It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

Story: A grown man urged me to fight him yesterday. I was driving my two kids home from school, turning left off a side street onto a busy thoroughfare.

This is so sad 😕 Time-change days are one of the few shared rituals we have. We should cherish it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Manitoba adopts permanent daylight time | CBC News

Manitobans no longer need to remember to spring forward or fall back one hour on their clocks.

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Once again, absolutely incredible how people view advocacy for safe infrastructure and mobility options as akin to an attack on their right to drive

Suggested ground rules for the ‘debate’ on 'bad' cycling 🧵: 1) Cyclists or cycling advocates are not collectively responsible for the bad behaviour of individuals. What’s your actual point? You want less cycling or rules that have that effect? Be clear.

Not to mention that in places with a bikeway, bikes are easily approaching and exceeding car volumes. It's a very efficient use of road space.

Observing The City@observingthecity.ca · 3w ago

Brad Bradford says that 50% of roadway cannot be allocated to 1% of users. Good thing it isn't. Only about 1% of all of Toronto's road space is allocated to bike lanes. I showed my work, and used Danforth (the lanes he fought so hard to get added) as an example.

I’m predicting a resurgence in attention to Sara Jeanette Duncan’s novel *The Imperialist*

John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh man, this story is big, and kinda wild. Too much to excerpt out but I think my favourite detail is that Trump's idiotic antagonism of Italy's Meloni has been to Canada's direct advantage.

Definitely crisp time! Galas definitely do stay firmer. (You could try a mix?)

I have removed the bike lanes that were in the road and which you were probably using to get to work Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so cold

I have a column this weekend asking: where is the rest of civil society. Where’s the CEOs asking for safe streets for their employees? Where’s the foundations taking a stand, putting some money behind countering this? Where’s the establishment? Everyone is sitting it out. Just like w Rob ford.

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s pure culture war hostility, Jake. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

Another great perspective from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social. "without factory farms there would be far less meat and it would be far more expensive...if the MAHA movement were remotely coherent, it would push for this less-but-better meat vision" newrepublic.com/article/2141...

MAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s Delusions

Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it is trying to solve.

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And fourth, he continued his policy to end remote work, encouraging other companies to end remote work. Commuting is a lot easier when half the workers are not commuting. It’s a geometry problem, and there’s only so much space.

How-Sen Chong@how-sen.com · 3w ago

Yesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 ->

In one of Sarkaria's early op-eds about removing bike lanes he talks about his drive from Brampton to Queen's Park. A stupid drive when there is a GO Train connecting the two. If the train service isn't good enough, you're the minister of transportation. Yet....

How-Sen Chong@how-sen.com · 3w ago

Yesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 ->

I commute by bike every day, all year in Toronto, and admit to feeling a bit snobby about ebikes—that is, great for other people! However, visiting Montreal last week I tried ebike bixis and it really did feel like magic. I passed people pushing their non-e bixis up hills as I zipped by. Great tech

Jerome Alexander Horne@jahorne.bsky.social · 3w ago

Look, I love an acoustic (analog) bike ride as much as anyone else but E-bikes are magical for traveling around cities. 🚲⚡

How perfect to bike to work on this rainy morning past a cyber truck with the driver just texting away (a few minutes before a right-turning driver cuts me off as he turns across the Yonge bike lane).

Dumb Megan@dmbmeg.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s crazy now because that I just mostly bike I can see how many people are on their phones and we all just treat this as a non-issue

It’s crazy now because that I just mostly bike I can see how many people are on their phones and we all just treat this as a non-issue

Remember when we stumbled on a great solution to traffic congestion in Toronto that maintained or even improved worker productivity, but then the banks and the government decided there was some problem with remote work?

The daily bikeshare stats are amazing, especially considering most cyclists use their own bikes.

TOBikeShareBot@toronto.raccoon.bike · last mo.

Yesterday there were approximately 45,632 Toronto Bikeshare trips Most used station: Centre Island Ferry Dock (481 trips) Least used station: Ling Rd / Lawrence Ave E and 95 others (0 trips) Active stations: 1061 #bikeTO

Let’s remove speed cameras and rip out bike lanes - then let’s ticket cyclists without helmets to keep our roads safe. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

The Biking Lawyer LLP@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · last mo.

TPS issuing tickets & warnings to BikeShareTO e-bike riders w/out helmets. Unlike other rental services you can't rent a helmet from Bike ShareTO. Seems like a fantastic use of $1.5billion police budget. If that guy had crashed & injured himself would the helmet harassment have been worth it? God.

Remember when we stumbled on a great solution to traffic congestion in Toronto that maintained or even improved worker productivity, but then the banks and the government decided there was some problem with remote work?

Hypothetical (fictional) androids can “suffer” now? We have fields of science that acknowledge non-human animal sentience and absolutely no doubt that non-human animals suffer, but instead of looking at that people are excited to extend personhood to computer algorithms. The future!

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last mo.

One day C3PO tells you he loves art. He has also looked at a great deal of art, and would suffer greatly due to not being allowed to make art. Is it ethical to forbid him from making art?

Play it again @jaycockburn.bsky.social 'Pedal politics: How Toronto’s bike lanes became so divisive' h/t @mbonsma.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/art...

Lanrick Bennett@lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spent a bit of time this afternoon at the @theglobeandmail.com talking about vulnerable road users. Always impressed when I don’t get a second glance bringing my bike with me. Thank you @jaycockburn.bsky.social h/t @ternbicycles.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social #LeaveTheCarBehind #BikeTO

Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.

These bike lanes are so busy. I have a specific memory of November 28 last year, quite a cold and windy late November Friday evening, dark out, I biked from Yonge/St. Clair to an event in Roncesvalles, taking Bloor much of the way. The bike lanes were absolutely crowded, almost as in this video...

Observing The City@observingthecity.ca · last mo.

Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion?

Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion?

I feel like the same people who were against the (proven effective) speed cameras in Toronto are also the people against the bike lanes. The same people who are against getting speeding tickets don't think cyclists should get a lane because bad behaviour. Maybe they care *too much* about road safety

Thread about the Ontario bike lane ruling, based on @edwardrow.com on X When all the evidence shows that more car lanes don't help congestion, and the gov's own reports show that removing bike lanes no won't help congestion, the judge ignored that and goes off his own vibes as "common sense” (1/6)

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · last mo.

Ugh. This is a disaster for Toronto. Ripping out protected bike lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Ave will gut the city's bike network. Crashes will increase. And no, traffic will not be faster.

My kid loved learning the recorder last year. She totally learned about musical notes and how to play a simple song, can even play simple versions of a couple pop songs on a recorder. It has her wanting to learn to play piano. Brilliant way to introduce these things to everyone.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · last mo.

You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.

The bike lane decision is extraordinary. The Ontario Court of Appeal flat out saying: more lanes make cars go fast and “induced demand” is just a theory. Aggressively hostile to 80 years of theory and empirical evidence. coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/i...

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"