Jokers are wild... 🃏

Game Changer Season 8 premieres May 18th only on Dropout.

Me posing with a League Cups champion playmat

I finally won a League Cup again :)

Be sure to read the whole thing.

Zarude
D - Overhead Throw 30
This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
DDD - Shadow Whip 100+
If any of your Benched Pokémon has any "Shadow Darkness Energy" attached to it, this attack does 70 more damage.

Chi-Yu
D - Spiralling Envy 20+
If this Pokémon has 2 or more damage counters on it, this attack does 90 more damage. Don't apply Weakness for this attack's damage.

Dark Bell
(Item)
Both Active Pokémon (except any Darkness type Pokémon) are now Confused.

Mega Darkrai ex
DD - Night Raid 110+
If any of your Benched Pokémon have any damage counters on them, this attack does 110 more damage.
DDD - Abyss Eye
If your opponent's Active Pokémon is affected by any Special Condition, it is now Knocked Out.

Shadow Darkness Energy
(Special Energy)
As long as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides 1 Darkness Energy.
Prevent all damage done by your opponent's attacks to the Benched Darkness Pokémon this card is attached to.

First post-rotation weekend went well, got top 2 and top 4 at two Cups with Zoroark. It's insane so much more fun I'm having using Trade compared to basically anything else in the format (and in most formats, honestly).

The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.

With rotation happening today, I wanna share this poem I wrote for my main deck in the past years. =) #PlayPokemon

Extract from the TCG Tournament Rules Handbook: "In single-elimination top cut matches, the higher-seeded player in the single-elimination bracket has the choice of going first or second in Game 1 of their match. This decision is made at the same point during setup that the coin flip would take place."

The TCG Tournament Rules Handbook has been updated. Going forward, in top cut of tournaments (including League Cups), players don't flip a coin to choose who goes first. Instead, the higher seed chooses if they go first or second in game 1.

PETITION CONTRE LA LOI YADAN ⬇️

Cette loi criminaliserai toute critique envers le sionnisme et donc c'est la porte ouverte à encore plus de répression pour les militant.e.s proPal qui sont déjà dans les viseurs

petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

(by "goodbye" I obviously mean "see you in Expanded")

Played my only event of the month, a League Challenge in Paris, because I wanted to play Gardevoir one last time before rotation. I took Henry Chao's Houston list and went 4-0 (8-0 in games).

Goodbye Gardevoir and thanks for all the points! 🫡

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view, according to the company. The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday. At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud, and would wind down the Sora AI video mobile app, which employees had complained was a drag on the company’s computing resources during a time of heightened competition with foes such as Anthropic and Google.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I'm glad you liked it!

On va parler aujourd'hui de la colorisation d'images historiques par intelligence artificielle générative.
Encore un long 🧵 pour les plus courageux d'entre vous.

Je suis fatigué que n'importe quel idiot fasse systématiquement n'importe quoi en brandissant #IA comme totem d'immunité.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:

The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

The trolley problem in two panels. trolley is approaching a switch. on one track is the roadrunner; there is nothing on the other track. standing to the side holding the lever is the coyote. In the second panel the coyote has thrown a switch and the trolley has moved sideways off the tracks and has run over the coyote. the Road Runner stands there going MEEP, MEEP!

Trolley Problem

Cette enquête de @mediapart.fr est exceptionnelle.
Elle confirme l'immensité des mensonges qui ont été proférés par la droite pour glorifier un pur nazi (dont le RN a expliqué qu'il «était de sa tribu») - et pour salir de façon abjecte la gauche antifasciste et insoumise.
bsky.app/profile/medi...

Patrat
Ability: Watchful Eyes
Damage counters on a Pokémon (yours or your opponent's) cannot be moved to another Pokémon.
C - Bite 10

Special Red Card
(Item)
You may use this card only if your opponent has 3 Prize cards or fewer remaining.
Your opponent shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If your opponent put any cards on the bottom of their deck this way, they draw 3 cards.

Keep Android Open Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for!

keepandroidopen.org

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

We had our regular pre-new-standard-set Expanded night on Monday! There were 13 players and I think 11 different archetypes

Check out this thread for every list!

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

we have reached the “Nazi medical experiments” stage of our concentration camp effort