OCADU Waterfront Campus: Welcome for @profuturists and @OCADU_SFI by @ZancomMedia with #SuzanneStein next, as producers of nexus event. Friday afternoon start with design installations, workshops running for next 2 days. Theme of Creativity and Compassion. (Toronto) 20250815

OCADU Graduate Programs: A talk on Interconnected Interventions + Systemic Resilience by #MartinJBunch for #SystemsThinking Ontario. Outlined variety of approaches to resilience, focus on ecological resilience (panarchy) + community resilience ( poverty trap to escape). (Toronto)

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"Most of thought has nothing to do with language" says @ylecun . LLMs are incapable of four essential characteristics of intelligent behavior. The next generation of AI has world models, predicting what might happen as consequences of action .

Playlist for an hour of music with @ziyanhossain , #SnowWauna, #BexyAshworth as part of summer series at #MountPleasantCemetery Toronto. Unplugged versions of #Portishead, #PJHarvey, #SmashingPumpkins, #QueensOfTheStoneAge, #Nirvana, #NineInchNails.

Yet We Go On | @markerstarling | Wavelength Summer Thing, Trillium Park | 2025-08-09:.Adult pop music from with duet of #ChrisACummings + #DorotheaPaas at @wavelengthmusic Festival. Sun setting finally cast shade in front of stage. (Toronto).

Extended medley from TIDE/TIED album | @ThanyaIyerMusic |Trillium Park | 2025-08-09: In theme > 18 minutes, selections from TIDE/TIED album 2025 @wavelengthmusic Festival. Includes (i) Doctor, (ii) What Can We Grow . , (iii) I Am Here Now. (Toronto) .

My Heart Away | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for @realaveryraquel at @OldTownToronto. Song My Heart Away released in 2018 on third solo album . Songwriting based on personal experiences. (King Street East, Toronto, Ontario) .

Like the Rain | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for @realaveryraquel at @OldTownToronto. New song just released, metaphor for finding love where you don't expect it. Produced by #JMattMcCormack, bass player. (Toronto, Ontario).

Hard to Stay | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for @realaveryraquel at @OldTownToronto . New song Hard to Stay just released, composed last year at Berklee Valencia. Selected to be produced by #ChristianLohr. (Toronto) 20250807 .

You | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for @realaveryraquel at @OldTownToronto . Song You released in 2024, Scratching at the Surface album. Introduced new keyboard player, first performance with group. (Toronto, Ontario) 20250807.

Logan Avenue, south of Gerrard Street East: Looking southbound, east side of bridge (south of Gerrard Street, north of Dundas Street) completed. The west side of bridge being demolished and reconstructed, to accommodate extra tracks for Ontario Line. (Toronto) 20250806

In Toronto, Aug. 14 6:30pm, Professor #MartinJBunch will be speaking at #SystemsThinking Ontario on Interconnected Interventions and Systemic Resilience: Development Programming in South Sudan. See

Tommy Thompson Park: Natural tree tunnel midway down the path from northern entrance and bridge, with bicyclists riding near dusk. Easy ride on two wheels, with a few serious runners traversing the 3 km each way. Quiet end to a holiday weekend. (Leslie Street, Toronto) 20250804

Art Gallery of Mississauga: End wall #WinsomWinsom + daughter #TaraDarrall (2025) From Them We Came, mixed media with cowrie shells by #MisbalAhmed. Part of the exhibition on The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara, connecting spiritual and earthly experiences.

City Centre Drive, Mississauga: From the C Banquets hall on the 12the floor, view east sees the curvy Marilyn Munroe condos (Phase 2 Absolute World towers 4 and 5) completed in 2011-2012. The scale in the western suburbs is no so walkable. (Mississauga City Hall)

Like Someone In Love | @alenu + @andrewmarzotto | Clarence Square | 2025-08-02: Song by Van Heusen + Burke 1944, sung by Dinah Shore. #AleNunez + #AndrewMarzotto, child off camera. Concluding first week Series #TODowntownWest, new wood deck. (Toronto).

Solitude | @alenu + @andrewmarzotto | Clarence Square | 2025-08-02: Solitude by Ellington 1934, popularized by Billie Holiday + Eddie Heywood 1941. Casual gig #AleNunez + #AndrewMarzotto. Concluding 4th day #TODowntownWest, new wood deck. (Toronto).

The Best of Chinese Medicine: First time for cupping treatment, following acupuncture. While Dr. Lam would insert needles and attach wires for electrical stimulation, Dr. Hu performs short jabs up and down meridians, before inserting and leaving needles in back. (Danforth Ave.)

Mon Sheong Scarborough LTC: Transitioned father into government-supported long term care home, after a year in private care with same not-for-profit. Room is smaller, but activity better resourced. Left him for evening playing in one of two mahjong tables. (McNicoll Avenue)

Inner Rise | SHEBAD | Beaches Jazz Festival Indie Series | 2025-07-27.Evening headline show, @SHEBADmusic closing Indie series of @beachesjazz. Second set, Inner Rise from 2022 release. (Woodbine Park, Toronto, Ontario) 20250727 .