Patrick Dell

Deputy Visuals Editor, photo and video, The Globe and Mail
Sci-fi, F1, tech, space, etc
pdell @ globeandmail . com

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

.@globeandmail is holding a #photojournalism event in #Halifax on Wed, Oct. 8. We'll showcase our Underexposed photo essay series and discuss how The Globe approaches photojournalism. Register - https://t.co/4BXpES2Llm #photography #journalism

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump talks of using ‘economic force’ to annex Canada /via @globeandmail https://t.co/mbL3OFCNHy

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Excited to be guest on this week’s @BigIfTrueTVO, talking #deepfakes & fraud with host @MollyThomasTV and fellow panellist Marilyn Abate, Forensic & Fraud Risk Consulting at KPMG Canada.
Airs 8pm ET, Sunday Dec. 8 & the show will be posted on YouTube - https://t.co/7XJBIWP4I8

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Instead of making a TED-talk image with #Flux I tried a woman walking in a street, animated with #Kling. It's very good with fabric, hair and overall consistency. Some of the parked cars on the left in the video start to look iffy near the end.

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

The @internetarchive Wayback Machine was used in @globeandmail reporting on the Canada Soccer drone spying scandal to see unredacted documents which were posted by FIFA before being removed and replaced with a redacted version https://t.co/EVGlO7s22V

[Alamin @iam_chonchol]

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:

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

"A cat in space eating pizza" via @Kling_ai

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

I'll be talking about detecting #AI-generated visuals at an @ONA seminar at 2pmET. It's increasingly difficult to spot AI content as generators like Runway's Gen-3 improve - https://t.co/LfcNbZIWym

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Thread on the #Crowdstrike Subreddit with sysadmins claiming tens or hundreds of thousands of devices affected - https://t.co/86JCjyCg5v

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Today Russia bombed a Children’s hospital in Kyiv, I’m at the scene and the devastation is horrific

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

@wearetherace Time for a Charles Leclerc sympathy corner?

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

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) https://t.co/TtYVnrl7dS

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

@mattbubbers The world exhausted its supply of brown

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Reuters’ Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip https://t.co/1uqjAOBfWF

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

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.” https://t.co/UFLVE6hc4g

[Fred Lum @2manycameras]

ngl, I almost cried when totality was reached.

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Glimpse of partial #Eclipse from Toronto, obscured by cloud now.

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

"A diagrammatic reproduction of the #Eclipse." Archive footage of what looks like a hand-made animation device from 1927.

[Matthew Kupfer @Matthew_Kupfer]

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... 🧵

[Patrick Dell @patrickdell]

Here's what to know about Bill C-63, the new online harms bill aiming to protect children and prosecute hate crimes - https://t.co/HfKz26zybz