Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

How Old City Hall can be Toronto’s new heart Toronto’s proposed Old City Hall renovation promises a place for gathering and the arts

New ideas need old buildings. In today’s @globeandmail I showcase a vision for Toronto’s Old City Hall as a space for contemporary culture - opening this year. Let’s go.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Fox theatre showing dark city would be playing right now but it's a power outage

Power outage in the Beaches tonight.
#Toronto #darkTO

Me too. Toronto Hydro is estimating 12:38 am.

“The Bride!” Is All Exclamations but No Explanations Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

“What Gyllenhaal’s movie shares with far less substantial big-budget spectacles is the delivery of effects without causes.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Large power outage affecting Toronto’s east end, East York, and southwest Scarborough At least 5,000 households are in the dark following a power outage that is impacting a large swath of Toronto’s east end, including parts of East York as well as southwest Scarborough, on Saturday nig...

“At least 5,000 households are in the dark following a #poweroutage that is impacting a large swath of Toronto’s #eastend, including parts of #EastYork as well as southwest #Scarborough, on Saturday night.” (Including moi.) www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Yes, I think COVID triggered tinnitus for a lot of people, seemingly transitory in some cases, permanent in others.

Yes. I did that experiment with caffeine and it also made no difference. Since then I’ve become even more of a caffeine addict without any noticeable effect in my tinnitus.

Yes. In my experience, doctors don’t even want to hear about it. I was sent to an ENT specialist when mine first got bad, and he said, essentially, “get used to it.” I asked about maskers, and he said, “well, a lot of people don’t like them” and ushers me out.

Interesting article… my tinnitus started the same day as my first bout of COVID began. Throw in the disrupted sleep of menopause and it makes sense to me that they could be related.

I'll be in my office

I started using maskers at that point and sort of got it under control, and now it’s kind of up and down; sometimes it bothers me, but a lot of the time i don’t really notice it.

Thanks. You’re right - I still remember complete silence and really miss it a times. The odd thing was the first few years weren’t so bad. But then one year I had a very stressful year work-wise, and it got a lot louder and much more intrusive.🧵

Yes, I can understand that point of view. I got mine in my 30s and have been struggling with it for 30+ years, sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much.

He didn’t look bad at all. Good thing I didn’t go up and start complimenting him on his photos …

#Caravanserai by #Santana (their most sublime album)
#music #MusicSky

🚨🚨[Stanford & Harvard just
published an utterly unsettling #Al paper: “Agents of Chaos”. It shows that when autonomous Al agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion & strategic sabotage.
It's a massive, systems-level warning.]🚨

Wish Asimov was in charge of the AI rollout, not Sam Altman and his ilk and the Trumpists.

You’re welcome. Me too, although mine fluctuates; I have good days and bad days. Say, you weren’t at the Farm Boy at Lakeshore and Leslie Thursday afternoon, were you? I saw someone there who looked like your profile shot.

a view from the middle of yonge st in jammed traffic, with cars driving over an active steam vent at night.

Steamy Yonge

#toronto #x100vi

"Don't tell the public they are in danger because it might turn them against my war."

Me too.

This story still isn’t going away.

yes, I do think there’s hope. My fluctuates quite a bit, some days, it’s terrible, other days, like today, I can hardly hear it. There must be something driving those fluctuations, all they need to do is find it and fix it.

Yes. Deeply perceptive for such a short read. I really enjoyed that denouement where they meet each other a few years later.

788 pages, not counting footnotes, acknowledgments, etc

I’ll try to remember to let you know. Might take a while …

Yes, seems quite possible. Unfortunately, it sometimes seems like we need war as a catalyst …

Yes, I I definitely think they’re onto something. Let’s hope their research results in some effective therapies and/or a cure.

Yes! It’s so thorough. I’m about 200 pages in and we’ve only reached about 1935. He’s got a real flair for evoking the characters of the scientists involved in all their complexity.