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I think there's a case to be made that there are distinctive effects on stock prices between the two, but I take your point.

I'm skeptical that it makes that big of a difference (this is in Mt Pleasant, after all), but the idea of having another avenue to pursue TDM (especially in a sector that uses massive trucks) piqued my interest.

YES! In the absence of any real windfall tax, the least we could do is ban/heavily tax (waaaay more than 1%) shareholder buybacks to actually encourage Canadian capital investment.

The big difference -- and a very optimistic one -- between industrial policy and the internet, today, is that we're all *so much* more connected and more granularly aware of the problem.

Yes, companies will try to stall this, but I am not convinced they can. I do believe change is coming.

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To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.

Hayes doesn't offer concrete policy ideas, but he does argue that the bones of what we need to do can be found in early labour activism and that there are other, more community-focused solutions like "attentional farmers markets."

It reminds me of this @eli.bsky.social piece from a few years back.

AI and Copyright Law AI companies are drawing on massive datasets to build large language models (LLM), often breaking various aspects of copyright law. We need new and better systems to share the value created from these...

I wrote about this a while back, too:

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.

I think there are also more oblique impinging forces, too. The copyright steamrolling of LLM companies is almost incomprehensible, and I think there are still major implications that will come from this.

@reckless.bsky.social 's interview with the CEO of Grammarly offers awesome insight into this.

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.

I think it's easy to assume that the addictive nature of digital technologies will be harder to rein in, but I am not convinced. We live amidst a wellspring of attentional resistance, increasingly tied up with questions of sovereign tech.

See @parismarx.com's work here.

London’s Air Quality Timeline: From Smog to Clean Air London’s air pollution, once marked by dense and hazardous fog, has improved significantly through legislation and initiatives such as Breathe London.

If you watched The Crown, you remember the "the Great Smog" of 1952, where literally thousands of people died. This was a major inflection point and major policy and other changes were made as a result.

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The development of major industry in and around London took shape within the context of a set of values and assumptions of what mattered -- manufacturing output, military strength, etc. -- and trade-offs were made that upheld those values.

Loss of life was an understood and accepted trade-off.

Chris Hayes makes the comparison of addictive tech to post-industrial revolution London: it wasn't until things got truly inhuman there that the push to reshape the city occurred.

It took time, but it worked.

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Was talking to the owner of my favourite coffee shop, who's been struggling with all of the construction around her shop.

She said that all the local businesses are struggling with construction workers' trucks eating up the nearby parking. Got me thinking if construction sites have to do TDM.

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

Was sitting on the train today having exactly this thought. Canadian oil and gas always says that we need to “do our part,” and somehow that always translates to “make as much money as possible without paying taxes.”

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

I have a semi-reflexive dislike of streetcars because of Condon, but the prioritization of them near the Distillery District is lovely.

Got a “way to go” for how fast I ran to make the King streetcar. Am I a Torontonian yet?

After “Hell yeah,” my second thought after Orban losing was something like this. 👇🏼

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

THAT WAS ME!!!!

It could be different in the US, but dealing with our local trucking association, my sense is that most trucking companies use a gaggle of independent contractors who are not able to/organized enough to do that kind of hedge.

As a long-time sci fi lover, I was very pleased to learn about this Canadian review for the genre: aescifi.ca

As I watch the continuing degradation of Canadians' understanding of how our own country works and the ever-more insidious creep of American culture wars into Canada, I couldn't agree more.

Taxes, Can-Con, and, importantly, funding for the arts, are all crucial parts of our sovereignty.

Not seeing significant changes in traffic out of the Strait yet.

Ken Sim is such a deeply unserious person. Another year of tax freezes? Hope you like your community centre fees going up!

This is a good question. The inevitability narrative is so tantalizing, but we can't get sucked into it unquestioningly.

Come hang out with some of Canada's top energy nerds (and me) as we talk about what the war on Iran means for Canadian energy policy.

These are also the same industry groups who (rightly) complain about slow government processes and poor infrastructure quality.

For once I’d love to hear them say where the revenue should be made up.

“Tax this, not that,” instead of the endlessly magical thinking about how we pay for stuff.

I just find the human journey into space, not to be cheesy, but rather cosmic. It's a para-social experience, but I do feel like I have a second-hand "Overview Effect" on me.

It's not for everyone, but it moves me very deeply.

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