documentary filmmaker. wannabe urbanist. guacamole lover.
Calgary, Alberta
Joined October 2011
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i hated digger. and i love how much i hated digger. i am going to see the movie again in two days with more friends. five stars on letterboxd. my full review
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Tomorrow.
The “star” of Pulse of the Continent is, of course, 2816, which is lovingly described as akin to a living being, with a heart and soul. Anyone who has had the opportunity to experience one of these mechanical marvels can attest to that description. railwayage.com/mechanical/lo…
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Presentamos ‘Pulse of the Continent’, una producción de @CPKCdeMexico que destaca la fuerza que conecta a todo un continente.
#FICM2025
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At 68.5% the turnout in Canada's 2025 national election is the highest since 1993, when it was 69.6%.
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No, it's not.
You have a right to protest, and I’ve defended that right more than practically anyone. You do NOT have a right to shut down other people's classes, their speakers or prevent them from studying in the frickin library. I am tired of people supporting mob censors, but claiming to give a damn about freedom of speech.
And EVERYONE immediately understands this when it's a class they want to attend, a speaker they want to hear, or a time when they want to study. It is only ideology that makes people dense about this stuff.
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25 years later. Remember Joe? He’s actually CBC colleague Jeff Douglas.
He’s back with an updated Canadian rant.
“MY NAME IS JEFF AND WE ARE CANADIAN”
youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?si=RoPL…
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University of Calgary economist @TrevorTombe: 'Real GDP per capita in the U.S. was 43% higher than in Canada in 2023. In 2024, I estimate this gap will widen to nearly 50% ... This stunning divergence is unprecedented in modern history.'
thehub.ca/2024/09/05/trevor-…
Eric González retweeted
Obviously Quebec should get Louisiana. But how we divvy up the rest of the states is an open question
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Excited to introduce Icon, The First AI Admaker.
We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund & execs of frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Pika, & Cognition.
Icon (icon.me) is like ChatGPT + CapCut, but for making winning ads with AI in minutes.
How it works:
1. Icon looks at your video library & tags scenes (e.g. "close-up," "unboxing"). These scenes become reusable clips used as lego blocks for making ads.
2. Prompt Icon’s AdGPT to generate scripts focused on specific angles & audiences.
3. Icon finds perfectly matching clips for every script scene & generates an ad that is 80-99% complete.
4. Make edits with our CapCut-like video editor until you're happy.
3-person creative teams make 30 ads per month. With Icon, they make 300.
We co-built Icon with $100M+ revenue brands like Ridge, Jones Road, Immi, Backbone, & MUD\WTR to solve big pain-points:
1. Making lots of ads is extremely painful. Icon helps you automate the tedious parts of scriptwriting, scene matching, video editing, audience research, UGC creation, & more.
2. AI-generated ads look like trash. Icon remixes your existing footage into new ads, matching your production quality & maintaining brand aesthetics.
3. Existing solutions charge $2K-$30K/month for:
🔍 Competitor ad spying & cloning
📈 Creative analytics
📹 Custom & stock avatars for AI UGC
👥 Audience research
📁 Video storage & tagging
Icon does scriptwriting & video editing on top of everything above for just $999/year (their margin is our opportunity 😉).
If you’ve made it this far, we have a surprise for you 👇🏻
Eric González retweeted
The Evolution of a Champion Curler 🇨🇦🥌
How prioritizing family has provided @RHoman89 valuable perspective on and off the ice: cbc.ca/sports/longform/featu…
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Tomorrow.
A @cbcsports exclusive feature story and video on Canadian curler Rachel Homan. It’s a behind the scenes look at her life on and off the ice.
Huge thanks to @ericgon_ and @stevetzemis for bringing the project to life. Can’t wait for you all to read it and watch it.
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Watch the video.
This is truly the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen an elected official say, from any political party:
He lays out the entire case for humans, and against cars, and it’s just pure facts, personally-lived expertise/experience — and 100% raw gorgeousness.
“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities."
- @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings
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Feels SO GOOD to be back in Montreal!
Join us on CBC at 3:30pm for Montreal’s home opener vs. Boston. #PWHL
SOLD OUT crowd & guaranteed to be one for the record books 👊🏻
@cbcsports @CBCOlympics @thepwhlofficial
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Message of the year:
How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
🏆 @GovPritzker
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This was a tight race. I estimate (as of 12:30am) that a minimum of ~1.6k votes in the closest races would change who forms govt. That's just 0.1% of votes. The closest in history. #abvote
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Alberta’s major cities, #Edmonton and #Calgary, were heavily featured in episode 2 of #TheLastOfUs! Alberta's Legislature Building acting as the Massachusetts State House as well as Calgary’s Fourth Avenue Flyover, a major overpass into the city’s downtown core.
