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submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Super fun weekend read from @tomcardoso.bsky.social. I think this story isn’t over.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Stumbled upon this 2018 precursor to probably the most important Product Management book of 2025: ”The risk isn’t whether you can build a thing, it’s whether anyone will care. Most founders, marcom professionals, and product managers ignore this at their peril.” acroll.medium.com/a-better-def...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent piece in @thewalrus.ca on the ‘financialization of housing’: how REITs provide a legal framework for maximum profit extraction at scale from a limited housing supply. If you or someone you voted for says they are concerned about affordable housing, start here. thewalrus.ca/real-estate-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

German electricity generation mix, 1990-2024. After the nuclear exit, are they using more coal? No, less. More natural gas then? No, less. Could they have used even less coal and gas if they hadn't shut down nuclear? Yes. ) Lignite = brown coal. Graph: www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/g...

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Siep gets it!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Shop app has me pretty well profiled: hockey sticks, old transit maps and @acroll.bsky.social’s new book

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Spectacular self-own.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

CFPB just got a complete stop work order from Vought. Order to cease all supervision, examination, and investigations into consumer complaints. They are attempting to shutter this agency that protects regular people from corporate exploitation.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

"The budget for 2025 for CFPB is $823 million. Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has returned $20.7 billion to consumers." www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

"Everyone thinks of solar like the Whole Foods of energy - better for you, but pricey. In fact, it's now the Costco of energy, and everyone needs to know that." - yet another unforgettable thought from @billmckibben.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

18F is absolutely not a 'far left' office. It is a squarely centrist tech initiative entirely focused on applying human centered design principles to improve the user experience of government digital services across every agency. We might critique them from a design justice perspective but wow.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Some good context from @davidfrum.bsky.social on the wrongheadedness of Trump’s tariffs www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Albert Einstein said, “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” As Canadians, we can wean ourselves off American energy, food, goods and services. We can electrify everything with heat pumps, trains, electric cars and e-bikes. We can put our wood to work.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Here is the data on fentanyl caught at US borders. The yellow line (Canada) is close to zero because the numbers are so small (50 lbs last year vs some 20,000 lbs from Mexico). Source: US Customs and Border Protection.

submitted 21 days ago • 55 comments

This is a huge red flag for a crucial, non-political federal agency. Unlike NHTSA, NTSB has pulled no punches asserting that Tesla Autopilot is dangerously designed. Musk once hung up on the NTSB Chair: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

The most important band of 2025. open.spotify.com/track/5d5Ur3...

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submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

Tired: DEI Hire Wired: DUI Hire

submitted 29 days ago • 56 comments

Been blocking a lot of random w*tch accounts that started following me. If anything weird happens to me I suggest you start there.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

this administration will raise the cost of construction - both material and labor - so fewer projects pencil, raising rents dramatically. we were already facing a permit cliff for the next few years

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that there are 11 days per Scaramucci. I suspect this will be a relevant measure over the next few months.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

truly the golden age for invertebrates

submitted 36 days ago • 103 comments

Imagine investors bought up all the cancer drugs or fresh water and if you needed some you’d have to buy it for whatever investors were willing to sell if for.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

2 things we know for sure from evidence over & over again. 1st, building more vehicle lanes doesn’t “solve congestion” because of induced demand — it just induces more driving. 2nd, the one thing that DOES improve congestion is pricing mechanisms like decongestion pricing, with transport choices.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

The Puzzle.

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

How much impact has your product team had? 🤔 That’s a surprisingly tricky question to answer. Sure, A/B tests are great … … assuming you’ve got the traffic ... ... and you’re measuring a single feature. But A/B tests aren’t great at measuring performance across multiple initiatives / teams. 1/n

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Trudeau’s complete ineptness in communicating a sensible, globally-validated policy while letting his opponent completely undermine him with a silly populist slogan is the clearest example of why he’s got to go.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Why do Canadian cities believe that pedestrianized streets only work during the warm seasons when pedestrianized ski resorts exist across Canada and the U.S? People will happily spend time outside in winter weather if you provide them with safe infrastructure and a reason to be there.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Bluesky PSA: Link text doesn't count against character count. Paste your link text, let BlueSky generate the thumbnail, then delete the physical link text. You gain those characters back.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Legalizing sports #gambling was a terrible bet. With societal ills and sports scandals on the rise, it's time for governments to rein in the betting industry: Washington Post editorial wapo.st/420dJ0e via @washingtonpost.com

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Did I mention how easy it is to donate to Wikipedia? Literally took 10 seconds.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

It just took about 10 seconds to make a one-time $20 to Wikipedia. If you can’t afford $20 then donate $10. Or $5. Wikipedia is one of the non-enshittified places left.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Huh. Would be interesting if anyone can find out why this story is being hidden from search.

submitted 62 days ago • 19 comments