Physiotherapist, ex- football player now coach, foodie, video game enthusiast and hardcore sports fan
Montreal, Qc
Joined March 2007
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Michael Pilon retweeted
0.1% of people know anything about Offensive Line Play.
Don't waste your time arguing with the other 99.9% of people.
But, when the 0.1% speaks... listen & learn.
This post and most of its replies just confirms that most people who watch don’t bother to try and learn football properly. Not on the OL!!
Michael Pilon retweeted
Tech bros will look you in the eye and tell you they're saving civilization in between recommending doping your way into a numb marriage and having AI read books to your children in your voice
Michael Pilon retweeted
This Bixi NIMBYism is beyond ridiculous.
More Bixi means less car rides; which means safer, calmer streets.
thesuburban.com/news/city_ne… #polmtl
Michael Pilon retweeted
I have kids in their 20s who are somewhat reluctant to participate in the world, and it’s not hard to see why. We’ve blown up community and authority and truth and fun. Good job, politicians and tech bros and maxxxers and bots.
Michael Pilon retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Michael Pilon retweeted
thrilled to announce we have built the “trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine” from the classic sci-fi horror novel “don’t build the trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine”
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
Michael Pilon retweeted
I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Michael Pilon retweeted
“Overall, AI, along with social-media and smartphone use, has contributed to a drop in reading skills worldwide, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”
incredible + sobering story in @WSJ wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-ge…
Michael Pilon retweeted
Housing, homelessness, healthcare, dilapidated schools, underfunded public transit, trade war with an unstable U.S. president, cost-of-living crisis…
I’m glad to see a future Quebec government will be focusing on priorities again.
PQ promises to ‘abolish the office’ of lieutenant-governor
montrealgazette.com/quebec-e…
Michael Pilon retweeted
From our perspective here in Canada, what's equally mind boggling is that Americans elected Trump twice. That's why we don't think relations will come back to what they were before Trump after he leaves.
It is genuinely mind boggling to watch Donald Trump turn around and brand Canada, our closest neighbor and one of our oldest friends as 'one of the worst countries in the entire world,' simply because they stood their ground and matched his aggressive tariffs dollar for dollar.
How did we get to a place where we are actively escalating an economic war against an ally that has had America's back for generations, while simultaneously claiming we get along better with authoritarian regimes? It feels entirely backwards, if not completely reckless. Threatening our closest neighbors and treating a sovereign ally like a misbehaving territory isn’t some masterclass in negotiation; it is the needless, painful destruction of a vital relationship we cannot afford to lose
Michael Pilon retweeted
Give the big boys some love 🥞
The @BuffaloBills O-line is beautiful to watch @InsideTheNFL
Michael Pilon retweeted
I love that they still think it’s only about his looks and media literacy.
The policies are working! Look at crime! Look at housing! Universal preschool extended to any child 2 and older! Potholes filled! Snow shoveled! Rent frozen! Budget balanced!
“Mamdani is one of the most popular politicians on planet earth right now,” said GOP operative Chapin Fay — “Everything that comes out of his mouth I stand against, but he’s good looking, he knows how to operate the media.
You need a good villain to run against in politics, and he’s just not a good villain.”
This was a “win your clunkers” game. Let’s burn the jerseys to remove the memory and never speak of this one again #BillsMafia
