James Glave 🇨🇦

B.C. author leads 'David against Goliath' lawsuits alleging big tech used writers' works to train AI | CBC News Best-selling author J.B. MacKinnon is the representative plaintiff in four proposed class-action lawsuits that allege copyrighted books written by Canadian authors were illegally being used to train l...

Bravo J.B. MacKinnon.

Graphic shows an illustration of a streetscape and with BRING ROAD DEATHS DOWN TO ZERO text overlay and a PASSED stamp below it.

Last night Vancouver council unanimously ✅ voted to reboot its #VisionZero work to focus on actions shown to actually reduce road violence. I’m so proud of Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social. Her hard work and leadership on this will save lives.

An illustration of a complete street with the caption, 'BRING ROAD DEATHS DOWN TO ZERO' and the word PASSED

My motion on road safety has PASSED!

Today’s vote is a win for everyone, whether you walk, drive, bike, or take transit - or if, like most of us, you do all of the above.

A screenshot of Daily Hive with the headline: Pedestrian safety shouldn’t rely on wearing bright clothing, suggests Vancouver city councillor Byline is Kenneth Chan

Damn straight.

Listen as CBC interviews @lucymaloney.bsky.social re: her #VisionZero motion to reduce + eliminate injuries & deaths from road violence in City of Vancouver: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

If Historica Canada were to produce new episodes of the Heritage 🇨🇦 Minute, who or what should be featured?

Councillor Maloney is significantly raising the bar on road safety, accessibility, and active transportation in #Vancouver. Hopeless fanboy here.

A unanimous vote in favour of Cllr Maloney's amendment with Cllrs Dominato and Klassen and Mayor Sim absent.

I'm proud to report that my amendment to the Granville Street Plan has passed - directing staff to explore substantial road safety and accessibility improvements, including benches, bollards, bus bulbs and a bike parkade.

A good day for safer streets for all!

A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Breaking the Thermal Bridge: A Look at Vienna House’s Innovative Prefab Balconies BC Housing’s Vienna House project will be the first British Columbia building to use a new type of suspended balcony that will provide tenants with semi-private outdoor space without undermining the p...

My company Bright Future Studio is documenting the innovations at Vienna House, for a recent blog post on Sapphire from this past winter see viennahouse.ca/2024/12/18/b...

Today Kindred Construction craned the first five prefabricated + thermally broken Sapphire Balconies (@sapphirebalconies.bsky.social) onto the south facade of BC Housing’s Vienna House project. Really nice deep porches for this #passivehouse affordable housing community in East Vancouver.

YouTube video by @soapsoupproductions The Deepfake Scams You're Not Ready For (Made with Google Veo 3)

Probably late to the party here, but I shared this PSA with my vulnerable older people in my life, and you should, too. We need regulation, now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaS...

Going to ride in #CriticalMass in a couple hours. Reliable source of healthy dopamine.

Narrator: “But they were not considering the offer.”

Trump-appointed US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoesktra says that "the saga is over" about Trump talking about Canada becoming the 51st state, so Canada should get over it.

Somehow, Palpatine returned. Ahem. I mean, it turns out the saga isn't over; a post from Trump talking again about the 51st state thing.

Life comes at you fast.

12 hours ago; now.

A small child stands in front of and is dwarfed by the grill of an oversized Ford pickup truck.

Should we feel any compassion for men who buy dangerously oversized pickups? While captured regulators shrug, automakers manipulate (vulnerable? undereducated?) bros into believing these murder machines will make them more powerful & masculine. They’re suckers, and we’re all the ultimate victims.

A 12” single of New Order’s “True Faith - Remix” is playing on a vintage FONS turntable.

“I miss my pre-Internet brain.” -Douglas Coupland

At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage Slop the presses.

So much for unleashing humanity’s rich potential: “The dirty secret of AI is that it is … more often used to cut corners and produce lowest-common-denominator work.”

… so long as you’re enrolled in a provincial health care program, right? (Or will we be seeing vaccine tourism this fall?)

YouTube video by Victor Mochere Two equally smart Amazon robots

Here is actual footage of the Autonomous Agents sorting out the details of that birthday-party bowling reservation.

And wealth cements their emotional immaturity, because they perceive the "market" as the ultimate validator. Investors keep throwing money at them, so they must feel like they're kings and we're simpletons groveling about with birthday party logistics.

I am curious what these bros actually want from life? Where do they find meaning? Do they even know what it is?

I do wonder what these bros actually *want* from life? I sort of imagine the relentless hustle as a compulsive quest for the bullshit wealth accoutrements well-skewered in Friends and Neighbours.

I went looking for more info on the "Agentic Web" and found a manifesto / advertorial on Forbes penned by a bro who leads a company called "Decidr." Who's ready to embrace the promise of unfathomable possibility...? 🫠

WE ASK EVERYONE OUTSIDE OF THE CAR TO BE SAFE SO THAT DRIVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF OUR APPROACH TO ROAD SAFETY Rovelo Creative

cc: @tomflood.bsky.social

I’ll be visiting Paris in early July!

We prefer to think of them as fascists in the basement.

I'll flag this with the OPC and you should, too. Canada's flag carrier should only provide U.S. CBP with the bare minimum required information. If it is even passively profiting off the sale of the personal data of Canadians to the techno-fascist state next door, then we have a problem.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) investigates potential PIPEDA breaches. Canadians concerned about Air Canada's activities through Airlines Reporting Corporation and its Travel Intelligence Program may express that concern here: www.priv.gc.ca/en/report-a-...