Toronto Will
@torontowill.bsky.social
Cat lover, Trekkie (FoD), NE Patriots fan, video game enthusiast.
Professionally: lawyer.
Professionally: lawyer.
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Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee https://theonion.com/cat-follows-man-through-apartment-like-racist-walgreens-employee/
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee https://theonion.com/cat-follows-man-through-apartment-like-racist-walgreens-employee/
I can’t remember a more perfect hour of television than the series premiere of Pluribus (Apple TV). I’m tempted to stop watching, and just leave it where it ends, it’s be my favourite movie of the year at 60 minutes.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I can’t remember a more perfect hour of television than the series premiere of Pluribus (Apple TV). I’m tempted to stop watching, and just leave it where it ends, it’s be my favourite movie of the year at 60 minutes.
People will ask their friends to help them move, but here's a lifehack: ask your enemies instead. They'll be at your door at dawn with a dolly to see your ass out of town.
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
People will ask their friends to help them move, but here's a lifehack: ask your enemies instead. They'll be at your door at dawn with a dolly to see your ass out of town.
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To be clear I bet Altman thinks promising everybody money is how you become “too big to fail” when in fact it will be “too small to tear into enough pieces”
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
To be clear I bet Altman thinks promising everybody money is how you become “too big to fail” when in fact it will be “too small to tear into enough pieces”
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COUNT I
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
COUNT I
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
Apropos of nothing, I've kept receipts on Wired's gritty investigative journalism of the rampant fraud and dishonesty that pervades AI hype.
At Wired has found a way to be useful covering politics, because their tech coverage of AI is vomit inducing.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Apropos of nothing, I've kept receipts on Wired's gritty investigative journalism of the rampant fraud and dishonesty that pervades AI hype.
I don't know which Google executive needs to hear this, but please stop making the AI voice sound human. You've taken so many wrong lessons from Star Trek, can you please take a right one. The computer voice is smooth, monotone, unemotional, unmistakably machine. It isn't a disembodied dude bro.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I don't know which Google executive needs to hear this, but please stop making the AI voice sound human. You've taken so many wrong lessons from Star Trek, can you please take a right one. The computer voice is smooth, monotone, unemotional, unmistakably machine. It isn't a disembodied dude bro.
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like where do they think the robot fucking learned it anyway??? theft machine 4.0 didn't fucking invent grammar ????
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
like where do they think the robot fucking learned it anyway??? theft machine 4.0 didn't fucking invent grammar ????
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
From Windows to Linux 🧵 -- going to start a running thread with some of my thoughts and experiences, as a Windows power-user who is experimenting with Linux-based OSs. The pros and cons I've discovered along the way have surprised me.
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
From Windows to Linux 🧵 -- going to start a running thread with some of my thoughts and experiences, as a Windows power-user who is experimenting with Linux-based OSs. The pros and cons I've discovered along the way have surprised me.
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The gunpoint-robbery that looted a local bank stretched the bounds of property law, say some police officers.
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The gunpoint-robbery that looted a local bank stretched the bounds of property law, say some police officers.
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I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.
The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
futurism.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.
The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
The commercials for Tron: Ares are the worst I’ve ever (?) seen for a movie with a marketing budget that large.
October 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The commercials for Tron: Ares are the worst I’ve ever (?) seen for a movie with a marketing budget that large.
It's apparent from the messaging of Democratic leadership, they think if they just point how ineffective Trump is at "kitchen table" policy stuff, swing voters will come rushing back. Except really it's an attitude problem, voters crave strong leadership. Dems make things even worse being spineless.
Consultants trying to moneyball politics tell Dems they lost the middle because of "kitchen table issues", like OT pay, "toughness" on crime, etc. A big problem is that the data is rotten, voters cannot be relied on to explain the "why" of their vote. Politics is emotion, and Dems are dogshit at it.
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It's apparent from the messaging of Democratic leadership, they think if they just point how ineffective Trump is at "kitchen table" policy stuff, swing voters will come rushing back. Except really it's an attitude problem, voters crave strong leadership. Dems make things even worse being spineless.
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The rationalizations are so familiar to me, as someone who used to follow esports and fight with people on Reddit about it. The “what about” comparisons are never with things that are similarly state-sponsored. This is barely one-step removed from being a paid spokesperson for the Saudi regime.
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The rationalizations are so familiar to me, as someone who used to follow esports and fight with people on Reddit about it. The “what about” comparisons are never with things that are similarly state-sponsored. This is barely one-step removed from being a paid spokesperson for the Saudi regime.
"Don't speak ill of the dead". If not now, then when?
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Don't speak ill of the dead". If not now, then when?
