Stuff like this does not make a compelling case for transit. I do suspect, though, that it isn’t only making transit better that helps - it’s that driving also has to get worse? An extra 10-15 minutes etc. is fine. But almost three times as long? It’s almost always like this

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Interviewed two icons about being the faces of American food www.eater.com/food-culture...

Just bought some stock in Haleon, makers of Advil. Time to tape a big sip of water and check the news

today I found out my Arby’s essay was tagged in one of the all-time best newsletters while firefighters were walking through my apartment to make sure the building wasn’t really on fire, in case you were wondering how my afternoon has been

You can get rid of grading. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Eh, I dunno. This assumes an algorithm is the ultimate and only mechanism of "reach." Ignores people with established networks, particularly because Twitter's import was about links between "elites" not some abstract version of reach or audience better associated with TV, YouTube etc

I think that this is how most people on the platform feel about using Twitter/X and, while I may not feel comfortable using it, I can see why people still do

The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past. Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

Still somehow have the capacity to be shocked by Trump. I may not exactly be a Biden booster, but given the post-Kirk reaction, to have him say the former president is mean and stupid and one shouldn't feel bad for him etc. is just bananas. Nothing means anything, no rules apply etc etc.

In the Star today, TrentU prof @rabbidenise.bsky.social argues that grades don't help learning, they hinder it - and that we should get rid of them. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Charlie Kirk's murder has accelerated something I started thinking about in New Hampshire last year, over lunch with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social . www.thestar.com/news/world/u...

I know America is collapsing but I went to the symphony last night and it was amazing. Wait… does this mean Western civilization *is* worth saving??

‘Ganz and Slobodian both invite us to reckon with the political legacy of weirdos, losers and cranks, something that few conventional intellectual historians or “ideational” political economists are used to doing.’ William Davies on the political legacy of the 1990s: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Can’t help but wonder when the archive ph loophole will get closed somehow

I want to dunk on the bad LLM critique, but instead I'll wonder out loud: if producing an aesthetic object of one's thoughts is transformative (i.e. written/artistic object which one then exists in relation to) what might it might mean to produce a database of one's thoughts as the object?

Is it time to built a 1000 ft. tall wall of ice across the 49th parallel? This man was fired for asking the question

If you were to meet your demise soon, what’s the thing you’d be most annoyed to know you’d miss out on? I think for me it would honestly be good food and drink

Still on this idea a bit. I think so much of discourse operates in (silent) relation to an assumed power structure operating above.

This is a useful framework: there is the assumption of what is the default or norm; there is the reality of the default or norm; and there is the discourse that has emerged from the confusion of one for the other.

This is likely me realizing something much later than everyone else, but: 1) Kirk outrage from the right seems to be because Kirk is read as synecdoche of the administration; 2) ppl have focused a lot on left vs. right, but it seems to me to elide race. Je suis Charlie in this instance = white.

this is a really amazing and necessary series on the loss of jobs in some fields, to AI

Running a marathon of Trump lies on TV does sound a little bit like the kind of thing two undergrads would cook up while high. What's the British equivalent of "it'll be so sick bro"?

Gonna rebrand a PSL as a Garam Masala Latte to catch all the authenticity fetishists and make millions

This is really surprising. I thought for sure Trump would be the kind of person who would say "I could care less."

1 question to ask about "debate" is whether or not one shares a goal with the opposing view. You might argue about how to house people - public housing, upzoning, deregulation etc. - but you at least share a similar goal. It's that overlap in a desired outcome that underpins the ideal of "debate."

People seem so furious about the new Apple interface but I like it so far? Admittedly, I'm always a sucker for a shiny new gloss, but it looks good.

At the rate we're going, planes are going to start getting measles again. Planes haven't suffered measles since World War II.

Your daily commute can make life miserable, but how bad can it get? We asked Star readers why their commute may be the worst. Our transportation reporter will put their trips to the test — and find out how to make them better.

Sometimes I wonder if, in 2025, we don’t exist atop a kind of substrate of all the ideologies that the left is trying to suppress or replace. It’s all still there bc it’s all assumed to be a kind of lost norm. Certain things - Trump, most obviously - act as a release valve for the lava underneath.

Don’t know how this happened exactly but I’ve been rewatching Game of Thrones recently (comfort food in hard times etc etc?). I like it more than the first time. A lot of its appeal, though, does seem tied a bit to… something a bit like retvrn vibes?

My first for WIRED: I spoke with TIFF directors about their films on power, survival, and the state of our world today. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, in particular, moved me to tears. www.wired.com/story/from-o...

Very good

Commenting on the events of the day takes a certain degree of courage, which is odd in and of itself.

"say less" ummm i think you mean say fewer

I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.

Very strange... something... in which the right has an "outsider" infrastructure of discourse (podcasts, Twitter, etc etc.) while also occupying power in the US, while Liberals/centrists are thought to have the "insider" informational infrastructure (ie MSM etc.) while losing institutional power?

Charlie Kirk’s death won’t change anything #Opinion from the Star's Richard Warnica

But Nav, what *is* "the truth"?

My problem is that, increasingly, I trust too few people to tell the truth.

I think it would help in this moment to distinguish between the symbolic function of an act within a given social context and the act itself.

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

Reaction online is predictably polarized. Reaction among the not-always-online people I tried to talk to was a unanimous, “who?” I’m still working through that.

From time to time, I find myself thinking about the film “A Separation.” Time moves in one direction and, bit by bit, word by word, act by act, certain things become irrevocable.

have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

I am worried.

Tangential but it reminds me of a Seinfeld set opening with him being baffled as to why anyone would need to regularly remove blood stains from laundry. Uh...

Hell hath frozen over newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/l...