Eric Very

@ekvery.bsky.social

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Writing at www.brockton-history.ca, jogging, coffee, dad. Working on the waterfront.

Mr Aschenbrenner is in his mid-20s and runs Situational Awareness, a hedge fund—named without irony—which posted a loss of 67% in July. He launched it in 2024 after writing a 165-page essay with the same title, arguing that artificial "superintelligence" would transform society before the decade was out. Situational Awareness (the screed) took Silicon Valley by storm. More surprising, investors responded by shovelling money to Situational Awareness (the fund). Within months Mr Aschenbrenner, then aged 22 or so and having never worked as a trader, was managing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Site plan for the Atelier GIROT/Office of Landscape Morphology/ReK Productions "Port Lands Estuary" proposal, showing a series of finger-like landforms extending into the harbour, each lined with buildings and separated by water slips, with elevated roadways and a bridge crossing the Don mouth at top.
Colour-coded site plan for the Weiss/Manfredi & du Toit Allsopp Hillier "Wandering Ecologies" proposal, labeling zones including The Marshlands, The Lower Don Meander, The Peninsula, The Outlook, Recreational Valley, Lower Don Square, and Central Port Lands, with the meandering river winding through orange and green landscape zones.
3D massing model rendering of a competition proposal for the Lower Don Lands, showing white building blocks and green parkland along a river mouth opening into a dark blue harbour, with a red bridge structure crossing the water.
2007 rendering by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA) for the lower don
Map showing the Location of the Main Sewage Treatment Playground by Lake Shore and Emdaabiimok Ave.
The total number of gains and losses for species in each city separated by SSP scenario. Cities at the top of the figure are predicted to have the greatest increase in species richness relative to species’ historical distribution. Tested cities in Canada and the USA are displayed in the inset map.
Table showing the transactions in west Toronto. Total of 41 parents, 135 transactions, total sales 28,769 pounds, median price per acre, 6 pounds, average parcel size 79 acres
Map of west Toronto in 1840 showing widespread change from the earlier two maps. Most parcels are now green ("large lots sold"), David Shank's former holdings have been broken up and bought largely by Walter O'Hara, King's College now controls large institutional blocks, and small red parcel, subdivided building lots are clustered on Davenport, Queen Street and at the corner of Dundas and Dufferin where Brockton Village will take root.
Map of west Toronto in 1830 showing the same parcels ten years later. More land has shifted to green ("large lots sold"), especially around the Denison family holdings and along Dundas Street, but the overall pattern is similar to 182. David Shank and the Crown still hold much of the land, with Bartholomew Bull's new Springmount estate on Davenport Road the notable addition
Map of west Toronto in 1820 showing land ownership by parcel, colour-coded by status. Most land is still held by the Crown or original grantee families (shown in gold and grey); David Shank alone owns a large connected block running from Bloor Street down to Queen Street. Only a few large lots (green) have been sold, concentrated near Crookshank's farm along Bathurst Street; none have been subdivided into small lots.
A Gif showing the movement of land south of St. Clair Ave between the Humber River and Bathurst Street from the original patentees (shown in yellow) to an emerging local gentry (shown in green) in 1820, 1830, 1840. Each map shows the name of the landowners for large lots as well as the smaller subdivisions which appear gradually in 1830 on Queen Street, and expand to Dundas and Davenport by 1840.
View in 2012
Location and sequence of office buildings erected in downtown Toronto, 1922-1928 showing 16 buildings.
Excerpt describing the impacts to learning the craft of architecture, apprenticeship, and ultimately judgement. Note that despite widespread adoption only 17 percent of respondents agree their design is better because of AI
A part of the article. "You can spend a fortune on projection and interactive glass and still send visitors home remembering nothing. What they carry out is never the building. It is a life:
Postcard titled "Skyline from Ontario Place, Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Marty Sheffer". Photograph looking north east over the Toronto skyline from the waterfront, where the roof of the former Forum is visible, and the HMCS Haida is docked by the shore. The CN Tower is under construction in the distance. Ontario Place, 1970s, Fonds 534, File 37.
Photo hanging crooked on the wall with a small child's mischievous hands on the edge of the frame.
Globe and Mail, April 29, 1992. Article describing plans to conserve elements of the paper Mill.
CN tower and the sun behind a hazy smoke filld sky.
- what are trends in North York Center. - grew by 145% since 2001 - six time denser then city average - higher proportion of working age adults 88% have a post secondary degree Average income lower and more low income people.
Modal splits for trips originating in the Centre in 2006, 2011, and 2016. Transit ridership and walking trips increased, auto trips decreased
To avoid getting shut down, Melnichenko needed to square the authorities. He acquired permits to operate the lottery by pretending it was a charitable foundation. (Later it was registered as a charity—the cause supported was named as “strengthening relationships with those who issued permits”.)
This is a bar chart titled "Top 10 Metropolitan Areas in the U.S. and Canada (and Toronto) by Components of Population Change, 12-Months Ending July 1, 2025" (persons in thousands)
The passage argues that pulp confessional magazines gave young women both language and narrative templates for talking about pregnancy outside marriage.When the National Florence Crittenton Mission ran "I Was an Unmarried Mother" in True Story in 1936, it received thousands of letters from readers describing similar experiences.
Trigger warning Vintage cover of Ace-High Detective Magazine. In a dark room, a woman in a pink evening gown hangs unconscious from a rope around her neck while a flashlight beam illuminates her. A shadowy figure crouches in the foreground. Cover lines include "The Corpse Hangs High" and "Fiend in False-Face." Price: 10¢.