Yes, the number is zero.

This New Jersey City Has Now Gone 9 Years Without A Traffic Death

Other cities have been trying to replicate Hoboken's Vision Zero traffic safety plan. Will they?

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David Dilbert@candyman718.bsky.social · 4d ago

But is the number of acceptable deaths zero? Because now trucks are out. So no deliveries. Buses gone. Subways too. E-bikes also. So are we getting rid of all of them as part of your war on cars?

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

The City of Vancouver has a survey about plazas! There are quite a few here on the often-neglected east side, so please give your feedback and tell them we love these and we want more: survey.vancouver.ca/s3/pilot-pla...

Pilot plaza evaluation program (2026) | Community survey

Pilot plaza evaluation program (2026) | Community survey.

survey.vancouver.ca

one of the most frustrating things in artmaking is having an idea/concept you *know* is excellent but you aslo know you don't have the skills required to properly do it justice

The feds "may" use "AI tools" to summarize public input on AI transparency. Which tools? How do they work? What do they cost? How are results validated for omissions and hallucinations? Is the stack secure and sovereign? 🤷 Transparency*, by Mark Carney. #Canada #CdnPoli #NoAI #BigTech

it's crazy how wikipedia pics of food can be so spiritually nsfw

grateful that full uterine tube removal is standard practise for sterilization where i live, i didn’t even have to request this at my consult to get my tubes tied. i wish this information was more widely known but i’m sure we can guess why it’s not

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com · last wk.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...

I’m doing the best I can, and also the worst I can get away with

Hundreds of millions for a gas-guzzling AI machine to power Mark Zuckerberg's advertising business. So much for "sovereignty." That sum is pocket change to Meta, but the federal government thinks lending them this money is a good use of public funds. #Canada #CdnPoli #NoAI #DataCentres #BigTech

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

NEW: Export Development Canada provided between $100 million and $200 million in project financing for the gas-fired plant that will power Meta's data centre in Sturgeon County, Alta., Canada's National Observer has discovered.

it is time for more badly drawn comics this is a daily occurrence

seems bad!

The Canadian Government has a big AI boner right now, but you can still answer the survey with as much spite as you can muster.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

I don’t want to send emails, I want to be happy

We need to audit the VPD.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2w ago

First, the VPD said they couldn't explain how they would spend $1.4 million city council gave them to police five blocks of Granville for seven weeks because it was an operational matter. Then they said they were still figuring out their plans. Now they're saying it's too complicated to reveal.

i’ve just learned that thora birch came out as bi this year. all my famous lady crushes (especially of my youth) keep coming out as bi. i can’t stop winning.

Capitalism is a waste of human life and consciousness

Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · 4w ago

Our conscious time is something we can never get back once it is taken. It is the most precious resource of every human life. More emphasis should be put on how much of this time is congealed into useless tasks, waiting, watching advertisement, making things that break easily and are thrown away !

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

people love to say "agree to disagree" in discussions they're objectively, measurably in the wrong about

haha i like how whenever there’s a big lightening flash or extra boomy thunder i can hear people in the distance go “woooo!”

saw this post years ago and will never ever forget it. sometimes you need to tend to the place from which you create, before you can create again

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3w ago

People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.

The insanity of the world summarised in two headlines on Canadian wildfires whose smoke is billowing across continent into the lungs of 100 million plus ppl: "Wildfires threaten Canadian oil sands" "Three major US cities top world’s worst air quality rankings" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

hell yes! but i'm also actually shocked abc didn't just automatically vote it down for being 1) for the arts 2) put forward by a non-abc councillor and 3) actually good

COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors@copevancouver.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING NEWS: The motion from @seanorr.bsky.social in support of a Cultural Land Trust has passed unanimously! Big win for arts spaces and artists in Vancouver.

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

wildfires have become typical every summer and our governments want to axe climate protections, build pipelines and data centres, and allow old growth to be logged they do not care about us or the land, they care about profit

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

Why is CN Rail operating freight trains in the middle of areas with active wildfires? Are these trains transporting flammable or explosive cargo? “A spokesperson for [CN Rail] wrote back to confirm “that the crew was safely evacuated from the area,” but offered no other details”