Stéphane Lachance
@lachstep.com
Helping make TV happen. Everything I say is my fault and my fault alone.
Rolled credits on Metroid Prime 4. It’s… an uneven experience. It’s technically and visually impressive, yes. But enemies regularly fluctuate between jokes and health melters. Bosses are a big-ol‘ mixed bag. Most upgrades are variants of ˝Explosive˝ and the game pretends there’s a difference.
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Rolled credits on Metroid Prime 4. It’s… an uneven experience. It’s technically and visually impressive, yes. But enemies regularly fluctuate between jokes and health melters. Bosses are a big-ol‘ mixed bag. Most upgrades are variants of ˝Explosive˝ and the game pretends there’s a difference.
The surgically effective cold open of the Pluribus finale really has me on board that the show is an allegory for AI. Culture and history used as set dressing when needed, to be stuffed into a database when it’s not, all for the sake of efficiency.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The surgically effective cold open of the Pluribus finale really has me on board that the show is an allegory for AI. Culture and history used as set dressing when needed, to be stuffed into a database when it’s not, all for the sake of efficiency.
You can smell Kevin Feige’s panicked sweats off of that teaser.
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You can smell Kevin Feige’s panicked sweats off of that teaser.
"Canadian Sim-Subing rules and VOD agreements saves US journalism" wasn't on my 2025 bingo card.
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"Canadian Sim-Subing rules and VOD agreements saves US journalism" wasn't on my 2025 bingo card.
If/When the 60 Minutes segment airs in the US, it's gonna be interesting to see the before-and-after.
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If/When the 60 Minutes segment airs in the US, it's gonna be interesting to see the before-and-after.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
The Donald J. Trump […] Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, you say?
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Donald J. Trump […] Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, you say?
The post reads like a foreign language unless you read it in the same tone a parent would talk to a toddler who successfully did their first potty.
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The post reads like a foreign language unless you read it in the same tone a parent would talk to a toddler who successfully did their first potty.
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Jesus H. Christ.
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Jesus H. Christ.
Broke - Falsifying WMD evidence to get Iraqi oil
Woke - Creating a fake WMD to get Venezuelan oil
Bespoke - Creating a fake WMD to get Canadian oil
Woke - Creating a fake WMD to get Venezuelan oil
Bespoke - Creating a fake WMD to get Canadian oil
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Broke - Falsifying WMD evidence to get Iraqi oil
Woke - Creating a fake WMD to get Venezuelan oil
Bespoke - Creating a fake WMD to get Canadian oil
Woke - Creating a fake WMD to get Venezuelan oil
Bespoke - Creating a fake WMD to get Canadian oil
The only clear conclusion here of MAGA people acting shocked that Trump, the most disrespectful human who regrettably still walks this Earth, is disrespecting another person, is that, for the first time ever, Trump has disrespected a person they regard as a person and not an NPC or less.
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The only clear conclusion here of MAGA people acting shocked that Trump, the most disrespectful human who regrettably still walks this Earth, is disrespecting another person, is that, for the first time ever, Trump has disrespected a person they regard as a person and not an NPC or less.
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Part of the reason why people like Matty Y keep insisting that leftists and folks from marginalized identities return to X — a platform which actively harasses, abuses, and mistreats them — is because American culture overly focuses on individual efforts over systemic changes and greater regulation.
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Part of the reason why people like Matty Y keep insisting that leftists and folks from marginalized identities return to X — a platform which actively harasses, abuses, and mistreats them — is because American culture overly focuses on individual efforts over systemic changes and greater regulation.
Frankly the Sherman case is the kind of case where "We're gonna use AI" or "We're contacting a medium" would result in the same reaction of "Sure. Fuck it, why not at this point." And apparently would deliver similar results.
Summarized here for people who are already groaning at the headline:
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
I asked AI to scan thousands of Barry and Honey Sherman murder case documents. Here’s what it told me I missed
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Frankly the Sherman case is the kind of case where "We're gonna use AI" or "We're contacting a medium" would result in the same reaction of "Sure. Fuck it, why not at this point." And apparently would deliver similar results.
It is a life well lived that everyone who's talking about Rob Reiner's career and the fact he was in the main cast of possibly the most important TV sitcom ever is, like, a footnote.
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It is a life well lived that everyone who's talking about Rob Reiner's career and the fact he was in the main cast of possibly the most important TV sitcom ever is, like, a footnote.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."
Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son: (Exclusive Sources)
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found after first responders were called to the couple's Brentwood home at 3:30 p.m.
people.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."
Bad news comes in threes and then stops, right?
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Bad news comes in threes and then stops, right?
It's TMZ official. My god...
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's TMZ official. My god...
You know when parts of your life intersect and your brain short circuits?
So they played music from Persona 3 at the Starbucks I was at.
So they played music from Persona 3 at the Starbucks I was at.
December 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You know when parts of your life intersect and your brain short circuits?
So they played music from Persona 3 at the Starbucks I was at.
So they played music from Persona 3 at the Starbucks I was at.
Coffeezilla just did a video about how the heads of prediction gambling markets do not like to be called gambling and also think insider trading could be good, actually. youtu.be/Gq3v-Y6cvLI?...
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Coffeezilla just did a video about how the heads of prediction gambling markets do not like to be called gambling and also think insider trading could be good, actually. youtu.be/Gq3v-Y6cvLI?...
Wings, the Montreal maker of those sauce packets and fortune cookies that I bet you've had if you've ever ate Chinese food in Canada, has closed. Radio-Canada goes to visit one last time.
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Wings, the Montreal maker of those sauce packets and fortune cookies that I bet you've had if you've ever ate Chinese food in Canada, has closed. Radio-Canada goes to visit one last time.
I’m not at all shocked. The whole thing about the Toronto-Ottawa segment is that it would pass through Peterborough and then traverse diagonally through Eastern Ontario where there isn’t any rails yet. That’s a big project.
That sound you hear is three million Torontonians saying WTF?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Montreal-Ottawa chosen as first leg of high-speed rail project | CBC News
The first segment of Canada's proposed high-speed rail network would connect Montreal and Ottawa, according to Radio-Canada.
Federal Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon is expected to make the announc...
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’m not at all shocked. The whole thing about the Toronto-Ottawa segment is that it would pass through Peterborough and then traverse diagonally through Eastern Ontario where there isn’t any rails yet. That’s a big project.