iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is this white (non-Hispanic)? Where do Arabs fit in? Inquiring minds....

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These are called crossrides, they're legal crossings for both pedestrians and cyclists in which the latter don't need to dismount. Drivers must yield. They're big in Ontario as you can't legally bike through a crosswalk. www.durham.ca/living-here/...

durham.ca

Crossrides | Region of Durham

110

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'll never forgive the people who completely changed the established definitions or "open", "closed" and "primary". It's just done so much damage to public understanding of election systems, all for a system worse, imho, than the status quo.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ontario eliminated grade 13 in 2003, resulting in ~2x as many people going to university in one year. There was some smoothing, but it was a mess for a while. And it's a lot easier to up a lecture from 60 to 120 students than elementary school classes from 20 to 40. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario...

en.wikipedia.org

Ontario Academic Credit - Wikipedia

020

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We already had an airline called Tango (then it was a fare class).

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is very funny that Congress essentially bans NFL broadcasts on Friday evenings and Saturdays for most of the season in exchange for antitrust immunity.

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because every elementary school would need to double their kindergarten teachers immediately and increase their number of classtooms by ⅙, or class sizes would have to double. That's just not scalable in no time, especially in a country that pays its teachers so little up front.

150

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We can't eat road salt" is iconic. A perfect Rickyism, except it makes sense (iykyk).

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd swear this guy was from Nova Scotia. Heard that accent all my life.

100

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How is this even possible? You can click on a Munich trunk station in Google Maps and just count the trains, this doesn't require embedding for six months. Maybe there needs to be some ready online resource of best practices and what's possible.

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A constitutional amendment banning anyone named Kennedy from being president would get massive support.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably. Sabena was just much smaller than KLM, and with LH ownership you're just going to get more focus on LH and LX airports. But it is a convenient transfer.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Schiphol gets all the love but Zaventem is similar and added some resiliency (trains can loop back to Brussels, and come into Brussels from a different direction or bypass it if there's a problem).

110

Reposted by Nicholas Smith

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The breathalyzer at the scene and blood work later both came back saying he was impaired, but they only arrested him over a week later after the story was in the media. Weird! Also he called his dad, a captain in the local sheriff's office, before calling 911.

wral.com

Driver accused of killing 2 in Wilson e-bike crash posts $1 million bond; families remember victims

A Wilson man charged with two counts of second-degree murder in a deadly e-bike crash bonded out Friday after spending just over 10 hours in jail.

081

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There will be so many bugs in there, both foreign and domestic.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Boss said doors are working properly. 2. Boss said equipment is designed to prevent this. 3. The tragedy happened. It's impossible for all 3 to be true. Either the equipment failed or it's not designed to prevent this (most likely). Also the conductor wasn't trained on his most important job???

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is Real State? Is this degree so prestigious that it invented a new field?

110

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They just hide it. There's a strong culture of working extra unpaid hours off the clock.

001

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The whole claimed reason for 2TPO is because the trains are too long and they need a conductor to ensure no one is stuck in the doors (and emergencies). What are we even doing here?

030

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've heard many people say they don't want sidewalks or public transit because it brings criminals.

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry, I meant it seems like it in Brazil, and China too.

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yah it seems like it, Brazil too. And it'd still be relatively flat to IA, assuming there's room on the more direct tracks. Just seems like an odd choice for the central planning industrial policy we have going on lately.

210

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mauritania, but yes, though that train mainly slopes downhill, while one from MN to IA wouldn't.

150

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the NS problem. They have given differing answers to questions about what data they may have accessed, and of course none of this is verifiable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%...

en.wikipedia.org

Navier–Stokes priority controversy - Wikipedia

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's a reasonable possibility. But the case with the math research there was apparently a rumour that this guy was working on it, so you could just check the logs of this one person rather than your entire userbase. You could first check it manually to see if he was doing research or daily tasks.

100

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ukrainians and Iranians and their proxies doing what poasters wouldn't.

030

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's like connecting in America (or possibly Canada).

110

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They note there are sometimes exceptions, such as going TO the US and Israel. But yes it's much simpler now for many people.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are you arriving at Schiphol from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Cyprus, Serbia (only flights from Belgrade), or one of the so-called Schengen countries? Then you do not need to go through security again." www.schiphol.nl/en/blog/all-...

schiphol.nl

Schiphol | All about your transfer at Schiphol

Whether you’ve got to make a dash for your next flight or have a few hours to spare, you of course want your transfer at Schiphol to go as smoothly as possible.

120

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many such math->law cases (adjacent in my case)

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

T-Mobile? It disappears if you connect to WiFi, or you can share your location.

100

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mont-Royal Ave was this too, though now a much smaller segment. But it's all very nice, and most businesses are on board.

001

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hate to bring you the bad news, but they're only promising Dec 2027 for the airport, and we'll see if they make it.

010

Reposted by Nicholas Smith

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/09/2026

In addition to my hot take of "don't compare bus network redesigns to the actual Nazis," my other hot take is "the bus is not your door-to-door taxi service and if you can't walk a few blocks to the bus stop, you should use Access-A-Ride instead." That's not as politically clean though.

31014

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You'd also have to stop home schooling or they'd just recreate it unofficially by doing what is common now (forming groups to share teaching, etc). I could also imagine a county that's very segregated and you put the schools on the county lines so you'd end up only being near your demo's schools.

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally, a geometric-shaped structure on the right bank of the Potomac across from the Mall that can serve as a top grade Military Complex!

010

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Soon: An ATIP has found an infinite increase in the percent of reports of smoking in parks, which can only be reported in an online form. No action has ever been taken, even with these new complaints.

100

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And obviously I meant the city (council) or the province.

000

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well it's good they make accountability easy for the public, so everyone knows who to complain about and vote out.

101

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do the mayor and council have any authority to do anything about this? Passed by the elected (lol) park board (lol), enforced (lol) by park rangers (lol). Can the city abolish the park board or just the promise.

210

Nicholas Smith @nicholassmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is like when you shoot at a cop and the cop shoots back and kills someone else and you get charged for their murder. Make it an unsympathetic criminal or a sympathetic person shooting at a home invader who's actually a SWAT team at the wrong address depending on your proclivities.

120