It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Children’s Aid fired three workers after 12-year-old boy’s harrowing death, Ontario murder trial hears This prosecution is shining one hell of a spotlight on what look like some egregious systemic failures in Ontario’s child protection systems.

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

There is some serious class action potential with OpenAI and the other LLMs. Not least because these products straight up can’t do many of the tasks they advertise and charge (exorbitantly) for. But also, the suicide. abc7news.com/post/openai-...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Why is the maple leaf black on the hockey sweater?

yup

Ross Douthat right now:

Really, really smart catch here from the Star's Marco Chown Oved. Is it a good idea for Ontario to be subsidizing household electricity to the tune of ~$8 billion a year? That's a lot of spending to hide the true cost of our hydro bills. www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Hi, it’s me. A 39-year-old man, driving alone in literal tears at Melvyn Bragg’s introduction to a podcast about the moon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

I'm apprehensive that this may be the most controversial thing I've ever said on this website. But here goes. Off I step. Into the breach. ... This season of Slow Horses was bad.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.

Distributing a fake nude of your spouse is ‘morally reprehensible’ — but not a crime under Canadian law, Ontario judge warns

A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me

I wanted this so badly as a child

Similar to the Nazi group chat semi-apology responses, I think it is remarkable that the “Groyper” war is being framed pretty exclusively in terms of antisemitism, while the racism is unremarkable for them.

We live in the golden age of ripping off vulnerable, kinda horny seniors. Really great and sympathetic reporting here from @calvileon.bsky.social

CMB seems like a very solidly good NBA player, which has got to be a home run for a rookie in, what, his seventh game? There’s like 2-3 of those guys in year one in a good draft.

I think he genuinely thinks this is what asylum seeker means

The pitch clock should be a lesson to other sports leagues that rule changes that speed up the game have the potential to be massive wins for fans, with zero downsides. (Looking at you, NBA, with your too many timeouts and your interminable fourth quarter intentional fouling strategies.)

Also stop saying the better team lost. Yesavage, Hoffman and Bieber hung breaking balls and dodgers crushed them. Jays made running mistakes. Yamamoto shoved. I get the sentiment but the jays created opportunities but didn't finish job. That's baseball.

The boy turned 4 and a very nice friend bought him a cool Dragon Blocks set for his birthday, ages 6+, and let me tell you those instructions are not even close to 6+. This thing is hard.

So close. Centimetres.

The Jays lose the World Series in one of the greatest baseball games ever played

pretty interesting ballgame they've got going on tonight

Yamamoto is like when you get past the final boss and there is an even bigger boss waiting.

Yamamoto on zero days rest, what a pitcher

PSA: if your feed is out, go to www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!!! (Re-sign everyone, Rogers, and run it back.)

He should be in consideration.

Vlad is playing easily the best defensive first base I have ever seen.

Goddamn, the defence.

Trey Yesavage, who famously was pitching to his fellow third graders at recess in Miss Reynolds's class just five months ago, is entering to pitch in Game 7 of the World Series

Love Ernie Clement so much man, that was some league of their own posing there

I trust Bassitt. Best bullpen guy they’ve had all playoffs.

Not a swing, but you take it.

Make this inning legendary, Max.

That is some defence. Ho ly.

That’s the catch you dream of as a kid, playing in the park

It was nuts to bring Ohtani back for that inning. Bichette absolutely smoked that ball

God, I love these broken, injured professional ballplayers.

third inning for ohtani feels like a mistake

A guy who is older than me should not be able to throw a fastball as good as Max is throwing right now.

That should probably be Ohtani’s last batter

Ohtani is trying to scrape his way through three innings. Jays just can’t let him get away with it.

Ohtani is trying to scrape his way through three innings. Jays just can’t let him get away with it.