Listening to www.cbc.ca/player/play/... , they observe that the New Deal era wealth taxes weren't supposed to generate revenue, they were supposed to limit disparity. Somehow the convos I see about these taxes talk about how they "don't actually generate revenue" and it feels like subversion.

The Billionaire Age Pt 1 | How Did We Get Here?

The richest one per cent now possess slightly more than half of the world’s wealth. There are more than 3000 billionaires worldwide and the list is growing. About 19 of them are centibillionaires — a ...

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For the first time in my life, reading a nonfiction book, I SKIPPED AHEAD to an interesting sounding chapter! Holy smokes, I'm growing! 😂

Current read: Walkable City by Jeff Speck.

made a 15 second game about being a cowboy, you could even play it now if you wanted to #gamedev

I just realized, I don't know what JK Rowling looks like, but in light of her terfiness, I've actually been picturing her as Umbridge....

Why does youtube censor swears in its subtitles? Isn't the speaker LITERALLY SAYING THE WORD? The subtitle is the speaker, in text form. The speaker swore. Why would the subtitle not swear? I'm so confused...

Oh wow does this painting make me feel things. I love it!

Josh Byer@vancityjoshb.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you drive Highway 7 from Vancouver to Harrison, this is the view you'll see on the North side of the road. This is a mixed media painting. It uses alternating layers of shellac and fluid acrylics to create variations in colouration. #diy #artsky #artwork #painting #landscape

If you like playing with fluid sims, game-of-life type shenanigans, etc... then hold on to your socks. aphid91.github.io/Fluoddity-Co...

Premier Wab Kinew in Manitoba 🍁 rejecting data centres 😏🇨🇦

Reading Walkable City by Jeff Speck, he drops this statistic: "Almost 85% of the money expended on cars and gas leaves the local economy. " Its completely obvious in hindsight, but of course: oil dependence is wealth extraction.

ipsquiggle@ipsquiggle.bsky.social · last mo.

This morning's bitter thought: the primary purpose of a chain store is to extract money from a community. It's frankly boggling to me that cities allow these things to proliferate and take over neighborhoods. Or am I thinking about this wrong? I'd love to not have to hate everything...

A window in Rome

My (closed) earbuds case fell out of my pocket while sitting, to the floor. The case now sits on the floor (close). The earbuds are about 4 and 6 feet away.

My favourite part of VSCode switching to a weekly update cadence is how every update is almost exclusively about The Agents Tool, which as best I can tell, is a completely separate piece of software that shouldn't require me to update VSCode.

I always thought the SimCity SNES cover was so rad. THE. SKYSCRAPERS. ARE. LETTERS. 😱

Some magic line was crossed today and suddenly I actually spent a bit of time "playing" my SimCity remake, and not just debug-poking it. #indieDev

Just accidentally ate a ketchup chip and a nib at the same time and wow that was a taste sensation I was not expecting and can very strongly recommend and/or not recommend!

Random thing from my childhood that I quote at least a dozen times a week: "TOWOORRRRKKKK! TOWOORRRKK! WORK WORK WORK!" youtu.be/qA_dNdqpQFU?...

Best Old Cartoon Classic || David Copperfield (1993) || Best Cartoon

YouTube video by Phúc Hòa Nguyễn

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#SilentSunday

UGH I hate this framing so much. Apple App Store really seemed to cement it with its charts as primary discovery mechanism and it's driven me bananas since. The idea, "lots of people are spending money on this so you should spend money on it too!" feels deeeeply twisted to me. "Buy what's popular!"

#godot updating their contributor guidelines with sensible and reasoned positions w.r.t. LLM contributions. godotengine.org/article/cont... 🙌

Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Does anyone know: is the tunnelling machine digging the Broadway extension going to be recovered or left in the ground? #TransLink #yvr

Take it slow today

That beautiful moment on my working walk to work, when two scatterings of people walking orthogonal directions weave perfectly through each other without having to modify their course at all. 🤩

This morning's bitter thought: the primary purpose of a chain store is to extract money from a community. It's frankly boggling to me that cities allow these things to proliferate and take over neighborhoods. Or am I thinking about this wrong? I'd love to not have to hate everything...

She has this idea of "green ooze", the performative greenery and obligatory benches that appear in front and among developments which are perentually devoid of humans. This is really sticking with me because it's counterintuitive. It's fun to observe as I walk around these days.

ipsquiggle@ipsquiggle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Okay! Starting the next one! I'm very excited to read this! It's always mentioned everywhere and was the top rec when I asked for urbanism books. And hooeee is it stout! 585 pages!! I'm simultaneously thrilled that it's serious, but also intimidated. Wish me luck!

Did you ever notice there's no ads at 22nd Street station?? Huh. #SkyTrain

More positive: I am in need of new tshirts and figure there's probably lots of cool pride shirts for sale right now! WANTED: links to the coolest pride tshirts by the best people. I want to wear *all the prides* 🤩

Ugggh C-22 makes me so angry. And the way it's being handled makes me angrier. There's so many upsetting things our gov't is doing right now, but this one is like, "Authoritarianism! Wooo!" 🤮 openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in...

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Teamwork, makes the night-time hallucination perform labour.

#unicycle day 11. I can mount 19 times out of 20, and go in a straight line basically until I run out of road. First attempts at intentional turning have been a moderate success, as shown by the three quarters of a U-turn here.