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writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 4d

The CBC is reporting “The words “51st state” weren’t uttered in the public part of this meeting, but #Trump referenced the idea multiple times.” Unfortunately my March piece about the vapid nonsense that #Trump spouts about #Canada is still painfully relevant. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The “51st State” and Perpetual Motion Have Something in Common: Sane People Don’t Talk About Them

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 8m

“An enduring & singular icon of cinema since her Oscar-winning turn in 1977’s Annie Hall – which her director, writer, co-star & former boyfriend Woody Allen based heavily on her own life – #Keaton starred in some of the key movies of the last half century” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... #RIP

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 18h

“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.”
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living.

"As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."

www.huffpost.com

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks!

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks. It’s a remarkably photogenic province that tends to get overlooked. One day at lunch at a seafood restaurant we heard a local tell some European tourists that PEI and Nova Scotia get most of the tourist trade - and the locals are perfectly fine with that.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1h

Gotta love that unbearable tension. My interest in Pynchon has been reinvigorated by some of the pieces surrounding that new movie; I may have to embark on Mason & Dixon for the very first time.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 2h

“As the pace of #privatization picked up in the 21st century, the idea of “ #neo-feudalism” or “ #techno-feudalism” began to interest scholars and theorists—#JoelKotkin, #JodiDean, #RobertKuttner, and #YanisVaroufakis, among others.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Feudalism Is Our Future

What the next Dark Ages could look like

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

He is. He popped up a few years back in a Sally Potter movie - The Party. I hadn’t seen him in anything for a long time and I’d kind of forgotten him, but he did a great turn in that movie.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, that does sound like a lot of fun. Thanks!

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, expectations so often do interfere with one’s engagement with books - as they do with so many other things.
I wasn’t aware of that book; it does sound interesting. Thanks for engaging, and for promoting the thread. It’s much appreciated.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 3h

Reading inspiration:
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 7h

What’s everyone #reading this weekend?
#books #BookSky

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

It’s great to have cinematic memories like that. I was hitting the art-house cinemas in Toronto pretty heavy in those days - I believe I saw The American Friend five times in fairly rapid succession.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

Cool! Both great titles. Thanks for responding.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

For some reason it took me decades to see that one, but I finally had the pleasure courtesy of the Fox Theatre last summer and it’s been floating around in my head ever since.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll have to check those out. I loved the way Berlin looked in Win Wenders’ Wings of Desire.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

Such a great publisher. Enjoy!

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4h

Autumn Moose
Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe
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cathyburrellauthor.bsky.social @cathyburrellauthor.bsky.social · 6h

I stopped at the Penticton Public Library yesterday to get a library card and saw this! #BookSky Where are the celebrations? Parades? Fireworks? #CanadianAuthors

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 10h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.