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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 15h

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 15h

"Many I spoke with are centrist liberals. I asked them what if anything might force the industry to confront its dim longer-term prospects. Midterm election? Economic collapse? One Silicon Valley figure suggested “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they have backbones.”"

Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 17d

When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 21h

www.canadianarchitect.com/report-arthu... @canadianarchitect.bsky.social

Report: Arthur Erickson Centennial Symposium

A day-long symposium caps a year of celebrating what would have been Arthur Erickson's 100th birthday.

www.canadianarchitect.com

Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 1d

Top Links 883 Has most of the world passed peak social media? A planet healthy diet & will China forever remain an engineering state? @adamtooze.bsky.social

cc @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social @sociallifeproject.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Top Links 883 Has most of the world passed peak social media? A planet healthy diet & will China forever remain an engineering state?

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 1d

Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Canada’s Quirky Fishing Shacks - Macleans.ca

Richard Johnson photographed more than a thousand ice huts across all 10 provinces

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 16d

Downtown Brooklyn has become a showcase of millennial architectural mediocrity, architecture critic Justin Davidson writes.

The Disappointment of Downtown Brooklyn

Twenty years after it was upzoned, it’s become a showcase of millennial architectural mediocrity.

www.curbed.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

One of the most serious consequences of Canada's low population density is the effect on our climate impact. Not only the extreme inefficiency of low-density homes, but the far greater number of private-automobile trips needed per person, etc. Underpopulation is climate catastrophe

Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 3d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 3d

#SketchUp rendering based on the Royal Hotel, Picton ON. Niagara Peninsula wine country. An elegant adaptive reuse of an exquisite old-economy building. Architects Giannone Petricone.

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 3d

"The public space in front of the gallery is Vancouver’s only real piazza. It is perverse to hollow this place out and take the energy of its visitors and activity somewhere else."

@alexbozikovic.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

New Vancouver Art Gallery to be smaller, more Canadian than ambitious original plan

The gallery will move six blocks from its original site, tapping Formline and KPMB for a design rooted in Indigenous tradition

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 4d

New documentary gives E.J. Hughes, painter of lyrical Canadian landscapes, his due - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/AofNnOhYsdmG...

New documentary gives E.J. Hughes, painter of lyrical Canadian landscapes, his due

“The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes” is premiering in Vancouver as interest in Hughes’s life and work grows among Canadian collectors and institutions

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 4d

4 Storey version.
8 to 16 homes on a 50x122 lot.
So, this could soon be allowed anywhere in @victoria.ca ?
@jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social

I guess it will depend on the actual rules adopted (FSR, lot coverage, min parking etc)

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Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d

On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan review – ties that bind

The novelist on the relationships that shaped his life, from schoolmates to the Rolling Stones and Edna O’Brien

www.theguardian.com

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 5d

Algorithm Nation.

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

@jacobweisberg.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Algorithm Nation | Jacob Weisberg

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

www.nybooks.com

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 5d

"Each reaction by authorities portrayed by Kremlin propagandists as militaristic, belligerent, attack on rights of Russian-speaking people... despite Putin suggesting in 2022 it wld be justifiable to “take back” Narva for Russia."
#DanielBoffey @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘A big chance for the populists’: Estonian city alert to the threat of Moscow in its mayoral election

Positioned on the border and with a 98% Russian-speaking population, Narva faces a test of its unity and resilience

www.theguardian.com

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Mike @mikeofthewest.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. @dougsaunders.bsky.social bluntly saying what needs to be said here. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5a1c29c...

United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Stefan Novakovic @novakovicto.bsky.social · 5d

Like many cities, Madrid comfortably integrates restaurants/cafes into public space. Why not in North America? I could be wrong but 2 ideas. 1) good public spaces are scarce so we treat them kind of religiously. 2) how would duty of care and liability be divided between the city and the restaurant?

Public plaza in Madrid featuring cafe and restaurant seating alongside public benches

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 5d

The Missing Middle podcast is only a couple of dozen YouTube subscribers away from reaching 5,000. Meredith thinks we'll get there by the end of the day. I have my doubts.

If you haven't subscribed yet, we'd love it if you could do so!

Subscribe here:

Missing Middle Podcast - YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Wallpaper* @wallpapermag.bsky.social · 6d

Modernist landscapes quite literally grew alongside the modern architecture movement. Field specialist and advocate Charles A. Birnbaum takes us on a tour of some of the finest examples
www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

These modernist gardens, parks and plazas revolutionised landscape architecture in the United States. Take a tour with us

From pioneering ideas to endangered designs, one of these spaces might exist in your backyard

www.wallpaper.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

History has many painful lessons.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 6d

Soulless ‘big box’ storefronts are erasing downtowns’ character.

"The suburbanization of the inner core..."

@johnzada.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Soulless ‘big box’ storefronts are erasing downtowns’ character. But there’s still time to save our cities

New retail developments are replacing small storefronts in downtown areas, leading to a kind of suburbanization of urban cores

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 6d

Presented to the House Finance Committee yesterday. Received a thoughtful question from MP Ryan Turnbull on why GST rebates should be extended to all owner-occupiers, not just first-time buyers. Here is my response.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Jon Adams. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: nyer.cm/niP6eXi

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21d

The speed with which children embrace humor suggests that it is fundamental to human nature, Joshua Rothman writes. “We laugh, therefore we are.”

Why Are Kids So Funny?

The emergence of humor so early in life suggests something important about human nature.

www.newyorker.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 11d

This is how it’s done. May we hope the United States will be handing out such medals in a few years

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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