Project: Hail Mary It's good. Looks amazing. They leaned into 2002 in a way Ridley Scott did not for The Martian. Some small changes to the plot to really speed things along and make it a little more of a crowd pleaser. Which is totally fine! If you like it, go read the book!

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Streets of Fire's Amy Madigan!

My #Oscars predictions: • Best Pic: One Battle After Another • Best Actor: Sinners • Sup. Actress: One Battle After Another • Sup. Actor: Sinners • Best Animated: KPop Demon Hunters #oscaround oscaround.com

I know that there are some Canadian baseball fans who are upset about this, and see it as further erasure of the Montréal Expos. But remember that when Dawson reached free agency in 1987, the Expos offered him a PAY CUT, and actively colluded with other teams against him.

My old 'hood!

The Craven Road community art gallery (Toronto).

Other past stars in today's NBA Wilt would be distracted by OF models but so are a bunch of current players so not real effect on his career Larry Bird would be out of the league after a courtside mic picked up his "trash talk" at black players Magic would be on PREP and have a 20 year career

Just in case people know, Kobe Bryant's defense lawyers are responsible for inventing the "this rape victim only accused him so she could become famous" defense, which has continued to plague our society in the decades since. Plus, you know, he raped somebody. Fuck Kobe.

The Venn diagram of "people who live close enough to Billy Bishop to prefer it to Pearson" and "people who don't live close enough to Billy Bishop to be bothered by the noise of jets" is a very, very small set of people. Dougie isn't doing this for the votes

Canadian New New Wave continues apace!

"When the Canadian government took over the passenger rail system and created VIA Rail in 1978, it made a terrible deal with the railways; they are still fighting over it. CN controls the tracks and tells VIA when and where it can go. It’s no way to run a railroad"

We deserve better trains

Every time I take my kid to check out a new park, I am astonished by how great the playgrounds are. Some look like the one pictured below, but most have much cooler stuff than we ever had as kids. So much online freak grievance is just “you need to go outside and participate in actual society”

Between this and Paikin's column it's quite clear Tory is trying to get his columnist pals to clear a path for him to re-enter the race, and it's frankly disgusting. He stepped down because HE HIMSELF said the affair was an unforgivable breach of the public trust! That's still the case!

1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

Can we get access to the exclusive P-Bandai shop in Canada now?

No one should take Steve Paikin seriously ever again. This is full of half truths, ignoring both the reality of Tory's entire career and the seriousness of having an affair with a staffer

Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.

The conservative machine is desperate for a mayoral candidate that isn't bradbrad or Mikey Ford. And no one wants the job because taxes have already been cut to the bone and there's no other solution to fixing the city.

The mayor needs to yank Shelley Carroll off the police board today. This is bananas. Here’s a gift link. Are there any elected officials in Toronto standing up for residents? She must go. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

When the Iranian protests started last month in Toronto, I asked on r/toronto what was the plan. Is it to restore democracy? Do ethnic minorities want to separate? Pahlavi is in a lot of posters - they don't want Shah back do they? "no no no we want democracy and freedom"

Sometimes there is a pun so good that you have to bite into it with your big beaver teeth @yovska.bsky.social @meakoopa.bsky.social

I saw John Landis present a screening of Jason and the Argonauts at TIFF. He told stories. He talked shit about all sorts of people in Hollywood from his days as a gofer at Fox and throughout his career He also said with a straight face that his son wrote the best screenplay he had ever read.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

The funny thing about Doug Ford is that 50 years from now Ontarians will have forgotten about the confrontational politics and the aura of corruption that sticks to everything he does and see him as a builder.

And if it was another party spending billions on all these rebuilds then he'd be furiously talking about how much of a waste of money it all is He doesn't have a political ideology beyond what inconveniences his commute from the inner burbs and what will enrich his developer friends

We tried this at the big park in Toronto and the result was random police stings that ticketed basically everyone on two wheels and otherwise the spandex crew rode just as antagonistically. No one gets angrier at being told that they just ran a stop sign than someone on a $5k bicycle

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

"Why are so many people still on the stupid nazi website" Simply put, a lot of people are too stupid to realize they're on a nazi website or too much of a nazi to realize they're on a stupid website

Pears are just shitty apples

You know a game is going to be good when "Bring it on, shitheels!"

Don't worry sir we'll take you home in a car with tinted windows Paparazzi with a flash so powerful you could see it from the moon: that's not a problem

This is why I didn't like Return of the King despite the Oscars and accolades. Not only could the movie not let itself end, the last scenes were all in slowmo. What if the nub nub scene in RotJ was 30 minutes of soft focus slow motion showing everyone slowly hugging each other

I had no idea Hillary Duff was BACK until hearing she had to add a second show because ticket sales are bonkers

Malcolm Gladwell and AI have a lot in common. They both sound like they know what they're talking about. blBut as soon as an expert in a particular subject looks at what they've written it becomes instantly clear that they have no idea what they're actually talking about

Creatives who use AI to replace the work of other creatives are class traitors without souls. You are not entitled to have things just because you want them, especially when those things you want put other people in the poorhouse. I'd rather die.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

The real question isn't "What is cinema?" The question is, "When is cinema?"

In Portugal, a McDonald's combo with Sagres beer was cheaper than with a Coke

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

Parker's piece is terrific and it reminded me of a great movie from 1987 called "No Way Out", where they gave the most realistic "enhance" speech by a computer nerd ever depicted in a movie or TV show, basically admitting that you have to steer "the algorithm" the way you want it to go. 1/

A few actors. A few guys who were in the NHL But the funniest one is Elton John's Canadian husband

Warren Kinsella continues to be the worst

I'm one of the dozens who saw Freddie Got Fingered on a big screen

My local councillor has gone from champagne green to echoing the mantra of Rob Ford. No, there's not a hidden gravy train. Expensive consultants were brought in. KMPG found minimal waste, and the "efficiencies" Rob brought in saved 1/10 of what he claimed

This is for the IPO. Now that institutional investors are going to be involved he suddenly has a slightly more feasible mission statement See also tying Grok to SpaceX. Datatcentres in space don't make sense but give the rockets another thing to actually do.