Imagine arguing that parking is more important than housing when there's an encampment literally a few meters away.
'Nowhere else to go,' says woman at encampment decried as eyesore amid Winnipeg's crackdown | CBC News
Cynthia Flett knows she'll have to move from an encampment in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood, after city workers erected signs in Mostyn Park saying camping is prohibited — but she's not sure ...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Imagine arguing that parking is more important than housing when there's an encampment literally a few meters away.
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There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
This is a really lovely profile
"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is a really lovely profile
I enjoyed listening this morning then immediately logging on to see Sapiens on the bookshelf behind the instructor for a required PD course 🙃
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I enjoyed listening this morning then immediately logging on to see Sapiens on the bookshelf behind the instructor for a required PD course 🙃
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
It strikes me that both cars and AI are technologies which have their place but are dominant to the point that they make society worse and people begin to resent them.
Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.
Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.
Me: I went to a book release event last night.
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It strikes me that both cars and AI are technologies which have their place but are dominant to the point that they make society worse and people begin to resent them.
Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.
Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.
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"95 per cent of generative AI initiatives produced zero return." But huge volumes of hype.
This is #BigData, not intelligence
www.ft.com/content/fca4...
This is #BigData, not intelligence
www.ft.com/content/fca4...
Letter: Artificial intelligence and the growth illusion
From Bernard H Casey, Social Economic Research, London and Frankfurt
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"95 per cent of generative AI initiatives produced zero return." But huge volumes of hype.
This is #BigData, not intelligence
www.ft.com/content/fca4...
This is #BigData, not intelligence
www.ft.com/content/fca4...
Today at 3:30
This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Today at 3:30
Lol brutal
"One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."
"One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lol brutal
"One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."
"One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."
This is a really beautiful story. I happened to spot Tim on his bike this morning out in the (relative) boonies and wondered where he was heading on such a blustery day!
Late bibliophile’s brother donates his book collection one free library at a time
Every day since late September, Tim Brandt has been biking to little free libraries across the city to create a literary memorial to his late brother. Les Brandt died unexpectedly in July at the age o...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is a really beautiful story. I happened to spot Tim on his bike this morning out in the (relative) boonies and wondered where he was heading on such a blustery day!
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If you’re wondering whether we still need these changes, a driver hit Rob’s ghost bike THIS MORNING
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you’re wondering whether we still need these changes, a driver hit Rob’s ghost bike THIS MORNING
New pricing options mean that in many situations peg city car coop is both cheaper and more reliable than winnipeg transit.
Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.
Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New pricing options mean that in many situations peg city car coop is both cheaper and more reliable than winnipeg transit.
Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.
Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.
Timeline cleanse: look at these carrots!
The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.
The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Timeline cleanse: look at these carrots!
The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.
The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.
Ok this is great actually. Libraries for the win!
Radon screening kits now available at Winnipeg libraries
Radon screening kits now available at Winnipeg libraries
The City of Winnipeg is making it easier for residents to test their homes for radon.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ok this is great actually. Libraries for the win!
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A man. A rant in 12 parts. This week has been rough. In less than 5 days, I’ve had three incidents involving men and I want to share them with you. 1/12 @ianmccausland.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A man. A rant in 12 parts. This week has been rough. In less than 5 days, I’ve had three incidents involving men and I want to share them with you. 1/12 @ianmccausland.bsky.social
Most weird behaviour is not dangerous!
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Most weird behaviour is not dangerous!
Increasingly fragile??
@mark-carney.bsky.social
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
@liberalca.bsky.social
You remain collaborators in Israel's genocide of Gaza as you perpetrate your genocide of Indigenous people at home.
#cdnpoli
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
@liberalca.bsky.social
You remain collaborators in Israel's genocide of Gaza as you perpetrate your genocide of Indigenous people at home.
#cdnpoli
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Increasingly fragile??
I wish Colbert wouldn't frame "the coming ai revolution" as inevitable, but this is the right energy to bring to the conversation
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I wish Colbert wouldn't frame "the coming ai revolution" as inevitable, but this is the right energy to bring to the conversation
I think about this are lot re: workplaces as well. People in charge tend to be those who got a business degree or whatever because their career aspiration was to be in charge.
The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.
The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.
I think there are people who decide to run because they think they should be leading, and want an elected office to prove that to everyone. But what got so many of us excited to show up for Emma was she was already leading, often in quiet ways, always in community-building ways. (3/)
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think about this are lot re: workplaces as well. People in charge tend to be those who got a business degree or whatever because their career aspiration was to be in charge.
The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.
The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.
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Within a few blocks of Ellice saw four police officers standing by bus stops and four transit enforcement officers. Some $500k plus in annual salaries. Watched them turn away someone over a $3 fare.
Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.
Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Within a few blocks of Ellice saw four police officers standing by bus stops and four transit enforcement officers. Some $500k plus in annual salaries. Watched them turn away someone over a $3 fare.
Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.
Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.
Harvesting seeds for next year and it really does feel like a life hack as opposed to the basis of human civilization
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Harvesting seeds for next year and it really does feel like a life hack as opposed to the basis of human civilization
This issue of Jr. Jays Magazine from 1994 might have been what taught me about the concept of ancestry and the continuity from historical to contemporary Indigenous people.
Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.
Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.
October 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This issue of Jr. Jays Magazine from 1994 might have been what taught me about the concept of ancestry and the continuity from historical to contemporary Indigenous people.
Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.
Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand
The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…
vimeo.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Pynchon back on screen is a treat (despite leo)
October 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Pynchon back on screen is a treat (despite leo)