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The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee

Dan says it right: this is a city, and we need leaders who will say so.

I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Rule 1: don’t talk about who said what Rule 2: DON’T TALK ABOUT WHO SAID WHAT Rule 3: If it’s your first time at Chatham House, you have to fight

Satan: welcome to hell. this is Gary, he'll be your demon for today Demon Gary: hi! me: he doesn't seem so bad Demon Gary: *tearing up* why would you say that? me: oh, no, I'm sorry, I didn't-- Satan: jesus, no wonder you ended up here

Whoops! All Saints

My theory is that anyone - certainly any introvert - who travels enough has a secret ideal breakfast routine that delights them and that they will move mountains to try to arrange.

As you go to work today to start another week, it may help to remember that Skeletor was often thwarted by his own inept henchman too

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

This is the thing about too much motorist misbehaviour. They convince themselves that - whatever infractions they commit - they're just following the 'unwritten rules of the road' and that the rules, and not them, are in the wrong. Speeding, rolling stops, running amber lights... the list goes on.

Anyone who designs a machine with knees is under 40 years old.

The Bell Riots is a utopian vision of society compared to the IRL 2020s

"We know how X is implemented" ≠ "We understand how X works"

When it comes to road deaths, we often put the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.

“I know you work night shifts at a care home, but you need to prove you’re contributing to the community” objectively ludicrous position

Hundreds of first-year physics profs are currently downloading this video and sketching out the free body diagrams for an upcoming lecture

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

This is very good l on how co-op education is a deeply under appreciated tool for actually driving innovation: innovationdoctor.substack.com/p/students-a...

the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching

“Canadian pension plans are supporting US firms by investing in them” is true, but another true way of saying the same thing is “Canadian pension plans are pulling profits out of the US economy and redistributing them to Canadian retirees”

‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’ was a seven-season exploration of the fundamental tension of two visions of Canada; the modern, messy, unsatisfying conception of The Federation, and the seductive, but ultimately correctly discarded, vision of a Dominion. In this essay, I will…

I honestly and truly believed that growing old would take a lot longer.

How your email finds me

Oh the shipping label was _created_! That’s fantastic, thanks for alerting me. Please text me when you change your toner cartridge too, that printer shit is super interesting to me.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.

I will always love that Scott would do a normal take, Kubrick would cajole him into a “one for me” take where he’d act as big as possible, and those were the takes that made it into the final cut bsky.app/profile/seth...

And once again I have run out of motivation before I have run out of project.

The trick is to say “this concept is undertheorized” instead of “I don’t know what it means.”

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

Agree, and when we have used up all objectivity, we are left only with panel member subjectivity (& biases). imo this is the best argument for introducing partial randomisation into grant allocations. Do a loose triage on the unfundable, guarantee funds for a few outstanding apps, lottery the rest

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

My 12 year old son sent me this today. Love that kid.

We have confirmation. The Weiner Circle in Lincoln Park has responded to the Chicago Pope 😂

Right. “In person exams” are the trivial solution here, why is everybody hand wringing about The Death Of The University?

There's nothing less "vital" than fascism. Not only is it the ideology of stagnation and death but the very people who embrace it are the most miserable fucking losers around. Just absolute basement incel dwelling shitheads.

they need to put a big cigarette pack style warning on this case thats like "NOT A HEARTWARMING CHILDRENS MOVIE"

A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives. The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple. Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that. A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

If Duolingo ever makes a todo app I will buy it whatever it costs

YOU GUYS.

lol the men are in crisis because they refuse to adapt. That's it.

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...