Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦
@lynnefaubert.bsky.social
Montreal food writer & independent journalist, cookbook author & mag columnist (Elle Quebec, Vero). History buff. Et oui, je suis franco.
Reading about the "death" of Google-research leveraging web site traffic because AI now answers first and directly. Which today, following a question of mine, gave: "It's highly unlikely that Prince Andrew will resume public royal duties or visit Sainte-Rose, Laval, QC." Darn, I had hoped. Not. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
August 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reading about the "death" of Google-research leveraging web site traffic because AI now answers first and directly. Which today, following a question of mine, gave: "It's highly unlikely that Prince Andrew will resume public royal duties or visit Sainte-Rose, Laval, QC." Darn, I had hoped. Not. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Trump has removed, or tried to, 3 women from leading roles in art institutions: Deborah Rutter at Kennedy Center, Carla Hayden at Library of Congress and now Sajet at Smithsonian. The same happened in military. I’m surprised women are not up in arms and making this front page news… :(
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June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump has removed, or tried to, 3 women from leading roles in art institutions: Deborah Rutter at Kennedy Center, Carla Hayden at Library of Congress and now Sajet at Smithsonian. The same happened in military. I’m surprised women are not up in arms and making this front page news… :(
A first for me, tonight I came across a cookbook sold on Amazon and transparent (?) enough to list ChatGPT as a co-author. Just wow. Has anyone seen other books partly credited to AI? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A first for me, tonight I came across a cookbook sold on Amazon and transparent (?) enough to list ChatGPT as a co-author. Just wow. Has anyone seen other books partly credited to AI? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
For the best salads in Montreal, I always go to Mandy's. Their cookbook is on sale in Amazon Canada. Just saying.
Mandy's Gourmet Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life
Mandy's Gourmet Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life eBook : Wolfe, Mandy, Wolfe, Rebecca, Erickson, Meredith: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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April 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
For the best salads in Montreal, I always go to Mandy's. Their cookbook is on sale in Amazon Canada. Just saying.
#Montreal #desserts Trompe l’oeil pastries from ÔFauria in Laval, maybe 1 of 3 shops in Greater Montreal to follow the trend re-started by Cedric Grolet in France. Expensive ($19 each!) but really cool and delish. I took macaron lessons from chef Faure, happy to see the place was packed. ofauria.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#Montreal #desserts Trompe l’oeil pastries from ÔFauria in Laval, maybe 1 of 3 shops in Greater Montreal to follow the trend re-started by Cedric Grolet in France. Expensive ($19 each!) but really cool and delish. I took macaron lessons from chef Faure, happy to see the place was packed. ofauria.com
The White House before and after. My, an image really is worth a thousand words. In plated gold, obvs. 🙈
April 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The White House before and after. My, an image really is worth a thousand words. In plated gold, obvs. 🙈
´The man in black fled across the desert, and Mrs. Dalloway followed.´
Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway.
In a hole in the ground there lived Mrs. Dalloway.
In a hole in the ground there lived Mrs. Dalloway.
Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway.
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed Mrs. Dalloway, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed Mrs. Dalloway, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
March 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
´The man in black fled across the desert, and Mrs. Dalloway followed.´
#whatscooking Testing for new cookbook, pesto and parmesan flaky pastry straws. So easy it’s a wonder I never made these sooner (with store-bought pastry, let’s be real). 🍽️🍜
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
#whatscooking Testing for new cookbook, pesto and parmesan flaky pastry straws. So easy it’s a wonder I never made these sooner (with store-bought pastry, let’s be real). 🍽️🍜
Fun: ask Chat what it knows about you from interactions. «You prefer in-depth explanations rather than simplified ones. Your writing shows strong skills in investigation, fact-checking, and conceptual depth. You value precision, elegance, thoughtful articulation.» Oh, and I like melancholic music! 🙈
March 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fun: ask Chat what it knows about you from interactions. «You prefer in-depth explanations rather than simplified ones. Your writing shows strong skills in investigation, fact-checking, and conceptual depth. You value precision, elegance, thoughtful articulation.» Oh, and I like melancholic music! 🙈
This AI-generated short story by OpenAI is controversial for implicitely revealing it HAS been training on copyright fiction. It’s also so good it hurts on every level. Our world just turned on a dime. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model
Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing
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March 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This AI-generated short story by OpenAI is controversial for implicitely revealing it HAS been training on copyright fiction. It’s also so good it hurts on every level. Our world just turned on a dime. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Sans mot - puisqu’il les énonce tous. (To American friends, go to YouTube, put caption and listen to what Europe is saying, it’s a lesson and a blueprint.) youtu.be/G-lh0TUTtvI?...
