Paul Haavardsrud
@PaulHaavardsrud
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Host of @cbccostofliving. Sunday at noon on CBC Radio One and Tuesday at 11:30 am.
Calgary
Joined October 2014
I had a fun chat with my old pal @PaulHaavardsrud on CBC's @cbccostofliving about BlackBerry, which aired on the weekend. Blackberry goes Hollywood
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Enjoyed contributing to @PaulHaavardsrud’s show again. Seems like something worth paying attention to in the months ahead.
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TFW you want to buy Fatboy Slim’s Wikipedia editor a drink
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At Easter, the Governor General goes on the National, wordlessly downs a shot of maple syrup, slams the shot glass on the desk, and leaves.
If Canada had a hokey ritual like this, what would it be?
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Why “Picture of Health” by the Headstones is the most significant album of the last 30 years 1/n 🧵
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End of days Twitter feels oddly liberating, like being in "Last Night" and we're all either Sandra Oh or Don McKellar.
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If tonight really is it for Twitter be nice to say something meaningful on the way out the door but also feeling pretty tired. Next time, maybe.
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Twitter imploding and Sam Bankman-Fried losing $15 billion are conflating in my brain like when those two volcano movies were released at the same time
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Follow up: https://t.co/32YSscRpk0
Bloomberg had him at $15.6B, world's 95th richest person. So *maybe* $600 million left. Maybe. Plus whatever's in his Bobby "Axe" Axelrod GO bag.
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Bloomberg had him at $15.6B, world's 95th richest person. So *maybe* $600 million left. Maybe. Plus whatever's in his Bobby "Axe" Axelrod GO bag.
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Jerry Seinfeld just out there shredding
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… and these are all in conversation. At least for now. 3/
Seems problematic and telling that our media just continues to focus on how he’s going to make money when the takeover of the digital public square and a major organ of public discourse, all of it to pollute information and trumpet authoritarian propaganda, is the purpose.
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The irony of whatever’s about to happen to Twitter is that the real-time analysis is happening through Twitter threads on Twitter. 1/
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Where exactly is the leverage here? Like, does Audi or whoever lose a single sale by moving ad dollars to TikTok or IG? It’s surreal. Like we’re watching Nero watching Rome.
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This is a journey
Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.
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The Art of Album Covers . Photo of the B52s that became the image that once hand colored, was used on their self titled debut album, released 1979. . Taken by photographer George DuBose on 12th December 1977 in NYC
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