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CBC The Current interviewed a computer scientist who has written a book about the gratification people get from small sensory experiences. It was a really frustrating & empty listen. I wrote a thread below, & the transcript is here (CBC have no audio link): www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

Friday July 31, 2026 Episode Transcript | CBC RadioFull text transcriptwww.cbc.ca

How is this Atlantic writer on CBC The Current managing to talk about aesthetics without mentioning aesthetics? Or why sensory experience in the modern world is so degraded, or what the politics of that are? Or anything else that might be interesting in this topic? I despair.

Is this really the sort of right-wing awfulness—deliberate, tacit violation of both norms and Supreme Court decisions—that journalists should be flatly reporting as if it’s totally normal? We know what doing that is called and where it leads, right? #bcpoli

What a truly great person and community and SAR advocate Mike was. This is just shocking news. Condolences to his family. Sylvia, I'm so sorry.

“We have this big crisis with housing. Housing has become this horrible currency,” said Schofield. “I mean, even today, look at this ridiculous bailout for these developers. It’s just monstrous." —Vancouver novelist @anakanaschofield.bsky.social on her brilliant new novel Library of Brothel #vanpoli

As many of us have been saying for so long, demolition of history and historical context, mixed with rampant speculation driving arts and cultural activity out of town... Well, who wants to visit that? Let alone live in it. #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Douglas Todd: Low on 'culture and history,' world's tourists rank Vancouver a surprising 70thA respected organization that measures how global tourists feel about a destination rated Vancouver much lower than Seattle.vancouversun.com

If this is real, then we are at Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go already

How to fix your dead garburetor: Do everything youtube/reddit says, for 2 days. If nothing works & it only hums, it's dead. Go spend $400 on a new one. Come home, watch more DIY videos. Turn old garburetor on to use hum to figure out which breaker it's on. Old one will start working. Return new one

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Add fashion crime to his other charges For non UK types, ASDA is about the equivalent of Safeway or IGA

All day 5 native yellow-faced bumblebees fed busily on one lavender plant and now they are all fast asleep on random stems

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