tupalev
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LOTR, retro games, toys, sports, ttrpg, music and beer talk here. I mostly just repost nonsense.
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Man, even some of my favourite content creators are using gross AI in their thumbnails and videos now. That has been a 100% auto block and unfollow for me up until now but at this rate, I'm not going to have anyone left to follow. Folks I have been following for almost 10 years. Really disappointing
December 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Man, even some of my favourite content creators are using gross AI in their thumbnails and videos now. That has been a 100% auto block and unfollow for me up until now but at this rate, I'm not going to have anyone left to follow. Folks I have been following for almost 10 years. Really disappointing
Anthony always has the best analysis when it comes to the Leafs - and today’s article is spot on as to what is currently wrong in Leafland (and what could possibly fix it).
Thoughts on the Maple Leafs as we hit the Christmas break, from Auston Matthews' play, to the coaching staff, to contemplating paths forward through to the trade deadline, and more: mapleleafshotstove.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Maple Leafs at the Christmas Break: An Organization in Turmoil, the Matthews Mystery, and the Paths Forward Ahead of the Trade Deadline
Christmas time is here, although the mood is anything but merry right now for the Toronto Maple Leafs. They officially sit second-to-last in the Eastern Conference as of this writing, and their overal...
mapleleafshotstove.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Anthony always has the best analysis when it comes to the Leafs - and today’s article is spot on as to what is currently wrong in Leafland (and what could possibly fix it).
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Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
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Not that anyone likely cares, nor does it really matter, but I finally (probably a couple years too late) pulled the plug on Twitter, and will be posting here exclusively. It felt like when my local mall started dying--except with more bigots, creeps, and the bad kind of weirdo.
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not that anyone likely cares, nor does it really matter, but I finally (probably a couple years too late) pulled the plug on Twitter, and will be posting here exclusively. It felt like when my local mall started dying--except with more bigots, creeps, and the bad kind of weirdo.
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The frisbee dog at halftime just completed the longest reception of the Bills-Steelers game.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The frisbee dog at halftime just completed the longest reception of the Bills-Steelers game.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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I just set up a recruiting profile for my 14 year old soccer playing kid - that doesn’t make me feel old or anything 🤣. Anyway, he plays soccer at a really high level - pass the link along to any school contacts you might know, ty. my.sportsrecruits.com/athlete/patr...
Patrick McCauley's Soccer Recruiting Profile
Watch Patrick's recruiting video • 2029 • Defense • Ottawa TFC • Russell, ON • Mature, athletic, responsible 14 year old with a passion for soccer. Recognized as a leader and future captain material ...
my.sportsrecruits.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I just set up a recruiting profile for my 14 year old soccer playing kid - that doesn’t make me feel old or anything 🤣. Anyway, he plays soccer at a really high level - pass the link along to any school contacts you might know, ty. my.sportsrecruits.com/athlete/patr...
It’s that annual time of year where I am contrasting where I was a week ago during deer hunting to where I am now, at work. I don’t mind my work at all but it can’t compare to watching the sun come up while hanging out in the woods.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It’s that annual time of year where I am contrasting where I was a week ago during deer hunting to where I am now, at work. I don’t mind my work at all but it can’t compare to watching the sun come up while hanging out in the woods.
“Icicle Kick” - that’s funny. I’m not sure the Canadian Premiere League could have asked for a better marketing opportunity for their championship game! That was fun to watch. Congrats Ottawa! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Canadian Premier League final: Atletico Ottawa's 'icicle kick' lights up blizzard-hit final
Atletico Ottawa win the North Star Cup with an
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Icicle Kick” - that’s funny. I’m not sure the Canadian Premiere League could have asked for a better marketing opportunity for their championship game! That was fun to watch. Congrats Ottawa! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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About every half hour today, one of my brain cells says “Hey, should we think about that Blue Jays game at all?” and then all the other ones go “NOPE” and beat the first one to death.
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
About every half hour today, one of my brain cells says “Hey, should we think about that Blue Jays game at all?” and then all the other ones go “NOPE” and beat the first one to death.
Let’s just go win it next year instead. What a ride. Jays for life. Congrats Dodgers.
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Let’s just go win it next year instead. What a ride. Jays for life. Congrats Dodgers.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
In was a teenager the last time the Jays did this. I went to my first game at old Exhibition stadium when I was 4 in ‘79. And I know how much this will mean to my folks who are diehard fans. Exciting times! Go Jays!
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In was a teenager the last time the Jays did this. I went to my first game at old Exhibition stadium when I was 4 in ‘79. And I know how much this will mean to my folks who are diehard fans. Exciting times! Go Jays!
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There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
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Before corporations had to choose whether to rip off artists or destroy the planet. Now thanks to AI Data Centers they can do both simultaneously
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Before corporations had to choose whether to rip off artists or destroy the planet. Now thanks to AI Data Centers they can do both simultaneously
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall
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I lose faith and trust in people I consider friends when they send me videos from garbage people and say things like: "You HAVE to watch this. This person is such a JERK."
And I'm like... no. I won't. And you shouldn't either. WTF is wrong with you? You know they're doing it on purpose.
And I'm like... no. I won't. And you shouldn't either. WTF is wrong with you? You know they're doing it on purpose.
July 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I lose faith and trust in people I consider friends when they send me videos from garbage people and say things like: "You HAVE to watch this. This person is such a JERK."
And I'm like... no. I won't. And you shouldn't either. WTF is wrong with you? You know they're doing it on purpose.
And I'm like... no. I won't. And you shouldn't either. WTF is wrong with you? You know they're doing it on purpose.
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This is the most Canadian man I have ever heard
June 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is the most Canadian man I have ever heard
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There is nothing more disappointing than seeing what looks like a cool TTRPG project then you dig a little into it and all the art is "supported by Midjourney/AI"
If you can't be bothered to make it I can't be bothered to invest in it ✌️
If you can't be bothered to make it I can't be bothered to invest in it ✌️
June 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
There is nothing more disappointing than seeing what looks like a cool TTRPG project then you dig a little into it and all the art is "supported by Midjourney/AI"
If you can't be bothered to make it I can't be bothered to invest in it ✌️
If you can't be bothered to make it I can't be bothered to invest in it ✌️
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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I first published this cartoon 5 years ago today. I find it quite depressing how "of the moment" it feels today.
June 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I first published this cartoon 5 years ago today. I find it quite depressing how "of the moment" it feels today.