I used Shazam to discover "Ken Burns's 'The Vietnam War' Is on Netflix and It Will Fuck You Up" by @knguyen https://t.co/EK725MHWmb — Rob Dubbin (@robdubbin) July 27, 2018 Tweeted by @robdubbin

Last weekend, I biked along Bloor from Renforth to Parliament. My new blog post discusses the conditions along the way and why the #BloorBikeLanes must be extended ASAP. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero #BuildTheGrid https://t.co/59XHbNAadR — Robert Zaichkowski (@RZaichkowski) July 26, 2018 Tweeted by…

It’s easy to understand the sentiment behind demand for ride hailing services (not ride sharing, that’s carpooling). But the actual data says they make cities more congested. It’s not working. https://t.co/YMpaPHqxpy — Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) July 27, 2018 Tweeted by @DenimAndSteel

A decoration in the room where the Nobel prizes are announced shows the medal that winners receive. The literature prize won’t be awarded in 2018, after a scandal in the body that judges it. The journalist Alexandra Pascalidou has spent months watching a sexual abuse and corruption scandal unfurl at…

Photo Booth The Lawless Energy of Teen-Age Girls June 24, 2018 “Sunset Beach,” 2000.Photographs by Justine Kurland / Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash In recent years, on Instagram and in fashion magazines, a girl-centric aesthetic has taken hold. Young photographers such as Petra Collins, Olivia Bee,…

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“We have invented a bizarre sadomasochistic dialectic whereby we feel that pain in the workplace is the only possible justification for our furtive consumer pleasures” https://t.co/rUFgIgBkPU — Jenny (Phire) (@phirephoenix) June 22, 2018 Tweeted by @phirephoenix

Torontonians of Icelandic descent are mentioned in an article about Workd Cup fans in The Star today: https://t.co/ogc8SJ3VVc — Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto (@ICCTtweets) June 17, 2018 Tweeted by @ICCTtweets

Yes, really // Vancouver Public Library's massive new rooftop garden to open in the fall | Daily Hive Vancouver https://t.co/aCQrSB2kf3 — Cecily Walker 🍔 (@skeskali) June 7, 2018 Tweeted by @skeskali

Andrea Horwath’s NDP are the best choice in this election to keep PC Leader Doug Ford from becoming premier. #StarEditorial https://t.co/eSNOE2Lw4G — TorontoStar (@TorontoStar) June 1, 2018 Tweeted by @TorontoStar

In the beginning of Shrek, Mike Myers narrates a fairy tale where a princess is locked away in a high tower, her true love comes to save her, and they share true love's first kiss. Remember how Shrek cackles? I’m Shrek. I’m not sure where the idea of kisses as a magic act that is arousing to all…

I want to talk about bad sex for a minute. I don’t mean “bad sex” as in sex that wasn’t pleasurable, or sex that was awkward, or sex that hurt. I don’t mean when you’re having sex with a new partner and you don’t know yet what the other person likes or craves or is viscerally annoyed by. I don’t…

We’re headed to cartocracy. Rule by mapmakers. Democracy is a distributed computing problem. Somebody restate CAP theorem for elections please. https://t.co/V6ucj2vtDw — Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 20, 2018 Tweeted by @vgr

Spread from Philipp Schmitt’s photobook, ‘Computed Curation’ (all photos courtesy the artist) Increasingly, researchers and artists are tinkering with machine-learning software to explore how neural networks can express creativity, whether through generating contemporary paintings or paint swatch…

"Apple should die"https://t.co/uyQTTXBPcO — Gruber Quoted (@gruberquoted) August 3, 2017 Tweeted by @gruberquoted

Credit...Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times He says there’s a crisis in masculinity. Why won’t women — all these wives and witches — just behave? Credit...Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times By May 18, 2018 TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there’s no…

"Where once we’d had a rich ecosystem of extremely stupid and funny sites on which we might procrastinate, we now had only Twitter and Facebook." I very much agree with this article. https://t.co/O1FPibILdt — Darren Barefoot (@dbarefoot) May 18, 2018 Tweeted by @dbarefoot

Wikipedia, the free, anyone-can-edit, online encyclopedia is a resource consulted by millions of people every day. But if a topic or person isn’t on the website, how much is the world missing from that gap in information? This was the real question posed by a recent Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the…

Nonfiction Martin Amis in London in 2001. AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE RUB OF TIME Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 By Martin…

Twitter bots powered by @Wikipedia: An interview with Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions), internet artist and creator of @BracketMemeBot. https://t.co/Ac5Jxz8Sn6 — Wikimedia (@Wikimedia) May 14, 2018 Tweeted by @Wikimedia

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The Italian brand seizes the Met Gala moment to unveil its pre-spring collection in New York. Prada, Cruise 2019. By May 7, 2018 The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala brings many things to New York — Kardashians, attention, a windfall to florists and makeup artists the city…

Channeling the anti-Trump #Resistance, a slew of recent books seeks to reduce democracy to a defense of political “norms.” But overcoming today’s crisis will

There is a new black and sexy. Notions of attractiveness, from the type of partner we want to the aesthetic choices we make for ourselves, have shifted from

A whale of a heart: Life-size model of a blue whale heart arrives at New Bedford Whaling Museum https://t.co/6plcLJPJKu — NB Whaling Museum (@whalingmuseum) May 4, 2018 Tweeted by @whalingmuseum

Perhaps no new concept from the world of academic psychology has taken hold of the public imagination more quickly and profoundly in the 21st century than implicit bias — that is, forms of bias which operate beyond the conscious awareness of individuals. That’s in large part due to the blockbuster…

Books of The Times Credit...Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes and debates about cultural appropriation. A recent, very long round was set off by “Open Casket,” a painting by Dana Schutz, which portrayed, in an abstract swirl, the body of…

Even Pike Place Market must have cars... Charles Mudede This Sunday, a man in a silver sports car got tired of waiting for one person to cross the intersection on South Oregon Street and Rainier Avenue South, brazenly ran the red light, and forced that pedestrian to leap out of the raging driver's…

In the last post about remote work, we talked about technical difficulties with remote meetings . But even when the tool works perfectly, you might find remote…

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Walk Toronto's Michael Black was quoted in the @TorontoStar on ways the city can make sidewalks safer and at the same time more attractive. https://t.co/g0O37PWNyl — Walk Toronto (@Walk_TO) April 28, 2018 Tweeted by @Walk_TO

Credit...Photo illustration by Paul Sahre. Scavino source photograph: MAI/Rex/Shutterstock. Feature Unraveling the mystery of Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential. Credit...Photo illustration by Paul Sahre. Scavino source…

On​ 23 May 2014, Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old college dropout, became the world’s most famous ‘incel’ – involuntary celibate. The term can, in theory, be applied to both men and women, but in practice it picks out not sexless men in general, but a certain kind of sexless man: the kind who is…

Dave Carneiro is used to looking up to his father … especially when dad is strapped to a rope hundreds of feet above the ground, walking along the edge of the…

Opinion This year’s Boston Marathon, with its horizontal rain and freezing temperatures , wasn’t just an ordeal unfolding amid some of the worst weather in…

It isn't always obvious who owns Los Angeles' notable old buildings, but 4833 Fountain Avenue requires no research more intensive than an upward glance. There, in sixteen-foot letters, its current stewards have mounted — lest the symbolism of the eight-pointed cross at the tip of the rooftop pyramid…

Nearly twice as many people ride public transit everyday in Vancouver than in Seattle, even though we've got a bigger population. How come?https://t.co/T5PxJhMVmi — David Gutman (@davidlgutman) April 19, 2018 Tweeted by @davidlgutman