Anton Lodder

I don't understand this to be honest. like, is Anthropic not currently serving LLM usage at scale and even giving away compute on free-tier accounts? what are they at risk of? small IPO?

Don’t drive on Halloween. Let the kids have a night.

Most people don’t realise that you don’t actually need fired bricks to build masonry houses. That’s why bricklayers aren’t called ‘bricklayers of fossil-fuelled fired bricks’. Don’t let yourselves become dependent on them – you have excellent jobs and skills. #earthbuilding

The other day, I got a press release claiming that ER visits among kids linked to e-bike crashes had increased *19.1 times over* in just 3 years. It almost certainly isn't true —  but the injured children are very real. Broke down what's really causing the bloodshed and who can finally stop it.

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…and it doesn’t and they don’t. Developing 100 units? In the US that’ll get one, maybe two elevators. In Switzerland they’re cheap so they’ll break the site up into separate point access blocks and buy eight elevators.

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more likely you just can't find any of them bc of the way you sort your dates 😡

Some (engineers) hate that I keep making these videos. So be it. Here you can see acoustic foam like @ the nightclub 😱 vs a falling apart (!) offcut of a straw insulation board, worst case scenario! Fires are always bad. Choose your surroundings wisely. Fossil fuel based materials ARE a stupid idea.

"I'm an avid cyclist but"

Good, concise summary on the R290 situation. Opaque industry regulatory bodies are holding back a safe option that should let us heat and cool our homes more efficiently

This election will be decided by turnout. The richest, greediest, most selfish cranks in this city will definitely vote, so it's up to us to make sure we get a government that actually represents the people.

No to the Nine resonated pretty strongly in Alberta's two big cities. Different story outside them. The urban/rural/small cities split remains a feature of our province.

you know how sidewalks and bike lanes are routinely blocked so that construction companies can put up signs warning drivers of road closures? turns out if you want to just set up in the middle of a school crosswalk with no safety controls or humans present, that's also fine

This is very, very impressive.

what if we paused agricultural every winter to save on the energy required to grow literally every calorie in a heated greenhouse with artificial light?

cars, like guns, turn ordinary and unfortunate conflicts into deadly / murderous interactions (unlike guns, cars also routinely create said conflicts)

This virtual private clinic in BC charges exorbitant fees for basic blood tests that are publicly covered. A core part of the sales pitch is lying about how testing works in the public system. Preventative routine screening IS COVERED - this is essential primary care that FPs/NPs do regularly.

I have to do a home repair project today that requires buying PVC plumbing supplies. It sucks that I spent all these years running my mouth about bikes. Now I need to go buy a truck before the project can begin.

and it's not like traffic cameras were ubiquitous. Toronto had like 50 across 1000s of kms of roadway. we were barely trying them!

One thing I can't get over is that the cycle tracks hardly affect drivers at all: travel times and parking are only marginally different and they still get their pointless removal wish granted. They saved lives and doubled cycling and it just doesn't matter. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

power laws and vice data, name a more iconic duo

I think it should be illegal to put booster rockets on cars

important to remember that the point of all of this is so a handful of AI firms can race to grab the biggest share of the market and monopolize their space. we could be doing this at 1/100th the scale of we wanted to

"In our research at Cleanview, we keep coming across developers that are using jet engines to power their data centers" Fun to read a sentence like that and it's just normal in 2026 lnkd.in/p/eju6Mn_j

It has been brought to our attention that it is entirely possible Doug Ford does not understand that a podcast called "The War on Cars" might be in favor of things like protected bike lanes.

each time lasted 2 months

"where Doug Ford regularly goes" is the best predictor of provincial policy. * highway to Muskoka * private jet access from queens park to Ottawa via billy bishop * tunnel under 401 for motorcades * absolutely no bike lanes I could ever see * no tolls (407 is fine, I have tunnel)

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Moar! Moar!

goodby emmett

you could not make a stronger argument in this direction that Bloor / University and the activist campaigns that achieved them 🤡🤡

I'm so proud to say I was blocked by emmett for pointing out that we invented "mittens" and "toques" to deal with the cold

AB government shooting themselves in the foot, but through Edmonton's foot first.