Tag Archives: housing

href weekly | May 12 – May 18 2025

Bits

“Since last year, the app hasn’t been able to upload non-media files like documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, etc., due to Google’s restriction on file access permissions. Following widespread complaints from users, Nextcloud raised many appeals with Google, seeking a resolution to the issues. However, despite these efforts, they received no meaningful responses or solutions from them.” https://news.itsfoss.com/google-gatekeeping-nextcloud/

Photography

Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/30/wim-wenders-paris-texas-road-trip-in-pictures

Music & Audio

A Goldmine for Beat Diggers in the ’90s, Folk Funk Makes A Comeback https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/paul-hillery-folk-funk-feature

It’s wicked fine, fine, fine
They say while they’re whalin’ on short line
And vanish right out of my sight ..
https://kimdeal.bandcamp.com/track/coast-1

Politics & Economics

“At the end of the day, any progressive government should see steady improvement of the quality of life of working people as its lodestar of legitimacy and political strength. Redistribution is part of that, but so is organizing for growth. Leaving coddled corporate class to steer our economy in partnership with a government unable to resist giving it virtually everything it wants is no longer tenable.” https://thewalrus.ca/corporate-welfare-is-canadas-most-expensive-addiction/

“..this effort to separate the price of one family’s home from the broader price of a home on the market is nonsensical. If you want to drive down the cost of purchasing a home, you have to also reduce the price of existing homes. If you don’t want to reduce the value of these homes, then you are in fact committing to having demand exceed supply — the very issue that led us to the crisis in the first place.” https://archive.ph/NeOnF

href weekly | Sep 1 – Sep 7 2024

Bits

“..It is important not to present this as a technical problem that exists only because of AI text generators but to relate it to the wider concerns in which it is embedded. These range from a largely dysfunctional scholarly publishing system (Haider & Åström, 2017) and academia’s “publish or perish” paradigm to Google’s near-monopoly and ideological battles over the control of information and ultimately knowledge.” https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

Sound & Music

My son releases “Ordinary Kids” https://gabriel-music.bandcamp.com/track/ordinary-kids

Love the sounds coming out of the Dark Canyon https://darkcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/long-days-pleasant-nights

Politics & Economics

“This ruling may benefit the bottom line of the largest publishers and most prominent authors, but for most it will end up harming more than it will help.” .. The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case https://archive.ph/9irhZ

“One of the main developers of the software used by YieldStar told ProPublica that landlords had “too much empathy” compared to the algorithmic pricing software.” https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-mega-landlord-ai-pricing-scheme-hikes-rents/