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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 19m

This thing is also a great synopsis of why these folks think AI is going to create great art too. They can't imagine that there is value in realism.

Maybe it is the Marvel-fication of culture?

Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 33m

"The punches will be pulled, but the reading pleasure isn't sacrificed."

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 24m

The Players Tribune but without any fans!

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1h

Ah yes, the famously laser-focused administration of Donald J. Trump. Nobody is so focused.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 2h

yeah. Identity is different than what I'm talking about. (Insofar as there is no excuse for societal pressure limiting identity expression.)

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 2h

Great piece. Just a head's up, there's a double-period here.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 2h

It would be ideal if people could take things in good faith but the place in which something is said has always determined what is considered anodyne. opinions are never risk free - especially when not delivered in a 1-on-1 setting.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 3h

But you do really have to learn that not all conversations or ideas can be articles because you can't further explain or engage in a back-and-forth if they land slightly different than you intend, which is something that happens.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 3h

What is slightly different is that when you are dealing in text (be it a text message, an email, or an article you wrote), you don't have the face-to-face opportunities for conflict mitigation that you would otherwise have.

As a journalist, it's something you (hopefully) learn over time.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 3h

One thing going on here is that there are social consequences for sharing thoughts and ideas that, while one has the right to enunciate them, one might want to keep in one's head unless one is extremely ready for all the consequences.

This is normal in real life!

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 4h

One thing to note: These stories are almost *always* about a wife who makes a whole bunch of money doing some very high level job and a guy who is also a white-collar professional. They never involve two people doing normal jobs and the wife making a little more.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7h

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The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 6h

as a makes-less-money-than-his-wife-American I must say, my lived experience is not captured in this article

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7h

apple.news/A5hb-fXeDQci...

The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

apple.news

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 14h

The "normalizing" discourse is so tiring but understandable. This stuff is just plain normal because that is the government your country elected. Homan's bribe can't be the top story for a week because there are a dozen other bonkers corrupt things happening b/c voters elected a corrupt leader.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 23h

When I suggest this is textbook Rent Seeking, I mean that, literally, you could put this article into an economics curriculum to explain rent-seeking to your newbie students.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 23h

No amount of incentives* will get these condos sold.

*except giving up on a government bailout and just reducing the prices to the market's level.

vancouversun.com/business/rea...

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

very very not good

CFJC Today Kamloops @cfjctoday.bsky.social · 1d

Seven Kamloops OB-GYNs resign in-hospital privileges from Interior Health, citing workload safety issues

KAMLOOPS - Obstetrics care in the Kamloops area has taken another hit, with seven obstetrician gynecologists reportedly resigning from in-hospital car...

dlvr.it

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

The fundamental problem with "Sapiens" is that Harari doesn't actually know the scholarship he's haphazardly citing. He's a historian of early modernity - his first book was on Renaissance military memoirs - and I'd bet he had grad students doing most of the research for "Sapiens."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 9d

Have said “few small beers” about 20 times since seeing OBAA last night. Have also had a few small beers.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first video that I've seen that makes me doubt the value of the whole "be silly" strategy.

Because here, it comes off as unserious. You really need the silly people to be mixed in with a bunch of very unsilly people.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

This, I think, also explains a lot of "kids/society these days discourse." You notice the similarities and the differences aren't quite positive enough to offset the alienation.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. One issue is BC's small population, the other the relative lack of publicity (in big centres) surrounding these interesting stories.

Anyways, breakfast sandwich at the Clearwater rink was the best I have ever had. Two eggs!

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Although admittedly this might be different if I wasn't spending my weekends in places like this.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, although I'm not sure that is a pending book you are feeling (unless you know something that I don't about the economics of book publishing in B.C.)

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the Canucks game is a Prime game, not on Sportsnet, but...

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh right this is why I don't normally pay to watch Sportsnet.

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