Dr. Mike Chen

Big-city mayors urge Carney to reverse what they say is $5-billion cut to transit funding Federation of Canadian Municipalities is expressing concern about new details it learned during private meetings over the past few weeks

Funding public transit is both good for the economy and fiscally responsible. This $5-billion federal cut is effectively elbowing Canada in the face. Time to bring this up with your MP

‘Fateful moment’ for Denmark amid Trump threats to take over Greenland Danish prime minister says country is at a crossroads and accuses US of turning its back on Nato

If Canada does not stand with Europe and NATO against US aggression, how can we expect them to stand with us against US aggression? Where is "No Elbows" Carney FFS?

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Now is a good time to advocate for TTC signal priority for not just the LRTs, but also streetcars. Good public transit literally reduces traffic for everyone. Toronto deserves better and can do better.

I was one of the first people to donate to Mamdani's campaign and TBH I thought I was donating to keep a dream alive, even though the dream was not going to become a reality

Choose hope. Choose to dream. Choose a just in case we win scenario. Sometimes we do.

Go forward knowing that, fam.

Oof, that is really high. I’d love to see more public spaces with CO2 levels that are 600 ppm or better, which seems exceedingly rare in Canada. I’m also skeptical about the media Canadian home reading being representative of where people actually spend their time, like in bedrooms

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I’ve painfully accepted that our reality is somehow less believable than the Onion

“I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing”

Aw yes. Red envelopes in chip bags, really brings back childhood memories!

Damn, rogue aunty handing out red envelopes like it’s the Kinder Surprise of potato chips is certainly not on my bingo card

Fundamentally, yes. And electoral reform is a crucial step towards that goal by reducing structural tools used by the ruling class to disenfranchise voters and suppress representation and progressive ideas. It’s important we advocate for both

We really need electoral reform. The current system effectively creates a somehow worse version of a two party system… and we’re indeed very much following US’ footsteps

a cartoon character from futurama says precisely in front of a hulu logo Alt: Zap Brannigan from Futurama saying: precisely

of all places, I learned that from Futurama

Want to make something from the past great again? Unions!

If there’s something from the past to make great again: unions

Anas Al-Sharif with children on his lap amidst the rubble of Gaza.

Anas Al-Sharif wearing a blue PRESS vest reporting in front of a bombed building on fire.

This one kind of broke me. I have followed him for years.

Anas Al-Sharif was a compassionate and courageous young man and a talented journalist.

I don’t know any specific studies on that, but I’d imagine it’d increase ridership for both. My only concern would be scaling the bike-share logistics to better handle mass flow in and out of mass transit stations (e.g., subway), particularly during rush hours

You can still collect deposit and late fees, which is arguably what ensured their returns in the first place

Totally agreed, and better phrased than what I’ve said.

While a very long shot, to circle back to the original post, we can also just make them all free and not worry about transferring at all

The challenge is that once you realized everything is a simple harmonic oscillator if you think hard enough, you’d start having trouble falling asleep 😅

Agreed. Public transits should be treated as an integral part of a system.

On a related note, I’d love to see bike share normalized as a part of such a system too

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

An image taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, showing gas and dust clouds that make up the Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula. Image Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Imagine this, but for the entire night sky, in a decade-long TIME-LAPSE! So stoked about the Rubin Observatory going online and having already given us a sneak peek of what's to come with its first images!

Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani with Stephen Colbert

Ranked choice voting means progressives spend more time working together instead of tearing each other apart. Love to see it!

True, and that’s why we have writers like you, Mike! The real world feels like a bad ensemble of poorly-made memes whenever we get to the “cutscenes”

I’ve been feeling like that since the beginning of the pandemic with Death Stranding 1 😅

That’s a good point on what people probably think of when they hear “hallucination.”

It’s worth noting what’s “obvious” depends on a person’s knowledge though. For example, it’s obvious to a staff that their hotel doesn’t have a swimming pool, but not so much for most people.

Probably why “hallucination” seems to describes such a LLM behaviour so well: speaking confidently on a subject with no self-awareness of its knowledge limits

Which explains why LLMs tend to be terrible at “answering” weird questions that had no recorded responses, like “what does ‘eating like a Jedi’ mean?” — you probably can’t even find an answer online that say this isn’t a thing until now, written in this post

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia