A Funkaoshi Production

Crazy how much time has passed. I remember when this came out. I wonder what everyone else in the video is up to now. (Jeff Rubin makes an appearance.)

I don’t know if she’ll ever do math calculations. I don’t know if she’ll ever read a book. I don’t know if she’ll ever live on her own. I don’t know what else I don’t know. I know that she has broken my heart and put it back together in a shape that is bigger than I knew was possible.

Holy shit this film looks amazing. Why did I wait this long to watch this trailer? Don’t make the same mistake as me! Don’t!

But here in Portland, after 18 months of legalization, the lack of any negative impact on the economy or crime is a stark reminder of how absurd, and systemically racist, our federal drug policy is.

Lots of proto drum and bass.

Do the people running twitter use twitter?

This story is about Tamil Torontonians being conservative and dumb, which is kind of par for the course. What’s amazing is the model, photographer, and journalist covering the story are all Tamil. We aren’t just accountants anymore!

A cute comic that captures the joys of riding the streetcar.

A new series in the Metro about how Toronto housing is totally fucked.

A lot of the White characters in the movie exist to make White people feel good about themselves. My cousin was saying he enjoyed Moonlight so much because it didn’t feel compelled to insert White people into what was a Black narrative.

Crazy Oscar’s last night: Moonlight won best picture, but Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway were given the envelope for best actress, so they announced La La Land as the winner. Horowitz handled the mix up with some serious class.

Sabotage completely recut using footage from the Americans, which I have really gotta watch.

Google and CWI Institute in Amsterdam have produced the first SHA1 collision. Amazing work.

Rather than using OFA to engage millions of voters to turn up the heat on Congress, the president yoked his political fortunes to the unabashedly transactional style of politics advocated by his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. Health care reform — the centerpiece of his agenda — was no longer about mobilizing supporters to convince their friends, families and neighbors in all 50 states. It was about convincing 60 senators in Washington. It became about deals.

A really great look at just how badly Obama and the democrats squandered his groundswell of support after he was elected. This is from 2010, but feels pertinent today.

This bill is ridiculous. Call your MP.

“Is this Duncan Krier? Alex Mack just told everyone at the Super Bowl that you were the best high school player he had ever seen.”

There was a prolonged silence. “Yeah, I’m that Duncan Krier,” the voice said. “But don’t lie to me, man.”

He said he had not spoken to Mack in a dozen years. He said the observation was striking him like a bolt from another life.

“That’s wild. That’s insane. Holy hell,” he said. “Alex really said that about me?”

There was another long silence.

“The crazy thing about it is, I think he’s probably right,” Krier said. “And I still think about that almost every day.”

Robyn Doolittle doing some next level reporting—again. This is a hard read.

[The] complaint is among the more than 5,000 allegations of sexual assault closed as unfounded by Canadian law enforcement every year, according to a Globe and Mail investigation into the authorities’ handling of sexual-assault cases. Rape, the most serious of those, is a crime so injurious to victims that the judiciary considers it second only to murder in severity.

National policing data, compiled and reviewed by The Globe as part of its 20-month investigation, reveal that one of every five sexual-assault allegations in Canada is dismissed as baseless and thus unfounded. The result is a national unfounded rate of 19.39 per cent – nearly twice as high as it is for physical assault (10.84 per cent), and dramatically higher than that of other types of crime.

Some really amazing data driven reporting from the Globe and Mail.

While the tech industry looks to be busy collaborating with Trump, tech people are doing interesting things.

One of the most frank discussions about a production i’ve ever seen. They deleted their production database two nights ago, and had a live Google Doc tracking what they were doing to try and get it back. This is what nightmares are made of.

A great overview of the last couple days of the Trump presidency.

The fellow narrating is so charming. Slow to get started, but it gets interesting quite quickly.

This is some serious business.