Colby Cosh

@colbycosh

Columnist for the National Post (est. 1998). [email protected]

Planet Zontar (Edmonton, AB)

Joined December 2008

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National Post@nationalpost · 9 h

'His manager’s no-nonsense daughter Sharon Arden, explicitly sent to America to extract whatever commercial value was left in Ozzy, married him — and started assembling a formidable empire around him' nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-…

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National Post@nationalpost · 14 h

Colby Cosh: The tortured vulnerability of Ozzy Osbourne nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-…

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · Jul 25

A crucial point about human abilities, which I emphasize in my intro psych lectures: In AI, the "hard problems" (in this case, acrobatics) are easy, and the "easy problems" (doing useful things with objects) are hard.

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · 1 h

This must be like having a gunfighter come to your town and overhearing him talk about how the next person he's going to shoot is you

cclara@leclercsletters · 8 h

max said his battle tomorrow (no matter the conditions) will be with charles. 📷: @Planet_F1

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · 3 h

I have a high appetite for STEM snobbery, despite my arts degree, but it would take work to find anything stupider a person could possibly say

XXMT@metal728x · 9 h

You will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"

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Formula 1@F1 · 14 h

LANDO NORRIS TAKES POLE AT SPA!!! 🤩 Oscar Piastri finishes just behind his team mate while Charles Leclerc is third quickest 👏 #F1 #BelgianGP

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Céspedes Family BBQ@CespedesBBQ · Jul 26

amidst this overwhelming waterfall of Nick Kurtz fun facts I'm somehow especially stunned by this very simple one: scoring 6 runs in a game is apparently even more rare than hitting 4 homers in a game via @Stathead, this is only the 9th time in MLB history it's happened

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ESPN F1@ESPNF1 · 14 h

Lewis Hamilton relegated to P16 after a track limits violation and he is out of qualifying ❌

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · 18 h

Oscar didn't fight Max too hard there. He's a calculator.

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Formula 1@F1 · 18 h

LAP 1/15 Verstappen takes the lead! He's charges past Piastri on the Kemmel Straight to lead into Les Combes #F1Sprint #BelgianGP

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · Jul 26

#that fanbase putting asterisks on anything

jjust max productions (Hou Chronicle contributor)@jmproductionsyt · Jul 26

cartoonishly large asterisk on this one lol

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Calgary Weather Records🌤@YYC_Weather · Jul 24

🥇With a high of just 10.9°C, yesterday was #Calgary's coldest Jul 22nd since records began in 1884. #YycWx #YYC #ABWx

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Jomboy Media@JomboyMedia · Jul 26

Nick Kurtz has three home runs and 15 total bases tonight

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · Jul 26

This amounts to saying "I did nothing wrong, really; if only others shared my profound sense of compassion."

CChris Selley@cselley · Jul 26

Because of the horrors in Gaza, dude felt "moral urgency" to vandalize a Holocaust memorial? Interesting. ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article…

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Colby Cosh@colbycosh · Jul 26

Well, duh, I've been trying to tell everyone about Space Madness for decades

NNational Post@nationalpost · Jul 26

There is a serious side effect to going to space, NASA says nationalpost.com/news/there-is-…

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National Post@nationalpost · Jul 25

Read the full text of the judge's verdict in the Hockey Canada sex assault trial nationalpost.com/sports/hockey/…

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