ai
Oct 4, 2026
With no post-season Jays baseball to fill my evenings this year, I've been leaning on my usual fallback after a long day: a mindless action movie with the volume up and my brain switched off. Last...
Hard Conversations
Sep 27, 2026
There's a teenager in Peel whose most reliable shower happens at school. Somebody on staff at the Peel Alternative School knows that kid's name, knows which mornings are the rough ones, and makes sure...
bell
Sep 22, 2026
A friend called me two weeks ago because his IPTV app had stopped playing anything, just a spinning wheel and a generic playback error. When he pulled up the service's own domain in a browser to see...
crtc
Sep 15, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in front of hundreds of the world's largest investors on Tuesday and announced that Ottawa would reinvest "tens of billions of dollars" of capital into a new sovereign...
technology
Sep 12, 2026
A friend was over last night for a late hang, and around 11pm he decided we needed pizza. My two local favourites are "Martinos" (https://www.martinos-pizza.com) and "Vitos"...
Hard Conversations
Sep 8, 2026
I was at Square One in Mississauga this afternoon with my wife, and before anyone jumps to the obvious conclusion, we did not buy anything. The mall was cover for the actually valuable thing, which...
privacy
Aug 23, 2026
A TikTok landed in my feed today (yes, I watch TikTok, I know) "confidently explaining GDPR's right to erasure" (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVHVKDHr/) in the mostly-correct register that TikTok reserves...
travel
Aug 4, 2026
This article has been updated since the original post yesterday with additonal commentary at the bottom
As some of you may have picked up from "last week's ambiguous encounter with a...
humour
Jul 31, 2026
I was walking in Amsterdam yesterday with my family when we came across the sign above.
We stopped, we read it, and then we stood there for a solid two minutes trying to figure out what the sign was...
ai
Jul 26, 2026
There is a "thread on the ClaudeAI subreddit" (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v6fiyj/you_can_view_a_lot_of_shared_conversations_via/) making the rounds today pointing out that a large...
ai
Jul 24, 2026
OpenAI published a "remarkable blog post on July 21st" (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/) admitting that during a routine internal benchmark run, one of their...
ai
Jul 19, 2026
I am going to stop pretending this is not weird.
For roughly twenty-five years, the internet built a library. Not the metaphorical one, the actual one. Tutorials on how to configure BGP. Stack...