Jake
@stuffjakelikes.ca
Former unofficial non-beer-affiliated global leader for attending CFL games fast. Fat vegan cat-dad and human-uncle. I like Nintendo, Star Trek, not being evil, and so on.
Pinned
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February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Guess how tired I am? WRONG I'm more tired than that
December 11, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Guess how tired I am? WRONG I'm more tired than that
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My hot CFL rules take is that the league made a mistake by reducing the endzones to 20 yards, and would have been better off reducing the field to 100 yards instead.
[February 12th, 1986] The CFL governors will review eight rule changes next week, four of which alter the look of the game significantly. These proposals include moving kickoffs to the 35-yard line and reducing end zones to 20 yards.
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
My hot CFL rules take is that the league made a mistake by reducing the endzones to 20 yards, and would have been better off reducing the field to 100 yards instead.
Here's what I'm struggling to understand: if you're SO "low-information" that you're surprised to learn things like, e.g., "Donald Trump wants to deport a lot of immigrants"... how are you even aware that there's an election going on, or how to vote in it? And why would you even want to?
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Here's what I'm struggling to understand: if you're SO "low-information" that you're surprised to learn things like, e.g., "Donald Trump wants to deport a lot of immigrants"... how are you even aware that there's an election going on, or how to vote in it? And why would you even want to?
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Hmmm. Louder then.
Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Blocks Brody King From AEW Dynamite Following "F*ck ICE" Chants
Brody King was absent from Wednesday night's episode of AEW Dynamite, and it reportedly wasn't a Tony Khan decision not to have him on the show.
cultaholic.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Hmmm. Louder then.
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Subway is a bowling alley. We’re not out selling sad-looking footlong subs at highway rest stops with no other options.
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Subway is a bowling alley. We’re not out selling sad-looking footlong subs at highway rest stops with no other options.
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The IOC has banned Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing. A decision that came 45 mins before the event.
Heraskevych was using a helmet that honoured his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.
Here are the details: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Heraskevych was using a helmet that honoured his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.
Here are the details: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics over banned helmet | CBC Sports
Heraskevych came to the Olympics with a customized helmet showing the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches who were killed during the war, a conflict that started shortly after the 202...
www.cbc.ca
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The IOC has banned Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing. A decision that came 45 mins before the event.
Heraskevych was using a helmet that honoured his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.
Here are the details: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Heraskevych was using a helmet that honoured his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.
Here are the details: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Getting really fed up at work having to constantly argue with an LLM via an annoying human intermediary.
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Getting really fed up at work having to constantly argue with an LLM via an annoying human intermediary.
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it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
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the problem with AI “journalism” is that, as I discussed in this piece, LLMs eventually come up against the constraint that they know only what is legible to the digital. vast swaths of global happenings aren’t digitally legible and will remain so. only human reporters can describe those events.
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
February 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
the problem with AI “journalism” is that, as I discussed in this piece, LLMs eventually come up against the constraint that they know only what is legible to the digital. vast swaths of global happenings aren’t digitally legible and will remain so. only human reporters can describe those events.
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9 months in, "peeby jeeber" has yet to become the widely accepted term for a pb&j. keep calling your representatives
unreasonably annoyed at the variance in slice thickness in this loaf of bread. look at the state of my peeby jeeber, dawg
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
9 months in, "peeby jeeber" has yet to become the widely accepted term for a pb&j. keep calling your representatives
I never liked hockey anyway
February 10, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I never liked hockey anyway
Fool me 999,999 times, shame on you. Fool me a million times, shame on me.
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's name appears in the unredacted Epstein files “more than a million times.”
The post Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
February 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Fool me 999,999 times, shame on you. Fool me a million times, shame on me.
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When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
The rare Intentional Streisand Effect
Matt Kalil is suing his ex-wife because she told the world that his hog is way too big www.startribune.com/former-vikin...
Former Viking Matt Kalil sues ex-wife Haley Kalil over viral interview about their sex life
Matt Kalil, the No. 4 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, is suing Haley Kalil, a social media influencer and former Miss Minnesota, for invading his privacy. She has filed to have the suit dismissed.
www.startribune.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The rare Intentional Streisand Effect
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
Olympia (1938)
What’s the last broadly popular piece of culture that has modern conservative premises at its heart? I really genuinely have trouble thinking of what it could be.
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Olympia (1938)
chat is this good?
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
chat is this good?
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Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly?
That’s what talent is like.
That’s what talent is like.
In my experience, talent is a *detriment* to learning.
I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)
I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!
I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)
I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!
I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark
talent alone could *never*
talent alone could *never*
February 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly?
That’s what talent is like.
That’s what talent is like.
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LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
I kind of want to get some smart glasses for the specific purpose of capturing footage of my kitties, but I assume I can't order them without quite rightly being put on a watch list.
February 7, 2026 at 5:20 AM
I kind of want to get some smart glasses for the specific purpose of capturing footage of my kitties, but I assume I can't order them without quite rightly being put on a watch list.
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Trump Defends Racist Video As Racist
February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Trump Defends Racist Video As Racist