@VioletWyle @AmanLoodu More than 100, not Musqueam.
Maybe learn some history before jumping straight into lecturing other people. 🤷♂️
English
Hamish B 🇺🇦
4.6K posts
@AmanLoodu Yeah, this was a park and current residents didn’t want these towers in *their* park, but didn’t mention it was less than 100 years ago that residents had violently pushed the Musqueam off their recognised land to build homes and park. I hope they stay mad.
English
they were forced off of prime beachfront which they relied on for fishing, and that area is now full of single family homes worth millions.
They got a small parcel of land back next to a bridge and the current residents in those homes are FURIOUS that they built towers
The Vancouver Sun@VancouverSun
Sen̓áḵw Towers set to open 113 years after Squamish people forced from site vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
English
So good this didn’t happen to downtown Vancouver.
Aaron Lubeck@aaron_lubeck
We are doing it wrong. before < 1962 > after
English
@kbessey @fabulavancouver When the new rates are the same as the old rates, your original post was… I’ll let others reach their own conclusions.
English
@hamishrb @fabulavancouver The company in the photos leasing the building don’t even have the agreement to lease it anymore.
I know the agent, know how many units are still vacant, etc.
So to me—they are old rates and old news.
English
Old rates and news.
Looks like they removed all promoted listings, cut rents, and hired a single agent to save on marketing costs.
Spending thousands of dollars on marketing and incentives just to realize you need to rent at market. This is the rental market today.
vancouver.craigslist.org/van/apa/d/vanc…
vancouver.craigslist.org/van/apa/d/vanc…
CityHallWatch@CityHallWchVAN
New rental building at Kingsway and Clark. Advertised rental rates: studios ($2050-2350), 1-bed ($2295-2650), 2-bed ($3250-3900) & 3-bed or townhome ($4295-4850/month).
English
@kbessey @fabulavancouver You said these were old rates and old news, implying these numbers were wrong, and then when we see evidence that they **are** current rates you’re saying that they are “likely” wrong?
Pardon me if CityHallWatch seems a lot more credible than you do!
English
@hamishrb @fabulavancouver This is bottom of the range for the 1’s.
A 620ft is very likely to be the largest.
They are trending down on the range and they’ll likely continue to fall by my estimation.
English
@kbessey @fabulavancouver This is the same price that the retweeted City Hall Watch tweet lists. So they are not “old prices”.
English
@acoyne If you were educated here then likely plenty in elementary and high school before you actually got to vote.
It’s not exactly the same, you’d still be a citizen the whole time and get to vote even if you didn’t graduate. But the point is most citizens are educated and tested
English
How many citizenship questions did you have to answer?
Bryan Breguet@Prominent_Bryan
What a joke Just give the citizenship to everyone already. That's what a true post national state looks like, right?
English
@CrashKate @fabulavancouver @OneCityVan OneCity’s voting record indicates they Vancouver to be nothing but high rises. Has for a very long time, definitely pre-Lucy.
English
@fabulavancouver @OneCityVan I really loved @OneCityVan for years. 6 floors and corner stores really resonated with me. Then, we elect Lucy who keeps approving 25+ storeys with significant opposition. Then, they bring on two absolute quacks from Abundant Housing.
They’ve lost the plot, cannot back them.
English
Dear my delightful tweeps, some news! So after 30 years of City Hall and urban-issues stories that you all know, I'm doing something completely different — I’ve decided to run for a City Council nomination with @OneCityVan and hopefully run on their slate this October.
English
@JohnRustad4BC This was a terrible change. Now kids will go to school in the dark. Horrible I hope we switch back to time changes.
English
Last year I pushed the government to finally act on ending the twice-a-year clock change.
British Columbians were clear. The legislation was already there. The delays had gone on long enough.
Now it’s done. B.C. moves to permanent Pacific time and the clock change is gone for good
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
English
The Sen̓áḵw design is crystalline yet warm with mirror-like surfaces catching the sky, water and sunset-toned elements. It is a wonderful departure from Vancouver’s usual blue-glass monotony.
Khelsilem@Khelsilem
English
@steipete When Lex recognized the short term pain these changes will cause, in terms of people losing their jobs, you didn’t acknowledge it, just responded with more of the positives. Would have been nice to hear some concern.
English
this was an honor! Also took all day 😅
Lex Fridman@lexfridman
Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub. This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation! It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:30 - Introduction 5:36 - OpenClaw origin story 8:55 - Mind-blowing moment 18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral 22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent 27:04 - Name-change drama 44:15 - Moltbook saga 52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns 1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents 1:32:09 - Programming setup 1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6 1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming 2:09:59 - Life story and career advice 2:13:56 - Money and happiness 2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta 2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works 2:46:17 - AI slop 2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps 3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers? 3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community
English
@mortimer_1 This argument has been used every time when it comes to worker rights.
“If you don’t like working in a coal mine for 80 hours a week in unsafe conditions for peanuts go find another job, chortle chortle chortle”
English
@sarahkirby_yung Too many of these “mums and dads” have poorly behaved dogs and don’t care.
I stand with people not poorly behaved dogs.
English
Standing with the dog mums and dads. We have so few off leash spaces in the City.
Mayor Ken Sim@KenSimCity
We fully stand with Vancouver dog owners in opposition to Metro Vancouver's proposed new restrictions to off leash areas in Pacific Spirit Park. I will be writing a letter to Metro Vancouver's parks committee calling on them to vote down this shortsighted proposal.
English
@HaneyInkslinger @DouglasTodd @Bill_McCreery How many sq ft are these homes? Probably more suited to a couple.
English
@DouglasTodd @Bill_McCreery Homes that young families can, maybe, afford. It’s not 1978.
English
We fully stand with Vancouver dog owners in opposition to Metro Vancouver's proposed new restrictions to off leash areas in Pacific Spirit Park.
I will be writing a letter to Metro Vancouver's parks committee calling on them to vote down this shortsighted proposal.
English
"Going against advice of city staff, Vancouver council approves residential tower on industrial land" as told by @fumano
"~90% of Vancouver's land base is currently zoned for residential use, the staff report says, & only 6% is zoned for industrial"
vancouversun.com/business/real-…
English
@xmaximus242x @newstart_2024 Yes if only I’d worked harder I too could have been an eminent theoretical physicist.
English
@newstart_2024 IQ is not enough of a predictor that it cannot be overcome with other variables like work ethic. Does this mean higher IQ people can be lazier to achieve the same outcome? In theory yes. In practice we see those with high IQs like James William Sidis fail to achieve anything.
English
"No one likes that idea"
Jordan Peterson: IQ is largely unitary, highly heritable, and brutally unfair.
It predicts long-term success in complex jobs better than almost anything. Smart parents → smart kids (but regression to mean pulls toward average 100).
Identical twins separated at birth? By age 60, IQs so similar it's like testing the same person—environment barely diverges them.
You can't train general IQ up with games/puzzles (task gains don't transfer). But cardio + weights help maintain it as you age; early nutrition (breastfeeding adds ~3-4 points per year) + stimulation matter in childhood.
No one's figured out how to meaningfully raise it—yet.
This 3:58 clip confronts why the "cards aren't dealt equally."
Does knowing IQ is mostly genetic change how you view opportunity, merit, or inequality?
English
Hamish B 🇺🇦 retweetledi
As Prime Minister, I will ban ministers and other top officials from involvement with the World Economic Forum.
Become a member so you can vote: Pierre4PM.ca/membership
English
@IRPlawyer “Trickle down economics hasn’t worked that well because the highest tax brackets haven’t been reduced enough.”
Doubling down on failed policy is frequently the sign of ideology rather than rational thought.
English
I tried using my treadmill a few times but I never got washboard abs so I won’t be returning to exercise as it doesn’t work.
Global BC@GlobalBC
B.C.'s premier says the province won't be returning to drug decriminalization as it 'didn't work' globalnews.ca/news/11601344/…
English
@aileenmachell @KahlonRav Why is so much reconciliation done in secret? I have a hard time supporting secret anything.
English
Jobs Minister @KahlonRav lays out a strong case:
Trying to turn reconciliation into a wedge issue might generate headlines, but it would come at the expense of progress, jobs, and prosperity for all British Columbians. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…
English