Guerre en Ukraine : "Washington est devenu la cour de Néron", lance Claude Malhuret
YouTube video by Public Sénat
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March 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sans mot - puisqu’il les énonce tous. (To American friends, go to YouTube, put caption and listen to what Europe is saying, it’s a lesson and a blueprint.) youtu.be/G-lh0TUTtvI?...
Presque des Canadiens, oui. Et le sourire narquois qui dit: If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, I don’t care. Lol.
March 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Presque des Canadiens, oui. Et le sourire narquois qui dit: If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, I don’t care. Lol.
I had knee surgery 18 months ago, I spent a few days in hospital listening to Walter Isaacson’s bio of Vinci, my idol (Leo, not Walter). My friends and families were shaking their heads, like, so typical of her lol. Stories like this are my life. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/s...
Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 1400s may have been found | CNN
Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered underneath the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.
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March 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I had knee surgery 18 months ago, I spent a few days in hospital listening to Walter Isaacson’s bio of Vinci, my idol (Leo, not Walter). My friends and families were shaking their heads, like, so typical of her lol. Stories like this are my life. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/s...
J’ai parlé à TANT d’éleveurs qui dénonçaient le manque d’abattoirs au Québec et des formalités défavorisant la culture culinaire locale. À quand de vraies actions par les gouvernements qui limitent VOTRE accès à VOTRE terroir? Si les gens savaient… ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
Autoriser la vente de viande d’animaux abattus à la ferme?
Des éleveurs du Québec voudraient que soit permise, comme c'est le cas en Colombie-Britannique, la commercialisation de viande d'animaux abattus à la ferme.
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
J’ai parlé à TANT d’éleveurs qui dénonçaient le manque d’abattoirs au Québec et des formalités défavorisant la culture culinaire locale. À quand de vraies actions par les gouvernements qui limitent VOTRE accès à VOTRE terroir? Si les gens savaient… ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
Ça fait de plus en plus peur.
Zelensky refuse le monde à l’envers.
Peut-être, qui sait, un jour, trônera un buste de Zelensky dans ce même bureau ovale.
Peut-être, qui sait, un jour, trônera un buste de Zelensky dans ce même bureau ovale.
Zelensky refuse le monde à l’envers
Je regarde en boucle cette empoignade Trump-Zelensky, l’exemple parfait du monde qui est désormais le nôtre où le noir est blanc, le vrai, faux et le mensonge, vérité.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ça fait de plus en plus peur.
Tonight my 18 yr old arrived in Peru on a student volunteering and tourism trip with his school. They will take a day off to Aguas Calientes if anyone has tips on the best way to enjoy the town and Machu Picchu. To think he was 2 years old a second ago… #mommyblues #emptynest #Canadaproud
February 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Tonight my 18 yr old arrived in Peru on a student volunteering and tourism trip with his school. They will take a day off to Aguas Calientes if anyone has tips on the best way to enjoy the town and Machu Picchu. To think he was 2 years old a second ago… #mommyblues #emptynest #Canadaproud
I love historical fiction but all-men war novels, not so much. I actually restarted halfway through the audiobook so I could read the ebook at the same time because there are many characters and I was getting confused. Amazing narration by Bronson Pinchot and I was not a fan of his before either…
February 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I love historical fiction but all-men war novels, not so much. I actually restarted halfway through the audiobook so I could read the ebook at the same time because there are many characters and I was getting confused. Amazing narration by Bronson Pinchot and I was not a fan of his before either…
The last day before petals fall. After 20yrs, he still brings flowers for Valentine’s Day. It took his (then) 12yr-old son telling him ´she doesn’t like roses’ for him to seek out tulips. He does. I blame reading Dumas’ La tulipe noire as a teen for my devotion to this simple flower with no perfume.
