Charles Montgomery

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Author of Happy City. Co-founder of happycities.com. Now writing a book about how we can redesign the world to boost social trust.🏳️‍🌈
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Bill McKibben, cover story in Mother Jones' Earth Month issue: "protecting one’s backyard from any change has to be balanced against the cost it will impose on the larger whole… The general tactic used by the opponents of projects—delay it until it goes away—is in effect a form of climate denial…"
"Look at the online preachers of seduction, productivity, wellness, cryptocurrency, and the rest, and you will find extremophiles everywhere, filling online spaces with a cacophony of certainty," @[email protected] writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/internet-youtube-podcast-guru-influencers-andrew-tate/672867/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Extremophiles, the Internet’s Favorite Personality Type

Online culture favors influencers who pinball from one enthusiasm to the next.

The Atlantic
If we really want affordable housing, we need great public spaces

The key to affordability is smaller housing units. To make that more appealing, we must subdue the desire for larger homes by investing more in high-quality public spaces and shared services

The Globe and Mail

This is the definition of crisis:

Metro Vancouver’s rental vacancy rate drops to near 1% causing rents to soar.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate/metro-vancouvers-rental-vacancy-rate-drops-as-demand-prices-soar-cmhc-6440408 via @[email protected]

Metro Vancouver’s rental vacancy rate drops as demand, prices soar: CMHC

The rate for purpose-built rentals in the region fell below one per cent last year, while the average asking rent for vacant units jumped 43 per cent year over year

Vancouver Is Awesome
the new social media site Post offers a new algorithm to score users' trust. Will it be effective? Is it trust-worthy?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
https://post.news/article/2KT1DDExIMyClkXdM8yjUleNrYG
Upcoming changes to Post / Post.

This is incredibly good news! Lisa Helps is named housing advisor for province of BC.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/lisa-helps-appointed-housing-advisor-bc-government
Former Victoria mayor appointed as housing adviser for B.C. government

Lisa Helps will help develop the province’s BC Builds program.

Vancouver Sun

Vancouver Mayor @[email protected] aims to make the city 'swagger' again — what does that mean?

I say “swagger”= being bold enough to launch experiments to tackle the biggest challenges of our time, like housing!

Thanks for calling, @[email protected]

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-fumano-sim-aims-to-make-vancouver-swagger-again-what-does-that-mean

Dan Fumano: Mayor Ken Sim aims to make Vancouver 'swagger' again — what does that mean?

Opinion: It seemed like it was important to Ken Sim to include swagger in his address to local business leaders. It raises a few questions.

Vancouver Sun
What happens when free speech advocacy and auto sales ambitions collide?
“Free-speech absolutist” @[email protected] is now censoring Twitter content for Indian government. https://interc.pt/3XsVHyN by @[email protected], @[email protected]
Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi

Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.

The Intercept

Twitter’s new verification system “puts rocket boosters on disinformation.”

Climate change misinformation has risen 300% on Twitter https://www.fastcompany.com/90839371/climate-change-misinformation-has-risen-300-on-twitter

RT @[email protected]

Today's F-150 owners like to describe their vehicle as "powerful" and "rugged" -- while using it mostly for "shopping/errands" and "pleasure driving." (The vast majority don't tow anything all year.)

https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1617511883271028737

Pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech — and more dangerous

America has a unique love affair with pickup trucks — the Ford F-150, for instance, has been the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. for more than 40 years. During that time, pickups have changed significantly: they’ve become bigger, more high-tech — and more dangerous.