Mary Lacroix
@marylacroix
Toronto person with a bike and a computer. I have an attention span – it’s just not very evenly distributed.
My copy just showed up in Toronto today! Canada Post refused to tell me when to expect it, but I didn't lose faith.
I remember walking up this street early in the morning after a sleep study and being confronted by what was eventually revealed to a genuine sculpture rather than a hallucination. I love it so much.
I just saw this AI slop in my feed, reposted by someone who is generally very sharp and observant. What's especially sad is that my turn to make this mistake is probably coming soon.
It's also the second visual result in Google's AI Overview when you search for "shoulder anatomy".
Look, it's been almost 15 years since somebody left a chocolate doughnut in my mailbox. The culprit is still at large. You learn to live with the lingering dread.
It's a very nice read. Have you ever seen the parody entry for June 31? music.hyperreal.org/artists/bria...
Option 1: Look around you. Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? 2: Hold a sturdy pair of closed kitchen scissors at the non pointy end and attack it with the pointy end.
I hunted down the zoo's Facebook account, where they explained that the deer and the rhino were raised together. The little deer was being territorial, and the rhino treated the challenge as play. www.facebook.com/share/r/1GYK...
I have a @tomlevenson.bsky.social quote from 2016 Twitter taped to the shelf above my desk. "I think I wrote like crap today and I couldn't be happier: hit my quota and, more important, moved the argument forward. Pretty comes later."
According to my Shazam, it starts with a backing track from the Pop Music Workshop (YouTube channel dates back to 2020) but it can't pull up anything to match the vocals. A YT search shows two hits credited to Gonzalez and a totally different act. My guess: spammed and miscredited AI slop.
Well, my timeline is telling me to go out for a nice walk right now.
This excerpt from Shroff's article shows ChatGPT reassuring her colleague when they appeared apprehensive about carrying out a blood offering the chatbot had already described in great detail. 4/4
My Fantastic Four (adjusted for the exchange rate and the gender gap).
OMG I remember that skit. I think his only line was a robotic, repeated, "Thank you, nurse", followed by a quick peck on her cheek. Great swimmer, not an actor.
One typo in the fake aphorism (missing apostrophe) yields a totally different result.
Weirdly enough, searching "la chatte" skips "cat" altogether and offers "pussy" instead, which is inadequate and still quite ambiguous. I agree that these Google results are a bit of a dog's breakfast, but several reputable dictionaries also list both innocuous and vulgar versions, as they should.
Hey, Québecoise ex-librarian here, who is NOT going to yell at you. I understand that you'd prefer not to see only vulgar translations, but at least in Canada, Google is serving up "cat" as the first translation for "chatte", followed by the vulgar slang. Is this not showing in your search at all?
This is the "Vote early" page for Davenport. It lists the local election office at the top, but scrolling down shows all early poll locations. voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...
Your selection takes you to the electoral district page. This is what the Davenport page looks like. Select the "Vote early" link. voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...
To find advance polls for the #ontario election, start here and select your riding / electoral district.
I just tried this (Canada, Chrome on iOS) and it did better on Eraserhead, but wimped out on everything else.
I've got replies, reposts, and quote posts turned on in my Following feed right now, but maybe this is a good time to turn some or all of that off. (Ironically, I don't follow you, but you were reposted into my skyline, so here we are.)
I put a hold on Oathbreakers a couple of weeks ago with the Toronto Public Library, via Libby. At that time, there were over 100 people ahead of me. I just got notified today that a copy was available after the library bought additional copies to meet demand. Ask for the books you want!
A really nice pastry restaurant in our neighbourhood never got the business needed to keep going. A Vietnamese restaurant took over shortly after, modifying the original sign so that the swan now cuddled a nice bowl of pho.
I couldn't see the bears video, but I did catch the monkey on roller skates, with legs that kept switching positions (right/near transmogrifies into left/far).
They were more common than you think in the late 70s/80s. My collection is mostly from the UK, but you can see some Canadian and US 45s as well.