Gary Smith

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Radiohead play career-spanning set in first concert since 2018 ​British quintet draw from all but one of their studio albums as they perform in Madrid on first of 20 European tour dates

'“There might not be another opportunity, Radiohead is pretty old at this point,” said Luka Arreaza, 20, prompting laughter from those waiting in line beside him.'

Screenshot text from The Atlantic: For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

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A deadly crash in Toronto raises questions about the dangers when things go wrong for EVs | CBC News An Oct. 24 crash involving an electric car that killed four people in downtown Toronto has raised concerns about the dangers when things go wrong for EVs.

Sounds almost identical to a Telsa fire a few blocks away from me in Toronto last year. Four people burned to death inside when rescuers could not open the doors. Horrifying.

Saw a few of these guys walking around Syracuse today. Apparently the Citroën Ami is technically an electric "quadricycle."

I really appreciate the spectrum of cars in Italy. Very few people really need an F-150 to get around. This mignt not fly in Canada, but I'd love to see smaller hatchbacks.

Doubt we'll see him in the 3rd. But I hope so.

A screen grab of of text that reads: 'Tuchman: “When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”'

Anther book for my reading list, I think.
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Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025

In 1861, Monet served in Algeria, where he was dazzled by North Africa’s blazing light. ☀️

He later said the “richness of color” shaped everything he painted afterward.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

Imagine if we got money back from the tech corps every time our phones lied to us. Either we'd all be rich, or our phones would stop lying. Either outcome seems preferable to our current reality.

a photo of marines flying flags including a canadian flag that is flying upside down

a tweet by jamie campbell that shows a world series display and the toronto blue jays logo is upside down

1992 Atlanta 🤝 2025 Los Angeles

Pope Leo laments U.S.-Canada 'difficulties' after Trump ends trade talks | CBC News Pope Leo lamented on Friday the frictions roiling relations between the United States and Canada, in a likely reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cut off trade talks.

Now look what you've done. You've made the Pope lament.

La nuit, le long du métro, par la fenêtre, la vitesse trace des lignes devant les bâtiments.

La nuit / Métro

📷 #MobilePhotography

Today In 1992: The Toronto #BlueJays become the first team from #Canada to win the World Series! #MLB #History #WANTITALL #WorldSeries

A graphic that says "You've got wheels. They've got heels." With images of a scooter, e-bike, bicycle, and cargo bike.

Toronto’s sidewalks are for pedestrians 🚶, so don’t ride on them!

E-bikes & other rideables (excluding assistive mobility devices) on sidewalks endanger pedestrians, especially seniors, children, & people with disabilities.

Learn the rules at: toronto.ca/Rideables

Too bad that place selling steamship tickets at the lower right isn't still there, I'd like to ride on a steamship.

On Sunday I'm giving a gallery talk then neighbourhood walk at Koffler Gallery on Shaw Street. Very cool exhibition by Berlin artist Tracey Snelling. If you dig cities you gotta see it.

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When the Jays win the next two at home and go to the World Series, we'll stop talking about this real fast.

Enchanting Imposters - JSTOR Daily Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.

This course at Johns Hopkins should be mandatory for all of us before we are allowed to use the internet.

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

Pitching was fine yesterday. They did their jobs. 3 ER over 9 should be a win. The sleeping offense was the problem.

This is rather scathing, isn't it.

Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

Begun in 2009, Bixi was commissioned with the support of public money by the City of Montreal. Just this week it was named by Time Magazine as one of the top inventions since 2025. The bike system can be found in NYC, London, DC, Rio, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Barcelona, Dubai, Monaco, and more.

Fragility Is Getting Scary The opposite of risk management.

"It is the result of a very long epidemic of selfishness and cowardice in public life, a hollowness at the heart of our rhetoric about democracy that has, at last, ushered in a chaos agent that will make us pay for all of it at once."

Use the janky tools nobody asked for to speed up the building of a thing nobody wants, or you're fired.

A scan of a paper map of Toronto from 1926 titled "Canada's most beautiful summer city -- Toronto"

"The Points of Interest of Beautiful Toronto are best seen from the Palatial Coaches of the Toronto Transportation Commission" (1926)

anyway I'm off to go dump all my deepest secrets into an AI therapist bot run by a sociopathic technofascist

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

This is a great story. I wish they added few photos of the new Biidaasige Park, too.

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...