Roasting up some sausages and asparagus with a minty lemony potato salad which will go nicely with a cold glass of Graves and sunshine

This is a great perspective on Musk. Amazing how even as his reputation plummets his wealth skyrockets davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/how-durabl...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... these black and white photographs are as great as the musicians portrayed

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/in-l... the works on display here are really impressive

Traffic in downtown Toronto is bonkers tonight

A most excellent list. Given some of the people involved in creating it, that makes sense.

First time I came across this language at the top of a Wikipedia entry: "This article may incorporate text from a large language model, which is prohibited in Wikipedia articles.... Any such material should be removed. (October 2025)" Came across it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_t...

share.libbyapp.com/title/270258 if you want to read about D-Day then I recommend this by Beevor. My favorite of his is Stalingrad, the other big turning point of WWII.

www.whitehouse.gov/media-bias-c... like any cartoon villainy this is both ridiculous and dangerous - I mean I’m pretty sure Whoopi and Kimmel are not reporters for one thing

The Times definitely posts more like this in a recession (I saw this a lot during the Great Recession). Other good indicators are lipstick and underwear sales it seems www.rbcdirectinvesting.com/learn/en/di/...

True. I’d add the men and women delivering food to peoples homes.

An important scenario to consider.

It is cool and rainy and windy and beautiful in Toronto

Good news for Keir Starmer to have Vance do this.

I wonder if the folks get high before they come up with this stuff? It's embarrassing in a way

Follow-up: The McCartney photos at the AGO are pretty great, honestly, and if you have an hour this weekend you should go look at them. And get an annual pass, it's just $40 and you'll find all sorts of opportunities to use it!

The photo of the Boss with the (panda) Bear is meme-worthy.

books.apple.com/ca/book/the-... reading about the beginning of the Third Republic of France is good perspective on our current world, somehow

Good thread but this is especially noteworthy. It will be interesting to see how the green line changes over the next 10 years due to Boomers.

Anyway I am trying to limit my comments on the topic of AI and data centers. ...I don't think they add much...it's like shouting in a hurricane these days when it comes to that topic.

There seems to be plenty of protests against new data centers in Canada. The one in Manitoba is well thought out at least www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Premier of Toronto doesn't need a private jet. Maybe he needs to become a big CEO then he can get one.

If you want to understand agentic AI, then you need to read this. I’ve been do agentic AI for the last year or two and this walks through much of my experience. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/m...

Summer People, who get annoyed when people discuss the end of Summer before it’s time, are annoying to Spring people when they discuss the beginning of Summer when they are still weeks of Spring to enjoy. Bah humbug! Summer is so overrated. 😄

Doing some work with Github Copilot. It's not bad for a non-power user like myself. I do wonder how all this plays out. I suspect Anthropic will do well with non-enterprise developers, but I wonder how well it will do against Microsoft with enterprise developers. (See Lotus, Slack, Cloud providers.)

Exactly. I recall the rise of CMSs: Content Management System software to manage the tsunami of UGC: User generated content.

Some useful context

I have colleagues who use AI to tell me how to proceed with my job but I understand the job and you can tell from their A.I. input they do not. It is a difficult situation because they have faith the AI knows what it is talking about but it doesn’t.

This is superb. The Times does some graphic analysis of a villanelle by Wendy Cope and I am here for it. > My Life Was a Trainwreck. Then I Read This Poem. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a tremendous story and if you can you should read it (I would gift it but the gift link feature seems broken for this)

Good initiative, good thread. (Gift link www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...)

I'm trying to figure out what the grift is going to be here. As I said earlier, this is good news for Mistral and Chinese model makers.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

www.axios.com/2026/06/02/i... it is deeply weird that IBM is becoming a meme stock.

Looks like a perfect gift for dads and grads! And so many more 👇🏻

smartpeopleiknow.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/o... wrote a little something on one of the few people I am a fan of …

It’s weird that a man whose work I studied in the 90s and who was recently standing next to me at a book party disagrees with the Pope.

The NYT making Toronto seem cooler than you might think (gift article) > Toronto’s Best Party Was Always Downstairs www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Anti A.I. folks — which seems like 90% of the people I follow — take note! 😄

People say there is no money in writing, but this seems fine! :)

I 100% endorse this. Dogs are great. Dog owners? Some of them are the worst. Don't get me started on the owners who give their dog a treat after the dog behaves badly. I Those people should not have dogs.

Happy Blue Moon Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6E...

Can confirm! Well done, Google! Brilliant implementation of AI!

This is very cool. This type of support for trans people should be the bare minimum. It's really a shame that Steyer is the only one in the California governor's race willing to stand up for trans people like this.

Oh Habs …

Dilbert had this covered years ago...how this senior execs missed this makes me think they are the pointy hair bosses devhumor.com/media/dilber...

Some good insights as to what makes Andor good. Of course one thing that makes it really good is...Stellan Skarsgård!

For the Jeefs in your life! I read the sample: the number of Jeffs in the book indeed seems infinite.

I never want to line up for pizza, but reading this, I get a better understanding of why people do line up here

Years ago on the coast of Cape Breton the fog would fill the night sky and all you could hear is the distant fog horns in the harbour and it's got to be the best conditions to sleep in the world.