Michael Wheeler

Makadonia

I'm not a Zuck-booster, but FB didn't wast the money they have invested into VR technologies. They're just not profitable rn. Some some of innovation from a hardware perspective is really impressive. The RD also underpins glasses that use AR and AI, which will become pervasive in society IMO.

With Helen Shaw as the new Chief Theatre Critic, the New York Times Gets This One Right — OnStage Blog I’m so thrilled about Helen Shaw becoming the NYT’s chief theatre critic. It’s the rare industry decision that actually feels right.

This writer agrees with me , "Helen Shaw has been doing the best criticism in the country for a long time. Now she gets to do it from the place where it can matter even more." www.onstageblog.com/onstage-blog...

Last weekend I was trying to demo what double-dribble is with the 6 and 7 year old boys i coach. And then they realized the action a ref does to indicate double dribble also means 6 7. Anyhow, they still don't know what double dribble is.

Adrienne was nominated for the Siminovitch, Helen is Head Critic at the Times, which random Dad at my Thursday night basketball game is getting nominated for the Nobel?

Pretty happy to hear my old classmate and very smart thinker @helenshaw.bsky.social is the new Head Theatre Critic at NYT. I don't live in NYC, so reticent to argue something makes sense too hard, but from the outside as a reader or reviews, I sometimes wondered why this wasn't the case already.

Was about to use AI to ideate on the title for an abstract I'm proposing to a conference and then i was like, "oh yeah this is how that muscle atrophies".

Bookmark this as where the Federal NDP started to become competitive again. No longer everything to all people, the Carney Government's enviro policies are so egregious that credible Ministers must resign. BC and QC are back in play.

Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?

It's really wild how much BI has unlocked Scottie. I have him in a fantasy 9 category league, and he's the 4 best player in the world if your goal is to contribute to every major statistical category.

Posting about how great Mamdani is on Bluesky is not my most original form of expression, but so often when the campaign ends, even the good guys stop engaging the public. I love this approach to communicating what govt will be and who is thinking about it. (Artists listed 2nd in advisor list.)

Guys we made The TImes.

The 1-4 Raptors are now the 12-5 Raptors.

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Feel free to freeze frame - BI leaves his man before Lamelo even makes the pass to the 7'1" giant leading the league in FG%, and so he has a full 2 steps and an intentional leap to pin the ball *against the rim* 👀. Sign me up and please don't get injured.

From the nba community on Reddit: [Highlight] Brandon Ingram’s clutch block seals it for Toronto Explore this post and more from the nba community

A few people have texted me as a known Raptors watcher to ask if i saw this block the other night as if i haven't watched it 14 times. Even tho Scottie's block in the final play seals the game, I think this is the moment TO ball fans realized it will be fun this year.

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This is the same company that was found guilty of fixing the price of bread.

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

and by most i meant might

This is the only plan and anyone who has questions is a radical communist.

DM me if you want to play Peter Thiel lol.

Theatre idea: The combined raw materials of the Elon text message archive and the Epstein email archive is a fascinating and large dramatic data set on how the 0.001% operates and talks to each other. Most be something worth staging for an audience to consider in here.

I just, i don't understand why the Epstein/Trump thing is front page news in many countries. We know Trump committed repeated sexual assaults and that he is a sexual predator. (Access Hollywood anyone?) What new about doing it with a specific billionaire moves the needle for millions of people?

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Guys, its not a bloodbath for the military. It's not a bloodbath for mining. It's not a bloodbath for oil pipelines. The Q is not whether it's a victory CCA didn't take a 15% hit - the Q is why is culture absent in a budget that is made to resist a foreign power threatening our sovereignty.

Update Tara won!
www.intermissionmagazine.ca/news/tara-be...

Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’ — FORTUNE November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT Federal Reserve chair Jerome Power says he's seen anecdotal evidence of a K-shaped economy. It all began with an anonymous Twitter handle named “Ivan the K.” The self-a...

Imagine if you took the core critique of the economy for the past 200 years, one which was also reiterated and confirmed by a recent Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, and then you named it after a letter and pretended it was your idea. apple.news/ARYs9b--qQeS...

This slide only contains one of the highlights the Canadian Arts Coalition cites, but does anyone else not feel like GREAT NEWS CELEBRATE NO NEW CUTS is something only we would do? ($6 mill over 3 years does not cover inflation on a $325M annual budget so actually it is a cut.)

Mostly just resharing this as a photo from today before it's transmutation to meme.