Eric McElroy
@esmcelroy.ca
Does techy things with the ✨cloud✨
Likes public transit, music, skiing, cycling, outside, memes, touching grass, etc.
Living in Toronno.
Likes public transit, music, skiing, cycling, outside, memes, touching grass, etc.
Living in Toronno.
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Eric McElroy
@esmcelroy.ca
· Jan 15
I kinda feel like I need to preface any post that isn’t outraged at the state of the world with: “Listen, things are really, really bad. Probably worse than we know. But dammit, if I can’t also have this other fun or unserious or unrelated-to-current-crisis tanget, I don’t think we’re gonna make it”
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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Just before what could be the greatest wave of job loss, democratic erosion and threat to humanity itself, the Left - the people who are supposed to care most about these things – are going: LALALALALA it's not happening, it's all fake, AI is absolutely incapable of anything 🙃
February 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Just before what could be the greatest wave of job loss, democratic erosion and threat to humanity itself, the Left - the people who are supposed to care most about these things – are going: LALALALALA it's not happening, it's all fake, AI is absolutely incapable of anything 🙃
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This is totally predictable, and unfortunately while if I was in charge I'd be planning a tunnel and a high quality integrated GO-subway interchange here, the powers that be at literally every level of gov are. . . not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38M_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38M_...
Danforth GO station congestion issues
YouTube video by CityNews
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
This is totally predictable, and unfortunately while if I was in charge I'd be planning a tunnel and a high quality integrated GO-subway interchange here, the powers that be at literally every level of gov are. . . not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38M_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38M_...
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"I would absolutely love to have better active and public transport but, very unfortunately, buses are too slow and unreliable, and bikes are too dangerous to be a realistic option for most people" - someone who is going to absolutely flip their shit if anyone proposes a bus and/or bike lane.
February 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"I would absolutely love to have better active and public transport but, very unfortunately, buses are too slow and unreliable, and bikes are too dangerous to be a realistic option for most people" - someone who is going to absolutely flip their shit if anyone proposes a bus and/or bike lane.
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pretty stunning chart
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
pretty stunning chart
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Extraordinarily wack that these tech zillionaires are not funding modern Carnegie Libraries all over the Bay Area.
Every museum, school, hospital, and library within 100 miles of the intersection of Sand Hill Road and El Camino Real should have a brand new wing named for one of these dudes.
Every museum, school, hospital, and library within 100 miles of the intersection of Sand Hill Road and El Camino Real should have a brand new wing named for one of these dudes.
February 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Extraordinarily wack that these tech zillionaires are not funding modern Carnegie Libraries all over the Bay Area.
Every museum, school, hospital, and library within 100 miles of the intersection of Sand Hill Road and El Camino Real should have a brand new wing named for one of these dudes.
Every museum, school, hospital, and library within 100 miles of the intersection of Sand Hill Road and El Camino Real should have a brand new wing named for one of these dudes.
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Quit complaining about not being able to afford/get RAM. Thousands of the most annoying losers you’ve ever seen need that RAM so they can do a bunch of line break posts calling themselves Builders because they pay for an AI subscription
February 17, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Quit complaining about not being able to afford/get RAM. Thousands of the most annoying losers you’ve ever seen need that RAM so they can do a bunch of line break posts calling themselves Builders because they pay for an AI subscription
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every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
February 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
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“Evening types experience reduced sleep and misaligned timing for weeks after [spring forward], due to diminished morning light and excessive evening light.”
February 17, 2026 at 1:05 AM
“Evening types experience reduced sleep and misaligned timing for weeks after [spring forward], due to diminished morning light and excessive evening light.”
Just another day in Toronto.
“Don’t worry, we’re just unloading something”
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
“Don’t worry, we’re just unloading something”
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Just another day in Toronto.
“Don’t worry, we’re just unloading something”
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
“Don’t worry, we’re just unloading something”
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
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privilege post here but i've stopped looking at news and changed my social feeds up a bit - the change has been seriously night and day for the brain.
February 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
privilege post here but i've stopped looking at news and changed my social feeds up a bit - the change has been seriously night and day for the brain.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Perform this with ChatGPT for friends & family who use it to answer questions:
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Perform this with ChatGPT for friends & family who use it to answer questions:
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i'm sorry. i have to go home. i need to lay perfectly still and contemplate all of the different things i could tell my computer to Code
February 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM
i'm sorry. i have to go home. i need to lay perfectly still and contemplate all of the different things i could tell my computer to Code
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posting is an unending war between the contextful, the contextless, and the context manipulators
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
posting is an unending war between the contextful, the contextless, and the context manipulators
Even better: The Continuous Sidewalk.
Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.
Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.
February 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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EMUs and more frequent service = more transit riders
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
Ridership Of Bay Area Caltrain Is Up Drastically Following A Transition To New Electric Trains
It’s not due to return-to-office mandates, either. Better trains and service are just more appealing
jalopnik.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM
EMUs and more frequent service = more transit riders
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
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EMUs and more frequent service = more transit riders
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
C'mon, hurry up Metrolinx!
jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
Ridership Of Bay Area Caltrain Is Up Drastically Following A Transition To New Electric Trains
It’s not due to return-to-office mandates, either. Better trains and service are just more appealing
jalopnik.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
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Even if Dario Amodei is telling the truth about Anthropic’s “50% gross margins” (40% is what’s reported but he said it on an interview) on API calls, Anthropic is in this case selling $295.47 ($591.30 in tokens) API calls for $100. I have seen as high as $935 (so $467.50) on the $100 plan.
February 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Even if Dario Amodei is telling the truth about Anthropic’s “50% gross margins” (40% is what’s reported but he said it on an interview) on API calls, Anthropic is in this case selling $295.47 ($591.30 in tokens) API calls for $100. I have seen as high as $935 (so $467.50) on the $100 plan.
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I’ll say it again. There IS such a thing as “vertical sprawl.” It’s not tall buildings. It’s tall buildings IN CAR-DEPENDENT SPRAWL.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I’ll say it again. There IS such a thing as “vertical sprawl.” It’s not tall buildings. It’s tall buildings IN CAR-DEPENDENT SPRAWL.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
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"The activity Toronto police are accused of is not so different from what was meant to frighten Torontonians into supporting the budget increase two years ago"
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read this column by
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social and take a careful look at your local police department
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read this column by
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social and take a careful look at your local police department
In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.
Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon
The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.
www.thestar.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
"The activity Toronto police are accused of is not so different from what was meant to frighten Torontonians into supporting the budget increase two years ago"
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read this column by
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social and take a careful look at your local police department
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read this column by
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social and take a careful look at your local police department
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