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Just a guy with a thing for transportation options.
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I had car brain on the brain this week

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
CityNerd — Car Brain Is a Scourge on Society
Car brain is insidious, and it seeps into seemingly everything. Let's explore.
nebula.tv
January 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Two simple things will destroy the inevitability of “AI” and it’s:
- Having to pay for training data if it falls under copyright
- Making every company liable for anything the machine spits out just like a person would be

That doesn’t sound like a product we need to accept or else!
I think any technology that dies as soon as accountability and copyright are involved is far from inevitable. In fact, I’d argue that people who find use out of so-called “AI” technology have the burden of trying to salvage anything from the wreckage.

Ex: Blockchain circa 2014-2020
June 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Bill Gates’ ownership of CN Rail is proof that Canada won’t require an invasion.
January 4, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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International piracy.
“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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“You’re able to get yourself into a position where you’re most of the way through the intersection, or at the very least, extremely visible before drivers are even meant to start moving […] Visibility is a big factor in safety.”
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Giving pedestrians a head start on vehicles improves safety, has no effect on traffic, Winnipeg finds
City staff are working to expand pedestrian head starts to locations further from the core.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Continue to make character assessments of current and aspiring politicians who comfortably engage with X.
X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal.

Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account.

It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai, famous for his illustration work for City Pop album covers (by extension the “city pop” aesthetic), has had his art used without permission by the official USA Department of Homeland Security Twitter account to promote mass deportations.
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Israel is barring 30 humanitarian organizations

The world watches & enables this collapse of humanity

Global institutions & govts continue to fail in their responsibility, allowing Palestinians to be subjected to decades of violence, terrorism, deprivation, & death in full view of the world
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A good review of what to expect in our warming world as climate shocks are more frequent and severe. 2025 was only the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025
National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlife
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Yet another version of the same tragic story, @stevenmackinnon.bsky.social.

“The driver drove for another 20 feet before she slowed down enough for the skateboarder to fall off the front of the Dodge Ram truck. “He went under the truck and then he rolled 20 times or more before he hit the curb,”.
December 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Its concerning when one of the nations most successful schemes for getting people out of their cars is treated this way by those we put in charge of designing out cities!
I remember being struck by the venom Keesmaat had back in the day for the Go Train even
December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Hey, remember when Doug Ford was outraged about resale prices for World Series tickets and was totally going to do something about scalping?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
World Cup tickets in Toronto are expensive to begin with. Ontario's resale regulations don't help | CBC News
With tickets to next year's six World Cup games in Toronto selling out as quickly as they're released, the only option for most soccer fans is the resale market. But a 2019 decision by the Ontario gov...
www.cbc.ca
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Canada will announce this by March.
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Two of the most powerful ways of reducing ghg emissions: drive less and fly less.

By building more walkable, lovable neighbourhoods, we can help people do both!

www.instagram.com/p/DSA4xweAab...
World Resources Institute on Instagram: "🌎A recent WRI paper analyzed 19 climate-friendly behaviors to reveal which ones reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions the most. ⁣ ⁣ When it comes to c...
In a recent WRI study, 19 climate-friendly behaviors were analyzed to determine which ones have the greatest impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the most effective ways to make a ...
www.instagram.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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In related news Ubisoft Halifax downsizes their entire studio to a prompt "engineer".
61 workers at Ubisoft Halifax have formed the first North American union at Ubisoft.

www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
In December, shoppers who use #HSR pay even more into public coffers, than motorists who abandon their vehicle at retail districts curbs. #HamOnt
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM