The TTC and Metrolinx need to pick up a phone and actually communicate to each other.

Closing Lakeshore West and telling west-enders to take the TTC is dumb when the subway is closed on Bloor at Ossington. On top of that, there is no subway service to Union Station.

I get that Lakeshore West has to close temporarily due to that 100+ year old bridge but maybe tell the TTC to accommodate the thousands of passengers you're directing into a flustercluck.

#topoli #toronto

“One accuses him of receiving a systematic supply of gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — such as champagne, cigars and jewellery — in exchange for political favours.

Among the wealthy #businessmen named in the trial is #Australian #billionaire #JamesPacker, who has denied any wrongdoing.”

#oligarch / #corruption / #Netanyahu <abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/isr…>

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I got knocked out of Whamageddon 2025 tonight. My wife and I were watching Man vs Baby on Netflix (which we liked) and the original Last Christmas played in the last episode.

#Whamageddon2025 #Whamageddon

2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large (Ocean State Media)

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2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large

Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class

^{Jeremy Bernfeld (Ocean State Media)}

Poems for Tortured Souls by Liz Ison, 2024

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This collection of timeless poems is a beautiful introduction to the passionate words that have inspired artists and lyricists for generations. Discover poetry that overflows with folklore, love, heartbreak, revenge, and peace – the perfect balm for any tortured soul.

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Thanks to vigorous advocacy by the community, Bicycle Network, and bicycle user groups, the Victorian State Government has dropped their proposal to ban all e-bikes from public transport. Instead, only modified e-bikes will be banned. Great work everyone! this is a common sense outcome that addresses the real-but-small risk of fires, while not removing a really important part of our transport mix.
#cycling #melbourne #SpringSt

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Price experimentation isn’t anything new in tech. E-commerce websites have been employing for at least a decade. Showing different prices for the same item to different customers has become a normalized practice.

But, in the physical world, the cashier at the mall can’t ask me to pay $7 for the pack of coffee that the customer before me paid $5.

If it is illegal in the physical world, I don’t see how it becomes legal once you wrap an app around it.

Especially when nobody is accountable for the variations in price, not even the managers, as most of those experiments are run by AI. When you take decisions that arbitrarily impact the purchasing power of people you can’t get away with a “computer said so”.

Outlawing price experimentation, both offline and online, is such a nobrainer that I don’t get why the EU hasn’t yet gone after these practices.

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Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says

The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found.

^{Caroline Petrow-Cohen (Tech Xplore)}