Fascinating histor of Toronto shack towns spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0… Brandon Donnelly

Though only the badly corroded iron core of the helmet remains, scans and careful conservation revealed details of its intricate original decoration, including a laurel wreath encircling the crown and high-relief bust of a woman flanked by lions and rams on the brow guard.

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Stress test for Waymo. London traffic, weather and streets. ft.com/content/7e838c… via @ft

Moving people not cars. thestar.com/opinion/star-c… via @torontostar

You could live in a Le Corbusier Unesco Word Heritage appartment in Paris. Only 1 580 000 €! architecturedecollection.fr/produit/appart…

NEW: Executives and owners of a number of organizations that received SDF money from the Ford gov’t quickly donated money right back to the PC Party. Critics are calling it a “circular economy” and a “scheme.” globalnews.ca/news/11499290/… #onpoli

Wong Kar Wai does Shanghai in the 90s. I'm in!

Quelle surprise. What a waste. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line via Financial Times

Yuja Wang does VR. A great reason to fly to Paris Brandon Donnelly ft.com/content/320ea3… via @ft

President Nawrocki: It is also a lesson for the present day, a lesson for us: there are no agreements with the Moskals [Russians], neither in the 19th century, nor in the 20th century, nor in the 21st century. There is only lies, a desire to break one's spirit and a desire to

Communism’s Permanent Elite I am reading The New Class by Milovan Djilas, published in the 1950s. Djilas was once a close associate of Tito in Yugoslavia, a man who climbed from the lowest ranks to the very top of the communist hierarchy, eventually serving as Vice President of

The One Question That Matters: Has China Already Peaked? The most consequential analytical question in geopolitics and geoeconomics today is not whether China is strong, but what kind of strength it is exercising. Is China advancing along an upward trajectory—still compounding

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I just got my tickets for Springtime for Putin at the Trump-Kennedy Center. I can't wait to see what Benny Johnson did with a whole musical.

"LLMs basically are a dead end when it comes to superintelligence" ft.com/content/e3c4c2… via @ft