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So is the "it was actually a bacterial bloom in a stagnant pond" follow-up going to get as much play as the initial "unknown chemical leak from a data centre" story

Investigation into Cambridge stormwater spill shows 'no evidence of contaminants of concern,' province says | CBC NewsThe province's Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks said initial samples taken from a stormwater pond in Cambridge, where crews have been investigating an "odorous, white milky substance," ...www.cbc.ca

Wild

your use of AI: humanity-denying, skill-destroying, unthinking, sloppy, unhealthy, bad, my use of AI: humanity-affirming, skill-creating, judicious, tasteful, normal, good,

Oh, one more: driving the elevated Gardiner through a forest of steel and glass towers in downtown Toronto is incredible (if it’s somehow not congested)

Hear me out: an electric fireplace but it’s a big flat lava lamp

Please donate to Ukraine’s defense to help put a stop to Russia’s terrorism

Yelling “thank you” across the bus to the driver when alighting is weird

Not the most important thing in the story (dozens died in the crossing attempt!) but TIL that Spain has two tiny enclaves on the Moroccan coast

What is Ceuta, and how was the Spanish enclave near Morocco breached by 60,000 migrants? | CBC NewsCurrent estimates are some 60,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave in North Africa on Thursday — and by Friday, that an estimated 48,300 had returned to Morocco. Here's what we know.www.cbc.ca

Fascinating that the vehicles most explicitly designed to look and be aggressive end up actually being aggressive. Regulate this culture of vehicular murder out of existence

Disrupting the retail industry with a groundbreaking concept for an inconvenience store

Like when the late Donald Shoup looked into where all the specific rules for minimum parking requirements came from and the answer was some dudes just made them up out of whole cloth

Not a techno-optimist Not a techno-pessimist Just someone who doesn’t think techno has particular positive or negative valence

“ALTO is, by any measure, substantially more popular than Ford personally or the PC Party corporately.”

The list of """brand names""" in the list of product recalls is kind of insane, hard to look at it and not think that there is _some_ value in Brands

Critical support to LinkedIn for this

Friendster?… Friendster???

Wait this is really cool!

Alternate headline: Region of Waterloo not horsing around with road crossings

An interesting linguistic effect of capitalism is that it can turn a (small business) owner into a small (business owner)

Swiss trains being built in Canada might be a step toward learning other aspects of railroading from the Swiss