most of these areas has not changed and developers are obviously skeptical that cities will follow the spirit of the law

Google Photos has a cool feature where you can explore a map of the world with heat maps showing where your photos were taken. It's cool. But broken.

Another variation on "account verification codes that cannot be pasted": "075-838 is your Resy account verification code." And of course the resy.com website can't handle the hyphen. Sigh...

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Financial institutions are giving SpaceX shares special expedited treatment to burrow onto indexes that millions of index fund holders will then robotically purchase to induce demand. It's an innovative version of a pump-and-dump scheme. Eleanor Davis-Diver reports. prospect.org/2026/06/10/e...

ABC just voted to gut the Vision Zero Safe Mobility Plan. This was a critical, evidence-based package of reforms that would have saved lives and had virtually unanimous public support...but they voted to kill the most important part. And they used shameless spin to justify it. Unacceptable!

yes!

"Eliminating minimum parking requirements" does not mean "eliminating parking." After Minneapolis removed parking minimums, citywide parking ratios dropped from 1.0 to 0.73 spaces per unit. Walkable areas often built little parking, while others built closer to prior levels.

I just had an experience that is becoming increasingly common as we become a society that is hugely dependent on software in a world where "move fast and break things" is sometimes touted as a solid strategy.

NYC is the only place I've ever been where someone will confront you about THEIR illegal parking.

Has anybody else been noticing that for a while Google Maps on Chrome on Windows will often just stop redrawing the map, requiring an F5 to fix the issue? When I first noticed this (six months or so ago?) I assumed that the issue would be fixed instantly because it was so blatant.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

just 5 projects in ballard are adding almost *900* parking spaces in a dense, walkable neighborhood - on a street that should be car-free this is exactly why eliminating parking minimums is not enough to meet our climate goals we need parking *caps* - especially in areas of frequent transit

Hey, who remembers that time that a Sacramento cop beat up his girlfriend and threatened to kill her and dump her body in a lake? So then Sac cops arrested him! But the Sac DA refused to prosecute?😮 Then he beat her up again in San Francisco? SFPD arrested him, and the SF DA did try to prosecute?

(Don't forget to write in support of the plan!) visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/05/26/s...

Because I was lucky in my career I just made a four-figure donation to a charity I care about. It's a small organization so it makes a big impact to them. It felt great to make a difference. Imagine being a billionaire and being able to do that a few times a day, every day... and not.

Paid software and arcane licensing systems that lead to "Activate Windows" messages on museum displays might actually have been a mistake

You know, maybe I'm weird, but I would rather work with a company that makes me actually be secure, rather than one that is focused on making me "feel" secure.

If your goal is to get as many people as possible to turn off amber alerts on their phones then sending an alert at 1 am is a great strategy. I was awoken by the siren and in my groggy state (jet lag!) I could not remember where I was and I certainly didn't read the message and look for the car.

This is the video of the type of thing Madiba is talking about. No real plumbing access so sewage runs into people's homes? Disgusting. My friends in Nigeria don't believe me when I tell them that the UN chastised the USA for not providing this basic access, so that people get hookworm in the 2020s

And encourage more gas use which would drive prices up and FFS.

Hotels sometimes have bookshelves that are more for looks rather than functions, which is a shame. A bookshelf in the lobby could be good for wasting some time. But this one is just... weird

Since Trump took office in January 2025, more than 2.7 million credit reporting complaints submitted to the CFPB have gone without relief, a higher rate than in the past. It’s left people at risk of being denied loans, housing or employment.

Does anybody understand this? Windows Update has three driver updates that it has chosen not to install. Does anybody know why it doesn't install these? And why does it say that "automatic updates will keep your drivers up to date" while simultaneously showing that this is not true?

I've found more information about why my Intel graphics drivers keep getting reverted to an almost-two-year-old version on my six-month-old laptop. Here's the explanation: community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/...

The fight so far is focused on three fatal shootings, but prosecutors in Minneapolis have opened criminal investigations into 14 additional cases of potentially unlawful behavior by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.

And even if the only thing you care about is lower insurance premiums, safer roads will lead to fewer claims and ultimately save you more than a random one-time rebate. ICBC is spending money in the worst possible way. Another idea on how to spend it: visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...

It is honestly almost impressive that HP.ContextAware.exe has 5,687 process handles open (my computer has about 280 processes running) and only 49 zombies (handles to dead processes). The count is going up steadily - it went up to 5,861 while I was writing this message. They're number one!

the fact that this is how a 7% *decrease* in home price is reported is a reminder that most of our policy environment is oriented towards enriching homeowners

This series of text messages summarizes what a busy year I've had. It doesn't even capture all of it because my cell plan doesn't cover and therefore didn't welcome me to Bhutan and Laos. Hong Kong was just an airport stop. China was supposed to be that but, well, I guess I'm spending 3 days there!

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

I've been seeing a lot more of these Cloudflare "security verification" interstitials lately. I hate them because they slow down my browsing and they smell like bullshit. What's the deal? Are these anti-AI/anti-scraping measures? Do they work? Do websites have to opt-in? Tell me more!

No wonder I get so many driver-update notifications from Intel - they have two separate programs checking for updates and sending notifications! Awesome!

Huh, look at this cool arrangement of seashells. I have no idea why I felt inspired to post this today, but I think maybe we all should.

1/ This is an outstanding instant analysis of the James Comey "8647" criminal indictment by @kenwhite.bsky.social. You should go read it; it's relatively short. Ken makes two interlocking points that bear repetition. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

5+ weeks of traveling in Asia and this is one of my favourite pictures. It doesn't capture the amazing people and places that I have seen but I just like it. Thanks Skyler for guiding the pose

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

I was hoping that this website would help me clarify whether I wanted to eat at this restaurant but I'm not getting a lot of certainty about the menu from this... It says something about lorem ipsum later on the page so maybe it's Italian food?

I'm in Hanoi at the moment and I saw a bar stuffed full of people wearing orange clothing. Apparently it's Kings Day in the Neterlands. Okay, so how did all the Dutch people in Hanoi know to go to this one bar?

This is excellent. “It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”

Trump fan Caitlyn Jenner learns elections have consequences | Arwa Mahdawi

Traveling around Asia with sporadic internet access makes me realize how terrible some Android apps are at handling offline scenarios. Some examples I've noticed:

New blog post! I really hope I'll get a decent amount of people mad with this one 😈😈😈 #programming #computing #floatingpoint #geometry lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/i...

Oh Intel, never change. Intel kept telling me that a new ARC GPU driver was available, but that's not true. What actually happened is that the install kept failing. That's actually different, and I was not told this until I searched the update history.

I encountered a weird glitch when trying to add a credit card to the LOCA app (basically Uber in Laos). I used the Google Payments autofill, like usual, but none of my cards were accepted. It took me a while to realize that the expiry date always filled in as 02/02!

Mexico—a nation with 1/17th GDP of USA—is rolling out universal healthcare to its 130M citizens. Starting April 13, Mexicans 85+ will have access to universal healthcare. By Jan 2027, Mexico will expand universal healthcare to all people, with full coverage of drugs, lab tests, etc by 2030. 1/2

Congratulations CIBC (a Canadian bank) for making two-factor authentication just a little more painful. I got the authentication text, double-clicked it, copied, went to the CIBC page, and pasted it. No reaction. It took several tries to realize that "401291" was okay but "401291 " was not. Sigh...

Mortifying how in 1 week USA & Israel killed 300+ civilians by illegally invading Lebanon, destroyed Rafi Nai Synagogue in Iran, & threatened Pope Leo in the Vatican, yet Democratic leadership is still reluctant to impeach Trump. All MAGAs are complicit. Congressional cowardice is off the charts.