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Toronto
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Dave Wright retweeted
The urban planning museum in #Shanghai has an incredible scale model of the entire city taking up its 6th floor that is updated every time a new building or road is laid 😳
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These graphics by @joe_berridge/@imfgtoronto illustrate just how dramatic Toronto’s growth has been better than any other I’ve seen. – at Brooklyn, NY
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On the same 2012 visit, he told the Globe:
ALT "I'm intrigued by the fact that this is not a good-looking city … your English-Presbyterian past has not served you well architecturally. Like Sao Paulo, another city I really love, it's not a place that looks anywhere near as cool as it really is."
Dave Wright retweeted
Anthony Bourdain, the only celebrity who was honest about Toronto:
![“It’s not a good-lookin’ city. Not a good-lookin’ town. What do they say, you’ve got the worst of the architectural fads of the twentieth century. [marvelling as he looks out of cab] That’s crypto-fascist Bauhaus. Mussolini would’ve been perfectly home in that one. And, you know, looks like every public school in America, and every third-tier city library. Soviet chic. Butt-ugly. Glass box. You got a roach motel.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfK66EhXUAAZ5wt.jpg?name=orig)
ALT “It’s not a good-lookin’ city. Not a good-lookin’ town. What do they say, you’ve got the worst of the architectural fads of the twentieth century. [marvelling as he looks out of cab] That’s crypto-fascist Bauhaus. Mussolini would’ve been perfectly home in that one. And, you know, looks like every public school in America, and every third-tier city library. Soviet chic. Butt-ugly. Glass box. You got a roach motel.”
Dave Wright retweeted
Takeaway from CRTC decision: carriers win. Mandated MVNO via CRTC years away, if ever. Low cost data-only plans may assist some on affordability but won’t address broader pricing concerns. In short, the Commission won’t do much on wireless competition. Over to you @NavdeepSBains.
Dave Wright retweeted
Zuckerberg: Let's move fast and break things!
Result: Current divisive political environment.
We can't let our autonomous device manufacturers do the same thing.
zachaysan.com/writing/2018-0…
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Another discussion topic at #NIPS2017 was that AI-generated fake videos will soon become ubiquitous and realistic enough to disqualify videos as evidence. Low-quality fakes are already cropping up: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a…
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Radiohead in 1997: We've just made an album about how technology is dehumanizing people to the point where in the future we will be indistinguishable from machines.
Radiohead in 2017:
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For anyone who feels bad about their product backlog, just remember that Outlook has been rendering smiley faces as "J" for eight years.
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Culture defeats strategy, every time: itsyourturnblog.com/lets-sto…
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You're not remote. You're not in-office or out-of-office. You're distributed: medium.com/walmartlabs/we-ar…
