Mitch Pollock
@mitchpollock.bsky.social
Producer and music hot take-haver for Q on CBC. Overly competitive rec curler. Currently running two different campaigns of Gloomhaven.
Special chat with Big Jim himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_j...
James Cameron says AI will never replace actors and artists in his films
YouTube video by Q with Tom Power
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December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Special chat with Big Jim himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_j...
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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Feels like the frog/pot of boiling water thing, but the water is boiling as soon as the burner is turned on.
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Feels like the frog/pot of boiling water thing, but the water is boiling as soon as the burner is turned on.
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Surprised how many people are still giving their money to Spotify.
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Surprised how many people are still giving their money to Spotify.
If their goal was to get this going viral because it's the musical equivalent of the Key and Peele Football Player sketch, well then it was a grand success. thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus
One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster. ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If their goal was to get this going viral because it's the musical equivalent of the Key and Peele Football Player sketch, well then it was a grand success. thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
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BREAKING: The New York Post has learned Dylan Cease to Blue Jays. $210M, 7 years
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
BREAKING: The New York Post has learned Dylan Cease to Blue Jays. $210M, 7 years
WE ARE SO BACK
BREAKING: The New York Post has learned Dylan Cease to Blue Jays. $210M, 7 years
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WE ARE SO BACK
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
I am 100% the only producer who pitches wrestling guests for Q, so it was a DELIGHT to produce this one with Nattie Neidhart! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSB...
How Nattie Neidhart revolutionized women's wrestling
YouTube video by Q with Tom Power
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November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am 100% the only producer who pitches wrestling guests for Q, so it was a DELIGHT to produce this one with Nattie Neidhart! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSB...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better
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Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.
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psst reminder to book your appointments for flu and covid shots if you haven't already. just do it right now it takes two seconds ok xoxo
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
psst reminder to book your appointments for flu and covid shots if you haven't already. just do it right now it takes two seconds ok xoxo
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Age yourself with gaming.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Age yourself with gaming.
Every bit of this resonates right now. Dammit Barry.
Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...
Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector
Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Every bit of this resonates right now. Dammit Barry.
Can someone hijack those “Blue Jays World Series Champ” hats before the get sent off or burned or whatever?
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Can someone hijack those “Blue Jays World Series Champ” hats before the get sent off or burned or whatever?
Definitely not looking at the lead IKF had on third over and over again this morning…. 😭😭
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Definitely not looking at the lead IKF had on third over and over again this morning…. 😭😭
I love the Blue Jays. What a team. Absolute devastation. But will remember the run forever. I love baseball, baseball is extremely dumb.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I love the Blue Jays. What a team. Absolute devastation. But will remember the run forever. I love baseball, baseball is extremely dumb.
I love baseball. Baseball is the worst.
Believe it or not, Giménez's ball had an expected batting average of .710. Classic bloop, read as such by both runners. Great read by Kiké, great jump, slightly bad baserunning, Game Seven.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I love baseball. Baseball is the worst.