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Jeff Veillette

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Hockey In Paranoid Times "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you are uncool" (Pronounced: vey-yet)

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · Nov 14

Everyone accidentally following me for the first time on here

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. Idiocracy, not skynet

Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 6h

Jays should have Dave Steib throw the first pitch at Game 1 so @jonbois.bsky.social viewers have to pick a side

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 7h

You can leave feedback to MLS about their AI recaps here: www.mlssoccer.com/feedback/rec...

MLSsoccer.com - The Official Site of Major League Soccer

All the latest MLS news, scores, stats, standings and highlights. Plus special coverage of US Soccer and Canada Soccer.

www.mlssoccer.com

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 7h

Truly atrocious piece, too. Screencapping so you don't have to give them the traffic.

Literally just an emotionless, robotic summary of the game sheet, with a note telling us that they couldn't even bother getting an editor to skim it

The race to the bottom is such garbage

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 22h

The wish we were wrong more is just to the general fact they’ve been lacking an ability to move north at a top level for like 8 years now

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly probably still like Atlantic 2-3 because the division is bad and/or injured, but I can see a lot of different scenarios going down and based on what we’ve seen so far I’m not optimistic for ones where they excel

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 22h

We wish we were wrong more, etc

SlimCliffy @slimcliffy.bsky.social · 22h

I suppose I’ll have to fire off the hot take, be brave, and say: having no elite puck-moving dmen with two-thirds of the blue line being average-to-awful at moving the puck is, in fact, not great

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 22h

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 22h

Through five periods, I know it's early, but this is the least inspiring Leafs team of the era. They do not look good. They look like they need Stolarz to be stellar + coin tosses to go their way to win. I'd be a little worried right now

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 23h

Calle Jarnkrok really doesn’t want to hear the trade speculation anymore eh

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 1d

Got a few nice messages from people who listened to this and they’re appreciated. Tbh I thought I was a little rusty but glad it didn’t come off that way

I’m open minded to doing more of these sorts of cameos throughout the year, but who knows if there’s still demand for that

Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 4d

Always fun to preview the Leafs season with Matt. Spoilers: It’s a lot of “I think they’re just okay to pretty good, but we’ll see”, but I at least do my best to explain why along the way

Matt Robinson from Tall Can Audio @tallcanaudio.bsky.social · 4d

Another solid week of pints & pods rolls on as earlier on we had tons on the #BlueJays, the #CFL & the #PWHL.
Plus up now is our #Leafs season preview with our pal @jeffveillette.bsky.social.
Tomorrow @graemenichols.bsky.social is here to tee up the year ahead for the #Sens.
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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 1d

He just got e96, I'm tired

Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 3d

My buddy and I have been going back and forth trying to beat each others scores. Every time he tops mine it derails my push for Completionist++ but it’s fine

Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 1d

I hope every pitcher on the winning team's arm h*s d*scomf*rt that lasts around two weeks afterwards

static klinger @jessespector.com · 1d

hope we get like 15 innings tonight

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

My annual one pack. Any guesses to what player(s) end up inside?

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

The true AI doomsday scenario is literacy. It's people being unable to grasp what's real and what isn't, and people skipping creative skill development to let the models do everything for them. Less Terminator, more Idiocracy

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

Something that the media consistently fails to grasp with LLMs is that these companies *want* the AI-doomsday content out there. It makes their plagiarism bots seem more sophisticated and advanced than they actually are. They fundraise off the speculation, and will later sell fixes to fake problems.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no. This is in the discover feed now. Somehow even more embarrassing. We need an "opt out of Discover" feature

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

There's a $750 (still pricy but less so) consumer model too, I just grabbed the pro model because I'm assuming that's what he's using

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

CCM released anniversary Tacks last year, so probably those www.prohockeylife.com/products/ccm...

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, I know what you're thinking, but rest assured that Brandon Carlo is very tall.

NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 2d

FRASER MINTEN 🚨

He wins it for the /NHLBruins in /Energizer ooooooovertime! #NHLFaceOff

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 2d

I have never needed anything more in my life

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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