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Canadian Premier League final in Ottawa. We do things differently here in Canada…

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Came across this Halloween display while out for a walk yesterday.

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I really like Rudy Rucker’s thoughts on shopping malls here:

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Cyberpunk suggests, once again, that SF really can be about the world and not just about the author’s mind. For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

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@Miraz Fantastic photo — thank you for sharing!

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No matter how much the city changes, no matter how prohibitive it may seem, artists always make room for themselves. New York belongs to them.

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Very cool feature on artist spaces that persist in New York in the midst of skyrocketing rents and real estate prices.

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Along with lots of other flowers, vegetables and herbs, we’ve got dozens of sunflowers in the yard. They’re just starting to bloom!

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Came across Wild Heart Homestead while reading about the Tiny Awards. It’s a beautiful guide to small-scale gardening/farming, and a lovely website to boot.

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This is a grim tale written in the New York Times. A lot of serious consequences to consider, and not just for Canada. Most countries will have to deal with these sorts of challenges, if they aren’t already.

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Reading about technology: matt-jay.micro.blog

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Artificial, but not yet intelligent: matt-jay.micro.blog

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Three good AI links: matt-jay.micro.blog

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Smoke has drifted down from the wildfires in northern Alberta this morning, making things very gloomy outside.

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Finished reading: Do The Work! by Steven Pressfield 📚

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This new translation of The Iliad looks very interesting. I’m curious to look into Wilson’s creative process as well.

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I keep thinking about this description of Bitcoin’s value:

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It’s a popular myth that a Bitcoin’s value is based on nothing, just pulled out of thin air by math. But that’s not true—Bitcoin is a way to commoditize energy consumption without accidentally producing anything useful. Other energy-intensive industries tend to convert energy into useful materials like aluminum or cement. Bitcoin converts electricity into waste heat and records its destruction in the form of numbers, which can then be traded for other numbers but not used to make anything people need or converted back into energy.

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Currently reading: First We Read, Then We Write by Robert D. Richardson 📚

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But we live after all in that “weary kingdom of time,” and Emerson’s idea of art, of poetry, fits satisfyingly into this world as he says, in the essay’s high point and culminating line, “Art is the path of the creator to his work.” One cannot not repeat it enough; art is not the finished work, art is the getting there.

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@canion It’s one of my favourites. This year will be my fourth read in a row.

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From this morning’s reading.

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I've been around for a bit now at Micro.blog, but not really said anything.

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Let's change that! I'm Matt, a lapsed journalist of sorts who does other things now. Things that interest me most at the moment are tech, media, China, and philosophy (not necessarily in that order).

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It's nice to be here!

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