Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCara Stern @carastern.bsky.social · 5hOverriding local decisions that allow for more housing supply makes zero sense. Watching a conservative government add heavy regulation to free-market housing supply is simply mind-boggling. 24213
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dog, Boy, and St. John River Alex Colville 1958 014245
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hills of Thunder Bay Terry Watkinson 2020 218239
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Rain Clouds A.J. Casson 1976 113432
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Autumn Trees, Mulmur Twp - Ontario Alan C. Collier 1987 18426
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026AB Premier Danielle Smith announces the province is forcing Edmonton to reverse its infill housing rules, because why would you want an example of market-driving housing affordability in your small-government province? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjx2...youtube.comAlberta Premier Danielle Smith makes an announcement in Edmonton – October 8, 2026YouTube video by cpac 915545
Mark C.lexander @marcalexanderv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey, do you want to go get a coffee at the cafe? “No, let’s just take caffeine pills“ 010
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In @macleans.bsky.social, I push back on AI doom discoursemacleans.caThe AI Doom Discourse Only Helps Big Tech - Macleans.caInstead of focusing on the potential destructive power of these systems, we should be look at the humans developing and wielding them 34119
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderMichael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why do people get mad at new apartments for being expensive, but are totally fine with the city creating entire mansion-only neighborhoods? If you think an expensive apartment isn't helping you, a poor renter, that can only be more true for a $10 million mansion. 3529
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A Dream of Autumn David Thauberger 2014 129963
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tethered Ken Danby 1976 012628
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Autumn Flight Benjamin Chee Chee ~ Anishinaabe n.d. 320246
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026September Snow on Mount Schaffer J.E.H. MacDonald 1929 013220
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Leaf Pattern Franklin Carmichael 1922 020054
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Study for mâtinawêwin (Sharing Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026 313756
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025 017650
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026October Ploughing Franz Johnston n.d. 09315
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderAlison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are. 620890
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderThe Economist @economist.com · 01/10/2026A fundamental overhaul is needed. Wealth should be taxed more via capital-gains taxes—and the burden on labour should lightenbit.lyA hurricane is coming to tax systemsGovernments should be preparing, but most aren’t 2349
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026imo if Trudeau era housing policy was actually able to keep pace with population growth, it would have been fine, but basically Trudeau era policy soured a lot of Canadians on the current immigration system (and even the Canadian reddits show this) 2020821
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Une journée de septembre, marché Jean-Talon John Little 2007 09325
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Haines Junction, Yukon Doris McCarthy 1991 213228
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rounding the Horn Terry Watkinson 2020 019749
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Entrance to the Farm, Alta H.G. Glyde n.d. 07916
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderMichael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have a confession to make. The townhomes I & others spent most of a decade trying to legalize are popping up all over Oregon & elsewhere...and I love that...but they're a problem in one big way. (get ready for a twisty thread about the housing report @sightline.org just published) 1216444
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caToronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC NewsAn elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend... 1122538
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderMichael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you care about housing, you'll find solutions to problems. If you don't care, you'll look for excuses to oppose it. 0171
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Amber Pass Ivan Eyre 1992 110926
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Asters and Apples J.E.H. MacDonald 1917 015136
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This talk about "alignment" shows that the companies don't take the risks seriously. They basically say that they must be allowed to develop massive autonomous technologies with no restrictions whatsoever, and then pretend that they're working on making those technologies "nice persons". 071
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026All the "alignment" rhetoric places the problem inside the "AI", seen as an anthropomorphised moral person, but obviously the problem is outside: it is with what we allow these algorithms to interfere with. 172
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Letting kids play with the red button is dangerous. But it's not because kids are so much smarter than adults. The point is not to prevent AI to get "too smart", but to have strict barriers in place. An LLM did not figure out how to send requests over internet: an engineer implemented the feature. 1102
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCult MTL @cultmtl.com · 17/09/2026Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian historycultmtl.comMark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian historyPrime Minister Mark Carney now holds the highest recorded approval rating in Canadian history, achieved earlier this month in a study by Spark Insights. 72967259
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17/09/20261000% (We tariff ourselves) 3356
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Interesting quick take on NIMBYism and populism. I’ve thought before about how prices are the main way we experience the housing shortage, so people think that we can just fix the prices and the housing problem is fixed.morehousing.substack.comPopulism focuses on what’s in front of youWhy people blame greedy landlords instead of housing scarcity 1317
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hummingbird IV April White ~ Sgaana Jaad ~ Haida 2006 115939
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Farmhouse, Kars, Ontario A.Y. Jackson 1958 011032
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Some sense in the "rogue agents" debacle. Anthropomorphic metaphors of machines are misleading, just like machine metaphors of the brain are misleading. 064
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Time to repost this: "On the existential risks of artificial intelligence" romainbrette.fr/on-the-exist...romainbrette.frOn the existential risks of artificial intelligenceThe impressive progresses in machine learning have revived the fear that humans might eventually be wiped out or enslaved by artificial superintelligences. This is hardly a new fear. For example, t… 193
Reposted by Mark C.lexandertweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 14/09/2026the core of what I think about "intelligence" is that you CAN'T and won't have something meaningfully described as "intelligence" without a rich, independent, evolving goal structure, which is (part of) why the paperclip optimizer framing is so boneheaded 710020
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Houses, Richmond Street Lawren Harris 1911 015831
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderKate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Some day I want to write a paper about how we turned higher ed into one big subsidy for business — all the while students are shamed for not paying more of this subsidy, and for not paying it faster. Instead of training their own workers, students and taxpayers must pay - and assume the risk 19223
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderDamien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I just continuously want to emphasize how underrated Edmonton is on housing. They are growing way faster than the three largest cities, so very high demand, but they build enough to keep rents down. See chart of two bedroom rents across the country www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...  44417
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderGRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 08/09/2026I am not interested in voting for Pete Fry who: - opposed the Broadway Subway until popular opinion made that impossible - stopped bike lanes on Commercial - can't bring himself to vote for housing at Broadway+Commercial (2 SkyTrain lines!) I would be more optimistic about a blank slate. 2182
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Sitting And Thinking Bear Sits and Thinks at Rawson Lake Jason Carter ~ Cree 2026 019754
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Algonquin Park, September Tom Thomson 1913 017138
Mark C.lexander @marcalexanderv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Remember when people would look to Germany’s system as the ideal? Coalitions and better representation. Now they’re functionally unable to govern and citizens are turning to the AfD to fix the problems 000
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Near Milk River Roland Gissing 1965 09917
Reposted by Mark C.lexanderCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Winnipeg Backyard Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald c. 1918 08516
