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Toronto Katılım Kasım 2012
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
@NatHalberstadt The residents all have at least one thing in common: they chose to live in this type of complex instead of any other "regular" building in town. This selects for a specific type of person who is more likely to participate in group activities and form new community bonds.
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Nathan Halberstadt 🧊
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊@NatHalberstadt·
I don’t see anything particularly unique about Neumann’s project. A range of “luxury” apartment tower options in any American city already offer this standard suite of amenities: - event calendar - office space - gym - pool / outdoor grills - etc. But the reality is inside these apartment complexes in Nova or the Seaport District or otherwise, despite the gating and the rhetoric of owners / yimby types, strangers still don’t really “spontaneously interact,” and that’s largely by choice. people don’t share close to enough in common and are busy. Further, these spaces and events tend to be far too stale and corporate to be interesting at all. So the spaces go unused and the events unattended. Reality is that most people want to choose who they spend time with and where. They don’t want to be boxed into some 5-in-1 shampoo / soap / conditioner / etc type pre-packaged combo lifestyle. This typically takes on a sort of fractal quality, accomplished either more organically through existing social relationships (e.g., there’s a bar your college friends go to) and institutional bonds (e.g., there’s a church you go to) —or through more explicitly vetted, curated, and aligned private spaces that the barrier of “can you pay X thousand $ / month?” isn’t sufficient to manufacturer.
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what adam neumann is doing now is such an obviously good idea. most of american life unless scheduled is super isolationist so you rarely get those spontaneous interactions with ppl.. this sorta flips that around right at the point of where ppl spend majority of their lives. anyway, it’s super duper interesting to see the wework model applied to residential.

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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
These new @AirCanada bag tracking notifications are such a nice quality of life improvement
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
In total it took ~56 mins to get from Mount Dennis to Kennedy, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the journey went! Looking forward to seeing how much faster this gets with all the planned improvements coming in the next few months. 3/3
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
The underground section felt like a true subway! Can't wait for them to increase the top speed to 80 km/h. The above-ground sections were much slower. Low speed limits + got stuck at a red light before almost every stop. Transit signal priority can't come soon enough! 2/3
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
Some notes from riding the new Eglinton Line on opening day: The trains were really smooth & quiet! None of the creaks & rattles you hear in the subways & streetcars. The stations were clean and modern but lacked character. 1/3
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
@ramonable Yeah looks like it opened again later in the day. Was worried it was closed to the public for good!
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ramona
ramona@ramonable·
@andrepaulj bummer, they have a private event it seems
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
@AlexanderGlista Am I the only one who thinks it would make more sense for the line 2 (green line) trains to be green, not red?
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Alex Glista 🇨🇦
Alex Glista 🇨🇦@AlexanderGlista·
BREAKING: The TTC is getting new Line 2 subway trains (55 trains), manufactured right here in Ontario in Thunder Bay. They’re based on Alstom’s Metropolis platform, and look extremely modern. More here: news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…
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Noah Cat@Cartidise·
the downfall of Apple’s software needs to be studied
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
C, G, H, I, J, N, T, U, V are too far to the left D, E, K, L, P, R are too far to the right @taylorcarrigan @chan_k got any idea why?
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
TIL iOS keyboard keys aren't all the same size Q, R, U, D, J, X, N are one pixel less wide than the rest... does anyone know why?
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
I think the 2020s will be the decade of founders focused on design/craft
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
Perfect example of “when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
@Colin_d_m You can make it up to us by adding Toronto to the game 😉
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Colin@Colin_d_m·
@andrepaulj Would totally go if I lived in Toronto
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AP Johnson@andrepaulj·
@internetvin It's a subway building sim released last week, built by @Colin_d_m. Figured you might know some transit/gaming nerds who'd be interested in this kind of game night
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