CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@thatdawnperson I'm 0.064 streetcars tall it's totally intuitive.

@c_9 maybe also count the low power single board computers (Pi etc) if you’d told me a full Linux OS could run on a sub $100 machine powered by a USB cable in 2004 I’d have been beyond incredulous. Really opened up computing to more people/places than ever

Is there an AI financing bubble and corruption? Ed Zitron did the math, and [spoiler alert] yes.https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/‘We have 241GW of “planned” capacity in America, of which only 79.5GW of which is “under active development,” but when you dig deeper, only 5GW of capacity is actually under construction?’‘Hundreds of billions of dollars have been sunk into buying GPUs, in some cases years in advance, to put into data centers that are being built at a rate that means that NVIDIA’s 2025 and 2026 revenues will take until 2028 to 2029 to actually operationalize, and that’s making the big assumption that any of it actually gets built.I think it’s also fair to ask where the money is actually going. 2025’s $178.5 billion in US-based data center deals doesn’t appear to be resulting in any immediate (or even future) benefit to anybody involved.’

[joke about AI goes here]

Thing I just learned: VIA has an on-board police service. A “Train Marshall” just walked past us. According to Wikipedia there is no such rank, but there doesn’t seem to be much info out there - I’m guessing classic Canadian government secrecy about it means the bare minimum is public. https://www.viarail.ca/en/why-via/via-rail-police-service

I would also not serve the meal at 14h15, on a train than runs from 13h30-19:00. And not the meal that I reserved, weirdly. VIA1 has changed a lot.

Return trip on #ViaRail from Montreal to Toronto and we are on an old train again. I wasn’t surprised, as this morning I took the REM to Brossard and counted 8 parked new trains in the yard — 25% of the new fleet. And that’s just the ones here not in use, never mind Ottawa’s or Toronto’s storage tracks.Also the drinks are smaller and weaker in business class now. Never gonna attract people to trains THAT way.

@HyL Confirmed this is monthly active users, so anyone who accessed their account in the last month.

Riding the new REM branch in Montreal. The smooth rails and performance are so pleasant.#Montreal #REM #Transit #TransportEnCommun

@ShaulaEvans We have a similar spot right near our home in Toronto - love the old arcade game fun!

Disappointed to find my #ViaRail corridor train using ancient equipment from 1981, despite the new trains all being delivered long ago. I should have done my research - the #Siemens Ventures are having nonstop problems, and a third of the fleet or more is out of service: https://www.reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/kjcGkIfBJLI was excited for new train with clean air. Guess I’ll be sick next week.

@c_9 I dunno. Big Ides is going to be pushing stuff today.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116229066217170408Do you have email addresses for your friends and relatives? May want to work on that.

Listening to a TTC briefing on transit signal priority and the relief of staff having clear direction from council to do it properly, finally, is so visible.Great videos showing proof of benefits on Spadina, and sneak peeks at modeling tools too.Plans to prioritize multiple bus and streetcar lines this year.Makes me feel optimistic for surface transit.

This was a nice read about becoming a parent.(h/t @jm_mcgrath)https://www.derekthompson.org/p/three-reasons-to-be-a-parent

@mayintoronto Every curling club has a learn to curl type event each September, so that’s one way to give it a try. There are also lots of lower-commitment and beginner leagues you can join to try it out. My 2SLGBTQIA Sunday league has a sibling league for queer women and trans folk that runs Saturdays and focuses on learning to curl at the start each fall, for example. There are other open beginner leagues around the city and region too.If you’re interested in checking out the vibe and Queen and Broadview is convenient, we curl every Sunday (games from 9am-6pm), and the queer women league is 12-2 every Saturday. But this coming weekend is our gigantic bonspie which is great fun and very crowded, with many events and costumes and such - you’re welcome to drop in and watch! Please DM me if you’re coming and I can try to be there and introduce myself and show you around; wouldn’t want you to feel too lost!

Mammo! Wow.