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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.

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.

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. .

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. www.reddit.com/r/nba/commen...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I guess another thing we can take from the federal budget is while te Carney government is not taking a slash and burn Philistine approach to the arts, arts and culture is not viewed as a meaningful nation building project the same way mining, the military, and energy is.

Fascinated by instead of dampening expectations and proposing a new narrative around success, proposing the campaign be judged by if the promises made are promises met.

My morning after the budget take, (other than re-considering the purchase of a luxury yacht) is the budget is good for Canadian universities, but bad for Canadian graduate students. Almost everywhere has been in a hiring freeze post-pandemic and now a huge tranche to hire international profs only.

When they called it people in the bar started making out like it was New Year’s Eve lol

stop listening to the consultants start running unabashed socialists.

Idea for @tsnofficial.bsky.social @torontoraptor.bsky.social half time show: Instead of analysis of a parlay; which is the worse kind of sucker's bet in terms of odds, how about a piece on the current NBA coach and player under investigation by FBI for their involvement with gambling on the NBA?

Think about everything that has happened to the US political system under Chuck Schumer's watch as top Democrat and how on earth could he still have power?

I'm far too jaded at this point to pre-celebrate Mandami, but a W would be nice for a change.

Sometimes I wonder if I use too much Stanislavsky as the basis for teaching acting and directing, but then ask myself if chemistry professors worry about talking about the periodic table too much.

The worst part of things that don't matter making you happy, is that things that don't matter can also make you sad.

For those people whose sportsnet subscription isn't working, if you have prime video just get a free trial of citytv and watch the game from the live channel

I'm trying hard to emotionally disassociate from what's going to happen this evening and this is not helping.

If they win tonight and have a parade on Sunday, might drive the family to TO to see the parade. We've speculated at length around how Springer shirtless on a horse will work/look in this scenario.

Be gentle with your Gen X friends - we all have an emotional attachment to the Blue Jays winning the Worlds Series, due to 92/93 falling in our formative years, and very many of us are responsible for logistics involving multiple small monsters operating in the dark. Lots of moving parts.

Is Mary Hart OK?

Scared my kids a little bit re my reaction to back to back homers to start. Dad you yell loud. Only in the World Series little ones.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

There's a new report out proclaiming the value of Arts and Culture to the Canadian economy. This is not the point of art, and critically, i'm pretty sure making the argument we can pitch in to the National project the same way as mining or agriculture is not helpful to culture policy goals.

I still think the Jays are playing pretty well given the other team has an all time all star at every position and our key players are very old, just started playing baseball professionally, or spent 10 years in the minors.

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”

Every day that passes moves Starship Troopers slowly down the spectrum from outrageous sci-fi comedy to sober and chilling documentary.

And that should be the end of that.

I had a very bad cold that existed for the exact period between the Springer Dinger to the Barger Blast.

The world's most powerful military being paid by an anonymous rich person from an unknown country... kewl.

NYT has a helpful graphic for Americans on their homepage to identify which para-military or military org is on your city's streets. Man, I'm still mad about Hilary's emails.