"Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success."
The Small Web is a public space comprised of places you own and control.
It's never not a good day to re-read Dr. Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians" which, in true academic fashion, he distributed free on his website.
Damn I miss the early academic internet.
This news article reminded me that city officials still call Uber "ride sharing", when in fact no one shares anymore. They're just taxis. There are Reddit threads about Uber drivers refusing to take the "share ride" offer because they get screwed over by the company.
"YVR said that ride share services now account for 24% of all passenger trips to and from the airport"
Yes, people have always taken taxis to the airport. Duh.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11722846/parkade-vancouver-airport-finished-construction-halted/
When the German media point out that the fascist American border patrol commander is cosplaying as a Nazi, yeah.
Gregory Borvino has been benched and had access to his social media account suspended by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/gregory-bovino-analysis-minneapolis-alex-pretti
Why can't the UK, Canada & Australia build anymore?
The loss of state capacity to build infrastructure at manageable costs is due to privatization of state planning + the loss of an experienced civil service.
"Planning functions are privatized to large consultant firms while the role of the state is reduced to at most light oversight."
"British costs exploded in the 1990s, and CDN and AUS costs followed suit in the 2000s and 2010s, imitating bad British practices."
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/01/13/british-construction-costs-and-centralization/
🎂 Happy 23rd birthday, Firefox
(Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004 but the first version of the thing that lead up to it – Phoenix 0.1 – was released on September 23, 2002)
Accounting software that can't even get the math right has no reason to exist.
Posting this for the 3 people left on the internet who still haven't seen it.
"Don't Be a Sucker" (full version)
U.S. Dept of Defense, 1947
You know you're doing something right, when:
- Toronto's Parkside Drive speed camera cut down for 5th time in 6 months
Camera has issued over 65,000 tickets, more than $7M in fines since installation
Building any new housing suburb that doesn't start with a public transit line FIRST is doomed to fail. This is a choice made by cities.
All their fake "walkable", "bikeable" half measures are a fig leaf.
Going in years after a suburb was built to run a rush hour only bus line is municipal malfeasance.
The Progressive Conservatives have lost the deep-blue Tuxedo constituency they've represented since its inception in 1981 to the NDP.
Even in Tuxedo, nominating a Zionist candidate was a losing move.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tuxedo-byelection-winnipeg-polls-open-1.7237288
A Traffic Engineer Hits Back at His Profession
Wes Marshall, a professor and licensed civic engineer, speaks to CityLab about his new book, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System"
Conservatives accidentally shoot themselves in the foot, again.
“We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they, by and large, voted Conservative. So we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.”
Spotify now just flat out refusing to pay smaller artists. Regardless of who you listen to, your subs are going entirely to the biggest artists.
"Spotify will stop paying anything at all for roughly two-thirds of tracks on the platform. That is any track receiving fewer than 1,000 streams over the period of a year."
Twitter is being flooded by climate change denialism to any post about the wildfires. The conspiracy theory this time? "Arson".
The white hoser suburban male, out cutting his lawn in mildly warm weather.
Big suburban homes on big lots are a white elephant that no one will want to buy in the near future.
http://www.placemakers.com/2023/03/07/the-shifting-boomer-bulge/
So excited for the American Born Chinese adaptation and all my favourite actors from Everything Everywhere. This looks amazing!
I'll never forget a classmate who would casually describe how they were going to BS a 20 page paper the day before deadline. I wish I could figure out that trick.
Bonus: they were in education.