BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The feeling of not mattering, of going through a whole day without anyone really seeing you, sits closer to the surface than most people let on. Jennifer Breheny Wallace has spent years studying this. In her new book Mattering, she frames it as a gap: the distance between how…
Marvel Studios isn’t playing it safe with the long-awaited X-Men reboot. Recent comments from writer Lee Sung Jin suggest that Marvel is aiming for a fresh start, one that won’t be tied down by the previous X-Men films and will instead embrace bold ideas and a new creative direction. While discussing the project, Lee revealed…
Social media users are cuttin’ UP after Chris Brown announced the “clothing theme” for his and Usher‘s upcoming tour. RELATED: Standing On Business? Diamond Brown’s Recent Social Media Message Has Internet Users Strongly Divided & Mentioning Chris Brown Chris Brown Announced The “Clothing Theme” For His & Usher’s Upcoming Tour On Tuesday, June 16, Chris Brown…
Calgary-based Showpass plans to buy university campus engagement platform Bounce, expanding its presence into the university market. The news: The agreement between the Queens University-founded Bounce and Showpass, Canada’s largest domestic live event ticketing platform, was announced on Tuesday and is expected to fully close later this month, according to Showpass CEO Lucas McCarthy. McCarthy…
The news: Canadian non-profit organization Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE), on behalf of the pension plan of the United Church of Canada, had called on Shopify to pledge that it will respect human rights and align with international standards when using AI. At Shopify’s annual general meeting on Tuesday, shareholders voted to reject…
Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere is seeing more interest from potential customers after the US government blocked access to Anthropic’s latest large language model. The news: Cohere chief AI officer Joelle Pineau told Bloomberg Tech host Ed Ludlow on Monday that enterprise and government customers want control over a predictable tech stack, and that the US…
More than 30 years after The Mask became one of the defining comedies of the 1990s, fans are still hoping to see Jim Carrey slip back into the iconic yellow suit one more time. While there was a follow-up film, Son of the Mask, released in 2005, it featured neither Carrey nor original director Chuck…
Last week, Fellow employees gathered at their annual company summit to share drinks and revel in their latest milestone, only to be surprised by 200 drones displaying their logo above the heart of Ottawa. The enterprise meeting assistant startup had gone all out to celebrate hitting 5,000 customers, gathering its employees to witness the drone…
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ~Karl Lagerfeld I used to think I was a good listener. I could hold eye contact, nod at the right moments, ask thoughtful follow-up questions. But one afternoon, sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a small studio in Rishikesh, I realized I had never truly…
Oligarchs owning vast tranches of the US media is Orwellian since they control the narrative that inform swathes of the electorate. Larry Ellison owns Paramount and CBS, soon possibly Tik Tok and CNN. Jeff Bezos the Washington Post. Mark Zuckerburg Facebook and Instagram. Lachlan Murdoch Fox News. Musk Twitter/X. Ellison, 17 August 1944, a New…
