Last month we looked at this Villeray house transformation that went all in for matte black minimalism, but now this TMR project says “hold my beer.”
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Kate
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Kate
Three metro lines were down for a time Monday because of a person on the tracks.
OK, that seems odd. One person on the tracks shut down the yellow line and most of the green and orange lines?
EmilyG
If it was at Berri-UQAM, it might shut down multiple lines.
Kate
I guess it did. Someone must have penetrated quite far into the tunnels for them not to know which line they were on, though.
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Kate
The Museum of Fine Arts has sacked Nathalie Bondil, with heavy hints about how people were quitting under her management. She had been director general since 2007.
Su
Ewwww.
“Nathalie Bondil n’avait pas approuvé la nomination de Mary-Dailey Desmarais , qui est issue d’une famille importante de donateurs, à la suite d’un processus d’embauche contesté.”
Kate
Yep. Was Bondil the little Napoleon the HR company mentioned in the item is trying to portray her? Or were they given the mandate to find or manufacture evidence to punt Bondil out before the end of her contract to keep the Desmarais clan happy?
Su
I guess we will be hearing more on this! Did she morph into Napoleon suddenly after 20 years of superb service recognized with numerous accolades !?
Kate
The CTV report says: “When Bondil was invested into the Order of Canada in 2016, the citation called her “an inspiring museologist known for her vitality, creativity and openness.” It noted she had overseen the museum’s expansion with the creation of two new pavilions and that under her leadership attendance had doubled.” But CTV doesn’t mention the Desmarais subplot.
Su
https://artreview.com/montreal-museum-axes-director-over-toxic-environment/
A nice informative article
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Kate
La Ronde is set to reopen gradually starting July 25, giving season pass holders a week before letting the general public in. Masks will be mandatory. But they’re not going so far as the Japanese amusement park which asked people not to scream on the rides.
steph
The waiting lines have always been long and densely packed. I wonder how winded they will be now that everyone has to distance while waiting in line.
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Kate
A man in Boucherville faces charges of advocating genocide, the first time this charge has been brought in Quebec. André Audet also advocated the killing of Justin Trudeau.
walkerp
I am usually pretty anti excessive laws and punishment, but this is an area where our current legal system needs to get up to speed quickly. This is very good news that this old fart got busted. I hope he does time and that we see a lot more of these armchair terrorists get caught and punished publicly.
Ultimately, the real fault lies with the platforms themselves (and the state actors and ideologically-driven political orgs who manipulate them), so going after individuals won’t solve the entire problem. It will slow down its poisonous effects, though.
You cannot just say whatever the fuck you want without consequences. Especially on the internet. Your angry little retweets can actually kill people.
david172
How does an angry retweet kill anyone?
Kate
david, we would not have laws against incitement to violence if it hadn’t been shown that people are malleable and can be persuaded to do hateful things by words.
Kevin
david
Mass shooters are socially contagious. Someone with the mental understanding of a 12‑year‑old posts shit online for the lulz, and someone charges into a mosque or a pizza restaurant and opens fire.Unmoderated social media is poisonous. Always has been.
I’m beginning the miss the good old days where we were able to take telephones away from people who were unfit to use them.
david172
Agreeing that the fundamental freedom of speech is legitimately limited to punish incitement of violence ≠ “your angry little retweets can actually kill people,” which is just a very dumb statement and concept.
Kate
david, I disagree. People can retweet effortlessly without giving a moment’s thought to possible consequences or repercussions. But those have not gone away because you’re online.
walkerp
There is a direct causal relationship, but it is not one to one. Go google Justin Trudeau and you are overwhelmed by a wave of personal attacks and conspiracy theories. Many are bots, but many are angry individuals (often in Alberta) who are expressing their emotions (which are triggered by other social media posts) via their social media accounts. These become part of a brainwashing, radicalizing assault and every now and then somebody is already unbalanced enough that they decide to take action and then somebody drives across the country and rams his truck through the gates at Rideau Plaza. Or shoots up a pizza parlor. Or whatever atrocity is next.
This is really happening. There are individuals who are responsible and there is right and wrong. They need to understand their role in what is happening.
Kevin
david
I see you’ve never gone online to find hundreds of slanderous and bullying messages targeting you and your family.There are many people who have died through suicide following cyber-bullying.
Alison Cummins
I think that for certain people, to get them to think about online attacks you have to call them “doxxing.” Everything else gets shrugged off with “you’re obviously not thick-skinned enough to be on the internet, because bullying and harassment is just what the internet is.“
Kate
But “doxxing” has a specific meaning, Alison: to discover the actual physical address and other personal particulars of a person, and post them publicly, i.e. to reveal their documentation, with the intention to encourage harassment. It isn’t generalizable to other kinds of online attacks, and in the case of a public person like Justin T., it’s not so applicable because we already know the names of his wife and kids, where he lives and so on.
Alison Cummins
Kate,
When white dudes are upset by internet harassment, they tend to call it “doxxing” whether it is or not. Because for them, online harassment isn’t a genuine problem—it’s just millennial snowflakes whining that they feel offended—but doxxing is. They work backwards: I am experiencing distress, therefore I am being doxxed. Or: my friend is experiencing distress and I am sympathetic, therefore it’s doxxing.
One way to get through to these guys might be to link doxxing to other forms of online harassment.
When you go online to publicly identify an individual as an enemy; out their online identity if relevant; and publish their real-life weak spots so that they can be harassed in ways that could *not* theoretically be dealt with by deleting an email or avoiding reddit, that’s doxxing and it’s generally recognized to be crossing a line.
Ok, so what if two or three of those elements are already in place?
Justin Trudeau is an individual whose address and public identity are well-known already. What if you supply the missing piece by identifying him as an enemy and dehumanizing him? Does that not have a similar effect to doxxing?
Muslims are a group, not a particular individual, but they are often identifiable by their clothing, their names or their community centres. If you publicly identify them as an enemy, explain how to find them and dehumanize them, does that not have a similar effect to doxxing?
Why is doxxing bad but “angry retweets” are ok? The most significant difference I can see is that the number of white dudes who can imagine being important enough to dox versus the number who can imagine themselves as targets of racial or gendered harassment.
Alison Cummins
#notallwhitedudes
Just the ones who dismiss “angry retweets” as being of no consequence.
Alison Cummins
And #notjustwhitedudes either. Anyone who dismisses “angry retweets” as being of no consequence but who would personally object to being doxxed.
Kate
Alison, I don’t really understand what you’re arguing here. “Doxxing” has a definition – it’s a specific kind of harassment based on public revelation of personal information. Nobody has been saying doxxing is bad but other kinds of negative speech are fine, but it doesn’t make sense to stretch the “doxxing” label to include other kinds of harassment.
Justin Trudeau has been threatened and it’s serious enough to have resulted in charges. He hasn’t been doxxed because in a sense he can’t be doxxed.
Alison Cummins
No, Justin Trudeau hasn’t been doxxed.
There are commenters who are saying that it’s unreasonable to arrest someone for spewing on the internet. That spewing on the internet cannot reasonably held to have consequences. In general, people who make this kind of assertion tend to make an exception for doxxing as being the only possible bad thing that can happen through speech on the internet.
1. Nobody did it here so it’s off-topic, but I do hear people claim to have been doxxed when they haven’t been. I just mention it to illustrate that *for some people,* no other form of internet harassment is real.
2. Doxxing (while its own thing) has a great deal in common with hate speech targeting identifiable groups. If publishing someone’s name, address and phone number constituted doxxing by itself, then distributing the White Pages would be doxxing. It’s the act of bringing together several elements to facilitate collective harassment, of which publishing personal details is only one, that is doxxing. I maintain that if someone thinks that doxxing is bad — which they probably do, just because — but that hate speech in the form of angry retweets is neutral, they are being logically inconsistent.
That’s all. Perhaps I’m rambling and not making sense. That’s very possible. In which case, please delete.
Kevin
Just because it came up in my twitter feed.
Ben Collins
@oneunderscore__I think about all of my colleagues on my beat who are on actual kill lists from neonazis, who wake up to viciously racist and sexist coordinated campaigns from groups whose ultimate goal is trying to incite domestic terror.
Ain’t no news cycle for them. They just keep reporting.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1283061959840149509
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Kate
Masks are now mandatory on public transit across Quebec, and Radio-Canada says they will be required in all indoor public spaces as of this coming weekend, because Quebec doesn’t want the construction holiday – which runs from July 19 to August 1 – to result in a spike in infections.
Ephraim
From my understanding, construction holiday is NOT mandatory this year, because so many had time off earlier in the year. Plus the fact that there isn’t much of anywhere to go, except Balconville.
Patrick
@Ephraim, you said it. But it makes me think about how Old Orchard and all those other places in Maine are going to get through the summer. I’ll always remember turning on the TV in a motel in Ogunquit for my kid and hearing Uncle Scrooge (excuse me, Oncle Picsou) speaking French.
Ephraim
I’m not allowed in Old Orchard. I don’t own the prerequisite SPEEDO. 🙂
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Kate
A man was attacked by three others overnight on de la Commune. He was stabbed, and is in hospital. Note, relative to recent post: “agressé à l’arme blanche”.
Azrhey
Don’t know if it was explained, but arme blanche is in opposition to arme bronzée aka a fire arm as back in the 16th, 17th? Firearms were covered in some anti-rust stuff that gave them a darkened ( bronzed ) sheen where bladed weapons kept their brilliant ( white ) colour. These days arme blanche is any weapon ( metal but not always cf ceramic knives ) used solely by human force in opposition to weapons that use combustion to “work” ( so also arrows, hammers and whatever ).
There is a word in english , cold weapon, that means exactly arme blanche, but it is seldom used , I believe, outside of technical situations : Cold weapons include bladed weapons ( arme de melée ) , ranged weapons ( arme de jet ) and blunt weapons (arme contondante).( I picked historical weapons for my final term paper in translation class, I am not (that) weird usually )
Kate
Azhrey, no it wasn’t explained, and no, I didn’t know a thing about arme bronzée, so thank you!
(My theory was, as I mentioned last week, that maybe arme blanche was in contrast to firearms that use gunpowder. Your explanation blows mine out of the water – so to speak.)
walkerp
Oh wow “arme contondante” that’s even better! Thanks! Very cool history tidbits Azrhey. I have not heard the term cold weapon but it sounds like it could be used as a bit of inside dialogue on a future investigation show.
Daniel
Very interesting, Azrhey!
dwgs 15:23 on 2020-07-13 Permalink
Blech. Looks like a poorly done early 70’s bungalow. The photographer sure loves that herringbone floor though.
Dominic 16:15 on 2020-07-13 Permalink
Looks very boring. 🙁
Kate 16:17 on 2020-07-13 Permalink
dwgs: The floor is the only thing with any life in the whole place.
Nice bathroom, though. And no breakfast bar, for once.
MarcG 16:24 on 2020-07-13 Permalink
But how will they eat breakfast!?
Blork 16:58 on 2020-07-13 Permalink
The floor is definitely the highlight. That said, it’s not really fair to judge the space based on these photos, because the photos are showing the space in its pure state, with very little furnishings, nothing on the walls, etc. The idea is to show a fairly objective rendering of the space without the subjective nature of personal decor. That’s not how it’s supposed to be lived in.
This kind of stark architecture can work well in some circumstances. Primarily that means a setting with a lot of natural exterior beauty, such as on a headland overlooking the ocean, or nestled into a clearing in a forest in the mountains. The idea being that all those windows are designed to highlight the beauty of the setting, even from inside the space. I say that and then I laugh at the kitchen shot, with those glorious floor-to-ceiling windows, but are they overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur, or the foothills of the Rocky Mountains? No. They look at a four metre-tall solid wall of hedge. FAIL.
Phil M 01:58 on 2020-07-14 Permalink
Some people like minimalism. Why can’t it be left at that?
Kate 08:40 on 2020-07-14 Permalink
Phil M, I’m just expressing an opinion. Architecture and design are just as legitimate an area for critical comment as movies, books and TV shows, it seems to me, and even more so for a blog like this which is, in a general sense, about living in a city. Changes in the urban fabric are interesting to me, but what mostly gets covered on sites like Dezeen is the trendy, cutting-edge stuff, which is always going to be a bit excessive and thus is leaving itself wide open for comment.
MarcG: The people living there would be fasting most of the time.
MarcG 09:10 on 2020-07-14 Permalink
Kate: That’s taking minimalism to the next level
walkerp 10:25 on 2020-07-14 Permalink
This is not minimalism. This is faux-modern status-driven tackiness whose real base is the cost of materials. Most of that stuff is composite garbage, gussied up to look fancy which will chip and fray fairly quickly and start to look both deteriorated and outdated and will thus need to be all torn out and re-renovated again in a few years. Taste is dictated by the renovation industry.