J. Marshall Freeman

I don't know about "meant to win…the war on critical thinking and art." I think they're just meant to wrest ungodly amounts of money from the public purse and the private purse. But I agree that critical thinking and art will suffer, and that will be a bonus for the rich.

And now correlate that with whom he’s called terrorists, including domestic terrorists.

And the death count attributable to the loss of USAID is already like half a million, mostly children.

Part of these omnibus bills that conservatives love.

I just heard about it this morning. I think it’s yet to be voted on?

This is the quiet move, covered by noisy moves of things that probably can’t happen, like a convention centre in the lake.

And this graphic approach lives on in Wes Anderson films!

Good point! Freeland would never have done anything for Toronto, but the woman the libs are running here in her riding might be pressured to make some noise.

A great example of how AI is a revolutionary tool, and yet we’re mostly promoting it for the stupidest reasons. This use is more in line with how Peter Jackson used AI to upgrade dodgy audio from the 60s for his Beatles doc. Instead, they are promoting it as a way for humans to stop thinking.

P3s are scams.

You’re ignoring the fact that my point was about JETS. It’s jets at the airport that Toronto stopped once (with the help of the Trudeau gov’t when it first came into power) and must stop again. I also like to fly out of YTZ, and the turboprops are compatible with a human waterfront.

Sounds the same as making the Finch LRT trains slow at every intersection while the cars race through at 60kmh.

Bikes rolling through stop signs isn't even a problem. The stop signs were put there because 3 tonne powered vehicles race through residential neighbourhoods.

We have spent decades making the waterfront a destination for the citizens of Toronto—parks, arts, festivals, transit infrastructure… and you think it's a good idea to put jet aircraft zooming up and down there.
We can't build high-speed rail in this country, but we can accommodate more jets.

We said no to jets on our waterfront, so the establishment sat on their assets for a decade, and now they're back, ready to destroy the peace by the lake, the peace on the island, so they can continue to make Toronto the playground of the few instead of the home of the many.

I'm going through the line breaks in a book I've just laid out for a client (one of the final stages—checking hyphenations, stacking, etc.) and I came across the word "malefactor," which had been broken between lines, unfortunately, into "male-factor." #booklayout #graphicdesign

I'd guess it's somewhere between not caring and doing it with glee. What are they? F*gg*ts who care about interior design?

Future review of the Therme Spa: "Jets constantly rumbling overhead. Couldn't relax for a moment."

Also, fuck these fucking idiots. Can we have an actual mayor who is both progressive and will fight for the city? Is that too much to ask?

Now I'm curious: who gets the royalties for copies of Mein Kampf today?

I'm very fond of the Italian product, Orzo Pupo.

Ford is asserting pissing rights all over our waterfront. Olivia misplaced her bag of "Hell No!" when she entered office.

My argument isn’t that good. One could argue that rights and housing could be done in the context of an oil and weapon economy. But oil has been an economic dead end before for Canada, whereas we could be leaders in economies which lend themselves better to forward-thinking social justice.

David Byrne interviewed on the BBC this week, talking about why Manchester is economically stronger than other cities in the UK now. He theorizes it’s because they revitalized warehouses into small business spaces and invested in the arts. (note: I have done no fact-checking on this.)

Y’know, I don’t even like to read or watch stories hatched by writers who have lived their entire lives in wealth and privilege. They don’t have enough life experience to be interesting. So, why wouldn’t #AI be even more useless and uninteresting?

Writing the notes is where you work it out, and then where you can return to as you keep moving down the path of creation. Yes. And sometimes the notes were so surprising and fresh when you first wrote them down that they’re surprising and useful months later.

Thinking goes on all the time, whether it’s conscious or pre-conscious. It’s when I write that all the churning, pre-conscious stuff comes to the surface and gets shaped.

Public transit is not there to make money!

Canadians: "We need worker's rights, we need affordable housing, we need a green economy!"
Carney: "Got it! You want oil and weapons!"

I'm theoretically from the last year of the boomers. We all have to do our part to save the world, but get to it, GenX. I support you.

Exactly. In the SF I'm writing now, the most innovative bits just roll out of my fingers as I'm writing the scene. Why? Because I've spent many, many hours immersed in this world—when I'm writing, when I'm editing, walking the streets. Speeding up my process with AI is the opposite of what I need.