Tom Weatherburn

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
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Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

hopefully some other ME desks expanding this week

I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.

Pete walkers handlebars looking better than ever

Damn lies

What to do when law enforcement despises the carless

Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey. Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time

Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.

Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.

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Exploring overlays on DEM data in Blender. Versions show forest and water, satellite imagery, Greenbelt plan areas, and colour-coded watersheds. Testing different palettes. Long way to go, but sharing progress—feedback welcome.
#map #mapping #gis #blender #Toronto #Ontario #DEM #3D

This was a good course, with lots of helpful examples and very actionable teachings. Ive started to use #Cursor for programming and #DataScience and its very helpful to have all the course transcripts and lab notebooks to use as context when developing models with help from #LLM s

I completed the Applied Data Science with Python specialization from the U of M, which included 5 courses:

Introduction to Data Science
Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation
Applied Machine Learning
Applied Text Mining
Applied Social Network Analysis

#datascience #ai #python

I built the first few (internal) versions of this dashboard and it was subsequently simplified to meet the City's accessibility requirements for public facing digital content.

The data are available here: lnkd.in/gn3q5epw

The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years.

Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej

#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards

Add Palmerston to the list of places that need a good Le Corbusiering. Next to the Annex, Cabbagetown and mid-etobicoke. The more righteous and self-proclaimed-special, the more hot towers go in.

😍😍😍

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

Cowards

Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas?

#Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz

The Eglinton cover section, meanwhile, features Cheryl Thompson and @johnlorinc.bsky.social on the Golden Mile, a map of Eglinton density by @tdubolyou.bsky.social (slice below), and pieces by @theurbangeog.bsky.social, Todd Harrison, and more ranging from east to west.

NEW ISSUE: Crossing Town - Spacing Toronto We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its history – there are still processes to go throug...

New issue! Issue 73 explores Eglinton Avenue, Toronto's "prime rib" from east to west, as it awaits its new transit line spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

If you spend any amount of time using microsoft copilot you will understand why hes worried.

Demonstrating New Data Visualization Examples Worth Checking Out, Reviewed in DataViz Weekly This Time

Love good charts & maps? 👀
#DataViz Weekly is back with new data viz picks worth a look:
> Time with others @flowingdata.com
> NYC parking lots housing potential @tdubolyou.bsky.social
> China's rise in trade @ourworldindata.org
> AI questions beyond tech earnings @bloomberg.com
See it on our blog.

How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction.

tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/

#NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz

I voted for Tobi over Thiel but I dont think he’ll win

This is so well done. Thanks for sharing.

Black Americans navigated Jim Crow through guides like the Green Books by sharing their experiences. Know a Green Book establishment? Share your memories, and upload photos or documents. Your contribution makes the archive complete. greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky

The tragedy of this province is that we have all the things conceivably needed to be one of the greatest places to live on earth, but our governing class is relentlessly obsessed with mediocrity.