Montreal came up in conversation today and I said it's great cause it;s like if a bunch of French Hicks tried to create NYC from first prinicpals as opposed to Toronto which is like what if Chicago didn't have alcoholics
if you vibe code on html day you will have to go back and relive the web3 years
recently saw this TERRIBLE advice to “write more human”: - don't use “curly” quotes, use straight quotes ( " and ' ) - don't use en or em-dashes, use -- and --- - never use an ellipsis (…), use three dots (...) please for the love of god don't write worse because ai exists. good typography is cool!
Jason Lengstorf@jason.energy · 2mo agoa weird side effect of enjoying writing and reading is that I’ve been accused a few times of using LLMs to write because I do things “humans don’t do” (e.g. use a semicolon properly)
This is just really embarrassing for these guys. Your intellectual hero is an amphetamine casualty from the Britpop years. It would be less ridiculous to be queuing up for a lecture by Ginger Spice.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6mo agoWe should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Jean Widmer 1929-2026, graphic designer and designer, creator of the iconic centre Pompidou logo. His minimalist and typographic work continues to inspire. A man of great humanity. #rip
[our societal reaction to] Jane Jacobs was a mistake (Our 180 swing to over emphasize public consultation processes over outcomes [which still largely favors wealthy, white, older, homeowners], has been damaging to building essential infrastructure or really getting anything done these days)
Alex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
please remember: the flag on the left is the flag of the conservative and reactionary Ontario Occupation Regime in Toronto. the true flag of Toronto is on the right. thanks
👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 7mo agooh my god is the new bobbybroccoli video about toronto by way of rob ford. greatest city in da world
A generation from now, The Globe will be running think pieces on this: How Canada squandered the enormous advantage of its immigration and scattered people across the country because Bob and Helen didn’t like the look of apartment buildings.
Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
How to Lose a Grinch in 10 Days
Tea Berry-Blue@teaberryblue.net · 8mo agoThe Importance of Being Grinch
can this please kill the kidcore fauXP graphic design trend once and for all
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 8mo agoNot like u should need another red flag but Live DJ Set By Grimes is one
"I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me for die in Toronto he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday."
the canadian government should seize on the hostility with the US to finally ditch the US paper sizes and switch the country to a-series sizes
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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
really bleak to pop on to the former twitter and see people i thought were reasonable palling around with race science maniacs
"When Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows was vilified by leftist French critics, it’s because it was seen to be mythologizing the Gaullists, rewriting the history of the French Resistance in the form of a cracker jack thriller." i wrote about Andor, and Star Wars as mythology
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