Andrea Bellemare
@dreabells.bsky.social
Freelance producer doing stuff at CBC Sports & CBC Radio. Previously at This Hour Has 22 Minutes & CBC News. Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.
I was looking at apartments earlier this year and the number of AI enhanced photos makes it really hard to tell what is real and worth checking out. defector.com/ai-listings-...
AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting Even More Debasing | Defector
I started reading Valley of the Dolls for the first time the other night. It opens in 1945, with Anne Welles landing in New York and securing a job as a secretary at Henry Bellamy’s theatrical agency....
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I don't know if Rubberz is made by AI, but I do know it is the worst song I've heard this year futurism.com/artificial-i...
Rapper Denies That His Billboard-Charting Song Is AI-Generated
The LA-based rapper Fenix Flexin is denying that his new single "Rubberz" is AI-generated after a producer called it out.
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I’m sure it’s happened before but I can’t recall a candidate winning a statewide nomination while being outspent ~9:1
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 11h agoUnfathomable
UEFA boycott feels like a natural and opposite reaction to the FFE news but comes with fascinating implications for the women's game - next FIFA competition is U-20 Women's World Cup (begins Sept 5) - WCQ resumes in Oct with Women's World Cup boycott potentially looming over the matches
The lengths & effort that civil society & individuals had to go thru to get this result. What a groundswell of mobilization.
"According to the senior official, 87,000 people participated, with 80 per cent of responses coming from the City of Toronto, and a further 15 per cent from the region. Among those who participated, 87 per cent opposed any changes to the airport."
Andrea Bellemare@dreabells.bsky.social · 2w agoHeck yes!!!!! Toronto Islands are one of the best parts of the city, thus would've ruined them www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Heck yes!!!!! Toronto Islands are one of the best parts of the city, thus would've ruined them www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion
The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.
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Can't believe this is the thing that's gonna take my job
Andrea Bellemare@dreabells.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy yes, I would like to try your new dish of braided chicken fingers. How did you get them so twisty?
Why yes, I would like to try your new dish of braided chicken fingers. How did you get them so twisty?
Odysseus and his crew get off the ship on a beautiful island, head inland and see bags of Taylor Farms shredded iceberg lettuce, stretching to the horizon -- FUCK IT BACK TO THE SHIP--
That there looks like a good ol' human-powered ratio to me
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 2w agoDarren Aronofsky Raising Cash For His AI Film Studio (Exclusive)
Ok this is my fav Odyssey post so far
Anthony@frattaro.li · 3w agoMy sea wine dark, my dawn rosy fingered, my goddess Athena, Ithaca in 20
Me when I say I'd love to hear the sirens song because surely I won't jump off the ship
italian beef 8:40 “too early” AM “italian beef” legal sandwich jail sandwich lawyer Chicago
I think there’s probably a few papers to be written about how microeconomists changed pricing dynamics for the worse in basically every sector they’ve ever touched. Moving competition in retail away from cost plus pricing and volume to rent seeking price discrimination is bad.
AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w agocompanies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
I'd like to coin a new law: The more you try to optimize and human interaction, the fewer interactions you'll have at all
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2w agowe're so cooked www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
Trump is mad Canadians aren't buying American booze, among other things www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump to hit Canada with new 50% tariff | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neigh...
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Bonkers that so many jobs want full stack content production skills (write, shoot, edit, publish, on-cam) and pay just 70k
It's so dark in Toronto from wildfire smoke that the streetlights are on in the park, and cars have their headlights on.
Absolutely awful conditions in Toronto today between the wildfire smoke and the 26C that feels like 36C
Absolutely terrifying video and yet with the classic Canadian understatement
Jules Sherred (he/him)@geekyjules.julessherred.com · 3w agoKid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Telemundo refers to David Beckham as Spice Boy, mentions that Timothée Chalamet brought luck to the Knicks but may not be so lucky with France
Spain is not letting up, even though that was offside, stunning pressure
