There he was, sitting behind home plate. With biceps like a Christmas ham and mountainous traps that nearly touched his ears. Dean Angelo has been attending Jays’ games since he was a kid. Now he's become a minor supporting character in the Blue Jays World Series run.

Does gen alpha know the hamster dance song???

The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

Excellent reporting from @samedwards.bsky.social on the ways that misogynists are weaponizing the verdict. Everyone should read this story and be alarmed

Today I'm on The Decibel, The Globe's daily podcast, talking about why Wikipedia is arguably one of the last good places on the internet. Listen here! pod.link/thedecibel/e...

Being obsessed with the weather isn’t new, but this fixation has been modernized with hyper-localized streams of information, push notifications and influencers who feed on its addictive nature – all against the backdrop of extreme weather events. My latest: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"We are living in big starvation - and people here also are thirsty... [tomorrow] I don't know if I will be able to get a drink of water or not." Please listen to my friend Hasan Jaber's account of living through war and famine in Gaza. It pains me to hear how weak he sounds.

While giving her verdict this morning, the judge in the Hockey Canada trial highlighted the two consent videos recorded by one of the players. The judge says E.M. appears sober, is speaking clearly and not slurring. t.co/bt0wzClPIL

A niche source request! Do you, or someone you know, have a personal weather station in their backyard and live in the general Toronto area? I want to talk to you/them for a story! Email is (always) open at [email protected]

I weighed in on the Coldplay jumbotron kiss-cam scandal, which imo highlights our rabid obsession with online sleuthing and subsequent public shaming, and how our rabbit hole-sleuthing can often wade into murky ethical territory. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

The average person now has more access to weather minutiae than ever before: hour by hour forecasts of rainfall, air quality, pollen count, etc. For a Globe and Mail story, I want to chat with ppl obsessed with checking this weather data! DM or email me at [email protected] 🌩️

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the posting of the first YouTube video ever, online culture reporter Samantha Edwards and I discussed how the platform has changed how the world views and views itself. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

For YouTube's 20th anniversary*, me and the Globe's screens reporter @nestruck.bsky.social chatted** about the legacy of the platform and how its fundamentally changed how we see the world. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3b8af88...

Health #misinformation is a particularly worrisome problem in Canada where reduced access to family doctors pushes people online to seek medical information, by @samedwards.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #infodemic

Xav Trudeau should’ve performed at the Liberal leadership announcement

U.S. President Donald Trump's reason for slapping tariffs on Canadian imports is because he says fentanyl is "pouring" across the border. But he is misrepresenting data about drug seizures and their links to Canada, a Globe investigation finds www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Source callout: do you know someone who isn't on social media (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) or doesn't use Amazon or Uber for data privacy reasons? I'd love to chat with them for a Globe and Mail story. My email is [email protected] or DM for Signal.

From Truth Social to Rumble, Adin Ross to the Nelk Boys, I wrote about the decidedly right-wing media ecosystem that's flourished in recent years, attracting everyone from traditional Republicans to extremist far-right castaways. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

And just like that, TikTok is restoring services in the U.S.

Hello! Are you a Canadian who is locked out of X? Send me a msg or email me at [email protected] for a potential story. Thank you!!!

Scoop: we identified 3 outsourcing companies that are urgently hiring English-speaking content moderators to work for Xiaohongshu / REDNote, a sign that the platform is scrambling to grow its censorship capacity as thousands of TikTok refugees come in. www.wired.com/story/xiaoho...

This may be our first case in Trump 2.0 where Congress and the courts say one thing and then Trump just does whatever he wants

As the U.S. TikTok ban looks more likely to happen on Sunday, I wrote about how American users are coping: with memes, jokes about their 'designated Chinese spies' and documenting their journeys over to RedNote: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

Inspiring words on innovation from the inventor of Stories, Reels, and Threads.

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens. They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”

Local news has invented another fake TikTok challenge ahead of the ban www.usermag.co/p/local-news...

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

I explain what’s going on with the looming TikTok ban: can/will the Supreme Court block the law? Can Trump save the app? What happens if it really does get banned on Jan. 19?

The Washington Post described Mark Carney as “a former central banker who has drawn comparisons to George Clooney” and said he has “movie star looks.” Excuse me? Who is saying this? I have never heard this before. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Wilted Christmas plants framing him, salt scattered on steps leading up to the door behind him, this is an excellent visual for the end of the second Trudeau era.

"Justin Trudeau is expected to announce as early as Monday that he will resign as Liberal Party Leader" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Their Instagram grids look like every other lifestyle influencer du jour – aspirational and facetuned – but there’s a difference. And you can spot it in the bio: “AI influencer.” I wrote about the rise of AI influencers, and what this new era says about authenticity on social media.

On the subject of Canadian creators, here's @samedwards.bsky.social on why many are moving to the US. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

It's the end of the year, which calls for what I hope is the start of a new tradition: The Globe...Wrapped! These are my top stories of the year based on subscriptions, engaged reading time and pageviews.

NEW: CharacterAI is hosting many popular chatbots that emulate — and often extol — real school shooters like Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook) and Harris/Klebold (Columbine.) The site is also hosting chatbots that impersonate real child and teenage victims of school shootings. futurism.com/character-ai...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

YouTube has released its list of the top 10 trending topics in Canada of 2024. I hadn't heard of at least half of these influencers/YouTube series (!!!), which either 1) shows just how fragmented our culture is now or 2) how out of touch I personally am. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ever thought of putting your smartphone away forever? My Globe and Mail colleague @samedwards.bsky.social tried it for two weeks. And the results were... complicated. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Exclusive: Music-industry funding provider FACTOR says it had nearly $10-million stolen from its Scotiabank account in June. Now it’s taking the bank and a bank client to court to try to get its money back www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Hello! For a @theglobeandmail.com article, I'm looking to speak with a Canadian influencer/content creator who moved to the U.S. because it's a more lucrative market. Is this you or someone you know? DM or email me please at [email protected]. Thank you!

Imagine being the two richest people on the face of the earth and arguing with one another on the World Wide Web.

Bluesky has 'em shook

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