Tom Weatherburn
@tdubolyou.bsky.social
Data + Graphics Planning Research, City of Toronto mapto.ca; tomweatherburn.com
People talk about how AI is increasing productivity, but when I google search for "Piketty Laser Eyes" it still doesn't automatically generate a picture of Thomas Piketty with laser eyes.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 6d agoWe’ve moved from income world to wealth world ft.trib.al/yPmZXQv | opinion
Camogli. These things slide out & make ped areas. Deliveries when needed. Local police don’t extort $100s of $1000s todo this.
MYTHOS is so powerful that it must be protected by strict guardrails that prevent anyone from ever learning whether or not it's actually powerful at all
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Cybersecurity researchers are not happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s new model Fable. Researchers say that the new LLM basically blocks anything related to cybersecurity, including code reviews and prompts asking for help writing secure code.
In 2018 we built the Fruit Trees of Toronto map. Its been the most popular page on @maptodotca.bsky.social. I rebuilt it from scratch: svelteJS, maplibre, protomaps and 2026 data. Explore by species, location and ripening month. www.mapto.ca/maps/2026/6/... #maps #toronto #opendata
“Design as civic infrastructure” is a concept that resonates deeply. Great ep of the Design Better Podcast substack.com/@aarronwalte...
Jessie McGuire: National Design Award-winning studio leader on design as a civic tool
Episode 178 of the Design Better Podcast
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Another fun one for @spacing.bsky.social I used @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca, scraped school facilities data and looked online at larger facilities to create a map of pitches across the city. This is for a special issue of Spacing Magazine on Toronto Soccer. #maps #mapping #gis #toronto
Idea Extra Issue: Herb Lubalin, 1969 Special Issue devoted to Herb Lubalin. 120 pages of Lubalin’s work from 1956 – 1969 #herblubalin designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...
When you're too drunk to stay at the club but your jam hits as you're walking out the door
"Parkdale has been called a suburb, a slum, a ghetto, a village. Each label has carried consequences... justified a different kind of intervention. From regulation to clearance to revitalization, every era produced a group powerful enough to define what Parkdale was and to act on that definition."
Who Decides What a Neighborhood Is? | The Story of Parkdale
YouTube video by Praeteritum
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Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English Credit: Alex McPhee (@awmcphee.ca) Full list of languages here: brilliantmaps.com/toronto-l...
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
Looking for development activity data in Toronto? The Development Pipeline Dashboard is an interactive tool that lets people explore development activity across the city. The dashboard highlights the number of projects, residential units, residential and non‑residential space.
It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.
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Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!
The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…
Rural Indexing Project@ruralindexing.bsky.social · 5mo agoPizza Man Amery, WI
I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
I completed the Applied Data Science with Python specialization from the U of M, which included 5 courses: Introduction to Data Science Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation Applied Machine Learning Applied Text Mining Applied Social Network Analysis #datascience #ai #python
The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years. Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej #Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
Add Palmerston to the list of places that need a good Le Corbusiering. Next to the Annex, Cabbagetown and mid-etobicoke. The more righteous and self-proclaimed-special, the more hot towers go in.
Damien Moule@damienmoule.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.
The Eglinton cover section, meanwhile, features Cheryl Thompson and @johnlorinc.bsky.social on the Golden Mile, a map of Eglinton density by @tdubolyou.bsky.social (slice below), and pieces by @theurbangeog.bsky.social, Todd Harrison, and more ranging from east to west.
