@acoyne Or, as Nixon famously said to Frost -- when the president does it, it's not illegal. Apparently, if Nixon had been a reality TV guy, he might have gotten away with Watergate!
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Tony Florio
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Tony Florio
@ToneFlorio
Fascinated by creativity in music, technology and life! Loves quiet moments and sleeping in late. Communications @Miovision, but my opinions are my own ...
Waterloo, Ontario Katılım Nisan 2013
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When you’re a president they let you do it.
Acyn@Acyn
Justice: Let's talk about some of the things that you might be able to do as president. Trump: You can do everything. The President has such power. It does. Such power.
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@ESL_fairy Great thread. Gov'ts have been promising the world while slowly squeezing funding and need to be held accountable. The only way to actually improve things is to acknowledge the problem(s)!
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For what it’s worth, I didn’t speak about “violence” in schools tonight, but I did speak about how our government is failing vulnerable, overwhelmed students with complex needs and how kids are melting down with no access to proactive, specialized supports. There’s a difference.
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My boss, @Miovision's @kurtismcbride, makes some great points in his new op-ed on tangible policy steps would should be taking to enable cities to adopt innovative technologies at the kind of scale that can make a meaningful difference in the lives of their citizens.
TheFutureEconomy.ca@FuturEconomy
In Canada, over $690 billion of public infrastructure is in fair to very poor condition. The problem? The funding type we have in Canada is not conducive for smart cities. So how do make our funding smarter? New op-ed by @KurtisMcBride from @Miovision: thefutureeconomy.ca/op-eds/smart-c…
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@kurtismcbride Nostalgic 70's TV Shows:
Waterloo - zero, nada
Milwaukee -- 2 (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley) 😎
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A comparison between Waterloo, Ontario and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Airports:
Waterloo has 4 gates.
Milwaukee has 38 gates.
Hospital Beds:
Waterloo has ~1,100.
Milwaukee has 2,817.
Convention Centre Capacity:
Waterloo has 40k square feet @ Bingamins. Milwaukee has 1.3M square feet @ the Baird Centre.
Large Sporting Venues:
Waterloo has the Auditorium with 7,100 seats. Milwaukee has the Fiserv Forum with 17,500 seats.
Population:
Waterloo has 593k (642k by 2030).
Milwaukee has 558k (544k by 2030).
Proximity to Large City:
Waterloo to Toronto - 111km.
Milwaukee to Chicago - 142km.
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@the_autopian Solid take. The generator parts of PHEVs need to be simpler, cheaper, smaller and more efficient, which won't happen until they become the volume choice (probably soon). Off the shelf engines are not optimized for this duty cycle.
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You like hot takes? We have something even better: DAVID TAKES 🔥 America’s Plug-In Hybrids Aren’t Good Enough theautopian.com/americas-plug-…
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Exciting News! We've acquired CJ Hensch & Associates, a Texas corporation specializing in traffic data collection and engineering studies. They've been a loyal customer - our journey together has been remarkable!
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@TashaKheiriddin Maybe the problem is people consuming social media uncritically, while feeling good about their skepticism for traditional media. SMH.
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Bin Laden’s letter is a rambling attack against capitalism, Jews and America.
Tik Tok isn’t just a data farm, but a disinformation arm for the Chinese Communist Party. And it’s coming for Gen Z like a heat seeking missile.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again. Many of them — and I have watched a lot — say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power. This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms. The Guardian had a copy of “Letter to America” posted, but once these TikToks went viral, the Guardian took it down, which has only led to more interest in the letter and conspiracies from TikTokers who say this is part of the media and the powers that control it trying to silence the truth.
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@VoiceOfFranky Is it being replaced by greater attachments to regional identities? That's what the politics look like. Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, an Alberta-led Prairie block, and BC.
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@mattgurney @SenatorCordy @gmacofglebe There are stats: novascotia.ca/finance/statis…. Surprising to me how little natural gas and how much electric heat used compared to Ontario.
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@SenatorCordy @gmacofglebe Happy to clarify, Senator. I meant that Atlantic Canadiens are subgroup of the population, and then within that subgroup there is the smaller subgroup of those who heat their homes using oil. I raise this because I expect that others will also want breaks on their heating bills.
