I slept quite a bit in Frankfurt. After two weeks of travel from Toronto to London to a wedding in southwest Germany and then walking Heidelberg, I was pretty tired out by the time I reached the last city in my multi-leg trip. The hotel I picked was the same one from last time I was in Frankfurt. Then I stayed just for one night after my transatlantic flight before quickly transiting to Mannheim, but this time I took an extra couple of days in to explore the city a bit more and meet a friend.
All my friends seem to have read this so I am finally picking it up after buying it a year ago. Only a few chapters in but seems like I am reading a contest for stuffing the most Dune references in the least amount of pages 😅
About to watch some fireworks at the White Rock Pier. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦
Took me a bit to get into, but Ishiguro is a master of emotional reflection and also slowly building up the tension. Great book club book, rich with conundrums to talk through! Go in knowing nothing.
It’s 10am on a Monday morning so me and my whole family are at the Fan Zone to watch the Japan Brazil match ⚽️ #wc2026
Seeing this pop up in my feed is how I found out about the passing of the great Bob Thurman. What an amazing journey he forged. Inspiring 🪷 #Buddhism
Drove up to Whannock Lake, famous (?) for humpback salmon. Went to a bunch of farmers markets. Got some veg, smoked salmon and wild salmon fillet which I baked once we got home for a fresh summer dinner!
Amazing to hear @oddletters.bsky.social & @kissane.bsky.social on @neverpo.st. I have heard others talk about LLMs as a genie (as in you don’t get exactly what you asked for) but love this analogy of the fey 🧚 and demons 👹
Can’t believe how much Graham Culbertson and Cory Doctorow packed into this short conversation on Everyday Anarchism! The quick back and forth on Adam Smith writing Marx “fanfic” is LOL! Also malleable software, and more!
Happy Father’s Day. 👔 It’s also the 5th anniversary of my father passing due to lung cancer. 5 years! Really wish he was here to see our home, the life we built, and his grandchildren grow up. I held his hand while he died. Driving home I stopped to take this photo of the sky. Love you Dad! 🙏
This has been on my list forever and I finally got a copy. Very late I know, but I expect it to live up to the hype. Will need to find some good breakdowns and comparisons later. Share if you know some worth reading!
Was at the Mayor’s Health & Innovation Forum for the first half of the day… and then taking care of 2 sick kids at home for the second half of the day. 😷
If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.”
“having more” without “being more” is a bar 🔥 #encyclical
Reclining on the patio. Rabbits run back in forth around the edge, playing. A squirrel walks along the top of the fence, pausing before leaping to a nearby tree. I hold Hild, nearly halfway through, and note the way the skin wrinkles on my left thumb. No, a little longer. The light is still good.
True freedom is not the ability to fullfil our every craving at any time, but to be free from our craving in the first place.
