@pmi73
Urbanist, environmentalist, educator, pro immigrant, pro society over capital, pro wild non-human beings, tree hugger extraordinaire, flaneuring my way through cities, can we please just stop before we burn up the world?
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought:
You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.
Hard to decide whether this offends me more as a journalist or as a citizen, but then I guess I don't need to choose.
Canadian governments hate and fear the public, a continuing series.
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
“…if you want a livable city you put the pedestrians and the bicyclists in the central areas. You put them in the best squares and the best roads. That shows the priority and the future view of traffic in the city.” 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
Canadians --
Please sign Elizabeth May's petition to change Canada's animal laws. It closes in the next week.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
Toronto’s progressive newspaper and Liberal MP’s rolling over for the permanent desecration of Toronto’s waterfront. @juliedzerowicz.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
Protests have started against Alto, the low-emission, electric-powered high-speed rail project between #Quebec City and #Toronto.
According to Alto, the trains could carry 43M passengers, and bring $35B/yr in economic benefits to #Canada.
Many communities want a station...
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The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...
This is good news! For now...
Abstract sculptures from nature in the Empty Quarter desert…
#photography #art #nature #landscape #desert
Summer Isles
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
Elbows up! Protecting Canadian sovereignty by gutting the last handful of functional national institutions we have left.
Sunrise at a favored place on this earth. It's quiet and peaceful there. The weight of the world can be lifted away for a short time. I can look for the occasional horseshoe crab that needs rescued. I can feel sand on my bare feet. Everything is different there from day to day, but the same.
Exploring wild places on the north side of the Torridonian giants
Every sleep researcher ever, all the time: permanent Standard Time is unquestionably better for our health
Governments: we're switching to permanent daylight time!
Anyway, sign this petition for permanent Standard time: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Accessing fresh produce is a challenge in many northern communities, but for one First Nation in northeastern B.C., harnessing geothermal energy may offer a path to better food security. @zoeyunker.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/west-moberly...
I just emailed @mayoroliviachow.ca and my councillor. Not addressing things like this makes me wonder about her leadership.
For fuck’s sake. It is genuinely, heartbreakingly depressing to think how much better Toronto would be if it weren’t for this blight of a family. www.thestar.com/news/gta/mic...
Since John Tory will not run to get his old job back as Mayor, it's time to reshare this post to remind everyone why we must #StopBradford this October. #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/01/why-...
The province has taken over 6 of Ontario’s 8 largest school boards, citing financial mismanagement. But analysis by The Local shows these big boards receive among the lowest levels of provincial funding per pupil. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...
Unlike previous oil wars renewable energy is now available at scale. It's distributed, diversified and resilient. And solar panels don’t blow up; once they're in place you don’t need ships to constantly feed them to make energy.
The sun is looking like a pretty stable energy source right now.
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I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Across the moor
During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.
The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’
Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’
Canada needs an independent podcast community
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"The United Kingdom, France, and Germany all managed to comment on the situation without endorsing this war."
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
What OpenAI just agreed to is positively horrifying, on an unimaginable scale actually