Dec 22, 2025, 6:25 AM
Life After Cars
Got it while attending the authors book tour in Vancouver. Very fun event. Also listened to their podcast episode about the cities visited on tour, interesting stuff.
Dec 22, 2025, 6:22 AM
The Burnout Society
Trying to read it again, after a bad experience reading it the first time. Maybe approaching it with different expectations is going to work differently...
Dec 22, 2025, 6:21 AM
How to Do Nothing
Reading again because the first time I've "read" it was as an audiobook and I feel like this one deserves a little more attention (and doing-nothingness) to absorb it
Dec 22, 2025, 6:20 AM
stopped reading The Goblin Emperor
DNF. Doesn't work well as an audiobook for me, maybe too many characters with exotic names to hold in my mind at once.
Dec 14, 2025, 4:02 AM
My most important recap flex
Dec 13, 2025, 6:25 PM
How interesting. Ladner tops the density ranking of the province (in this Wikipedia article)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_population_centres_in_British_Columbia
Dec 4, 2025, 3:56 PM
These individualistic and selfish crooks having a hard time working together is the reason we can have good things move forward. Thank you and good riddance, bring in the next clown
Dec 1, 2025, 1:50 AM
How come Waterfront station does not have a bench for me to sit while waiting for someone?
Not even inside Starbucks, just a few inside Subway or A&W 😥
I kind of already imagine answers but come on #Vancouver #Translink
Nov 28, 2025, 4:38 AM
I was a teenager when I first met someone who did not have dinner everyday - because they were poor - and I will never forget the shock followed by shame.
I was in my 30s when I discovered that some people - who are not poor - simply don’t have lunch, or have some sort of snack/candy and call it done. What is even going on
Nov 25, 2025, 7:55 PM
Nov 21, 2025, 10:40 PM
Get a load of this guy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vance-standard-living-stagnant-immigration-blame-9.6987929
GDP Per Capita is the perfect metric for his type. Deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can create a fiction that somehow the country is working just fine.
While billionaires put cars and penises in orbit and their workers are denied SNAP benefits, we can always celebrate their beautiful GDP per Capita graph. Congratulations.
Nov 20, 2025, 11:25 PM
And it solves the issue in yet another relevant way, in that the poorest segment of society gets to die off without care. What we ought to call a policy of extermination: falling off the edges of the economically-valued realm doesn’t merely make you marginalized, it also sets you up to be erased from the surface of the Earth.
Triple win for the wealthy, double loss for the working class, and a final loss for the poor - death.
Nov 20, 2025, 11:23 PM
What does walking towards a two-tiered system solve?
It solves this problem of rich people having "too much of a hard time" getting ahead of poor people for medical treatment.
And it solves the issue in a way that the middle class thinks they’re on the winning side, but in fact they’re on the losing side, so it ends up solving a second problem: how to further deepen inequality in a way that the mass populace stays under a delusion of fairness.
Nov 13, 2025, 9:29 PM
And it’s weirdly human in that regard. You just can’t “make it better” by force, despite a lifetime of bad adulting around us making us behave as if that works well for us. (3/3)
Nov 13, 2025, 9:29 PM
No matter how humiliatingly I criticize it or how harsh I am, it’s not going to stop pretending to know things or jumping to action before understanding the ask. And instead of being conditioned to get harsher, it’s forcing me to realize that it’s a waste of time (and tokens, measured in dollars) to say anything other than “let’s move on to the next part” or try to explain it more thoroughly from the get go next time. (2/3)
Nov 13, 2025, 9:29 PM
Strange twist of fate in that getting used to pair program with #LLMs is forcing me to become more patient because no matter how much I lash out and make it promise to me it will pay more attention before saying random stuff, I have to accept that it won’t. (1/3)
Nov 13, 2025, 6:29 AM
#Pluribus looks interesting. But I already know that, like Severance, it’s going to flood my timelines with bad takes and the most absurd ways to interpret the story. Thank aliens I don’t share a hive mind with this crowd.
Oct 22, 2025, 6:13 PM
A new kind of #corporate bullshit has arrived: some of my document writing has been flagged as "off-putting AI generated style", even though I did not use any AI to assist on writing that.
Ironically, I did use an LLM to write some cruft at the end of the doc, but that part wasn't flagged.
Apparently as a non-native speaker my English is not "simple human English". And that's already me self-censoring on the use of em dashes because I had already noticed that ChatGPT overuses them.
Oct 21, 2025, 10:39 PM
What's the direction The Walrus is looking for? To follow NYT steps as a place where a veneer of journalism can be used to wrap a trojan horse of garbage opinion pieces appeasing questionable people?
We don't need "radically pluralistic" outlets. We need media companies that have uncompromising standards and vet the stuff they're amplifying.
Oct 21, 2025, 10:27 PM
> No randomized controlled trial has ever shown that masks — even good masks properly fitted — reduce transmission of respiratory viruses.
