Parkdalian designer of things and builder of ideas — find me at @saila@mastodon.social he/him
Toronto
Joined January 2007
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Good luck today, #USA — I hope all you 18+ citizens got a chance to vote & will see your strong democracy be as healthy as the world needs it to be 🇺🇸🗳️
#MidtermElections2022 #Midterm2022
Struggling to imagine this final #Toronto concert by #Nirvana happened 29 years ago tonight in a hockey arena that is now a grocery store buff.ly/3zEcWTV
Thank you to everyone at @Twitter who had a hand in building such an incredible service during the past 16 years — thinking of all of you today, and in the days ahead
Craig Saila retweeted
My obituary of Jack Diamond, architect, urbanist and advocate for better cities: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Don’t miss reading @ftrain on creativity & #MachineLearning: “It feels gross that someone could say to a computer, ‘I want a portrait of Alex Jones in the style of Frida Kahlo,’ and the computer would do it without moral judgment”
buff.ly/3Wunb7e #dalle2 #stablediffusion
Not just a great headline, but a heartening reminder @Auttomattic still remembers the web of old: “Tumblr Says Clothing Is Optional Again” /ht @the_logic buff.ly/3sVsIWy
Three of my most recommended apps are from relatively small companies, and all sport an icon with a black background and a single white letter, stylistic rendered
ALT Three icons are showcased in a detail of a iPhone home screen screenshot: Metatex (a white M on black background), Matter (again, (a white M on black background) and Glass (this time a white G on black background)
Just in case you were feeling optimistic, remember. Everything dies, including information buff.ly/3SNewK3
Seeing new (to me) ads on Twitter promoting accounts I should apparently follow, these kind of posts are appearing every half-dozen posts (even if the account writes in a language I can’t read)
![A screenshot of my Twitter feed showing a New York Times sorry about Elon Musk’s travel over of Twitter followed by promoted tweet written in Arabic [?] with big black follow button beneath it](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgguk0WXwAEv_WA.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A screenshot of my Twitter feed showing a New York Times sorry about Elon Musk’s travel over of Twitter followed by promoted tweet written in Arabic [?] with big black follow button beneath it
What I find interesting about this stay/go debate (be it Twitter, or before that Facebook) is that few people fold in how political your medium of choice is — countless newspapers thrived on that! theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
Reading
@TheTorontoSun, @TorontoStar or @globeandmail #newspapers signalled who you wanted to be (and maybe we’re) as well as who voted for — it was a badge of pride and a driver of actually revenue for the publications in question as they played off each other for readers
Tip: Using a free instance of the very good app @Tweetbot turns Twitter into a read-first medium, and makes posting (or liking or any interacting…) a lot more intentional buff.ly/2S5Z11J
This is a very balanced and well-considered analysis of Canada’s Online News Act — and no matter where you stand on its value, it’s a worthwhile read if you care about #journalism buff.ly/3zN9A0h
Thinking this little plug-in might help make the transition stick this time /ht @sladner crossposter.masto.donte.com.…
Any ways, you can find me there for now under this account name (and I’m mainly using mastodon.social)