From the bucket today:

Solonday today. Someone (who is AFAIK uninjured) ran into this pole. I got sent to restore, albeit temporarily, intersection function. These poles are heavy AF! Way more work than I thought it would be.

Would it be possible to build a secure messaging service on nostr that surpasses signal in terms of privacy? I'm thinking under the hood a private relay is running on one or both peer's phones, and messages are encrypted with PGP. Different relay for each chat. Or are there better ways to achieve this? Perhaps it's unnecessary.

New cycling infrastructure at Granville and Drake in #Vancouver

If the street isn't narrow enough for you to choose on a whim, which side you're going to walk on, based on which side is sunny, then the street is too wide.

It rained in Vegas this morning

It's just ironic that for cars to be so ubiquitous, they required large central governments to incentivize people to drive by paving over much of the land and disproportionately funding Interstates over mass transit. Now, the most common argument in favour of car-centric design is that cars provide freedom to their users. This is very similar to, but definitely more subtle than preventing people from entering stores and restaurants, but then granting access to those wearing masks, and then saying that masks provide freedom to their users.

Future bikeway in #Vancouver

Do you think legacy news outlets will replace news anchors with AI versions without us knowing? One day, 25 years later with the news anchor looking just as young, conspiracy theories begin to propagate that assert that AI has replaced the news.

We are collectively suffering from being unable to plan for the future. This is no different from a descent into chaos. It's a loss of predictability and that which is unpredictable can be dangerous. This explains much of our neuroticism.

Gm #Vancouver. Hanging banners today! Taxis are lined up for all the cruise ship passengers.

Peak climate control design:

I’ve had a lot of different conversations about whether or not value is subjective. My main thesis is that individual valuations are subjective, but value itself is not. Why? Because I want to preserve the notion that valuations can be incorrect, without directly restricting what people ought to value or imposing my own set of values on others. I believe I have good reasons to want to preserve the former without doing the latter: 1. If we don’t preserve the notion that valuations can be incorrect, then we have no foundation for morality, and we have no business promoting that which we find valuable. 2. Without differences in values between individuals, there would be no specialization, no art, no culture, no experimentation, and we would collectively become maladaptive. So, imagine a set of individuals. Now imagine that each of them is presented with the same binary decision, but each of these individuals is constituted differently and has a different background or “context.” Because each individual is constituted differently and exists in a different context, the right decision could vary person to person, as even if they all made the same choice, their outcomes could vary. So let’s imagine that there’s a correct choice for each individual, but no one person is omniscient enough to know what all the others ought to do. This “correct” choice can vary person to person, and because the decision is binary, it could be that what is correct for one person is the exact opposite of what is correct for another. Now, just because there is a correct decision for each individual, and these correct answers can be different from one another, this does not guarantee that each person will make the correct decision. They could still choose the wrong course of action. So there’s a set of correct decisions, and there’s a set of actual decisions. Both of these sets contain variation, and when an individual’s actual decision differs from that person’s correct decision, they have valued the wrong thing. This DOES NOT mean that any one person can know what everyone else should do. Nor does it mean that people have complete freedom to do what they please without concern about being right. That being said, we can come up with reasons and make arguments for and against certain actions, taking individual context into consideration while maintaining humility with respect to other’s perspectives. Now imagine this exact scenario for every decision anyone makes.

I almost forget that the north end of Granville Street in #vancouver turns green every year

Honest to Pete Coffee Roasters in Vancouver, BC. Accepts bitcoin!

Today was a historic day for #Vancouver. Ken Sim's Motion to explore how #bitcoin can be integrated into the city passed! Excellent work everyone.

Last year was a blast! Come out if you can make it. There will be DJs, speakers, workshops, BTC vendors, a dance/rap performance, and a mining museum. And plenty of bitcoiners to connect with!

The #Vancouver BitDevs page now has merchant recommendations! Check them out along with the full list here:

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