In which I decide to not go see AC/DC in Montreal, and then change my mind. (The allure of a 70-year-old in a school uniform is too strong.) And I write about a few serious issues. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Once again... youtu.be/WYqF--wQ3MU?...

I designed the Christmas card this year for my local @ndp.ca MLA. Really fun project to work on! #Halisky residents will likely immediately recognize the corner of paradise (Halifax) I submitted. Can't wait for my postcard of it to arrive!

idk what campus culture is like in other places but i can tell you at my woke lib alma mater you would’ve been made fun of for the rest of your academic career if you whined to the news about a grade

AI companies: Mentat Butlerian Jihad Other Memory Productivity software: SandTrout Tleilaxu Zensuni Financial services: CHOAM Surveillance: Shai-Hulud Lampadas Security: Honored Matres

Generations are fake and don’t tell us anything meaningful Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

In apparent violation of public meeting rules, Mayor Andy Fillmore hosted secret meeting with councillors and Construction Association of Nova Scotia to talk regional plan Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

My @halifaxexaminer.ca morning file: I went on a solo writing retreat and didn't get everything I wanted done. But it was worth it, and I learned a few important things. Also, I write about Hard Core Logo. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

I was at the final game! (The Forum looked a bit different by then.)

Because most of the onions I buy here are rotten when I cut into them, I decided to ferment the bag of good ones I just snagged. They’re at the bottom of a closet in my bedroom and ngl my room smells like it has body odour. 5 or 6 days and I’ll be able to cap them and put them in the fridge.

Can someone please ask him what he means by "AI" and how he thinks it works???? He really needs to go.

I don't know why I am putting myself through this, but I am down to 2 1/2 hours to go on the Chapterhouse: Dune audio book. (Nearly 17 hours total.)

Spending a week in Avonport, NS and came across these ghost tracks. (Att: @colindickey.com)

Translators: Is Termium broken? Any search term I enter, even if it's from the drop-down list, returns 0 records found.

Neighbours boiling over new lobster pound in Tantallon area By @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

They really tortured this piece to include every chicken or egg related pun they could think of: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Rubber Duck Museum in Point Roberts, Washington is moving across the border to Tsawwassen Mills, BC. The owners say Canadians have stopped coming, and tariffs have driven up the cost of ducks. Listen Here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Seuls 2% des chefs d’entreprises interrogés par KPMG disent voir un retour sur leurs investissements dans l’IA générative.

I wrote about the push to summarize everything. Probably should have come up with a headline like "Summarize this!" www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Home robot or Homestar robot?

For Hal-Con 2025, we published a free zine featuring flash fiction pieces and excerpts by 13 Nova Scotian writers of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. For a limited time—from now until December 15—you can download and enjoy the PDF version of the zine! writers.ns.ca/announcement...

In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.

In today's @halifaxexaminer.ca Morning File, I reach back to Jerry Mander's book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, for a critique of gen AI. Also, stories by @suzannerent.bsky.social, @mmughees.bsky.social & @dartjam.bsky.social. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

@mpavictoria.bsky.social Greeks arguing over whether a gyro/souvlaki with pita is a sandwich.

Todd Snider. "America's Favorite Pastime." youtu.be/KG2SPjcKM4M?...

"I'm just a fan of the stadium"

These text Jesus apps aren't new. I wrote about my conversations with one two years ago. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

I always assumed the Edmund Fitzgerald was an old-time ship that sunk in the 1800s or something, so kind of shocked to learn about the 50th anniversary.

I've been thinking for a long time about the parallels between the early days of cars and the early days of consumer-facing AI tools like chatbots, so I finally wrote about it. Shoutout to @thewaroncars.bsky.social. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Car dealer automatically scheduled a service appointment I didn't ask for, then texted to thank me for scheduling an appointment. Same company's salespeople email me from accounts with incorrectly formatted "reply to" fields, so all replies to them bounce. Good work guys.

This business in Nova Scotia of licence plate ownership being separate from car registration is so weird.

In the @halifaxexaminer.ca today, I grapple with whether AI is yet another moral panic, or something different. And if it's different, how different? Plus PWHL in Halifax, Andrea Dorfman's new film, stories by @suzannerent.bsky.social, and more. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

In 2021 I asked the Canadian government how much it was spending fighting First Nations in court - one access-to-info request specifying four cases. Today they got back to me.

Book news! Thrilled to share that Hell of a Ride is shortlisted for the 2025 Edna Staebler Award, and in tremendous company with Aaron Williams' The Last Logging Show. (Highly recommend the read.) That's TWO Halifax authors in the running for this Canadian award. #canlit wlu.ca/news/news-re...

Kept wondering why there is no coverage of the federal budget; realized today is not Tuesday.

40000 days ago (April 29, 1916), Cubs owner Charles Weeghman decides that fans will be allowed to keep balls hit into the stands. This follows an incident in which a fan gets into a fight with ballpark attendants trying to get him to give back a foul ball.

Instagram is helpfully informing me that the boys have arrived for game six.

What do you say? One of the best baseball games I've ever seen, but it broke the wrong way. Devastating, disappointing, brutal. But that shouldn't take away from what these Jays did this year. Absolutely my favourite Jays team, the most engaging, the easiest to root for, the most beautiful.

I am having a hard time processing the Jays being up in game 5 of the World Series. It's like my mind doesn't know how to handle it.

In this moment of stress and anxiety, are you enjoying our app? Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

why does the MLB need an official AI partner? what are they doing with it

Have they dropped Mike Piazza?

Back to listening to the game on the MLB app. Good thing, because I had forgotten what an oppo taco is.

Doing some stuff with the Scout and currently listening to the game on the radio in my garage. Highly recommend experiencing at least a bit of a World Series game that way, just in the radio. It’s still so goddamn big and magical. You can just hear and feel how different it is.

A couple of years ago if you'd said to me "In 2025 the Blue Jays will start Max Scherzer in Game 3 of the World Series against Ohtani and the Dodgers" I would have thrown cold water in your face in the hopes of reviving your senses because that would have sounded like a fantastical hallucination.

Our raspberry plants keep producing. (I harvested more after taking this photo.)

This makes a fine accompaniment to @cornellwriter.bsky.social's short story "Bright Horizons." www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

What the hell, Halifax?

This is what I said in one of the first games I umpired. Not a great start.

IMMACULATE GRID ALERT!!!!