Just watched a clip of Poilievre talking about Charlie Kirk, who killed him, and why. And it was not very different from what Trump says: blaming the authoritarian, violent left. It's an ideologically warped distortion field. Pierre may be worried about the leadership review. Or he might believe it.

And naturally, once this technology is out there, it's a ticking time bomb until someone jailbreaks the filters and turns this into a full-blown deepfake porn generator to be used against your enemies or colleagues or classmates. So not only is it useless for good, it's a nuclear bomb for bad.

There's no possible useful use case for this. They're picturing making wholesome JibJabs for grandma, but the reality out of the gate is just going to be "high school bullies making realistic deepfakes of the kids they don't like doing embarrassing/depraved/illegal things"

Why, on God's green earth, would I ever upload a 3D likeness of my face and voice to a software so that strangers could make deepfakes of me.

Mass market paperbacks were the very best book form humanity has ever invented and it’s a travesty and a crime against the book-reading public that they have disappeared.

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

I don't even feel sad or super mad at this point? Just like... deeply irritated

What if, hear me out, the blue jays hit a ball that didn't hit the ground before reaching the dirt

Just noticed the Mariners have holographic belts. No wonder they're winning

Alfonso Marquez was involved in the umpiring crew when the ball went off Choo's bat in Game 5 in 2015....

If the hitter thinks he’s struck out that should be an auto strike three

Listen I don't like getting heated about balls and strikes so early in the game... but if the batter and pitcher AGREE?! You done fucked up, Doug

Oh honey, no it's not

Leroy has adjusted surprisingly well to being denied his bedtime snack routine (what I previously would've called his "entire reason for being") He meows at the bedroom door for a bit when the other kitties are getting theirs, then after like 3 minutes he just settles into the bed and accepts it

They'd better find the white panel batting helmets by tomorrow

I love a middle aged dude wearing his hat inside out 🩵 we are the same

"Jeff Hoffman is up in the bullpen" Is it possible to blow a save for the other team?

FLUUUUUUU

GO AWAY RANDY

Randy Arozarena will be haunting my dreams when I'm 60

I will NEVER tire of scorebug jokes

I mean it's easier to ask your starter to get himself out of a situation if you have A MULTI-RUN LEAD

LIterally exactly how it got fucked up against the Mariners last time. Pull Gausman when you maybe shouldn't, put in a shit lefty.

Ooh, THERE’S the PTSD

Ffffffffffffffff

Don't let this guy settle in. Run up his pitch count.

Lol, lmao even

AHHHHH no stop showing it in slow mo

FIRST PITCH SPRINGER DINGER LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

Who is harassing the sweet Yesavage family I will FIGHT THEM

Ice, ice, Trey-by

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

The Yankees did the same thing to Ken Griffey Jr. when he was a kid. In the incident, the white players were allowed to have their children at practice but he was told to leave. He vowed never to play for the Yankees even if they were the only team offering him a job.

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context "Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

After all the antivax rhetoric and demonization of the Covid vaccine guess who got the booster.

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Spent 30 mins chasing him around the room at 3 a.m. today, trying to wrestle a pill into his mouth with much difficulty. But he was purring the whole time and when I finished he hopped right into the bed with me and curled against my leg. Good to know he doesn't take it personally?

ALDS Game 4 🐦⚾️🧵

The patient is home!!

this is just a pilot project, but it's also an acknowledgement from Toronto city council that we need alternatives to policing bsky.app/profile/grap...

Oooooh this might be needed

Buck was right. #bluejays #lwantitall

THE BEST

"[the yankees] fucked it up, didn't they?" - Buck Martinez

Buck loves the Blue Jays with such relentless ferocity that it makes me teary sometimes. We don't deserve him

Yankees had a 8.47 ERA in the ALDS. That's the worst ERA in any single postseason series in franchise history.

When he was with the Mets he hung out in their team store before the Pride Night game and bought a bunch of Pride merch for people! I adore him