If this is not treason, then what is it?
Dan Drezner:
A former CIA chief of Russian operations tweeted, “From a counterintelligence perspective, something is going on behind the scenes. Before Helsinki I was less sure; post Helsinki, I feel sick.”
Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says
Innnnnteresting
Study: Drinking Alcohol More Important Than Exercise to Living Past 90
Great news, everyone!
‘Gordon Ramsay’s Fairytale Toilet Kitchen Nightmare,’ Today’s Comic by Michael Kupperman
Who gives a damn about the past? I live for today, plan for the future, pack a lunch and haul ass
Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West
“The book in question is The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia by neo-fascist political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, whose nickname is “Putin’s Brain”.”
Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on
From the 50s, during his time at MGM
Apple’s new 2018 MacBook Pros are now available, and the top specs are much faster
Yay! Although I specced out my dream laptop and it came to eight grand.
How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System
This is fairly terrifying.
Someone hung their own artwork inside the Banksy exhibit
Go Tharanga!
Why shopkeepers in one Ontario city have enlisted a low-income cleanup crew
In Peterborough
Cooool. Reminds me of the tablets in Westworld.
•Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
Good, in-depth article. The section about the tech in the Maps vans is especially interesting given Apple’s interest in AR and autonomous vehicles.
Last call at Massey Hall: fans and musicians share their stories
It’s closing down for 2 years for renovations (that sound pretty great BTW)
Toronto wants mid-rise housing, but can we afford it?
Yes, but developers make more money from high-rise, so they’re not into it. I like this idea though, despite it paining me as well as it would transform many great (albeit unaffordable) neighbourhoods:
Expand densification deeper into Toronto’s sleepy, leafy, low-rise neighbourhoods. [Ted Kesik] argues that the city should open up the so-called “yellowbelt” (areas where single-family homes predominate) to allow for fourplexes and other mini-condos to be built. He suggests the return of the so-called Toronto Specials of the 1950s and ‘60s that responded to an earlier wave of immigration would do a lot to let homeowners unlock the value in their land, and create more affordable options for newcomers and new families.
I would also hope that the reforms to the OMB – it’s now the LPAT – might close the door to out-of-control high-rise construction.
Russian pop star involved in collusion story releases salacious music video slagging Trump
‘Westworld’ showrunner explains those finale twists, hints at season 3 plan
JAZZ.FM91 listeners stunned at changes, allegations of misconduct at beloved radio station
Sad! Hope someone can right the ship… “it’s one of only three all-jazz radio stations in North America.”
Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement
From the CEO of a facial recognition company
Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal
This is one of the best political ads I’ve seen.
•YouTube is the preferred platform of today’s teens
They still like Snapchat and Instagram, less so Facebook and Twitter.
Instagram announces IGTV, a standalone app for longer videos
Boooooo. I used to love Instagram but it is getting totally wrecked by Facebook. Isn’t it enough to be the world’s favourite photo sharing platform? Do they have to take on Snapchat and YouTube and who next, Uber? Amazon? The International Criminal Court?
Also, vertical video. What are we, animals?
Family Separation, Evil Via Policy and The Internal Contradictions of Trumpism
Performative cruelty and channel separation. This is excellent analysis.
Torontonians like to sound off on Americans’ inability to deal with guns and gun deaths. But Toronto’ s inability to deal with the car creates its own killing fields.