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Proud Canuck/Brit hybrid. Open technology advocate, scuba diver, amateur explorer and AC/DC air guitarist. Aviation enthusiast. I'll be with you shortly...

[UI/UX Savior @UiSavior]

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[604 Now | Vancouver @604Now]

Oakridge Park’s new food hall is finally opening. 🍽️

Time Out Market Vancouver officially opens May 28 at 11am, bringing 20 kitchens, three bars, event spaces, and a pet-friendly patio to one of the city’s biggest new developments.

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https://t.co/ARCtyZE67F courtesy @DeltaOptimist

[Om Prakash, MD @ompsychiatrist]

Depression doesn’t care if you’re jacked or lazy as hell.

Bourdain was hitting BJJ mats almost daily in his 50s, staying lean, competing, and grinding nonstop on TV/books. Still died by suicide in 2018.

Exercise helps symptoms, yeah. But depression is a real brain illness: genes, chemistry & trauma. Not some “soft body” failure. The “just move” shaming is bullshit.

Reach out for actual help. #MentalHealthMatters

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This is nearly exactly how the vibe of CBGBs felt when I saw the Ramones there a few years later.

When the aroma is mastered by AI the circle will be complete.

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Dave Chappelle on importance of comedy and journalism https://t.co/fQCOj6I0pD via @YouTube

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@AnneFella @evo1tactical @ScamBustersHQ

[Mark Teasdale ★ @MarksGonePublic]

Nice whale 🐋 English Bay #Vancouver

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The skyscrapers of Vancouver vs the mountains

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[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

Anna's Hummingbirds have been fooling humans for centuries with red throats.

Those blazing crimson feathers that catch sunlight and seem to glow from within contain zero red pigment. The bird's gorget is built from microscopic transparent platelets stacked like glass slides, each one precisely 400 nanometers thick.

When white light hits this biological interference filter, most wavelengths cancel each other out through destructive interference. Only red light at 630 nanometers survives the gauntlet and bounces back to your eye.

The bird is essentially wearing a living hologram.

Move your head three degrees to the left and the red vanishes completely. The angle change shifts which wavelength survives the interference pattern. The throat flickers between crimson, orange, deep purple, and invisible black as the bird moves through space.

Every hummingbird species fine tuned their microscopic architecture to reflect different wavelength combinations. Anna's chose red. Allen's chose orange. Broad-tailed chose magenta. Each species evolved their own optical signature by growing feather structures at slightly different nanoscale dimensions.

The precision required borders on impossible. These birds grow biological optical computers on their bodies. Each platelet must be manufactured to within a few nanometers of the target thickness or the color shifts completely. Human engineers struggle to build interference filters this precise in clean rooms with million dollar equipment.

A hummingbird grows them while hanging upside down drinking sugar water.

The evolutionary implications are staggering. Female hummingbirds are literally selecting mates based on their ability to grow functional nanophotonic devices. Males with better optical engineering get to reproduce. Sexual selection drove these birds to become living examples of advanced materials science.

Your eye processes the reflected light as "red" but the bird's throat contains nothing red at all. The color exists purely in the interference between transparent surfaces and incoming photons.

The hummingbird bent light itself into love.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Fencing at LA 2028 Olympics looking to have this cool sword visualization technology.

Interesting AI backstory:

◽️in 2013, Japan's first fencing Olympic medalist (Yuki Ota) wanted to improve the spectator experience

◽️paired with a team doing AR visualization work for dancers

◽️first versions placed a marker (then, reflective tape) on the sword tip that provided infrared image followed by computer graphics generation

◽️they realized tapes/marker would be too intrusive for high-level fencing matches

◽️soon, improvement in ML and image analysis meant they could develop a system that tracked sword tips and created visualizations with only camera vision (the ideal setup is 24 high-speed cameras positioned around the fencing strip)

◽️to capture sword's very small tip size and fast movements, they trained a deep neural net system for object detection

◽️they had high-level fencers do "matches" and then annotated and labeled 200,000 images ("In addition, more than a million CG datasets were created for data augmentation.")

◽️then, they built a miniature fencing set (action figure size models to "evaluate 3D sword tip estimation algorithm"; they were able to achieve "real-time 3D sword tip estimation solely from 2D images.")

The system is developed by Rhizomatiks Research and Dentsu Lab Tokyo.

It was used during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games but only in specific broadcasts and on semi-live replays.

The system will get its first live US test on April 25, 2026 at the World Fencing League. If it passes that test, will be big milestone LA 2028 (need that video game looking broadcast by then).

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More on the research from Rhizomatiks: https://t.co/440ng1Gkvw

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@KilledInUkraine @jaanus @RepDonBacon @OlenaRohoza @ScamBustersHQ

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@caboIG YACHTS

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@caboIG PASSPORT

[Triggered Daily @hiphopreportatl]

Good time to repost this Dave Grohl Super Bowl commercial from last year

Thank you, Canada 🇨🇦 💪

[Disturbed @Disturbed]

RULES OF THE PIT 📝
1. If you see your brother fall down, pick him back up.
2. Women are not allowed to be touched. Keep the women and anybody smaller than you safe.

If you can do that...go crazy, people! 🤘 🤘

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

In Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Catherine Schell couldn’t get through multiple takes of Peter Sellers doing a Bogart impression without breaking into uncontrollable laughter. In the end. Blake Edwards gave up and left it in the final cut. "Here is lurking at you, kid.” 🤣

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@AGBRSports You can give it a go in Whistler (amongst other places). What I learned: Heavier can be faster >100Km/h but makes sled harder to control. My layman understanding is getting better is mostly about the 'Start'. https://t.co/bZ1aT8EkC0

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@Dontmesswosint @RAF_Luton Good point, it's not even Luton.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Tom Morello plays Killing in the Name Of at Minneapolis benefit concert, and the entire crowd absolutely loses it.
https://t.co/v4ssEJ8spW