Novice discovery: if you’ve had a bottle of wine in a cool, dark place for a decade or so, open it… and then decant it, or let it breathe in some way, for an hour or so. Pretty bananas how much of a difference it makes.

One man. One last day of work before nine (9) days off. Can he make it? Find out this December 23rd.

New: Canadians are now officially streaming 3 billion songs a week. When I started writing about streaming economics in 2013, things were dire. Now? Despite more money flowing to music, most musicians I've talked to over 12 years don't find things better www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

RIP Ziggy Sobotka. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Difficult to think of a more authentically Christian deed for this season.

Need a new pinned tweet…

One of the many problems with the rise of ethnic nationalism is that it can foreclose the very assimilation that the bigots claim to want. Produce a national identity as linked to “heritage” or ethnicity or ancestry and then it becomes impossible to adopt.

lol

incredible

Don't feel particularly convinced one needs to be on places like X in order to to somehow combat the right or pull discourse back to the centre. Don't think that actually works? All the same, those spaces are now increasingly quite explicit in their retvrn, ethnic nationalist, white supremacism?

Huh. Was undecided on Pluribus at first but the longer it's gone on the more I've enjoyed it; have found it lingering and I think I'm leaning more toward a feeling that the gaps and spaces in the show are the things I like. Will always consider what Phillip has to say about a TV show, though.

what the what "I ended up in triage where doctors determined that they had to induce because working in the heat caused my blood pressure to reach dangerous levels. My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired."

"It is eminently possible to write a great book about being driven sexually insane by a man who sucks. Nordic women do it particularly well." I could quote every line of this @brandyjensen.bsky.social review. defector.com/american-can...

Maybe I need to give Weapons another shot bc I was at a loss the first time re why I was supposed to find it interesting or entertaining

Thank you everyone who suggested I watch Metropolitan

Trump says he’s ordering a total blockade of “sanctioned oil tankers” in and out of Venezuela. “Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

people barely like my ideas now! can you imagine how they'd feel if they also had to see my face?

a solitary black balloon just floated by my window if anyone were looking for a sign or omen from the universe

I’ve played a total of 2 video games in 2025, which I’m pretty sure is 2 more than in 2024, and they both seemed punishingly long. For one at least that felt thematically fitting, I suppose (Last of Us II). But there’s no good reason any Star Wars game should take more than 1 workday to complete.

Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/

Wearing a mask at home and running two air purifiers in (what I hope is not a vain) effort not to pass on this awful flu thing to B

have you seen any memes in the past few years joking about wanting to be small woodland creatures? after i’d seen a few dozen i started to get curious about why that seemed so appealing to us these days. i wrote about the phenomenon, which i’ve dubbed FROGPOSTING, for @hazlitt.bsky.social

Wowza www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

honestly I’d ask for a new cage with hot chocolate in it instead

only thing better than coming down with something in december is not realizing that's the case until after your ride to your elderly parents' home has left 🤪

A beautiful obituary for Asad Haider: www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Carney’s posturing on climate is nothing but a fig-leaf. His sweetheart deal with Alberta is a complete surrender to Big Oil. #climate #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

opening a clothing store in a college town somewhere in America's northeast (with a pop-up in London) that will target people who have read too much Gibson and are drawn to attire known as "tactical." It's going to be called Pattern Recognition

anodyne article about more caffeine-free options prompts irrational, over-the-top anger from people who are definitely not addicts

I think this is starting to sound a bit like the "how can ANYone support Donald J. Trump" stuff -- at a certain point, choosing not to understand it becomes willful obliviousness. not an endorsement of a thing or a person to say... of course some people want this! do you live on the moon? tf?

Oh I love this. I'm like this with "Be Quiet and Drive" by the Deftones - the moment has to somehow 'deserve' it.

My obituary for Frank Gehry: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...

Bit funny. Beautiful Christmas setup at the Royal York… but pounding dance music 😅

Here's Frank on the Simpsons, which he voiced while I worked for him. I can not tell you how often I walked around the Gehry partners office saying "yo Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much" after this aired www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyT...

Asad Haider passed away? jfc

Sounded like both Gehry and Mirvish were aware that Forma wouldn't get finished before the inevitable. Still seems sad that it happened that way.

Yeah, inclined to agree with Ian here, at least in part (and I'm no expert). Even when the systems of games are interesting, the aesthetic or thematic trappings are not. Or vice versa. I still feel a very Gen-X sense of shame re even admitting that, nearing 50 (!), I occasionally play video games.

well then. I didn't expect multibillion dollar corporations to listen to my little post. but I guess I'm more powerful than I realized?

I also just think my feed here is too ideologically aligned such that I miss some dialectical back and forth that could occasionally be useful.

At least for me, it's a real shame there are still quite a few smart, interesting people still on Twitter.

HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

I don't have the intellectual background to do it properly, but it seems a psychoanalytic lens would be useful here - a chatbot interface takes the shape the intersubjective without being perceived by many users as "subjective"

I’m being snarky but technology can sometimes develop in weird, non linear ways. somewhere in between VR headsets, Meta Display and Vision Pro there’s some vision of a future in there - likely “ambient computing” or augmented reality etc. Feels to me like one of those inevitable things

so what you mean is that putting on a bulky headset to have a clunky, awkward zoom meeting wasn't the next trillion-dollar idea? this area man is very surprised

I should have bought that Steamdeck

They should make a movie streaming service that has all the good movies and none of the bad ones.

People throw around “neoliberalism” far too much, but the meaning of neoliberalism is to use markets to solve any and all problems. In a way it’s a “relief” to face the barest, most gunmetal version of the thing, if only to marvel at it before it eradicates us.

Waymo has its sights set on Toronto for driverless cars. The city’s history with Big Tech suggests that’s cause for alarm #Opinion from @graphicmatt.com