Andrea Bellemare
@dreabells
Freelance producer doing stuff at CBC Sports & CBC Radio. Previously at This Hour Has 22 Minutes & CBC News. Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.
Me when I say I'd love to hear the sirens song because surely I won't jump off the ship
AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it
Have inadvertently ended up on the rooftop patio of the hotel where Portugal is staying and the fans are getting pumped outside
Went to see Ben McKenzie's film Everyone is Lying to You for Money at Hot Docs, about how crypto is just a big scam. He's releasing it online through his own website in August because he couldn't find a streamer, due to the content. He did a Q & A moderated by his wife Morena Baccarin also, very fun
Mine is Christie Pits park, from the northwest side looking toward downtown
This stood out to me: Though it must be frightening to be a passenger on the cruise ship with hantavirus, people are still choosing to show care, support each other and find what calm they can. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
Apartment hunting and came across this. I know a star when I see one.
"It's a brand-new kind of cognitive load," said Ben Wigler, co-founder of the start-up LoveMind AI. "You have to really babysit these models." This is what is saving you time??? This is the future???
Norway's sweaters are the most wearable item of the Olympics to me. Here's Birk Ruud, he won ski slopstyle gold today, and here he is getting a hug from US skier Alex Hall, the gold medallist in Beijing
Lithub interviews Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, a hub of resistance in the city. She mentions how bookstores are acting as organizing points to support their communities lithub.com/everything-w... Also this section gave me a chuckle
Reporter Katherine Long getting Claudius to declare an 'Ultra-Capitalist-Free-For-All' and give away everything for free had me CACKLING
At least we're ending the year with one bilateral Canadian-US trade agreement
YouTube's Wrapped claims I am interested in AI technology, which isn't something I search for. I recently watched videos about using a flash with a Hasselblad film camera and an interview with cinematographer Autumn Durand Arkapaw about shooting film when making Sinners. Feels like this is a lie
At a screening of Michèle Hozer's film about Diana Matheson's drive to build the Northern Super League, Canada's first women's pro soccer league. The film covers pay equity, motherhood, marketing women's sport, Matheson's incredible drive, the legacy of Canada's national team and more.