Aurelian Baša

We came, they said, because everyone is coming.”

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@janosch_ortmann @jeboymotion tbf the mini putt is a nice touch

[A ❺❺❺ I @dlai_]

Guy wearing gold suit: "and so then what we did was we worshipped the false Idol"

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

I'm going to say this again for those at the back: hundreds of thousands of TONS of books —some of them "rare" in the sense that obsolete books on Windows 95 programming or service manuals for Singer sewing machines from 1985 or books of racist jokes from 1958 are "rare"— are pulped or landfilled every year. It's illegal to digitally archive them because the PUBLISHERS won't allow it. If AI companies are diverting them to use for training on the way to being thrown out, that's GOOD, actually. The reporting on this is custom-crafted to be rage-bait for normie middle-class liberal book lovers, and you all are falling for it hook, line and sinker. Just complete suckers. Nobody is shredding Gutenberg bibles or the Codex Gigax here.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Enlightenment is seeing the big box stores as your personal warehouses where you keep all the stuff you might need 3 years from now, neatly organized, away from your basement. They even organize the shelves for you.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

The Air Canada CEO has lived in Montréal for decades, and he knows less French than a literal POLAR BEAR 😭

[Dr. Zachary Paikin @zpaikin]

You don’t need to speak French fluently. You just need to make a minimal effort to communicate with French Canadians in their mother tongue to show them that you consider them to be equally Canadian. All he had to do was read two sentences off a teleprompter.

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@buccocapital The weirdest one was that woman who claimed “it saved me $2000 a month in subscriptions I didn’t know I had” and everyone was nodding along in the comments.

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@sciencegirl

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@dmcgco I’ve been using ctrl click this entire time, I didn’t know it was possible to right click on a Mac

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@genuinelyjolley Not so far off the script of that ghost train episode of Amazing Stories

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Displacement of narrow classes of blue-collar workers (e.g. coal miners), even if most of society would benefit, usually causes *huge* political battles. Here, the displacement would be much broader, the benefits are less clear, and the people displaced are more influential.

[Dan Brooks @DangerBrooks]

I'm prepared to accept the end of literacy, but in exchange writers and editors have to stop imagining a reader who can't follow long sentences, misses irony, thinks of counterexamples to everything, and doesn't understand jokes. That's over. We're down to the good ones now.

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@tallboythinlegs Few books will fit your pocket as well as these

[Aurelian Baša @aurelianbasa]

@ATabarrok The average book in a warehouse like this isn’t a long lost James Joyce manuscript, it’s thousands of guide to the 1980 Toronto mayoral race. I’ve owned such a warehouse before and you can’t even pay people to take most of these books.

[Effno Montreal @FNoMTL]

Believe it or not I actually like being reminded of the beauty of the Montreal metro, often best seen in a grid captured by a tourist, and not at 7:45am overheating in a crowd trying desperately to hear the announcement.

[Shane Cashman @ShaneCashman]

They sentenced Maduro to a six hour podcast with Lex Fridman.

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

The boundary between you prompting the model and the model prompting you is going to get blurry in 2026

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "grave discussion of public events we must feel sad about". we've totally lost the sense of play. hold your beliefs loosely, laugh.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

its possible the internet is going a little too far with the word “slop” now