Santa Claus at Disneyland and Walt Disney World is now, sometimes, a black person.

Guess who is about to find Disney theme parks not magical enough? The same racist and misogynist jerks who scream about Splash Mountain getting a Tiana makeover or Pirates of the Caribbean no longer offering women for sale. — Read the rest

Tomorrow, Toronto's City Council will hold a key vote on Sidewalk Labs's plan to privatize much of the city's lakeshore in the name of creating a "smart city" owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Disney is building a bunch of multi-million-dollar McMansions in a gate-guarded suburb on the grounds of Walt Disney World. It's the latest in a series of urbanist experiments stretching back to the original vision Walt had for the Florida property — the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT. — Read the rest