Month: October 2017
October 31, 2017
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The first #Christmas tree of the season arrives tomorrow https://t.co/BVuUXRuXav pic.twitter.com/O236hGPNnY
— blogTO (@blogTO) October 31, 2017
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What did they bake? Is that a flan? pic.twitter.com/rvVh8O63wq
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This thread taught me a lot.
I think Canadians learn a less sugar-coated version of the US civil war than Americans, but not by much.
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/925289478943633408
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This Startup’s Artificial Voice Sounds Almost Indistinguishable From A Human’s
Photo via Voysis Voysis founder Peter Cahill An Irish startup has claimed a breakthrough in text-to-speech synthesis that improves on public demonstrations by Google’s DeepMind and Facebook. The result is an artificial voice that lacks many of the glitches in intonation heard from digital assistants…
October 29, 2017
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Can we all just agree the Punk Vigilantes subplot in #StrangersThings2 didn’t happen and never talk about it again?
October 28, 2017
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Why the cheese curds in Toronto don’t squeak: A National Post investigation
Why the cheese curds in Toronto don’t squeak: A National Post investigation
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I just backed Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap on @Kickstarter
http://kck.st/2ymZ9CF
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🔥 Hot off the press: “Stupid Monkey Brain – Issue #2”
http://www.stupidmonkeybrain.com/archive/79406
October 27, 2017
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Subscribe now and you’ll get my weekly newsletter tomorrow morning.
Sweet!
http://www.stupidmonkeybrain.com/
pic.twitter.com/OGEGkfxXv7
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What a mess
BREAKING NEWS: Catalan Parliament votes to declare independence from Spain https://t.co/JAiBosFUG9 pic.twitter.com/PvUhdudgwF
— CNN International (@cnni) October 27, 2017
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October 26, 2017
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There’s different ways to have fun, different kinds of people to have fun with. I don’t need romance. 10/26/85
— Andy’s Diary (@WarholLives) October 26, 2017
October 25, 2017
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Empathy and “Orange Is the New Black”
The show’s theme has always been the refusal to see anyone as inhuman. Credit Illustration by Mikkel Sommer Nearly every moment of the fourth season of “Orange Is the New Black”—which this review discusses in full—feels refracted in a small sequence in the finale, a bubble of joy floating up through…
October 24, 2017
October 22, 2017
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Blonde Afro wig complete with pick?
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Where to buy a #Halloween costume in #Toronto https://t.co/DArtecbgvY pic.twitter.com/8vulc4PjiA
— blogTO (@blogTO) October 22, 2017
October 21, 2017
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This is fantastic.
Not only does this machine speed up the process of labor-intensive work, it looks super cool doing it pic.twitter.com/7ZeYIsBZlS
— Mashable (@mashable) October 20, 2017
October 20, 2017
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“The Mindhunter” Season Two spoiler
Pelican found dead, bound with electrical tape and rope in Alabama. https://t.co/vgeSkfi4VU
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 20, 2017
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This breakfast place is playing “Let’s Go All the Way” by Sly Fox. I hope “I Can’t Wait” by Nu Shooz is next.
October 19, 2017
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This is fantastic. Kudos to everyone involved in the Toronto Region bid for Amazon’s new HQ.
Toronto's bid book for Amazon's HQ2 is online here. Shows 10 potential sites in GTA region where HQ could be based https://t.co/Z169vnfoc3
— David George-Cosh (@itsdgc) October 19, 2017
October 18, 2017
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Stupid Monkey Brains™
Upper-level psychology courses were of no use in eradicating beliefs in psychological myths. https://t.co/ZEONKGpni6 pic.twitter.com/st8WWz3YiB
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) October 17, 2017
October 16, 2017
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What’s the clearest way to say “people who aren’t straight white males”?
Is “URM” OK? Feels weird calling woman a minority. 😕
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The change in the “Baseline Response Test” between Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 says a TON about how movies have changed.
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This is a great story
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/920020812572385280
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I can sign up for all of this. Please call me out if I screw up.
Men, this is really basic stuff. You can do this.
https://twitter.com/nsilverberg/status/919957604700508160
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If you're a man unsure of what to do to support women right now in your daily life (beyond, like, not sexually harassing us), some starting points:
— your friend Helen (@hels) October 16, 2017
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Wired ran the first banner ad, so they’re the tree that bore the forbidden fruit.
More venture-backed companies see subscriptions as a way to absolve the Internet of its original sin, advertising https://t.co/v0B0CLwITm
— WIRED (@WIRED) October 15, 2017
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The JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco https://t.co/dsdPVeuJMt via @politicomag @philipshenon
— Josh Meyer (@JoshMeyerDC) October 16, 2017
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Isn’t this the guy from How I Met Your Mother?
“We Need to Develop Political Heroism” An interview with Emmanuel Macron: https://t.co/klxEKeAEFp (@spiegel_english) pic.twitter.com/8UnCcUojcb
— Longform (@longform) October 16, 2017
October 15, 2017
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How to Build a Self-conscious Machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-self-conscious-ai-machine/