I'm begging sports reporters to use words like they have meaning. Hint: a "conflict of interest" requires conflicting interests. It's when you wear two hats, and your obligations under one hat conflict with your obligations under the other. This Brady thing involves *complementary* interests.
Tom Brady in Raiders coach’s booth sparks questions about conflict of interest with FOX
There’s been plenty of questions about whether Tom Brady will be able to be both FOX’s No. 1 broadcaster and minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders.
www.masslive.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm begging sports reporters to use words like they have meaning. Hint: a "conflict of interest" requires conflicting interests. It's when you wear two hats, and your obligations under one hat conflict with your obligations under the other. This Brady thing involves *complementary* interests.
Good news for the Browns? There's been a JJ McCarthy-type injury (to JJ McCarthy)
If there'd been a JJ McCarthy-type injury this preseason (young QB), I bet someone would've traded for Sanders. But no such luck for the blundering Browns, they have to waste two extra roster spots on backup QBs to avoid admitting their idiotic use of draft picks.
September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good news for the Browns? There's been a JJ McCarthy-type injury (to JJ McCarthy)
Add to the list of Perplexity Pro being given away, so they can book it as full price revenue: also in Canada, to all Bell mobile and internet subscribers. Bell is a top 2 telco, for internet alone it has nearly 5 million subscribers. If you know anything about Bell, you know they wouldn’t pay.
At this point, it's clear that it's impossible to build a profitable company around generative AI. Perpelxity spent 140% of its 2024 revenue on AWS, OpenAI and Anthropic, and winning that revenue requiired $27m in refunds. These are not good companies.
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![What If It Isn't Possible To Make A Profitable AI Company?
Replit CEO Amjad Masad told The Information this week that he doesn't believe that prices for models will ever come down, and when pressed to explain how exactly it would turn a profit, he had little to say other than "uhhh, people will pay for it":
Replit is betting it can make its coding app so convenient and easy to use that it can pass the higher costs to customers and they will endure it because they won’t need to hire as many engineers, he said. (Replit earlier this summer raised its prices for people who use its product the most.) And that will help solve Replit’s profit margin challenges, he said.
“[O]ur bet is that enterprises will continue to want to pay a premium for a product like ours because of the convenience we bring to the organization,” he said.
Just so we're clear, his argument is that he'll charge customers more, and they'll find Replit so useful that...they'll pay more?
Replit's pricing is also odd, splitting user inputs into "simple requests" that cost a fixed 25 cents, then "complex builds" that cost "more than 25 cents but reflect the total effort involved," before saying that "transparent pricing shows you exactly what you're paying for each completed task," though not what said pricing is or how it is calculated, outside of "edit requests" that cost $0.05 each.
It seems that Replit's pricing strategy appears to be "obfuscate as much as humanely possible in the hopes users burn a lot of money," such as charging a user $350 in one day, and even then it can't seem to turn a profit. The Information reports that Replit's post-price-increase margins had increased to 23% (as of July), but these margins didn't include the cost of running AI models for its free users, which have become an expensive marketing channel for any AI Software-as-a-Service company.
This, worryingly, seems to be an industry-wide problem, outside of OpenAI.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreihngmnyh7h3j2ap76eaces7z727tyt5bd2sv53mqefxbyrr5cvwma@jpeg)
September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Add to the list of Perplexity Pro being given away, so they can book it as full price revenue: also in Canada, to all Bell mobile and internet subscribers. Bell is a top 2 telco, for internet alone it has nearly 5 million subscribers. If you know anything about Bell, you know they wouldn’t pay.
I'm dying at the iPhone shoulder strap that lets you carry your iPhone like a detective's pistol. It's real, I just saw it on the official stream, they really made it. They made the "thinnest iPhone ever" and gave it a shoulder strap.
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm dying at the iPhone shoulder strap that lets you carry your iPhone like a detective's pistol. It's real, I just saw it on the official stream, they really made it. They made the "thinnest iPhone ever" and gave it a shoulder strap.
The MNF theme is such a bizarre genre mash. Phil Collins song covered by a guy in a cowboy hat and long scraggly beard (or just lip synced? Sounds a lot like Phil). Then Snoop Dogg shows up for some fucking reason, and is gone again just as quickly.
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The MNF theme is such a bizarre genre mash. Phil Collins song covered by a guy in a cowboy hat and long scraggly beard (or just lip synced? Sounds a lot like Phil). Then Snoop Dogg shows up for some fucking reason, and is gone again just as quickly.
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
I'm tired of these insulting, inaccurate references to AI as a "toaster". It grossly understates AI's energy consumption, efficiency at evaporating water, and propensity to ruin things. AI is a microwave.
September 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'm tired of these insulting, inaccurate references to AI as a "toaster". It grossly understates AI's energy consumption, efficiency at evaporating water, and propensity to ruin things. AI is a microwave.