Cracking up at these anti-drug booklets at the downtown burrito place, *huge* "you wouldn't steal a car" vibes
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
When the gig is so disorganized you spend an hour backstage waiting to go on // When they mail out the overtime cheques
URGENT #topoli - On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. NEITHER OF THESE MOTIONS INCLUDES A MORATORIUM. actionnetwork.org/letters/mora...
FLOOD CITY COUNCIL'S MOTION COMMENTS — AI DATA CENTRE MORATORIUM NOW!
On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. Bi...
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Oh my god I think this nightmare might be truly dead in the water. What is this feeling? Is this happiness?
![A screenshot of a Toronto Star article saying, among other things, that "a senior government official... confirmed to the Star the [proposed Billy Bishop airport] expansion would not go ahead".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fk6vpdrs2lihqthopbdwzqrs/bafkreidxkozhxd54hoxwwv2fvxxbxattfmndyl2yialk55mxohhepyv7sm)
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w ago#Breaking: Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion
Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.
Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 3w agoCanadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...
*guy who brought in the Trojan horse voice* "Oh so I was just supposed to know we DO look a gift horse in the mouth now?"
Do I dare start a tech support ticket with 20mins left in my workday
A Redditor put together some instructions on on how to make an optimized 1-filter air cleaner using a box fan from my experimentation several years ago. It's in a Google drive folder here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
I got this from VIA less than 15mins before train departure - never seen them void seat choices before. Any train understanders know what "change of equipment" might mean in this situation? I'm so curious.
A group of TO civil society leaders (in a sea of people who aren't saying a peep) have created TO Reality Check to oppose the Island Airport expansion. Give them some time + share where you can. They've made it easy to send a letter to Liberal MPs who could stop all this today. torealitycheck.ca
The Best of Toronto's Waterfront - And Why We Might Lose It
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Gimme the Loggins with a lime slurpee + tequila (my official Bermuda Shorts Day bevvie as a U of C grad, go Dinos)
OrbGazer@orbgazer.bsky.social · 4w agowhich one of these 1975 7-11 rock n roll slurpee cups are you using to get shitfaced with & what are you pouring
Hiiiiiiiii. We are trying to make a solitary inch of Toronto a better place by pedestrianizing part of Church street, the heart of the Gay Village. Here are the contact details to have your say to helping us keep it. Please participate even if you don’t live here but you just like walkability
My husband is working on a lunch-and-learn presentation that he's giving next week and I just looked over to see this
It's only two questions but these are the absolute hardest questions for a Torontonian to answer. Easier to describe the meaning of life than it is to draw boundaries around The Junction.
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 4w agoTorontonians: U of T's school of urban research is crowdsourcing a short two-question survey where all you need to do is draw what you consider the borders of your neighborhood on a map carte.utoronto.ca/neighbourhoo...
I warned people at work about an issue (that doesn't impact me but is going to be a PITA for them) several weeks ago and then again last week, and they're just now realizing that I was right and they are scrambling while I quietly abstain from comment. What a feeling.
Vanilla Coke, bag of potato chips, bug spray, 150 of my closest friends, A League Of Their Own on the big (BIG) screen
🇨🇦 folks: you can sign this (official!) petition to regulate the shit out of AI data centres!
Ticky🏳️🌈@drac.at · last mo.Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one
I can strongly recommend having two glasses of wine and watching JAWS. You should do it right now
Enjoying the book of cats in art that my husband bought me and OMG LOOK AT THIS LITTLE STINKER. (painting is Pierre Bonnard's "L'apres-midi bourgeois")
Akira Kurosawa didn't shoot actual arrows at Toshiro Mifune so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Perhaps I have heatstroke but I am getting a little misty-eyed at Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie's lovingly-shot menu video ❤️