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Leafs, Jays, Hawks, White Sox & Vikings fan. University of Toronto graduate. Love to discuss sports, politics, board games & video games.

[Caroline 🕯️ @caroline_mpls]

WHY would you do this

[Rolita @_onerolita]

NOO DOÑA NO SE PUEDE SER CAZADORA Y PRESA AL MISMO TIEMPO

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

"BLACK one🤨🤓?"

"*goat*😅!!!"

WILL FORVER HAVE ME IN TEARS LMFAOOO😭😭😭

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects

my favorite one right now is this guy who built an AI system that listens for birds outside his apartment, figures out what species they are, and paints them on his wall.

here's how the whole thing works:

1. a cheap usb mic on his balcony listens for birdsong 24/7

2. BirdNET, Cornell's AI model trained on 6,000+ species, names each bird species from the sound alone (no camera needed)

3. every time it hears one, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image paints that exact bird in the style of an Edo-period japanese woodblock print

4. the new painting drops into a live collage of everything that's been singing outside in the last 24 hours

5. and it all shows up on a framed e-ink display on his wall that reads "heard today" like a little museum placard for his neighborhood

knowing which birds visit you used to take a field guide, a trained ear, plus years of patient practice.

teddy just glances at the frame on his wall and sees the cardinal came back this morning

honestly i'm highly tempted to build one myself haha

[Jason James @jasonjamesbnn]

This is Canada's version of the subprime mortgage crash in 2008. But instead of banks selling bad mortgages, Vancouver's collapse comes as a result of unchecked Chinese money laundering that began at least 30 years ago and extends back as far as 40 years.

When $300,000 condos are suddenly selling for $1 million+ you have a problem. Everyone who lived in Vancouver knew the market was doomed. In order for that type of inflation to continue, the money had to keep flowing. The municipal, provincial and federal governments would have to turn a blind eye or comply with what was happening. The banks would have to facilitate it.

The bubble deflation isn't coming as a result of government crackdowns—they were always more than happy to take their bribes. The banks were perfectly fine moving the money and the developers made billions. Nobody involved grew a conscience at any point.

What happened was the money itself slowed down. They simply ran out of properties to own and Chinese organized crime found other ways to move their cash. They turned Toronto's housing market into another bubble and bought our federal Liberal government via Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney. There's no reason to hide money in real estate if you don't have to.

Now the speculators have stopped speculating, the money launderers are moving onto other schemes and the average family in Vancouver can't begin to afford a million dollar shoebox so nobody is buying.

2500 empty condos in Vancouver. A multi-million dollar pit in Richmond. The right thing to do is let it all implode and allow the market to correct itself. Yes, people will lose money on the value of their homes and condos, but anyone who pays $1 million+ for a 600 sq ft condo should be aware of the risk.

Instead, Carney is going to bail out the developers who were very much part of the money laundering scheme and we're going to pay for it. This will give the bubble another year of life but it will eventually burst, and in the end, Canadians will pay for it again.

[char ᢉ𐭩 @alcdec]

doomscrolling on twitter feels so much more productive than doomscrolling on tiktok bc it’s like i’m basically reading

[MAZE @mazemoore]

I made a lot of videos about the pandemic. I think this is the best one. It captures the insanity really well.

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

I love babies and toddlers and I know parenting can be hard. But in my generation, if your child could not stop screaming, you gently but firmly carried said child out of the restaurant or the venue where others were seeking quiet enjoyment. Many young parents seem no longer to do that. Child just screams, others present be damned. What am I missing?

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Are we morally obliged to keep feeding people who can’t feed themselves but continue to reproduce, creating exponentially more people who can’t feed themselves, and if so, is there a limiting principle to this?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Local news report from March 2020.

Watch until the end. Trust me.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

MSNBC reporter: "Nobody around here is wearing masks."

Guy on the street: "Including the cameraman." 🤣

[Rav @TonyRav]

Can the US just host the World Cup every year

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

This may just be the single greatest tweet of all time

#worldcup

[Mathias @MathiasChu]

Lo de la FIFA es inédito.

Los condimentos de la competición son todos heinz, pero como no es sponsor de la copa los están tapando con duck tape.

No solo lograron visibilidad y una excusa para comunicar, sino que ahora están haciendo mkt en conjunto con levi’s.

Esto es esencialmente marketing de guerrilla.

[Tamara Kronis 🇨🇦 @KronisTamara]

Dear generation screwed, if you were waiting for prices to drop before buying a house, the Liberal government is bailing out developers and bidding against you, so that you can be a renter instead.

[Ayômîde 🧢 @Haryormdey4u]

The vegetables in my freezer watching me grab the ice cream

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Self-hypnosis is easily one of the quickest ways to change your life, with many people seeing real results in just two to three weeks.

To actually do it on yourself, lie down or sit somewhere quiet, close your eyes, breathe slow with longer exhales than inhales (like 4 in, 6 to 8 out), and slowly relax your body part by part from your feet to your head (using progressive muscle relaxation: briefly tense then completely release each muscle group from your toes up to your face as you exhale), then count down from 10 to 1 in your head, telling yourself with each number that you're going twice as deep, and once you feel heavy and relaxed, that's when you feed in the suggestion.

The rules are simple: Say it in the present tense ("I am confident" not "I will be confident"), keep it positive ("I am financially secure" instead of "I am not broke," because the subconscious skips the "not" and focuses entirely on the mental picture of the problem, which is why "don't think of a pink elephant" makes you think of a pink elephant), make it vivid and emotional, see it as already happening, feel what you'd feel if it were already true, then repeat it, then count yourself back up from 1 to 5 feeling more awake and energized.

The best times to do it are the second you wake up and the moment before you fall asleep because your brain is already halfway in that state naturally, which is exactly the window Émile Coué used in 1920s France with one phrase his patients repeated twenty times morning and night, "every day, in every way, I am getting better and better," and he had clinics full of people healing chronic conditions with it.

[blue @bluewmist]

There is a very specific female fatigue that comes from knowing exactly what is happening, explaining exactly what is happening, being told you are overreacting, and then watching exactly what is happening happen with excellent punctuality.

[Budrino Politics @BudrinoPolitics]

He’s firing 40k public servants. He running massive deficits due to bloated defence spending. He’s cutting your services and you are too stupid to realize