Went with a very personal 10 favourite Canadian films for The Globe. All are by collaborators, friends, peers but more importantly they all feel vital and make me proud to be Canadian. They're not just my favourites they're directly inspiring me to want to make another movie.
one small thing substack/newsletters have stolen from us was the variation in amateur typography and web design on blogs. everything looks the same now
@Jabaluck alignment exists for human leaders, too democracy is one way to make them aligned with human interests. just make the AI superintelligences run in elections every four years?
i'm a millennial laugher (imho my laughter is of a particularly edifying variety that enriches the audiences' experience of the film) but it's grunter no question
i don’t like it when people refer to paul mccartney as “macca.” i’ve only ever seen it written and don’t know how it’s pronounced (“muh-kaa” like the bird?) but it just doesn’t fit. stop trying to make macca happen
i joined a fb group called Ohio Road Bike Classifieds when i was living in ohio and buying a bike. i moved away a year ago and will never buy a road bike in ohio again. yet for some reason i can't bring myself to unsubscribe. its posts are strangely comforting to me