Michael J. Warren
@ear2ear.bsky.social
Toronto-based Artist Manager at Unique Applause for Tanika Charles, Ammoye & Maya Killtron.
The baseball and soccer clips in the Vision Pro demo were the biggest wow moments for me. Sitting “court side” for a whole game sounds absolutely delightful.
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The baseball and soccer clips in the Vision Pro demo were the biggest wow moments for me. Sitting “court side” for a whole game sounds absolutely delightful.
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In some rational world, this buck stops at Doug Ford.
This is Ontario though, where not much matters.
This is Ontario though, where not much matters.
An owner that denies problems. An operator that has no ability to fix problems. And a maintainer that just doesn’t respond to questions. Doesn’t seem like a great way to run a railroad. www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...
January 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
In some rational world, this buck stops at Doug Ford.
This is Ontario though, where not much matters.
This is Ontario though, where not much matters.
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Grok Gleefully Makes Heinous Content, but Does Anyone With the Power to Change It Actually Care?
https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/
https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/
Grok Gleefully Makes Heinous Content, but Does Anyone With the Power to Change It Actually Care? - 512 Pixels
Happy New Year! I’m back with some horrific AI news. Grok’s Gruesome New Hobby Elissa Welle at The Verge: xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s […]
512pixels.net
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Grok Gleefully Makes Heinous Content, but Does Anyone With the Power to Change It Actually Care?
https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/
https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/
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New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
The Overhead: Community land trusts gaining ground - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Community Land Trusts Gaining Ground A good news story in recent years is the amount of progress Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have made in communities across the country. New CLTs are be...
spacing.ca
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
CBC News right now platforming some pundit calming talking about implications for Cuba, Guyana and Greenland. Cool.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
CBC News right now platforming some pundit calming talking about implications for Cuba, Guyana and Greenland. Cool.
A pretty happy New Year’s Eve over here as CKUA radio announces Tanika Charles’ Reasons To Stay as the #1 album of the year.
January 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM
A pretty happy New Year’s Eve over here as CKUA radio announces Tanika Charles’ Reasons To Stay as the #1 album of the year.
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Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
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An (embarrassing) mastery of the passive voice, here.
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
An (embarrassing) mastery of the passive voice, here.
Line 1 down. Shuttle buses “on the way”. A couple hundred of us mill around St. Clair station waiting for any sort of direction. The Better Way.
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Line 1 down. Shuttle buses “on the way”. A couple hundred of us mill around St. Clair station waiting for any sort of direction. The Better Way.
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‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’ (Link)
‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’
Matt Haughey wanted just the right Volkswagen ID Buzz, and (despite living in Oregon) he found it in Texas: The dealer quoted me $2,200 to...
sixcolors.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’ (Link)
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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Important thread on the reality that "Debate me!" is always cringe and useless but it can also be downright dangerous.
I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Important thread on the reality that "Debate me!" is always cringe and useless but it can also be downright dangerous.
Hell of a Raptors-Knicks first quarter
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hell of a Raptors-Knicks first quarter
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Alan Dye leaving Apple might be a bigger deal than any of the Tim Cook
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Alan Dye leaving Apple might be a bigger deal than any of the Tim Cook
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
Amazing! This location plus the new one coming at Gerard and Sackville will make for two great branches. Love this for the neighborhood.
The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Amazing! This location plus the new one coming at Gerard and Sackville will make for two great branches. Love this for the neighborhood.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Doug Ford has blood on his hands after only 13 days
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Doug Ford has blood on his hands after only 13 days
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Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
I’ve had 25 medical appointments over the last six months and I’m mostly totally fine, just over 40. While I have no shortage of issues with the current state of our country and province, I do appreciate this sort of (near) free preventative care is (mostly) accessible.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I’ve had 25 medical appointments over the last six months and I’m mostly totally fine, just over 40. While I have no shortage of issues with the current state of our country and province, I do appreciate this sort of (near) free preventative care is (mostly) accessible.