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I loved reading your travel newsie!! Any book launch events in town in the works yet?

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 20h

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 15h

I normally write a page-ish in my media journal about films/books/plays I take in, but I easily barfed out three pages on this one, and I could've kept going.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 15h

We had the chance to catch Paweł Pawlikowski's latest (Ojczyzna/Fatherland) on the big screen at VIFF last night! It was a full house, which felt especially poetic and surreal in the speech scenes...

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 16h

Will the administration say it's AI, or that it's Super Intelligence?

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's also absolute loser behaviour. Poor kid. Poor wife.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vancouver? I don’t know. I’ve pretty much only ever worked on IP reboots here. Which isn’t to say that influences and voice don’t show up “wearing” a brand…

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There’s a Toronto animation aesthetic. It’s a pacing, it’s a shot language, it’s a humour, a way of telling the story that starts on the page, too…

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me: “I just hope I didn’t make a fool of myself…” Adam: “Isn’t that wha you do every Monday?*” * My acting classes are on Mondays.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The contrast between the state of the industry and the “risks” it was willing to take (/the opportunities it was willing to offer) in the late ‘90s and now is incredibly depressing. “The personal is universal” is just as true now as it was then.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 07/10/2026

carney is one of the most skilled gaslighters of the last 100 years. Mr elbows up is a fucking lie.

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Skelekate @skelekate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anytime I see the name Skydance, I always think that I learned the company name because that’s where John Lasseter wound up. His sexual harassment of Pixar employees is called “accused” and “alleged” on his Wikipedia page.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Feels like I’ll forever be tracing things back to choosing to do the Camino 😂

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I swear, the way the universe has a way of dropping hints that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, and that the path, wonky as it may seem… it all adds up eventually.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who’s STILL doing the work now? And who’s just moved on to the next trend (which, I would argue, is AI)?

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If there’s a silver lining to the current pendulum swing, it’s the light it’s shedding on things. On what we need to fight for. And of how the ball wasn’t so much dropped as it was never really held in the first place.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s wild to think back at what I guess you could call the heyday of EDI initiatives, and realize how hollow and half-assed they were at many organizations. A lot of talking, but not a lot of listening. Nor a lot of reflecting, and even less of a reassessment of how to approach things…

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Further to this: my review of fed lobby registry indicates Canada's military is in serious talks w/ Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon Web Services. In last year, AWS has met with 73 times w senior officials re military, including 14 meetings with senior military officers + Ministers of Defence, AI and Finance

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Gazan said Canada is continuing to fail to live up to its agreements with Indigenous Peoples. She said the ‘harrowing demonstration’ in BC ‘underscores the threat that residential school denialism and white nationalism pose to the safety of Indigenous peoples.”

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Gazan calls for emergency debate on residential school denialism

NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons over residential school denialism.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So glad Porter’s an option again since moving to Vancouver!

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Powered by Microsoft." The enshittification of government services is here. From "You can renew online!" to "You can book an appointment!" to "Actually, you're gonna have to waste a day at the combination Service Canada/passport office or put your passport in the mail and hope for the best!"

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After going back to get prints of our photos to put together a paper passport renewal application (shoutout Kerrisdale Cameras for their fantastic guarantee & customer service), trying to book an appointment gets you stuck on an early 2000s spinning ball of death on multiple browsers...

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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent piece from Charlie. Now the question is: Where is Poilievre and Carney's condemnation of such a threat?

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's become easy to feel like any movie you want to watch is at your fingertips, but every once in a while you get one that can't be streamed (/is region locked) or borrowed from the library on DVD/BluRay (Terence Davies's Distant Voices, Still Lives.)

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This must be how the kids feel like they actually write their essay, the teacher feeds it into an AI-powered AI checker, and it comes out saying it has AI in it.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Aaaaaaand my photo just got flagged as being AI. What. The actual. F.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not loving how the guy at the local camera store was like “Just a heads up that some people got their applications rejected because their photos got flagged as being modified by AI” when we got our passport photos done… …but sure, implement that crap all over government systems, Carney! 😑

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🏛️ Roma Aeterna 🏛️ @romaaeterna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Masque retrouvé dans la région de Kertch en Crimée (terre cuite, Ier-IIe s.). Appartenant aux collections du Louvre, il a été présenté dans l’exposition « SPECTACULAIRE ! Le divertissement chez les Romains » au musée Lugdunum à Lyon en 2023.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is anyone else getting sick of Nina’s puppet prize tasks? Do I just lack whimsy?? Whatever, I don’t care!

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Titanic is actually a great analogy since the merger will definitely sink and destroy many lives, but the rich people will get away on the lifeboats.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My niece is becoming more of her own little person by the day and I just BLEW HER MIND when I showed her the same blue horse painting from her Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see in my The Art of Eric Carle book over a video call 😭💕

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026

‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses

Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...

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Ivan Sirko @ivan-sirko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Because so many large companies are staking their survival on the AI boom becoming real. "We put AI in your tea kettle!" "I hate that. Why do I need this? I put the kettle on the range, it makes hot water. Why AI?" "Because we're putting AI in your range!" "No!" "Just take the AI!"

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Arrested Development: Gob & Michael Bluth

ALT: Arrested Development: Gob & Michael Bluth

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Want a lot of stuff done? What's the incentive? Want it done fast? What's the incentive? Want it done well? What's the incentive? Etc. Because if you don't have an incentive, you're probably incentivizing the opposite.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economics 101 and the most neglected word in a lot of industries these days:

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 02/10/2026

“ok i'm sorry but starting off your merger video with a shot of the fucking titanic when everyone has been dooming about your merger is actually incredibly funny”

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man, I'm so glad I've managed to stumble onto teachers who are so openly supportive of a more intuitive process when it comes to writing. Makes me feel a lot less crazy.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"How does the subconscious know who to make? Well, my theory is that the subconscious, aware of the story it’s working on, is primed to supply a character who is, let’s say, 'non-random,' given the existing qualities of the story." - George Saunders

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