Ed Tubb
@edtubb.bsky.social
Editor at the Toronto Star, with a focus on courts, justice and occasional greyhound content. Journalism is a discipline of verification. he/him | etubb at thestar dot ca
Hank Green is a talented guy who v. clearly can pull off the creative work that made him popular and earned him a reputation as a clear science communicator. I don’t particularly think the lessons from his example are difficult to parse. kotaku.com/famous-scien...
Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video
'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Hank Green
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1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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lmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People don't seem to want to admit that "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" is shockingly harsh language for the average film review. She's within her rights to say it, and she knew exactly the response she would get for it, but it's definitely an eyebrow-raiser
Rather aimlessly put on an old In Our Time episode on the gin craze to cut the grass, and I must report back that it is *wonderful* radio — one of the very best of the series — and I am now overcome with warm, sad nostalgia. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Gin Craze
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
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Is Minions & Monsters the most shameless piece of Oscar bait since The Artist?
I am admittedly somewhat uncertain of the size of the market crossover between 4-7 year olds and cinephiles with an encyclopedic recall of Golden Era 1920s Hollywood, but I nonetheless have a few questions about the audience targeting that went into Minions & Monsters.
Worth remembering: The feds were initially more favourable than not toward some manner of Billy Bishop expansion, but then left it to Doug Ford to make the case, and…here we are.
Ben Spurr@benspurr.bsky.social · 2w agoBig news: Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
If you think of it in the sense of every happy family looking alike and every unhappy family being unhappy in its own way, this LeBron-Embiid-Brown-Maxey-Nurse 76ers team *doesn’t stand a chance.*
If the ref had missed that spot, VAR would have called the goal back. (Rightly)
I honestly wonder why Spain doesn't get more criticism for how efficiently they convert otherworldly excellence at this sport into bloody boring football. This style of play is every bit as suffocating as those Italian sides of old.
Spain is going to be 100%, comfortably in control of this match through 85 minutes. And then they'll lose 1-0.
Given his impact on .xG that half, I think you can make a decent argument Unai Simón is the MotM so far. Him or one of the Muppets.
Argentina is getting bossed. 100% But Spain hasn't turned that into any particularly good chances, so you have to figure the Argentines are feeling OK about this.
First impressions can lie, but my first impression is the Spanish possession is quite a bit more dangerous.
Nothing could be funnier than England getting bought in to going up 4-0 in a meaningless game, only to lose.
It would be OK, I think, to be a bit less sensitive about "Canadian wildfires."
Can see the sun, but the smoke is much worse than yesterday morning, I reckon. Much lower. Much more acrid.
Honestly, they should sack Tuchel for thinking their success sitting back against Mexico could ever work against this Argentine side. Just awful tactics.
I cannot get over how borderline chilly it is to be outside right now, on a day that was forecast to be in the mid 30s.
It's apocalyptic n'all but simply chatting about it here, the sharing of pics etc, is one of the good things about social media platform like this. Chatter about a thing. Why I stick around.
