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Lots of residents in the general area and the park across the street could make it a great grab-n-go spot.

270 Rookwood Ave.

First thought that crossed my mind and maybe 🤷‍♂️…it isn’t that far from the name of the company renting space in the building.

Well, this will be a great addition to the Sunshine / O’Dell neighborhood. #Fredericton

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300: the average 4-year old laughs on average 300 times a day. The average 40 year-old? Just four. www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...

Get back to a normal routine and familiar route will fix it.

Patio upgrade for Coastline? 🤷‍♂️

No smoke haze: a much better start to the day. Let’s get ‘er done 🏃‍♂️

Shares of American Eagle surge 20% after Trump calls Sydney Sweeney campaign 'hottest ad out there' Shares of American Eagle surged after President Donald Trump called its campaign with Sydney Sweeney the "hottest ad out there."

📈23%: Sydney Sweeney’s ad for American Eagle has lots of garnered attention, some critical. And now? The Trump Bump: AE stock soared 23% after the president posted Sweeney is a registered Republican and has the “‘HOTTEST’ ad out there.” www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/a...

What’s for dinner tonight?

3-miles on new to me trails. A good start to the day at Killarney Lake. #Fredericton @ward10together.bsky.social #Fredericton

Doritos thinks this flavor is its next ‘Cool Ranch’ | CNN Business In 1986, Doritos released “Cool Ranch” chips, which has since became one of the brand’s most popular flavors ever created, selling tens of millions of bags and spawning spinoffs from taco shells to po...

🔥 It’s been ~40 years since Doritos launched its “Cool Ranch” flavor, and now, it thinks it’s found its next “mega flavor” in Golden Sriracha, a sweet, spicy, tangy flavor it spent two years developing to appeal to younger consumers who crave “layers and nuance.”
www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/f...

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Roger that. 😅

Just how does this machine get out of the hole? Does it lift itself out, rely on a crane or somehow walk itself out?

Why Did Baby Viewing Windows Disappear From Hospitals? They used to be a staple of hospital maternity wards around the country—so, what happened?

👶 For much of the 20th century, hospital maternity wards featured a curious design choice: large glass windows that allowed families to gaze at rows of newborns, all bundled up and sleeping in neat, orderly rows. www.mentalfloss.com/culture/desi...

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TV is also swimming in ads for walk-in showers, which can help prevent falls. It’s a $1.5-billion business that’s forecast to grow to $2.8 billion by 2033.

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Older Americans watch a lot of linear TV. So, advertisers are meeting them where they are:

-Drug companies spent over $5-billion on TV ads last year with half on Fox, MSNBC, & CBS.

-Drug ads are popular during drama reruns, game shows.

Lesson learned: pick the best GPT for your task. Spent hours earlier today using o4 and should have bailed to o4-mini-high earlier. Wish #ChatGPT had prompted the shift given o4 was looping me through repetitive breaking errors.

All good now!

Startup Morelle Markets 15-Minute-Charge E-Bike—Tech Powers Robots, Too Using silicon and not graphite anodes in their lithium ion batteries, Morelle is betting on ultra-fast-charging e-bikes and robotics-ready power packs.

🚲 How much is a fast-charging bike worth to you? E-bike startup Morelle told Forbes their forthcoming bikes, which they say will only need 10 to 15 minutes to recharge and will cost $3k, www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

'Quishing' scams dupe millions of Americans as cybercriminals turn the QR code bad Hackers are exploiting public willingness to scan QR codes in 'quishing' attacks that have now hit tens of millions of Americans.

“Quishing,” a type of cyber scam involving QR codes, is on the rise with 73% of Americans scan codes without verification.

New York issued a warning that scammers are posting QR codes on parking meters that are not legit payment links. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/c...

🤖 Chinese robotics firm Unitree unveils its R1 humanoid robot for just $5,900, undercuts competitors in the race to bring humanoids to the world. I’m not sure what I’d do with one, or why I’d want one, tbh… www.unitree.com/R1

🧱 Scraping off the Rust A Different Approach to Public Housing in New Brunswick

Also on this other space…if it’s your main source. open.substack.com/pub/ward10to...

Scraping off the Rust A Different Approach to Public Housing in New BrunswickNew Brunswick’s public housing shortage is growing, and so are the excuses. In a recent CBC article, Housing Minister David Hickey acknowledged t...

The public housing shortage is growing, and the minister acknowledges the challenge, saying it is slowly “scraping off the rust.” Why not meet the urgency it demands and work with builders who can deliver quickly, at scale?

My thoughts: www.ward10together.ca/post/scraping-off-the-rust #Fredericton

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📺 YouTube ad revenue last quarter beat expectations, notching nearly $10B in one quarter. They should count on the trend continuing — YouTube sucked up an industry-leading 12.8% of all TV usage in June, besting runner-up Netflix (8.3%).

I’m sure there is an agreement to be had given it borders their land and the farm the feds own.

Thought crossed my mind, but will save it for another day with friends. Hope your morning Mill Town ☕️ hit the spot!

Afternoon bike ride out to Lincoln Heights. Nice to see the new (to me) trail along the highway and underscores how the city must spend smartly on amenities like transit, parks and trails as communities grow. #Fredericton cc: @ward10together.bsky.social

Reflections on OpenAI

An essay on what it’s like working at #OpenAI.

"An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there."

A good read -- calv.info/openai-refle...

Electric Cars Are So Fast That A Ferrari Can't Catch A Kia Now The Kia EV6 GT is slightly heavier and less powerful than the Ferrari Purosangue, but it's the quicker-accelerating car of the two.

The new Kia crossover EV accelerates faster than a new Ferrari: evidence that electric motors work differently from internal combustion engines. insideevs.com/news/765535/...

Only time will tell...it's been a long ~10yr saga and hopes this might breathe new life into the community support.