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He needs to put on a different color sweater so he can be like “I am Ken Bone the Blue, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”

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Menswear Menagerie: What I'm wearing this autumn

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

the tech industry is about to invent books

where....were the ads run

Toronto is putting on a “Kids Vote Weekend” in October, where kids will go to polling locations and vote for one of five candidates running to be Tree of the Year. I will be cancelling all my coverage of the mayoral race and focusing exclusively on this contest. www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

Apple and Google aren’t really your problem here. Neither are the civil servants at the USGS who maintain the GNIS. Use Mapquest if it makes you feel better, I guess. The problem is the country reelected this vicious, spiteful, corrupt old fool.

"you see, Canada is clearly overreacting and should simply make the deal that's available, like other countries have"

The last time the Americans tried to claim Lake Ontario in 1813, we intentionally lured them into Fort York and then blew up our entire gunpowder magazine to kill as many Americans as possible. A foundation part of Toronto history is "blowing our own fort to smithereens rather than being American"

It's Wednesday, my dudes. Also A.T.D.S.S.T.S. in your face

TIL I have not lost the ability to be shocked.

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

Anyone here old enough to remember when google could be used as a thesaurus?

"Just a head scratch today, Carl" Cartoon by Pia Guerra #MenWithCats

Eventually I am going to post triumphant pictures of Yuzi and I's wedding, but meanwhile I think we look cute in this. A bbq where my family and her family hung out together, and my dad had hung up flags for all the countries represented there which I thought was nice.

Mi cartón en la edición impresa de esta semana de The New Yorker.

🌟Recommending a sensationally great tv (Netflix) limited series from Korea called Notes From the Last Row. Adapted from a Spanish play, it’s a fascinating story, brilliantly told. The entire company of actors are phenomenal. (Choi Min-sik OMG he’s genius!) Brilliant work from all departments.🌟

Artists of Bluesky, show us your best front-facing horses.

Sorry that your Mad King keeps threatening to invade my country, I also find this all terribly distressing but between the two of us you're the US Senator with actual powers of office.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

my most conservative, deeply held belief is that shame is extremely important in a functioning society

The Globe’s annual Canada Day crossword is here! Find it in the paper on Saturday, June 27, and online now: tgam.ca/canadadaycrossword

Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.

"Digitally handmade" is a useful, vital distinction. Collage work of existing images, authored in an image-editing platform (and done within the bounds of fair use) is the actual remix culture. Typing "make me an image in the style of this creator" into a generator trained on unlicensed art is theft

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school reut.rs/4eoSJVy

AI Data Centre plumber. @theageaustralia.bsky.social

when my clothes and footwear get interactive

Bari Weiss and AI are two phenomena well suited for an age where powerful people mistake sycophancy for intelligence.

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Whoa! #grickledoodle #superman #superheroes #comics #cartoon #birds #art #drawing #funny #humor

The best stock photo sources these days are very specific people who take photos of very specific things. This guy takes pictures of trains. All trains all the time. Only trains. Do I have to worry that one of these photos is AI? Nope. He would never disrespect a real train in that way.

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

I'm being a bit ranty about "AI" today so here is a cat picture in compensation

Google search was once so good and so successful that the products of companies which tried to ape it, such as Microsoft's Bing, became instant punchlines. Do you know how rare that is? Do you know how many companies would KILL for that sort of dominance? Yet Google is pissing it away. Unreal.

some days feels like the UK is making a case for the return of direct rule by the Crown "honestly how much worse could I be?"—HRH Charles III, probably

A geeky post even non-animators might find interesting anntelnaes.substack.com/p/animated-m...

This year for Mother’s Day, I made my mother in law a “flight” of mini sourdough loaves in different flavours. They’re SO CUTE. I fear this might become my new Thing.

watching the willful and steady destruction of respect and faith in all three branches of government is kind of depressing not going to lie

Personality cults are just so cringe if you are not in them. That is, I guess, genuinely a functional aspect of them - it makes it harder to leave once you are in, since it's legitimately embarrassing to have been taken in by this sort of tacky kitsch.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made. IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

Some people in the office were like "He shouldn't crash into the word 'Tech,' that's too on the nose, but I was like "Guys this is our first metaphor -- it should be juicy!" Anyway next week we're gonna have a Bald Eagle die of measles so look out for that one.