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RoderickMacDonald.com / Problem solver in health care, cancer, longevity, marketing / Growth at a pharmacy in Canada 🇨🇦 / Husbanded 🏳️‍🌈 / Words are mine / and in PLOS.org

a recipe card outlining how to prepare belgian woorstebroodjes with puff pastry
A sketch of a house on a yellow canvas. The sky is painted blue.
An oval pyrex dish in a form fitting wicker basket
A microwave panel that has a "Bever." option
A delivery tracker for a package from tandy leather delivered by canada post. The delivery time is friday, Feb 20 and there is a label near the bottom that implies the delivery is carbon neutral with a little leaf and light green frame. The package is in transit, with a little delivery truck image to humanize the interface
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Four small paintings of houses in progress
Four small paintings of houses. All unfinished in various stages, from sketches to fully colour blocked
Four small paintings. The top two are colour blocked and the bottom two are sketched. All images of homes
A yellow house in the style of folkish painters like Maud Lewis. Only colour blocked without greens or details
A graph showing the average price of gasoline in Canada, Ontario and Alberta over the past 10 years
So far this year, according to Silicon Valley Bank, 58 percent of all VC investment has gone to AI companies. There aren’t a ton of obvious pure-play investments available to retail investors—another criteria for pumping up a bubble—but there are some big ones. Nvidia is at the top of the list, having staked its future on building chips for AI firms, and becoming the first $4 trillion company in history in the process. When a sector is seeing a lot of pure plays, according to Goldfarb and Kirsch’s framework, it’s more likely to overheat and have a bubble. SoftBank has plans to sink tens of billions of dollars into OpenAI, the purest AI play there is, though it’s not yet open to retail investments. (If and when it finally is, analysts speculate that OpenAI may become the first trillion-dollar IPO.) Investors have also backed pure-play companies such as Perplexity (now valued at $20 billion) and CoreWeave ($61 billion market cap). In the case of AI, these pure-play investments are especially worrying, because the biggest companies are increasingly bound up with one another. Nvidia just announced a $100 billion proposed investment in OpenAI, which in turn relies on Nvidia’s chips. OpenAI relies on Microsoft’s computing power, the result of a $10 billion partnership, and Microsoft, in turn, needs on OpenAI’s AI models.
a screenshot from a doordash grocery store showing the 'Bakery' section, which features 3 different Taco Bell kits for making tacos and crunchwraps at home
MAGA: No No Not that part of the bible
netanyahu grimacing
someone with a spoon loosening the nut that holds the sink strainer in the bottom of a steel sink
Doug ford pours a bottle of crown royal whiskey on the ground in front of a "protect ontario" podium
A painting of trees against a dynamic sky
Blistered shishito peppers with some olive oil and flaky salt in a metal bowl
a corner soaker tub with a brown couch beside it. it maybe be upholstered or leather, can't tell
a grey cat with green eyes gazes with specific intent at the camera
A goofy black dog with orange eyes looks at the camera as she rolls on her back on astroturf
A grey cat with green eyes stares at the camera. She sits on a desk between the viewer and a laptop that is clearly trying to be used for work
meme template of bart saying the line "israel has the right to defend itself"
VICKS' Painquil, from the makers of nyquil and dayquil
a butt and some feet clothed in black cloth pokes out from beside a couch in a scene from scary movie where the killer is hiding in the house
A bottle of antacids that expired in 2019
Your muted words: epstein in text & tags
a 'bowl' of assorted piles of ingredients (avovado, sliced eggs, corn, red onion, green ionon, tomatoes, cheese, chicken)
an 'acai bowl' with assorted fruits on it
“We are seeing a segmented market,” he said. “Between $650,000 and $900,000, that market is slow, and for those in the $1 million plus, it also seems to be moving reasonably well. Article content “It’s almost like those people are tariff-proof and not afraid of losing their jobs or the economy.”
A landscape painting of a mountain and a road and trees in the foreground
A pair of green plastic kitchen shears from starfrit that are connected to their cardboard backing by thick white zip ties, nearly impossible to cut safely without scissors
bluesky muted words showing "tapper" and "jake tapper"
A screenshot from a weather app that shows london Ontario at 26 celcius and a heat warning
Two laptops on a desk. The left is on microsoft teams, the right is on bluesky
"Three steps to flatten out bulging lumps of your area rug" with pictures
A leopard labeled spotty kitty
Two columns of text interspersed with some graphic images reading "what's a man woman rat human? Women are much like small men they are rodents...closer? And a or a and a more than"
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A mural of breadcat lurks in the shadows of a delivery dock behind a white delivery van
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110 profile viewers and 2296 post impressions
105 profile viewers and 1000 post impression. a screenshot from linkedin analytics
a woman with short white hair and glasses uses a laptop in what appears to be a bakery on an ad for surveymonkey. the text reads: "Power real results for your business"
A very fancy magic mushroom store
screenshot from a delivery app. the driver's name is manmeet
a grey cat with green eyes stares lovingly at the camera
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angry (but cute) pomeranian
a screenshot of a wikipedia preview on Rachel Corrie that reads: "This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. Wikipedia"
A toilet covered in very frilly red and white lace. A 3 piece set from temu canada. A ring of fine mesh nearly a foot long drapes from the edges on the bowl.
a basic black and white page that currently occupies the LCBO website, with a basic logo at the top. it reads "Service Unavailable Our site is temporarily unavailable while we remove U.S. products in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. Our in-store customer service remains unaffected. Thank you for your patience and understanding."
"Don't Get Lost" written on a container used to hold road sale on the side of a road behind some industrial buildings across the tracks from the train station in London, Ontario
"GIFE IDEA. Very good gift options can be given to your relatives and friends" below an image of an umbrella