@rayhoang.bsky.social
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I know everyone is dunking on the robot here but look at how much space is devoted to cars in this scenario. The sidewalk should be bigger and the road smaller.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I know everyone is dunking on the robot here but look at how much space is devoted to cars in this scenario. The sidewalk should be bigger and the road smaller.
Wait what?
Trip data for the Finch West LRT is now public and has been analyzed by Steve Munro. The average speed comes in at 13.5km/h. For reference the average speed for on street segments of the ION in Kitchener Waterloo is 18-19km/h. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...
6 Finch West: Schedules, Travel Times & Speeds
The TTC has published the GTFS version of the schedule for 6 Finch West. This is the electronic timetable used by trip planning apps to understand how the scheduled service is supposed to behave. F…
stevemunro.ca
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Wait what?
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social Not only is expertise dead, grave robbers are mauling its corpse
IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
A potential client emailed me about a project which needs an engineering analysis. He had already done some preliminary 'analysis' although he is not an engineer. HE ASKED CHATGPT TO CHECK HIS 'WORK' and emailed me its garbage.
I have no words
A potential client emailed me about a project which needs an engineering analysis. He had already done some preliminary 'analysis' although he is not an engineer. HE ASKED CHATGPT TO CHECK HIS 'WORK' and emailed me its garbage.
I have no words
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Not only is expertise dead, grave robbers are mauling its corpse
This reminds me of this onion video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JN...
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This reminds me of this onion video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JN...
Man I miss the Mozilla gift guide
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Man I miss the Mozilla gift guide
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I know zero real scientists who say this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I know zero real scientists who say this.
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We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
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One way to reduce condo defect liability: stop forcing architects to design buildings that leak. HCD’s “objective design standards” guide *encourages* making building envelopes more complex, heightening leak and therefore defect lawsuit risk cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Ap...
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
One way to reduce condo defect liability: stop forcing architects to design buildings that leak. HCD’s “objective design standards” guide *encourages* making building envelopes more complex, heightening leak and therefore defect lawsuit risk cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Ap...
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You know, it's one thing for Trump to constantly post pictures of himself as a king, but is it really necessary for Vance to be depicted as his bosomy wench?
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
You know, it's one thing for Trump to constantly post pictures of himself as a king, but is it really necessary for Vance to be depicted as his bosomy wench?
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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When the US was swept with the new-streetcars-mixed-with-traffic fad in the 00s, Canada didn’t build a single one. They only built rail in exclusive lanes.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When the US was swept with the new-streetcars-mixed-with-traffic fad in the 00s, Canada didn’t build a single one. They only built rail in exclusive lanes.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
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Metrolinx publishing a meaningfully specific set of goals and the infrastructure work required to achieve it for GO Expansion? Am I dreaming?
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Metrolinx publishing a meaningfully specific set of goals and the infrastructure work required to achieve it for GO Expansion? Am I dreaming?
I have issues with this. 3G capital only owns 30% of Tim Horton's Parent company. HQ is in Canada, and on the TSX. I'd consider it Canadian. Big question is that it also owns Burger King. Does that make it Canadian too?
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I have issues with this. 3G capital only owns 30% of Tim Horton's Parent company. HQ is in Canada, and on the TSX. I'd consider it Canadian. Big question is that it also owns Burger King. Does that make it Canadian too?
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I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍
The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R.
The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.
The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R.
The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍
The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R.
The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.
The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R.
The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.
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The suburban transit agencies trying to secede from Dallas's DART are basing their plans on unrealistic visions of "microtransit." Nearby Arlington, Texas already shows the limits of that. Good @dallasobserver.com piece. www.dallasobserver.com/news/dart-co...
What Will Replace DART if Cities End Their Contracts?
Two cities allowing voters to elect to leave DART in May have offered microtransit systems as an alternative. They're flawed.
www.dallasobserver.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The suburban transit agencies trying to secede from Dallas's DART are basing their plans on unrealistic visions of "microtransit." Nearby Arlington, Texas already shows the limits of that. Good @dallasobserver.com piece. www.dallasobserver.com/news/dart-co...
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so we've had major AWS and Cloudflare outages all in a matter of weeks
it’s not DNS
there’s no way it’s DNS
it was DNS
it’s not DNS
there’s no way it’s DNS
it was DNS
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
so we've had major AWS and Cloudflare outages all in a matter of weeks
it’s not DNS
there’s no way it’s DNS
it was DNS
it’s not DNS
there’s no way it’s DNS
it was DNS
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Yeah, even 5-10 years ago I remember seeing climate scientists saying they expected we'd end up at slightly over 3C.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Yeah, even 5-10 years ago I remember seeing climate scientists saying they expected we'd end up at slightly over 3C.
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I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
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because some researchers want to use nutrition science to overthrow capitalism and others want to actually improve human health outcomes
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
because some researchers want to use nutrition science to overthrow capitalism and others want to actually improve human health outcomes
Welcome to globalisation! But seriously tho, lower shopping costs and better connectivity via the internet enables global markets, economies of scale, and better wealth, but everything starts to look the same
4) it’s remarkable how much there is a global higher income lingua franca in food and amenities that’s easily available in every major city I’ve been to this year. Athens, Lisbon, New York, Chicago, Charlotte…there’s always a place to get a flat white, a HIIT class, and an avocado toast.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Welcome to globalisation! But seriously tho, lower shopping costs and better connectivity via the internet enables global markets, economies of scale, and better wealth, but everything starts to look the same
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Guy is a hussler.
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Guy is a hussler.
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lol
lmao even
lmao even
Quebec minister says Ottawa has gone too far in cutting temporary immigration
Quebec minister says Ottawa has gone too far in cutting temporary immigration
Quebec lawmakers have been considering even deeper cuts, to as low as 25,000 permanent residents per year.
www.thestar.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
lol
lmao even
lmao even
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Folks, if you’re into public transit, and you’re not following public transit consultant Dr. Jarrett Walker (PhD, Stanford, humanities), then you‘re not doing TransitSky right.
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Folks, if you’re into public transit, and you’re not following public transit consultant Dr. Jarrett Walker (PhD, Stanford, humanities), then you‘re not doing TransitSky right.
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Wow shocked 2 learn Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Wow shocked 2 learn Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way
This seems a good take on AI policy here: www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/the-...
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 248: Mark Surman on Why Canada's AI Strategy Should Prioritize Public AI Models - Michael Geist
AI Minister Evan Solomon’s AI public consultation – framed as a 30 day sprint – wrapped up last week with expectations that the government will unveil a new AI strategy by the end of the year. Much of...
www.michaelgeist.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This seems a good take on AI policy here: www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/the-...