@cosmicatallena.bsky.social
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this is an insane statistic for what is the fastest growing city and metropolitan area in north america. that growth isn't actually realized in most of the city.
it's usually places with tons of renters and density already that see the brunt of hyperfocused growth, & the consequences (displacement)
it's usually places with tons of renters and density already that see the brunt of hyperfocused growth, & the consequences (displacement)
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is an insane statistic for what is the fastest growing city and metropolitan area in north america. that growth isn't actually realized in most of the city.
it's usually places with tons of renters and density already that see the brunt of hyperfocused growth, & the consequences (displacement)
it's usually places with tons of renters and density already that see the brunt of hyperfocused growth, & the consequences (displacement)
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I never verified this but I'm told ASL has a way of describing shapes which has some similarity to Constructive Solid Geometry primitive operations and is apparently so expressive that deaf scientists are actively advantaged in conversations among themselves about molecules
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I never verified this but I'm told ASL has a way of describing shapes which has some similarity to Constructive Solid Geometry primitive operations and is apparently so expressive that deaf scientists are actively advantaged in conversations among themselves about molecules
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
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It begins. Get Celine ready.
🇨🇦 Eurovision:
- Eurovision confirmed they're in early negotiation with the CBC
- CBC confirmed the broadcaster picks the artists
- Canada is already an associate member of the EBU like Australia
- Eurovision confirmed they're in early negotiation with the CBC
- CBC confirmed the broadcaster picks the artists
- Canada is already an associate member of the EBU like Australia
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It begins. Get Celine ready.
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Scammer surge pricing is insane as a strategy
this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Scammer surge pricing is insane as a strategy
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Chinese women inventing micro-anarchofeminist co-op houses (two families in an apartment), because they know that any bigger and you spend too long in meetings
Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers
Posts from women seeking like-minded parents to share a home and child-rearing responsibilities are appearing on social media
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Chinese women inventing micro-anarchofeminist co-op houses (two families in an apartment), because they know that any bigger and you spend too long in meetings
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Will Not Let Me Go is something I still think about years later. It is… searingly painful and searingly beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Will Not Let Me Go is something I still think about years later. It is… searingly painful and searingly beautiful.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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The unsung steampunk RPG Wachenröder is a fine example of how videogame visual concepts can be elevated when a sufficient portion of the budget is allocated to gifted artists. These and many other sculptures of its characters and vehicles can be found in the pages of its manual.
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The unsung steampunk RPG Wachenröder is a fine example of how videogame visual concepts can be elevated when a sufficient portion of the budget is allocated to gifted artists. These and many other sculptures of its characters and vehicles can be found in the pages of its manual.
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"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
A classic: www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
A classic: www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
Joan Didion on Self-Respect
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
A classic: www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
A classic: www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
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new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
The bleak and poignant open world sidequest design of Dread Delusion
World design / quest design review of Dread Delusion, a 2024 indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
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This forthcoming book by @brankomilan.bsky.social looks like it will be excellent.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Great Global Transformation
From the essential chronicler of the world economy, a portrait of the Great Powers in transition. The world’s two great economic powers are on opposite trajectories. In the United States, decades of n...
press.uchicago.edu
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This forthcoming book by @brankomilan.bsky.social looks like it will be excellent.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be."
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
www.rascal.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be."
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
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A month ago, Ontario’s Auditor General told Doug Ford’s government to create a public, accountable climate plan with emissions-reduction targets — as courts have also ordered.
Today, the government’s fall economic statement eliminates all legal obligation to do so. #onpoli
Today, the government’s fall economic statement eliminates all legal obligation to do so. #onpoli
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A month ago, Ontario’s Auditor General told Doug Ford’s government to create a public, accountable climate plan with emissions-reduction targets — as courts have also ordered.
Today, the government’s fall economic statement eliminates all legal obligation to do so. #onpoli
Today, the government’s fall economic statement eliminates all legal obligation to do so. #onpoli
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With the important caveat that LKY would not hesitate to have Hanania preemptively vanned. Or in fact much of his 2020s non-Singaporean online fandom www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
Operation Coldstore: Singapore’s struggle to confront history
A gruelling parliamentary hearing has opened a debate on a largely forgotten official crackdown in the Asian city state.
www.lowyinstitute.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
With the important caveat that LKY would not hesitate to have Hanania preemptively vanned. Or in fact much of his 2020s non-Singaporean online fandom www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Another great piece on Mamdani and climate. I see a lot of people saying "but his transit/housing campaigns ARE about climate" and... yeah. But the observation that he did not campaign ON climate despite his past work to the issue is meaningful.
Mamdani barely campaigned on climate, but the movement has rallied behind him.
Here’s my look at his agenda and what it might tell us about climate politics moving forward. nysfocus.com/2025/11/05/z...
Here’s my look at his agenda and what it might tell us about climate politics moving forward. nysfocus.com/2025/11/05/z...
What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Means for New York's Climate Politics
Whether intentionally or not, the mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream in climate circles: To succeed, climate policies need to…
nysfocus.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Another great piece on Mamdani and climate. I see a lot of people saying "but his transit/housing campaigns ARE about climate" and... yeah. But the observation that he did not campaign ON climate despite his past work to the issue is meaningful.
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the gall of these people
OpenAI looking for a bailout guarantee from the government seems, uh, bad, considering the fact that its spending on data centers seems to be single-handedly holding American capitalism together
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
the gall of these people
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New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
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Every Torontonian has to live in that high-rise cluster for a stint in their 20s, since it's the only part of the city with rentals, but also, as a rite of passage. 12th floor bachelor apartment. Busted AC. Some jerk setting off fire alarm every weekend. Cupboard of glasses stolen from a Firkin pub.
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Every Torontonian has to live in that high-rise cluster for a stint in their 20s, since it's the only part of the city with rentals, but also, as a rite of passage. 12th floor bachelor apartment. Busted AC. Some jerk setting off fire alarm every weekend. Cupboard of glasses stolen from a Firkin pub.
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
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Our elites may be the most pathetic class of quislings in a century but normal people all over the country are looking fascism square in the face and saying 'fuck no'
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Our elites may be the most pathetic class of quislings in a century but normal people all over the country are looking fascism square in the face and saying 'fuck no'
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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Saw some lady wonder if she invented putting salsa in her scrambled eggs like every culture in the world doesn’t have their own version of “easy tomato egg dish” lmao
Yes, she is.
Yes, she is.
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Saw some lady wonder if she invented putting salsa in her scrambled eggs like every culture in the world doesn’t have their own version of “easy tomato egg dish” lmao
Yes, she is.
Yes, she is.
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i'm a big fan of @coreyatad.com and thrilled to have him writing some features and reviews for us at MovieWeb – including this deep-dive on the influences behind the movie that inspired Bugonia:
Emma Stone's New Thriller Remakes a Korean Sci-Fi Classic With Some Out-There Influences
What do a Stephen King cult classic and a bizarre Leonardo DiCaprio conspiracy theory have in common?
movieweb.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
i'm a big fan of @coreyatad.com and thrilled to have him writing some features and reviews for us at MovieWeb – including this deep-dive on the influences behind the movie that inspired Bugonia: