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The school day ends at 3. The workday doesn’t.

For years, the private market has failed to bridge that gap, leaving families scrambling.

@kedseconomist.com on why it's time to build a childcare system with purpose, not patchwork fixes. Read her proposal ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Might as well have a theme song:
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An Inconvenient Root: sidewalks damaged by tree encroachment affects accessibility—but do we have to lose the tree? As Victoria increases our canopy target to 40%, we’ll need smart workarounds and gentle adaptations to preserve street trees AND mobility. @strongtowns.org lists solutions here:

A parable about the challenges of socializing bad news in a low-trust environment.

“Best” should be in quotes obv

What news coverage looks like on livestreaming platform Twitch We'll hear about the pros and cons of using Twitch to produce and consume news content.

The other best thing I read today:

“What News Coverage Looks Like on Livestreaming Platform Twitch”

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New Icons of Luxury: Balenciaga, Fendi, Loewe, and Loro Piana Arrive at ICONSIAM World-renowned luxury brands including Balenciaga, Fendi, Loewe, and Loro Piana are now available at ICONLUXE within ICONSIAM.

Here’s an online luxury magazine’s review of a cohort of new luxury stores in a luxury shopping mall in Thailand. This scrap of blather contains a nerve-bundle of themes that will, perhaps, someday give survivors a dark chuckle. www-prestigeonline-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pres...

“We tend to relate to women in the workplace based on how they make the people around them feel, rather than the work that they’re doing”

That’s the money quote. The workplace hive mind doesn’t want women to be challenging, questioning, problem solving, good speakers, opinionated, or interrupting.

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

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Yes, the grass is greener 🌱

Centre for Cities latest report explains why Germany, France and Japan all build more houses than England, by comparing how their planning systems function 🏘️

Read the summary blog 👇
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It’s Easy to Hate Traffic Cameras. But They Do Save Lives. They raise issues of fairness, and critics claim they’re only about revenue. More speed and red-light cameras, however, would prevent a lot of deaths and injuries.

Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them!

Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it).

This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.

The more I try, observe, and experiment the more I think that the deepest opportunities to transform systems are dismissed as too simple and humble and the biggest and snazziest things people (and funders) gravitate towards are the least transformative.

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Canada is not immune to rising hate: "Anti-hate coalition denounces presence of white nationalist 'active clubs' in Hamilton, calls for action" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Communalytic Introduces Civility Analyzer Module - Social Media Lab A New Research Module for Identifying Both Toxic and Prosocial Interactions in Online Discourse Toronto, Ontario – [06/17/2025] – We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer mod...

Calling all researchers, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer module in @Communalytic.org. This no-code tool can automatically identify both toxic and prosocial interactions in online discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/c... #ComKky #PolSky #AcademicSky #CSS

We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of Homelessness - OtherWords A new Trump order calls for arresting and ticketing unhoused people. My state tried that — and homelessness just got worse.

NEW: Last year, Kentucky passed a bill that paved the way to ticketing and arresting unhoused people. The state still saw an over 10% rise in homelessness.

Criminalization doesn’t house people. Care and services do.

From the current Guardian piece: "Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes." That's more than 87,00 a year, or a death toll equivalent to the casualties of a significant war. Plus all the injuries, traumas, and losses of freedom....

While some on the left demonize developers, the housing shortage continues Focusing on developers as the only problem with (or the only solution to) our housing market obscures other issues and makes it hard to make sure everyone can afford a place to live.

“Pro-housing” is PRO-NEIGHBOURS. (Guys. Wouldn’t it be cooler, and more awesome, if everyone in your connected, caring neighbourhood had a range of incomes, backgrounds, skills, and stories? And also imagine if they could stick around and raise a family, or age in place?) ggwash.org/view/89882/w...

Subskeet of a lot of things here but the “purpose of the YIMBY movement” is to make it known that people are okay with things being built near them, principally housing, usually, and certainly in my case, because we think it will make housing more affordable.

1/x I don’t know I’m in a mood

When does the next bus come? GoTriangle reduces wait time on its busiest routes The regional agency joins GoDurham and GoRaleigh in offering bus service at 15-minute intervals between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed.

Over last year, city’s high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth.

People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!

Emergency Contact As immigrants, my friends and I depend on each other in ways I’ve never needed back home.

To celebrate Friendship Day (and International Day of Friendship), we are posting stories about the power of connection all week long. First up: how one writer depends more deeply on friends in her new home country as an immigrant.

Cool to disagree, but for me, fireworks are a blithe and hollow mode of spectacle adored by the sort of people who believe their country has “won wars”

One of the greatest city maps ever made (by @chazhutton.com)

Canadians' health data at risk of being handed over to U.S. authorities, experts warn | CBC News Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

It's apparently a problem if Canadians have TikTok because the Chinese government might see their dance moves, but no one bats an eye when Canadians' health data is stored on US-owned servers and subject to American laws. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

According to Cambridge's Dr. Luke Kemp, "People are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to( societal) collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I thought this passage from Karl Polyani's "The Great Transformation" (1944) was particularly apt for our time.
"The outstanding discovery of recent historical and anthropological research is that man’s economy, as a rule, is submerged in his social relationships." 1/4

Let’s add a nice big ol’ C icon to Victoria West Park, too—thousands of future Vic West residents south of the hill will need community amenities within walking distance 🙏

What Free Transit Looks Like in Albuquerque, Nearly Two Years After the City Eliminated Fares While some cities are walking back their zero-fare initiatives, Albuquerque sees free transit as a lifeline for its homeless and low-income populations.

While some cities are walking back their zero-fare initiatives, Albuquerque sees free transit as a lifeline for its homeless and low-income populations.

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