> The only explanation for this, that I can think of, is that there was a desperate need for a way of ritualizing the fear that had been generated, and masking provided the needed ritual.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/david-cayley-cbc-actively-suppressed-credible-covid-dissent
This man is objectively wrong in his reporting of public health matters and thinks that the issue is that #CBC needs to be "radically pluralistic"
Oct 21, 2025, 10:25 PM
A few weeks ago #TheWalrus came up with a page promoting online gambling. Now they're platforming opinion pieces (https://thewalrus.ca/does-the-cbc-still-speak-for-canada/) that parrot the narrative that CBC is partisan or pro-government propaganda.
To no one’s surprise, the author of this barely veiled accusation masquerading as book has published nonsensical COVID "dissenter" bullshit during his CBC tenure and is grieving that his shitty journalism was rejected
Oct 21, 2025, 1:44 AM
Nature makes the wrinkliest mushy grapes the sweetest pleasure bombs. Sometimes I doubt myself… perhaps this one is too far gone? No. Trust the process. Be not afraid of rotten grapes because fortune favours the bold.
Oct 19, 2025, 4:38 PM
As good as any other day to remember
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_Hotel_Vancouver
opened on February 28, 2017, with Donald Jr., Eric Trump and developer Joo Kim Tiah in attendance […] met with public protests and a boycott of the ceremony by Mayor Robertson and other local politicians.
On August 28, 2020, the hotel reportedly closed permanently and was filing for bankruptcy. […] On April 1, 2022 TA Global Berhad reopened the hotel under the brand Paradox Hotel Group and the name Paradox Vancouver.
Oct 17, 2025, 1:23 AM
Oct 16, 2025, 1:10 AM
ICYMI @viticci I found a funny quirk of AI ubiquity on MacOS:
The Books app generally doesn't facilitate the reader to copy text blurbs from books. But in Tahoe, I can select text from the book and use "Proofread", which opens a small window that does offer the copy option.
LLMs really are the natural enemies of copyright lol
Oct 15, 2025, 11:54 PM
Oct 15, 2025, 11:48 PM
Oct 11, 2025, 4:09 AM
On the other hand it’s unfortunate that this normalizes the unwillingness to divert car infrastructure to active mobility. They have some really egregious sharrows and cyclists end up choosing the sidewalk.
In terms of cycling infrastructure and the ability to bring your bike on public transit I do see Vancouver as being ahead. It’s the ubiquity of cycling and public transit that puts Japan on a different level to me.
Sep 22, 2025, 1:05 AM
Crowd Source
If you live in Vancouver and like birds, this book can be an agreeable companion. I love how niche that is and yet how some of its verses feel so relatable.
Sep 22, 2025, 1:01 AM
Foundation Season 3, 7 out of 10
The production is still the best thing about this show, and the acting is not too shabby but the plot and directing choices are still hit and miss. The Genetic Dynasty remains as the most entertaining blocks of the story, and in this season they are definitely consequential.
Sep 21, 2025, 5:37 AM
Sep 3, 2025, 3:11 PM
The Martian, 8 out of 10
Watched this one again with Aline. One of the great space movies of the last few years. Can’t say I’m a super fan of the crew parts but it’s the survival storyline that carries the weight here.
Watching this in 2025 highlights interesting artifacts of the movie’s optimistic times, when the USA is not broadly hated and the president is not tweeting crazy stuff against the Chinese.
Sep 3, 2025, 3:02 PM
11/23: 11 Years / 23 Stories
A wild and different kind of biography. Somewhat alien to me as I was never this deep into the punk scene but still enjoyable, thanks to my teenager metalhead days probably.
Sep 3, 2025, 2:59 PM
Vancouver's Special Guardians, 9 out of 10
An interesting collection of research, from documented facts to hearsay, on these locally famous but otherwise obscure little still creatures. The photography involved is great, it shows that the author is a professional. The book is thin even using a large font so it isn’t a lot of material but I appreciate the effort in collecting it all in one place.
Jul 26, 2025, 8:22 PM
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Jun 25, 2025, 12:13 AM
Murder of Couriers, 10 out of 10
Found this doc/movie by accident and found it so interesting. I ride bicycles, I live in Vancouver, and I caught myself wondering about courier life. This film allowed me to peek behind the reality, awesomeness and toxicity of courier culture in the area.
May 28, 2025, 7:15 PM
The Burnout Society, 4 out of 10
Surprisingly uninteresting, quite a disappointment. The book is a social critique written as a philosophy graduate essay: a lot of time is spent on stating analogies to describe modern society defended by other philosophers only to say that the description is inaccurate because so and so. The book has some pillar concepts related to "achievement society" but routinely reaches for unnecessary analogies to immune systems or alternative framings like positivity/negativity. The audience is people who read Heidegger instead of people who do want to understand burnout society.
May 28, 2025, 7:02 PM
May 28, 2025, 7:02 PM
Schitt's Creek Season 2
Good lighthearted fun. John and David continue to be interesting characters, Alexis is given some more development, but Moira is still... that. I wish they tried less hard to make Roland so disgusting. Overall a slight improvement over the first season, with an hopeful ending that did feel a little forced.
Feb 6, 2025, 7:29 AM
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