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Les actifs de Northvolt en Suède et en Allemagne vendus à une entreprise américaine Lyten aurait «manifesté un intérêt clair» pour ceux de l’Amérique du Nord, mais rien n’a été annoncé pour le moment.

Dûment noté.

Washington augmente finalement les droits de douane sur le bois d’œuvre canadien Cette décision portera préjudice aux collectivités des deux côtés de la frontière, selon des entreprises canadiennes.

On peut construire des maisons avec du bois.

Psychopolitics Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, h...

Thinking of @versobooks.bsky.social, this is one of my favourite titles: Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics.

Short and accessible in style of writing, the book develops an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion.

Homeland For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas, Americans found themselves living in two worlds ...

Homeland is published by @versobooks.bsky.social:

The quest for security “led to a preoccupation with preventing terrorism by profiling passengers according to facial expressions, body language and emotional demeanour ...

... ‘It wasn’t just that the TSA was going to invade your privacy – you were going to behave as though you liked it, too’.”

Jackson Lears · The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror There are many reasons war fever has raged out of control, but the millenarian worldview contributed to igniting the...

“Be careful about showing annoyance or any other ‘negative’ trait.”

For @lrb.co.uk, Jackson Lears writes about our post-9/11 world and @richardbeck.bsky.social's ‪new book, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

It's fair to wonder what would have happened at the scale of, say, an entire neighborhood in Toronto?

www.wired.com/story/google...

Ford’s attack on bike lanes was unsupported by any evidence, and put people’s lives in danger while accomplishing nothing.

That’s what the judge said. It’s damning and also quite straightforward.

Next up: dealing with overpriced rents and homes—and oversized kitchen islands.

This is in part why I left Toronto.

Maybe. But his TMU profile still cites a 416 area code number.

TMU professors that hold Rogers affiliations are a type. Murtaza Haider is a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management. Mohamed Lachemi was a front man for Sidewalk Labs, and he is president of TMU, lauched the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, and is on the board of Rogers Communications.

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

Sidewalk Toronto was only cancelled five years ago.

Ground Zero: Christopher Hawthorne on Architecture Criticism Yale professor and critic Christopher Hawthorne reflects on three decades of practice and his stint as Los Angeles' Chief Design Officer.

In a conversation with @novakovicto.bsky.social, Yale professor and critic @hawthorne.bsky.social reflects on three decades of practice — and his high-profile stint as Los Angeles’ Chief Design Officer.

I thought of King too. I grew up visiting his house on Laurier East, in Ottawa. You could enter the room where he hosted séances.

‘We didn’t vote for Chat GPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’

Using AI is deeply unpopular.

we even have a website about how you can't discriminate against people who are pregnant. it's on the internet, which google has been known to index from time to time

www3.ohrc.on.ca/en/part-ii-i...

Google wanted to govern and develop a “smart” city in Toronto.

The stunning photograph above is by Lynne Cohen, ‘International Square, OACI, Montreal’, 1977. Courtesy of the Estate of Lynne Cohen and Andrew Lugg.

Vertical Urbanism magazine is published by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, based in Chicago. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief Daniel Safarik for the invitation.

Buy your digital copy of Vertical Urbanism no. 4:

Skyscrapers by the Roots – MAC Montréal This exhibition explores the long life of late modernism in the field of architecture by bringing together a series of works created over the last decade by Shannon Bool, Kapwani Kiwanga, Rachel Rose,...

The exhibition is on show until August 10th, 2025, which is this Sunday:

Summer in Montreal means bike lanes, park hangs, orange cones, and high-performance cranes. Add to that ‘Skyscrapers by the Roots’, an exhibition at @macmontreal.bsky.social, and you have one more reason to visit. For Vertical Urbanism magazine, I wrote a review.

Summer Blues – Walking, Joyce Wieland, 1961

Installation view of Arctic Passion Cake, Joyce Wieland, 1971

Reports that Harvard is “considering” giving in to Trump admin anti-academia bullying, or other phrasing indicating possible future moves rather than actual action, should be read as possibly coming from advocates trying to will it into being.

Wanna bet that one NYT anonymous source is Bill Ackman?

Duly noted.

Reprise des violences communautaires dans le sud de la Syrie Au moins quatre personnes ont été tuées dimanche, deux semaines après l’entrée en vigueur d’un cessez-le-feu.

Quel dommage.

I agree. Thing is, over the last six months, I’ve converted friends, my mom, and boyfriend to Signal. It’s a slow process. I’m down with it.

Parallèlement : I ignore platforms that are insecure or anti-democratic, like WhatsApp and Instagram. It’s not ideal but long-term, I’m confident.

Pro-tip: Use @signal.org. For many reasons, but one of the easiest ones to appreciate is that it allows you to correct typos after pressing “send".

Social housing in Paris is really something. Here is an office conversion in Ilot Saint-Germain by Francois Brugel Architectes Associés, h2o Architectes, and Antoine Regnault Architecture.

Look at those wood frames. And there is a gym in the new courtyard. The photography is by Jared Chulski.