claude, please haunt my foe in their waking hours and their dreams. do a breakthrough
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We're not ready to admit we are all figuring it out as we go, are we? Almost everything we care about happens as a side effect of cumulative learning. We stand on the shoulders of people who stand on other shoulders. Mastodon: @cdemwell@hachyderm.io
"The reason young people are riding their electric devices on the sidewalk is because it is not safe to ride them on the streets. The reason the streets are not safe is because of all the cars and trucks." (and increasingly, really bad driving habits) www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...
Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters
All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users
nsnews.com
Thank you to all who have shared your condolences about Mike's passing - it is overwhelming. There will be a celebration of life for Mike on August 9 at Dogwood Pavilion in Coquitlam - and a livestream to ensure all who were touched by him may come should they wish. More details later. Sylvia
Like so many people, I knew Mike only online. I very much enjoyed his impact on my world. I'll miss him.
Michael Coyle@oplopanax.ca · 2w agoThis is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered
Here's one of those evergreen takes we can use in so many contexts.
GRIDS Vancouver@grids.reillywood.com · 2w agoBaseless conspiratorial thinking like this is bad and it drags down the quality of our public discourse, even when it's targeting political parties you don't like.
Brilliant read, and your regular reminder of a famous analysis that those who call for boosting Canada's productivity growth regularly gloss over /2 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: America is booming. Canada lags. So why aren’t Americans happier?
Analysis of over 20 years of economic data show U.S.’s higher productivity has not produced better earnings for most
theglobeandmail.com
Hmmm, "inflation" just happens to track fossil energy prices, starting with the Ukraine war and cutting off Russia? So I guess it's not monetary policy after all?
BIV News@bivnews.bsky.social · 3w ago
One of my teacher friends often says that people confuse "few people are able to do x" with "x reveals who is good" and I think about that a lot
Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
nationalobserver.com
I have some air cleaners but I could use a couple more with cheaper filters; I should definitely do this.
Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 4w agoEVENT Wildfire smoke season is coming. Yes that's made worse by climate change, which is caused by burning fossil fuels. You can build an air filter that's cheaper and more effective than a commercial one. Event details in reply. #climatechange #adaptation @oakbayforall.bsky.social
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
ricochet.media
it’s unacceptable that we’ve found ourselves with a police force entirely comfortable with dodging routine funding questions
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · last mo.If the Vancouver police can’t explain why they need an extra $200,000 a week on top of their $497 million budget to police five blocks of car free activities, then I can make videos pointing out how much that works out to every hour for every block. We’ll update if they provide more information.
I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at
“A lot of my work as a policy researcher relates to taxing wealth and cracking down on corporate power. But that’s really not the story of what’s happening in our housing market.”—BC Policy Solutions @1alexhemingway.bsky.social for the Vancouver Sun. Read it here 👇 vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
New data reveals scope of big-money investors in B.C. rental home market
The new data makes it 'really hard to support the claim that large institutional investors are somehow dominating the market' — Tsur Somerville, professor at the Sauder School of Business at UBC
vancouversun.com
This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers
"Effects emerged quickly and show little evidence of displacement to adjacent areas.... These findings suggest that cost-benefit analyses of congestion pricing systematically understate net social benefits by omitting emergency response improvements."
Daniel Comeaux@danielcomeaux.bsky.social · last mo.New NBER paper finds that the congestion zone in NYC sped up emergency responses by over a minute - about 5-6%. Great stuff! www.nber.org/papers/w35414
The RCMP would like to remind you that the highway shoulder is a very dangerous place to be full of debris and garbage. Good thing we keep putting our bike lanes there rcmp.ca/en/bc/bchp/n...
Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
Life hack: Always root for ex-colonies over colonizers in any sport
Just had a briefing on the planned detour of Broadway between Alberta and Cambie due to the roadwork for the Broadway City Hall Skytrain Station. It's going to be messy. #bikeyvr plan your alternate routes now. Avoid Off-Broadway. Avoid Yukon and Ash between 2nd/Broadway. Starts mid-July for 6 mo.
I was telling someone about this just the other day. It is INSANE that we aren't doing this with all the sun that hits our enormous country.
Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · last mo.‘Consumer-Led Revolution’ as Pakistan Installs 27 GW of Distributed Solar in 2 Years. Pakistan installed 27 gigawatts of solar between 2023-25, an amount that exceeds the capacity of all operating coal-, gas-, & oil-fired power plants the country has ever built www.theenergymix.com/consumer-led...
This is a troll, right? We are being trolled?
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2mo agoI would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon
Granville Street has come alive as a pedestrian zone during the World Cup. And what a success!🌟 If we want to see it and other potential pedestrian areas become permanent, it’s going to require new, bold leadership to make it happen. @wazaroff.bsky.social
Help, I can't decide if I want the paper version of @grimalkina.bsky.social 's new book.