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Thei are goinge to put AI yn a toastere and it will tell lyes about bread

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Where King Meets Queen

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Here's why we're delaying our food issue by a week. We gave some new writers a chance and greenlit their pitches. When drafts came in, we realized several authors were scammers trying to pawn off AI-generated stories about fictional places and people.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 4 days ago • 163 comments

Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

WCK's Relief Team is mobilizing in Canada, where 1.7 million acres of land in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces have been scorched by wildfires. Thousands of families have evacuated their homes, and first responders are working to contain the blazes. Read more: wck.org/en-us/news/canada-wildfires

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

"Toronto is a fitting sister city to Buffalo; they share a reputation as low-key cool." Yeah, nice try, still not crossing the border.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Extinct" sounds pretty extreme, until you remember that the suggestion is simply to make billionaires extinct by turning them into people with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. They would survive quite nicely for an extinct species.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My limited experiences on Spain's high speed rail lines have been positive -- I'd kill for anything similar in Canada. But it might become a victim of its own success.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The funniest editorial about genocide I read today.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Of the brainy tech writers I've recently started following, Leah Reich may be my favorite, writing pieces that leave me thoughtful rather than grouchy.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Is the Esplanade not, like, the canonical ideal of the “side street” where the anti-bike crowd say bike lanes should go? There’s no appeasing these people. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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"If your friend insults you, you don't give them $10 and go back to being friends"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is kind of a good problem to have. Years ago I thought Doors Open would be a niche thing and I would be one of the only people who cared about seeing inside random Toronto buildings. It was great to see how wrong I was, and how many other Torontonians are also eager to explore our city.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

"Crisis... is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis." This is deeply assuring: www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/13/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

We made it to the new St Lawrence North Market for Doors Open, and it was worth it for the great views of the neighbourhood from the 5th floor courts. But the interior finishings on the building were very... functional, to put it politely. $100m+ doesn't buy many frills these days, I guess.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments