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July 24, 2023: Josh O'Kane, author of "Sideways," on Google's failure in Toronto
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Today: Josh O’Kane, author, “Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy,” on Google’s failure in Toronto
• Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
• Josh O’Kane at the Globe and Mail
• Is There Such a Thing As an Ethical Smart City? (by Alissa Walker in Curbed, Sep 14, 2022): “Alphabet was putting up the funds but expected a return on its investment: The neighborhood would double as a kind of urban-tech theme park to help the company sell its innovations to other municipalities. The project would be so well conceived, so perfectly livable, that Sidewalk Labs assumed the people of Toronto would flock to its meticulously designed, hypersurveilled boundaries. Within 18 months of the announcement, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association called the plan a ‘non-consensual, state-authorized mass capture of Canadians’ personal information.’”
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Handy Haversack:
ultradamno:
joe_rosevear:
David in London:
Webhamster Henry:
Rolando:
Wendy del Formaggio:
PaulRobeson1923:
ultradamno:
Dean:
Ciggy:
Rolando:
dale:
Quinn02:
joe_rosevear:
ultradamno:
Ken From Hyde Park:
ultradamno:
dale:
Andres:
Webhamster Henry:
The Butterman:
yippie:
Juli:
Eep sounds scary
Dean:
sydnius:
Webhamster Henry:
Juli:
tim:
ultradamno:
Sam:
Rolando:
wind:
Dean:
O-re-gone
StringOFperils:
Mark Hurst:
Wendy del Formaggio:
markoliner:
tim:
sydnius:
Mark Hurst:
Dean:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Monorail! Monorail!
Andres:
Juli:
I am as free as a bird
No to google city
Sam:
Ken From Hyde Park:
DjLorraine:
Sam:
StringOFperils:
tim:
ultradamno:
Juli:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Sam:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Baja Joe:
Chris from Brooklyn:
Sam:
Juli:
consumers:::::humans unite
Somehow alll I got is to buy consume less
dale:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Mike Sin:
Dean:
Sam:
SM Ken:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Ken From Hyde Park:
StringOFperils:
Chris from Brooklyn:
So long as Jenny Agutter clones circa 1977 are on the network
But not expecting the dwindling tech lord’s ability to actually provide my wishes even if I go on Carousel wayyyyyyy to late to accept their anti human initiatives to be suitable for the likes of any common human to apply
Omg.
Dan Doctoroff.
He sits in his castle overlooking the failed west side falafel on the west side yards
Scheming
Always
As we speak.
On the bright side him and Bloombito annihilated every old smoke stack in the boroughs for their failed schemes decades ago in order to coax the world to make NYC YET ANOTHER FAILED indebted post Olympic City.
Failure.
Thy Name
Is
Doctoroff
Chris from Brooklyn:
Actually a giant with useful initiatives compared to a
Ahem
Doctoroff
Feh.
Sam:
Chris from Brooklyn:
See Dan Doctoroff
Sam:
Juli:
melinda:
Ciggy:
P-90:
Over the years, I’ve made a point of following a number of Twitter accounts from Canadians involved with all these things. Anyone else use social media to keep an eye on what’s going on up there?
herb.nyc:
Juli:
Carmichael:
Dan:
sydnius:
Juli:
There's no reason to divide over nothing:::
I would never have a ton of money because I'd give it all away
Sam:
StringOFperils:
ultradamno:
Chris from Brooklyn:
Where they wanted to build Jets Stadium
Chris from Brooklyn:
Are the security guards
PaulRobeson1923:
GC in Bmore:
Chris from Brooklyn:
Those suicidal kids ruined the experience.
That’s sarcasm.
What a typical boondoggle
P-90:
Juli:
I cannot believe all the misinformation in ppls brains rn
Sam:
Mark Hurst:
PaulRobeson1923:
Chris from Brooklyn:
Good luck finding a seat not on the floor
Juli:
I know about love &
I am surprised how anti ppl are to the simple idea of love.
Handy Haversack:
Chris from Brooklyn:
Priorities.
As if.
Tear down the Penn Hotel
Subsidize and live in fear of MSG
I could go on
But
Jobs
Just don’t scratch the surface or notice the imbeciles behind the curtain “planning”
PaulRobeson1923:
Sam:
Mark Hurst:
Juli:
Webhamster Henry:
Juli:
P-90:
Handy Haversack:
Mark Hurst:
Chris from Brooklyn:
See Doctoroff
Mark Hurst:
P-90:
StringOFperils:
Will thee Sound Guy:
PaulRobeson1923:
See
Buying expired surplus plastic from Boeing to build a Plastic Submarine
Handy Haversack:
Sam:
joe_rosevear:
Juli:
Society is cagey:::{{
Let's not get cagey
Fear cages!!~
Rolando:
gone with the wind:
Reagan:
Marley P. Dogg:
Webhamster Henry:
Handy Haversack:
tim:
Dano59:
herb.nyc:
Handy Haversack:
PaulRobeson1923:
gone with the wind:
Juli:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Juli:
Don't compare each other to each other.
G:
Juli:
herb.nyc:
G:
Dan:
Reagan:
chresti:
melinda:
Marie in Queens:
Juli:
Lol
These machines don't care about us
You should all care about us & each other...
The love needs to be real in the underground
chresti:
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
StringOFperils:
P-90:
melinda:
Sam:
Mike Sin:
Wendy del Formaggio:
ultradamno:
chresti:
Webhamster Henry:
Juli:
Not buying fancy cars lol
sydnius:
herb.nyc:
Wendy del Formaggio:
joe mulligan:
Reagan:
Homer:
Wendy del Formaggio:
ultradamno:
Mark Hurst:
Will thee Sound Guy:
StringOFperils:
Chris from Brooklyn:
The rest of us? Meh
Wendy del Formaggio:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Barney:
Reagan:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Reagan:
coelacanth∅: