“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The World is healing.

Jays fan, I take it?

Cuts $5 Billion for transit and then somehow finds $2 billion to subsidize drivers and oil companies. I'm starting to think Carney might not be very liberal. I wonder if Doug is rethinking his war on alternative modes of transportation?

Mike, the last thing I need now is for you to post facts through my hysteria.

A picture of the blue jays logo with a timeline of “oh boy am I excited to watch my favorite team play” then most of the timeline “I’m going to kill myself” then a final little bit “nice we won”

Blue jays baseball, baby

This is amazing...

Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA."

Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."

I mean, maybe in *your* house. [regards nail beds]

Blessed finish.

"Excellent skincare routine".

Cursed season. Fuck Jobu.

The job requirement, if I recall correctly, requires the closer to be able to pitch strikes.

The scream I scremt when he couldn't hit the strike zone.

We finally managed to get Little out, maybe Hoffman will be the next underachiever we give up on?

I mean, it seems as if your closer should be able to throw strikes?

So, so, frustrating.

Jesus, Hoffman, you had ONE fucking job.

*You're* not blocking the Strait of Hormuz. *I'M* blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It is to weep.

This is gopher erasure.

Waiting for the Florida Pope to announce himself. (Is there an Avignon, FL?)

21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

Wait, I don't want my pals to die!

BlueSky definitely needs more sports posting. Looking forward to it.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I really miss all of Chris Jones's stories. They got me through the pandemic.

Cops with patrol rifles to be deployed to key locations in Toronto as police create new unit, task force | CBC News Toronto police say they are creating a counter-terrorism unit and a specialized task force that will see officers with semi-automatic rifles stationed at key locations in the city.

Fuck. This sucks.

I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the… The differences hit me immediately, and are profound.

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections

"In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me"

canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office?

—60,000 new social housing units
—15 express bus routes
—Completion of city's full bike network
—Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks

I love this for Paris, and only wish we could do this in Toronto.

Of course now that gas is going to be $2 a litre, it makes total sense to remove the bike lanes which offer a compelling alternative to driving.