I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
Why are people allowed to use this recreationally? www.basspro.ca/p/tannerite-...
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How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War BombThe fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed.www.newyorker.comThis.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.
A new Substack about collaborating. I've never been a great collaborator. Hesitant, reticent, incalcatrint and generally just scared of others. I'm still some of those things but sharing & working with people has been great. Being older helps. vicness.substack.com/p/collaboratio…
There has been oodles of minsinformation about wildfires and Ford in particular. This article is sober second look at what is exactly going on. #wildfires
John Michael McGrathNew from me at TVO, about the forest fires: www.tvo.org/article/anal...
I spent many years surrounded by an intellectually inclined art scene. I am happier now to indulge in enthusiasm & thoughtfulness for the sake of it. Joyous to hear people rhapsodize over The Leopard. open.spotify.com/episode/0wyJ...
22. The Leopard: The Greatest Historical Novel Ever Written?The Book Club · Episodeopen.spotify.comThis is a report from April from the OAFC. They received loads of funding & are working closely with both levels of gov't re: forest fires. Ford said there really 150 crews fighting 197 fires. Is this true or not? Most people think he's abandoned the north. www.oafc.on.ca/about/announ...
Province supports frontline staff by adding additional permanent positions and increasing compensation to protect people and communities | Ontario Association of Fire Chiefswww.oafc.on.caWe ignore rural Canada because we don't think anything happens there. Everything happens here. If we were to understand the nature of what it is to live among trees instead of just cutting down the trees we might not be choked with smoke right now.
S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhDSo much of what’s happening in Canada right now can be traced by a direct line from (often purposefully) confusing and conflating rural policy with industrial policy. “Strip it and ship it” for centuries - with rapid acceleration in the last five decades - and… we end up here.
Definitely in the unhealthy zone. Limiting all my time outdoors now until further notice. We need authorities talking to us about the effects of this stuff. #wildfires weather.gc.ca/firework/fir...
I don't think we need these "boomer" multi-millionaire directors who have had every advantage that a human could have to make their art telling us what AI is. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and cartsStar Wars director calls AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and says ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’www.theguardian.comWell the @liberalparty.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social has their work cut out for them. Everyone is linking the #CanadaStrong vision to orange, smoke filled skies.