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I wrote up a thing about why I'm excited for decentralized social networks. (Hint: it's about de-homogenizing the web.)https://t.co/eNyEn1xyhK — Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions) October 5, 2018 Tweeted by @tinysubversions

Dateline: PAIN COURT. Urban vs Rural Ontario? I went to the Plowing Match & found there’s a lot in common between the town & country - my @TorontoStar column this week. https://t.co/BlEMmqVlVB — Populist Thread Weaver (@shawnmicallef) September 29, 2018 Tweeted by @shawnmicallef

A bloody casino. On an amazing downtown waterfront site. NOPE. https://t.co/HiTRy4rDac — Alex Bozikovic (@alexbozikovic) September 20, 2018 Tweeted by @alexbozikovic

A call to teach civics again - my @TorontoStar column this week. I kept meeting people w firmly held views on Toronto’s city council but when I asked, most had never been or watched a meeting. Need to start it early & keep em engaged. 🏛🎪 https://t.co/Qs8Drg4hxm — Constitutional Reform Bot…

A fifth-row seat at the Barclays Center goes for $1,256.00. A seat in the front row, with a “meet & greet package” thrown in, will cost you up to $3,000. Wheelchair seating in the back of the house is listed at $400, while a spot in the upper tiers could be had for $29.50. The latest mega-production…

× Natalia Manzocco Michelle da Silva performed stand-up for the first time ever on August 30 at the Comedy Bar. She didn't die of public embarrassment. Did you hear the joke about the journalist who tried stand-up comedy? I made my debut at the Comedy Bar on August 30. Yes me, a journalist who until…

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City 17 Half-Life 2 City: City 17 Game: Half-Life 2 Developer: Valve Corporation Publisher: Valve Corporation Release date: November 2004 Genre: First Person Shooter Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Android There aren't any children in City 17. The dilapidated…

The sexual-assault allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein were first reported in October, 2017, which means that we have now spent eleven months listening to the victims of such violence, most of them women. This is a deeply unusual situation in the context of human history, and,…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. There are moments when you can tell what they will feel like in retrospect: hitting bottom, a dam cracking. Between Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, Paul Manafort’s conviction, a cascade of semi-mutinous signals from inside the White…

Read this article in simplified Chinese 点击这里阅读整篇中文文章 Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was raised and educated in Vietnam and moved to Canada as a political refugee in 1979. Bich (pronounced “Bick”) came separately, also a refugee. They…

The decline of conservatism is a loss for liberals, too. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images In these fetid times, it’s easy to know what you’re against. And I’ve spent many diaries assailing the dueling Trump and “social justice” cults on the illiberal right and left these past several months. But what…

The Society for Experiential Graphic Design America's Sudden U-Turn on Highway Fonts Kriston Capps Jan 27, 2016 Clearview is out, Highway Gothic is (back) in. Critics want to know why. In a notice posted in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration announced a small…

Norman Lewis, the British travel writer, is hardly unheard-of, but scandalously underread today. His masterpiece, “Naples ’44,” describes with mordant humor the chaos in that city in the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy. Written 30 years after the events he witnessed as a young military…

Toronto needs better transit. John Tory promised so-called “SmartTrack” in 2014, but we now know it was a mirage. It’s time to take the politics out of transit planning. https://t.co/WxHE8yz1Ju #Keesmaat4Mayor pic.twitter.com/XOvCYZWHwt — jennifer keesmaat (@jen_keesmaat) August 28, 2018 Tweeted…

My @cbctoronto column this week: Forget about the number of wards. If the goal is to make Toronto council less dysfunctional, there’s an obvious place to start: replace Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti. https://t.co/2f4SCAU1CF #TOpoli — Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt) August 27, 2018 Tweeted by…

There is a variation on ‘Not All Men.’ It is called ‘I Feel Bad When You Say That.’ My godson Kyle is six. He is fairly emotionally perceptive for his age, as his grownups have been working with him to create an emotionally responsible and self-aware boy who we hope will grow into an emotionally…

Photo: Justin Coit/trunkarchive.com When Sandra Oh was 21, her older sister spotted an ad in an alt-weekly looking for a young Asian actress. Oh, a student at the National Theatre School of Canada at the time, became fixated on the part — the starring role in The Diary of Evelyn Lau, a TV biopic on…

At Five Points station , the MARTA train stop in Atlanta, you can hear the hottest sport in the city before you can see it. As you ride the escalator up, toward the concourse level, the sounds crescendo past the hiss of incoming and departing trains, the rumble of commuters, the crackle of fast…

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…

https://t.co/FWV1v8YOJ4 — Stephen Tweedale (@MrSteveTweedale) June 26, 2018 Tweeted by @MrSteveTweedale

“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…