crappy iPhone photo I took during a night game at Fenway park when the sky was about to rain down on us

sometimes the Earth hates me, but I always love them

Honestly there need to be less seminars and workshops on AI adoption and more on ethics and etiquette

Do: Use AI to check grammar and tone of the email you wrote; if you want to.

Don’t: Let AI generate the email for you. AI writing is incredibly long winded and you would be incredibly rude to expect recipients to take the time to read an overly long email that you didn’t take the time to write

The issue with someone admitting they use ChatGPT to write interpersonal messages is that now I have zero way to know if 2% or 99% of it is actually their own thoughts and words. It just destroys trust in a way autocorrect or spellcheck doesn’t.

Trump’s Fed Chair Nominee Fails the Big Test The senators grilling Kevin Warsh didn’t cover themselves in glory either.

Trump's nominee for Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, had his confirmation hearing yesterday. He needed to answer 2 questions:
1) Is Trump’s criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) What would Warsh do if Trump threatened retribution against *him* as well?
He couldn't answer 1. Wasn't even asked 2.

Is it Mark Carney or is it AI | CBC News That’s a question thousands of Canadians who receive a letter back from Canada’s prime minister may be asking in the not-too-distant future as the government contemplates a plan to replace some of the...

‘They will need some sort of quality control and editorial function," [Wernick, former Privy Council clerk] said. "But it is not like the first drafts produced by human staff were perfect.”’
Perfection is the wrong standard for assessing the use of genAI to answer constituents’ correspondence.

This is a terrible idea, not (just) because of accuracy concerns, but because it further isolates officials, including the PM, from actual Canadians, and vice versa. It’s a sign of disrespect to voters and citizens, and it reduces the exposure of Official Ottawa to Canadians’ concerns and fears.

It’s much, much worse than simple form letters, because everyone understands that form letters are impersonal. The goal will be to make it sound like the PM is actually writing the letter, because that’s what genAI is used for. That’s a deception. Bluntly, this tech is designed to trick Canadians.

Posts by an elderly man in his 40s

My Rheumatologist scheduled my appointment for 6:45am, which turns out to be amazing because there is no traffic and easy parking

Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’ Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case

How does a law firm that bills $1,000 to $2,000 an hour submit AI generated legal documents that no one reviewed?

The amount of blatantly shoddy work being delivered in the name of AI adoption is quite embarrassing.

Private jet Ontario bought for Ford's travels could have used only 10% of province's airports | CBC News The $28.9-million private jet the Ontario government purchased — and Premier Doug Ford has now committed to sell — would only have been able to fly in and out of about 10 per cent of recognized airpor...

Ford's "Challenger jet would only have been able to use 19 of Ontario's 179 operational airports based on the distance it needs to take off at its maximum weight and the length of available runways." (And of those, nearly all have regular commercial service.) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Weird how Doug Ford just Keeps Showing Up in cases of random Ontario corruption and self-dealing elites, like in this story about a construction union head who got the union to buy him a 4-million dollar home.

Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8363bd6...

(via @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social)

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

(Published Nov. 2025)

JEFF HOFFMAN UPDATE:
- comes into the 9th with a cozy 4-1 lead
- "nice three-run cushion to get the save and get back on track"
- "his underlying analytics are still-"
- single
- HBP
- HBP
- single
- replaced(!!) by competent reliever Louis Varland who promptly ends game with a double play

Alex Call and Teoscar Hernández collide. Photo by Ezra Shaw

how can you not be romantic about baseball

Cleated Rivalry.

One pitch. Ridiculous.

Like, if you were going to script a closer controversy, this is exactly how it would go.

Meanwhile, #Bluejays have won three straight after going 7-13.

Last year, #Jays went 7-13 in Apr/May and came out of it with four straight wins on the way to the division title.

“There is no donor class lobbying for disabled children’s access to the public school down the street. There is only a Premier’s calculation of which parents she needs and which she does not.”

It’s Not Me, It’s Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School You know that friend who keeps dating the same kind of terrible person? The one who swears each new partner is different, and then six months in you’re hearing the same complaints about the s…

Hate me today

Hate me tomorrow

Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you

deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/i...

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Alberta announces move to 1950s time EDMONTON — After weeks of speculation, Alberta’s United Conservative government has announced that the province will be moving to the 1950s on a full-time basis. “Many Albertans just aren’t comfortabl...

Alberta announces move to 1950s time

Either 1) they read it and thought is was excellent or 2) they read it and thought it was bad but worth a shot. I am not sure which is worse

Generative AI can write you a below average grant proposal. congrats.

Yes, you can get generative AI to write your grant proposal for you.

But should you?

You were interviewed by Doug Herbert who is in Kamloops!

The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism | The Tyee A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.

A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

Having integrity matters, and it should be condemned as shameful when someone willing sets it aside for career gain.