Realized my Substack piece from last year on Bruce Springsteen's shelved "trip-hop" album—the so-called "Streets of Philadelphia" sessions—is in the top Google results right now for searching the album?! Weird!

Video of this might be good for one of those "Future Adam Curtis B-Roll" accounts lol (@adamcurtisbroll.bsky.social)

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This looks good: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/pet...

So cool that this is being screened this week in YYC! calgarycinema.org/tickets/gamb...

I will be presenting virtually at CLIA 2026 (fla.org/clia-2026/) on prediction markets and information literacy this Wed 29 April 2026 around 12:10pm! Thinkin' about maybe takin' a flyer on 👽, to be honest... #predictionmarkets #informationliteracy

Peloton 90s Ride Instructor be like: "You CAN do this INTERVAL!!! YOU learned about DYSENTERY from a VIDEO GAME!!! REMEMBER how slow it was to connect to the INTERNET back in DAY?!? Remember CALLING SHOTGUN in a car?! Right NOW, you're just like the BRANCH DAVIDIA--"

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Get Any Base Runners on for Kaz Challenge

Beyond parody lol

LTTP a bit, but I'm super surprised at how much I like the new, sad bastard New Pornos LP from last month. Kinda feels like Late Style Carl Newman in a really interesting way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSca...

Woah, didn't know "CJAL" was on this website. I wrote this review of "Critical Voices in Library and Information Work" by Bales and Buzise-Weaver!

Loved this piece! KPR's column is so essential, along with pretty much anything that Alphonse Pierre writes IMO. (***Whispers*** "Pitchfork is good now" lol)

Second day in a row being woken up by the wind lol

D'you think this Denny's Slammin' Meal Deal commercial was modelled after Stan Rogers' voice??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbS0...

If the Raps can avoid getting actually swept and turn it into a gentleman's sweep over the next 2 games somehow, that'd be nice. I was hyped about this team earlier in the season, but it all evaporated when I saw their record against teams over .500 lol

Sunday is the 2-year anniversary of the sprawling Hovvdy "s/t" that they put out on Arts & Crafts. I'm probably one of few celebrating this record, but damn I love it. Wrote about it on release (joelonrecords.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...) and I still really enjoy it. Definitely a Put It On LP.

It's wild and cool to see this book back in print again! For some godforesaken reason, I did my undergrad Hons thesis on it and it took ... some years off my life lol

Can't overstate how good this book is! Excited to dig into this interview.

Damn, RIP Taylor Kirk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Cq...

stereogum.com/2496756/just... Lol the way I would easily prefer this to any actual Bon set.

I'm working on my CLIA piece trying to rough out some ideas re. prediction markets and IL and, have to say, this "Note on Middle East Markets" that Polymarket appends to all its Iran bets made me feel genuinely ill

139 more games of the Jeff Hoffman Experience (TM) could be the end of me lol

This book looks 🔥!

Can the Jays win 2 games in a row??? The drama...

Blown away by this David Moore LP quietly released earlier this year! bingruth.bandcamp.com/album/graze-... No idea this was one of the folks in Bing & Ruth. Gorgeous record.

I crushed all of this yesterday somehow lol

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Re-watching season 1 of "How To with John Wilson" before the Canadian premiere of his new doc at CUFF later this month. Perfect dang TV show!

This Jays team is torturing me lol

. @redford.bsky.social The "NBR"playoff preview eps are expert-level podding. Loving every minute. Thank you 🙏

I'm so Jayspilled right now that I think this logo—which I felt was a crime against humanity contemporaneously—is fire. Plz send helppp!

The Allbirds thing is so funny lol

Calgary in mid April lol

AI-powered Sci-Hub (sci-bot.ru) now - interesting!

Found my 2015-2016 year-end lists deep in a laptop archive today - crazy time capsules!

Charles Webster's 2020 album "Decision Time" Randomly remembered today. So damn good! m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5O...

I think I believe in the CD revival lol Had a bit of an epiphany in a record store yesterday Multiple Zoomers coming in asking excitedly for Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" on CD and stuff. Absolutely no interest in huge vinyl stacks nearby. Fascinating.

Logged onto Facebook for the first time in a few weeks on my burner and lol these sidebar ads are wild

What.CD dad hat is bonko but kinda goes hard lol

lo-fi, farts to study to

Brand new book review from me in "CJAL" of Bales & Budzise-Weaver's very good new volume "Critical Voices in Library and Information Work"! doi.org/10.33137/cja...

Gen X must be stopped!!!!111

Iconic and goated

I saw Ron Sexsmith do 2 10-song sets of Lightfoot songs at National Music Centre last night. Incredible sound, and idiosyncratic cover choices by RS. This song is so fascinating - co-write with David Foster, clearly Lightfoot aiming for 80s adult contempo gold lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTh...

Hey Canadians/AI skeptics/Data Centre Resistors: Registration is now open for the AI ^ Civil Society Summit planned for Montreal on May 22 It looks to be excellent. I'm going! Let's hang out and power map/geek out. aicivilsociety.ca

"Jokermen" pod alerted me this morning to this new, nearly-600 page book on Gary Stewart from Jimmy McDonough (who wrote the definitive Neil Young biography, "Shakey"). 40 years of work by McDonough. bookshop.org/p/books/gary... So cool!

The CFP for Calgary Libraries in Action 2026 has now been extended through end of day on 12 April! fla.org/clia-2026/

Angine de Poitrine is so hilariously artistically Quebecois in so many ways. You'd never see papier-mâché masked math rock coming out of Western Canada. Cultural two solitudes is still alive and well lol