Deputy Visuals Editor, photo and video, The Globe and Mail Sci-fi, F1, tech, space, etc pdell @ globeandmail . com https://xitter.cf/t.co/nvHXGDwtl2

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined July 2008
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A few hours ago, Meta released the world's most advanced segmentation model: SAM 2. And people have been busy executing god-like tasks with it. The 11 most mind-blowing examples:
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Today Russia bombed a Children’s hospital in Kyiv, I’m at the scene and the devastation is horrific
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I’m very sad to read that Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88. I don’t have many celebrity stories, but I do treasure my spectacular interactions with Donald in the summer of 2015. Please do read on. (1/16) theglobeandmail.com/arts/fil…
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Searing from ⁦@nvanderklippe⁩ on Ramadan in Gaza. “Food has been in such short supply that the rituals of Ramadan brought little change. ‘With or without Ramadan, we fast. We eat only one meal a day.’ He has lost 40 kilograms since the war began.” theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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ngl, I almost cried when totality was reached.
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This week, my wife and I are celebrating our anniversary. My parents ordered us a very practical, thoughtful gift on Amazon: a crockpot and a crockpot cookbook. We're thrilled. There's just one minor issue: I'm pretty sure the cookbook was written by an AI... 🧵
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Patrick Dell retweeted
Recognizing AI-generated images is getting harder. But @globeandmail Visuals Editor @patrickdell has a few tips on what you should actually be looking for… cjf-fjc.ca/keep-truth-human #KeepTruthHuman #aimisinformation #medialiteracy #aigeneratednews #journalism #journalismmatters
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“I want to extend, on behalf of the London Police Service, my sincerest apology to the victim, to her family, for the amount of time that it has taken to reach this point.” — London police Chief Thai Truong
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Patrick Dell retweeted
Introducing Lumiere 📽️ The new video diffusion model we've been working on @GoogleAI * Text-to-Video * Image-to-Video * Stylized Generation * Inpainting * Cinemagraphs and more 🎨 W/ amazing team incl. @hila_chefer @omer_tov @InbarMosseri @talidekel @DeqingSun @oliver_wang2
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Join @DaliaMHashim, @patrickdell, @CharlieBeckett and moderator @Hermida as they answer the question, “How can journalists and news organizations effectively build and maintain trust and confidence in the media amid #misinformation in the age of #AI?" live.vvc.ca/?register=659ec5…
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Sudanese-Canadians board evacuation flight from Khartoum theglobeandmail.com/world/vi…
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Large police presence on Wellington Street for Biden’s visit.
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Shopify Inc. is dabbling with artificial intelligence by introducing a new product-description tool much like ChatGPT for its e-commerce platform, joining a chorus of global companies striving to cash in on the buzz surrounding the fast-growing technology. theglobeandmail.com/business… – at Toronto, Ontario
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Tentative deal #onted
OSBCU 2022 Bargaining Update # 47| Négociation du CSCSO 2022 - Mise à jour no 47 - Important Member Update #OntEd #OnPoli mailchi.mp/230862c8c208/osbc…
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CUPE to file 5-days notice to strike. From Educ Minister @Sflecce: "We are disappointed that only a few short days after talks restarted, CUPE has filed notice to once again shut down classrooms." He says govt put forward "multiple improved offers" that were "rejected." #onted
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How the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier came to mean so much to Canadians and Remembrance Day
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Education workers: ‘We neglect ourselves… and that’s gone for far too long’ theglobeandmail.com/canada/e…
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