I never could have imagined that I'd be profiled in @nytimes...and as a poker player at that. Thrilled to have had this opportunity. Thank you for the lovely piece, @claudiadreyfus. https://t.co/7rxIZU70Ss pic.twitter.com/tmjrpqV8fI — Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova) August 11, 2018 Tweeted by…

by Durga Chew-Bose 1. I learned last summer that if you place a banana and an unripe avocado inside a paper bag, the avocado would — as if spooned to sleep by the crescent-laid banana — ripen overnight. By morning, that pallid shade of green would turn near-neon and velvety, and I, having done…

Hello, I recommend this cheap-ass record player https://t.co/7Tt8epthhW — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) August 7, 2018 Tweeted by @knguyen

Good morning. It’s the television personality Alton Brown’s birthday today (he’s 56). That’s as good excuse as any to remind you of Kim Severson’s great profile of Brown from a couple of years ago, and to give you his recipes for Arctic char burgers and breakfast carbonara (above), either of which…

Always on top of the week’s hot button issue, I write about the bus replacement of the 505 Dundas & 506 streetcars in Canada’s biggest daily paper today. https://t.co/b5P2MCUUtx — The People's Tweeter of Ont (@shawnmicallef) July 28, 2018 Tweeted by @shawnmicallef

The new Twitter app rules sound actively hostile to developers, most of which aren't abusing the platform https://t.co/jCdqLisCz2 — Jim Pick (@jimpick) July 25, 2018 Tweeted by @jimpick

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

The journalist Alexandra Pascalidou has spent months watching a sexual abuse and corruption scandal unfurl at the Swedish Academy, the august body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. At first, she was upset. Then, as a Swede, embarrassed. But when the academy took the extraordinary step of…

“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, and Mayan Toledano have been capturing the private rites and…

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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

Warner Bros. A very hot take. 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…

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 By May 18, 2018 TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there’s no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged. Look back to the 1950s, he says — and back even further. He tells his…

"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…

THE RUB OF TIME Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 By Martin Amis 416 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. Martin Amis, for those who need an introduction, is a writer living in Brooklyn. He was also, for a period beginning in the mid-1980s and lasting well into the…

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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Jordan Peterson is the public intellectual du jour. Some have even declared that he is the most important public intellectual in the world. Primarily known for his videos and lectures, his second book, 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos , is a practical distillation of his philosophy that has…

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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 over — but this year it also brought something else: the Prada Cruise 2019 show. It was only last year that Miuccia Prada joined…

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…

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 Emmett Till, the black teenager tortured and lynched in 1955. There…

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

L ast July, President Donald Trump was sued in federal court over his Twitter habits. It wasn’t the tone or content of Trump’s approximately 37,300 tweets that had landed him in trouble. Instead, it was the possible unconstitutionality of the way he uses one feature of the platform: the block…