MYTHOS is so powerful that it must be protected by strict guardrails that prevent anyone from ever learning whether or not it's actually powerful at all
Brian Merchant
Idea Extra Issue: Herb Lubalin, 1969
Special Issue devoted to Herb Lubalin. 120 pages of Lubalin’s work from 1956 – 1969 #herblubalin
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“Design as civic infrastructure” is a concept that resonates deeply. Great ep of the Design Better Podcast
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"Parkdale has been called a suburb, a slum, a ghetto, a village. Each label has carried consequences... justified a different kind of intervention. From regulation to clearance to revitalization, every era produced a group powerful enough to define what Parkdale was and to act on that definition."
When you're too drunk to stay at the club but your jam hits as you're walking out the door
Another fun one for @spacing.bsky.social
I used @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca, scraped school facilities data and looked online at larger facilities to create a map of pitches across the city. This is for a special issue of Spacing Magazine on Toronto Soccer.
#maps #mapping #gis #toronto
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A step towards more family friendly housing
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In 2018 we built the Fruit Trees of Toronto map. Its been the most popular page on @maptodotca.bsky.social. I rebuilt it from scratch: svelteJS, maplibre, protomaps and 2026 data.
Explore by species, location and ripening month.
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#maps #toronto #opendata
The proposed redevelopment at 501 Palmerston Blvd. has faced significant opposition from neighbours — over size, parking and building character concerns
NEW: Cybersecurity researchers are not happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s new model Fable.
Researchers say that the new LLM basically blocks anything related to cybersecurity, including code reviews and prompts asking for help writing secure code.
Coach Finstock
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