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Absolutely @gmacofglebe maybe he could let those of us from #AtlanticCanada know what “subset of a subset” means.
Greg MacEachern@gmacofglebe
Just heard Matt Gurney describe Atlantic Canadians who use oil heating as "a subset of a subset." I don't recall many other governement announcements, say in Alberta, critiqued this way.
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@davidreevely The beauty of this solution is it tends to slow all traffic down without loads of enforcement. Add separate multiuse lanes, or even parking. Building wide, straight roads then slapping a slow speed limit on it is always going to create issues.
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A great read for anyone who remembers people getting summer jobs tree planting.
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER@doctorow
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: #pulped-and-papered" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/mur…
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@mattgurney Turn it into a reality TV series -- the Real Life Odd Couple!
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Seeing a lot of snark re: this, noting that Poilievre gets to live in a publicly funded mansion.
Fair enough. Good snark. But I have a better idea and a real solution.
Poilievre keeps Stornoway. Trudeau moves in. Make them live together. And all future PMs and oppo leaders.
CPAC@CPAC_TV
"We don't need a new home for the prime minister. We need a new home for working-class Canadians," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says when asked about report the federal govt is exploring alternative site to 24 Sussex to build new official residence for the PM. #cdnpoli
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@jen_keesmaat "Doesn't understand" is generous. The whole point of the scandal is that people were able to buy land that could NOT be developed on the cheap, then use political influence to get the zoning changed so that land could be developed -- making it many times more valuable.
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Brian Lilley does not seem to understand the role that changing zoning plays in changing the use - and value - of land.
Land within the Greenbelt is designated as Agricultural. Taking this land out of the Greenbelt changes its value (significantly). In this instance, it was not changed as an outcome of a comprehensive and public due diligence process, evaluating environmental and agricultural impacts as is required by The Planning Act, but rather at the request of a handful of self interested developers. No public process. No due diligence. No evaluation of whether this is in the public interest.
That is the give away.
Brian Lilley@brianlilley
Appears I need to keep repeating this but the lands taken out of the Greenbelt were privately owned, not publicly owned. Ford didn’t sell or give away “our land.” Also, requirements to build include a percentage of affordable housing & other conditions. torontosun.com/opinion/column…
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@the_autopian Miura, C4 Corvette, the last Mazda RX-7, '59 Cadillac and Buick Roadmaster?
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Oh look, a new Carnundrum. There's five cars mashed up in there, can you name them?
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@mattgurney I think you (via The Line) nailed it when you wrote that, at his core, Ford is a salesman who sees politics as 'doing deals'. Two challenges: he does deals with a limited group of 'folks' (eg property developers) and he doesn't know what to do when that approach doesn't work.
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@profgalloway And the solution is probably maintaining really competitive markets that make this kind of concentration very unlikely. Which also tends to drive innovation and productivity. Win-win!
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When a private citizen can pay $44 billion for a media company — “the world’s town square” — and both crash the civility of the discourse and incinerate 17 years of brand equity within 10 months …. we have too much concentration of wealth in the hands of too few.
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@mgeist @pablorodriguez Or, if they started their own Mastodon instance (or something homegrown); kind of a digital CBC with terms of service that reflected what we want to see out of these platforms.
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The claims about Bill C-18 and fighting for democracy might be a bit more credible if the Liberal party weren’t still advertising on Facebook, @pablorodriguez wasn’t posting on Facebook, and other government MPs didn’t race to create Threads accounts and link to news articles.
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@emilyrauhala This photo appears to be from 2019: hungarytoday.hu/orban-meets-fo…. Not saying it's a good look (it's not!) but the tweet implies this happened today.
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Hey, whatever happened to former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harp...
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@P_Kallioniemi @HeberdenMarc @elonmusk People who advocate for radical free speech use the same rhetoric as those who advocate for free markets and minimal regulation. The end result of both tends to concentrate power among the few. Dynamic markets also need trust, transparency and competition.
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In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running companies like Tesla Inc., SpaceX and Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives.
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@acoyne Which raises the question: if the NDP tacked to centre (Jack Layton-style) might centrist voters who aren't attracted to the CPC and are tired of the LIBS give them a look?
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My latest, on a grim set of byelections for the Conservatives: protecting their right flank, at the cost of losing the centre theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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