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This Week in Dulture…
Approx 5 minute read:
🛍️ Canada’s favourite American mall
😡 Elon + Trump = feud
⌨️ Artificial AI
📽️ The last destination
Dulture weekly mix
With this week’s mix what you need to do is get outside. Take your phone, grab some headphones, turn on YouTube and listen as you walk down the street.
Also you’ll have to keep your phone unlocked to listen to the whole thing so good luck with that.
🎥 Most Viewed NETFLIX This Week
If it wasn’t for Amazon we’d all still enjoy shopping in person.
Ok, maybe there’d be another online store that would still turn us into impatient, materialistic slaves to the internet.
Aside from our obsession with online shopping, malls just aren’t the exciting, loitering place they used to be.
<INSERT CHART ON MALL FOOT TRAFFIC DECLINING>
(too lazy to scour the internet for one, but you get the point)
If you’re Canadian, you might remember the days of travelling to the US just so you could shop in stores we didn’t have - American Eagle, Pac Sun, Target…heck I had Cheesecake Factory for the first time in the states at the mall below.
Or simply just go because it was cheaper.
And before the days of outlet malls, Canadians had the Walden Galleria.
If there was ever a doubt Drake wasn’t from Toronto
Back in the day, the Canadian shopping pilgrimage always ended at the holy mecca that is the Walden Galleria. In fact, if you were ever nervous when border officers asked you what you had to declare, you did real good at the Walden Galleria.
These days the mall isn’t doing too good though. Earlier this week it was reported that the company that owns the Walden Galleria defaulted on their $270M loan from Wells Fargo and foreclosure / bankruptcy proceedings have begun.
What does this mean for the mall? Probably not a whole lot in the meantime. Although those tariff things probably haven’t inspired a whole lot of Canadians to cross the border to hit the Galleria as of late.
My American Scarborough Town Center
The Most Powerful Man on Earth vs The Richest Man on Earth
If you’re like me you just read headlines and you move on - quite possibly how you read this newsletter, as example.
I had heard about the weirdness going on with Elon and the Whitehouse as of late - dude being potentially high while standing with the president, showing up with a black eye, and reeeeeally starting to have a problem with the proposed spending plans by the US government.
But I was only headline reading so I didn’t think much about any of it nor did I really care as I’m not American and therefore American politics are more so entertainment than anything else to me.
So I’m scrolling on Twitter yesterday and I come across…
And of course I immediately go down the rabbit hole, and just last week there’s this:
Followed by…
Then the two of them did a mini press conference in the oval office where Trump said what a good job Elon did, blah blah blah.
And then…
And then Elon just kept tweeting like he normally does about stuff. I mean adding $5T in debt to an existing $37T debt is a pretty bad thing buuuuut, Trump didn’t think so.
Trump holds a press conference saying him and Elon had a great relationship but maybe not anymore, in response to Elon’s comments about this spending bill thing.
Blah blah blah, some back and forth…and then!
Elon’s officially angry. Trump fires back 2 hours later:
And then they go back and forth a couple more times and then THIS:
And it’s kinda been quiet-ish ever since…at least between the two of them. The internet on the other hand, well let’s just say it was a good day to doom scroll…
And my favourite LOL…
AI that was anything but ‘Artificial’
Nowadays there’s an AI tool for practically anything you need done.
Want a website built? There’s an AI for that.
Want a trip itinerary curated? There’s an AI for that.
Need an app built? There was apparently an AI for that except it was 700 coders in India doing the thing.
Builder.ai was dubbed as the place to go to get an app built for you using AI. According to their website, they could build ANYTHING.
Anyone = a team in India
Except Builder got caught. Firstly about lying about the revenues they were making and then subsequently about their app building solution.
To their users making requests, it looked like an AI was sending them code back but behind the scenes it was a team of 700 software developers writing the code and sending the requests back to users.
Annnnnd now Builder is filing bankruptcy.
Kids, don’t do what Builder did - just copy someone’s work instead.
Final, Final Destination?
Here’s something that will blow your mind - the first Final Destination film was in 2000!
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
Bruh - it feels like Final Destination came out like a few years ago.
25 years of unlucky deaths
It’s crazy that it’s been 14 years since the last one - why’d they wait so long?
Truthfully the films have all become a blur in my mind. I want to say I’ve seen all of them but have I really? The franchise feels a bit like if you’ve seen one of them you’ve seen them all…
…kinda like all of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s films.
So anyway - I watched the latest one. I forgot these films are actually quite clever, and I don’t just mean the creative ways in which people die. Who knew an MRI machine could really do that to you - I won’t spoil it but the MRI scene is nuts.
The film does a great job in creating the classic filmic trope of foreshadowing. Something that you may or may not notice as a quick cut becomes much more important to the story line later on in the film and you’re caught nodding your head in approval with the series of “Ohhhhh yeahhhh” moments.
In terms of acting and story, it’s nothing to shake a stick at - it’s a classic Final Destination film, modernized for today’s audiences, full of the gore you’ve now come to be de-sensitized to given what’s available on the internet.
The film that made log trucks famous
But it’s a good time if you’re looking for something that makes you think a little (really, not that much) while creating a whole new paranoia around your own demise. I’d recommend the film if you’re just looking to get to the theatre and want to watch something that makes you react as you watch - some of us need this from their movies.
Also this couple brought their 5 yr old kid to basically watch heads legit get squashed - what are we doing here people??
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