February 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The last day before petals fall. After 20yrs, he still brings flowers for Valentine’s Day. It took his (then) 12yr-old son telling him ´she doesn’t like roses’ for him to seek out tulips. He does. I blame reading Dumas’ La tulipe noire as a teen for my devotion to this simple flower with no perfume.
Kiddo had his driver license test today and it turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. No details needed but cocktails, oh yes. This is DIS/CO, i.e. 1 oz Amaretto Disaronno, 1 oz Southern Comfort and 1 oz jus lemon juice on ice, topped with ginger ale and cucumber garnish. I’m a cocktail fiend.
February 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Kiddo had his driver license test today and it turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. No details needed but cocktails, oh yes. This is DIS/CO, i.e. 1 oz Amaretto Disaronno, 1 oz Southern Comfort and 1 oz jus lemon juice on ice, topped with ginger ale and cucumber garnish. I’m a cocktail fiend.
Dune has been winning all the sound awards and that’s no surprise when you consider this video about it. Yes, I’m a geek, I watch videos about sound FX from time to time. They are a fascinating look at how movies evoke a universe with a squich… youtu.be/Gkf_rdROyWw?...
Dune | The Sounds of Dune | Behind The Scenes with Denis Villeneuve | Warner Bros. Entertainment
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment
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February 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Dune has been winning all the sound awards and that’s no surprise when you consider this video about it. Yes, I’m a geek, I watch videos about sound FX from time to time. They are a fascinating look at how movies evoke a universe with a squich… youtu.be/Gkf_rdROyWw?...
I decided to catch up on all those US movies I managed not to see along the years for no other reason than timing (plus I was into Quebec and European cinema back in the day). Now I want to redo Christmas lol. What movie has been on your radar for years and it just never happens?
February 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I decided to catch up on all those US movies I managed not to see along the years for no other reason than timing (plus I was into Quebec and European cinema back in the day). Now I want to redo Christmas lol. What movie has been on your radar for years and it just never happens?
Il y a des néologismes que j’adore comme balado, égoportrait, etc. mais «jeune pousse» pour nommer une startup, pas capable. Trop près de la botanique. Parfois faut demander au traducteur de remettre et remettre sur le métier. Est-ce que le mot va gagner à l’usure vous pensez? Exemple:
Elon Musk cherche à prendre le contrôle d’OpenAI
Un groupe d'investisseurs dirigé par Elon Musk essaie de racheter l'organisation à but non lucratif qui contrôle OpenAI, d'après des médias américains.
ici.radio-canada.ca
February 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Il y a des néologismes que j’adore comme balado, égoportrait, etc. mais «jeune pousse» pour nommer une startup, pas capable. Trop près de la botanique. Parfois faut demander au traducteur de remettre et remettre sur le métier. Est-ce que le mot va gagner à l’usure vous pensez? Exemple:
Aux USA, le prix des œufs frôle le 10$/douzaine et les épiceries imposent une limite d'achat. Le Canada est épargné pour l'instant, même si on vit aussi des hausses, à cause de facteurs dont la coopération, les méthodes d'élevage... et même le froid de poulet, euh, de canard. Je nous love.
Le Canada doit-il avoir peur de la crise des œufs aux États-Unis?
Au sud de la frontière, leur prix explose et certains restaurants n’hésitent pas à refiler l’addition à leurs clients.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Aux USA, le prix des œufs frôle le 10$/douzaine et les épiceries imposent une limite d'achat. Le Canada est épargné pour l'instant, même si on vit aussi des hausses, à cause de facteurs dont la coopération, les méthodes d'élevage... et même le froid de poulet, euh, de canard. Je nous love.