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Cristophlyz from the 80s

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I'm a dood, trying to be a better dood~ My own thoughts are in daily collection posts & I repost the interesting things I find! Trying to grow a thing for realz

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · Aug 10

to exist is not to live
to exist is to recognize the wonder and agony of it
to wonder is to despair and desire
for without the need to desire and then deal with the despair in that dynamic
and in that, do we define how to live

Existence is Pain, Life is Joy

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Star Trek TNG Moriarty On Existence

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 16h

Kids gotta learn the dangers of Sigma Ligma

if they ain't gonna learn it in Limsa, then that's just Thal's Balls

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22h

One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

More than 1,000 staff members at the CDC were laid off Friday, affecting units that respond to infectious-disease outbreaks, analyze science and health data to develop policy, and monitor the safety of employees.

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 1d

oooooooo
r e s p o n c i b i l i t y

Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 1d

Guidebooks are also a Primo source for game art

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor: ReFantazio Official Strategy Guide hardcover book is $43.44 on Amazon (21% off, 592 pages) buff.ly/sWZVqq0 #ad

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Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · 1d

One of the interviewers yesterday asked if we'd been able to hang and make friends with the Helluva cast, and I said I have loved becoming friends with Brandon Rogers, "someone who is not in Hazbin Hotel" and @vivziepop.bsky.social was like "AMIR NO!" lolololololol

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 1d

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 2d

BEEG WINDOW

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Cricket's Voice 🎙️🦗 @cricketvoice.bsky.social · 2d

Woo woo Tarot Time!
What's the 10/10 portal bring you?
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What's the 10/10 Portal bringing You? 🔮Timeless Tarot Read🔮

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 2d

The new season of Dorohedoro will now debut in spring 2026 instead of this year, and will "stream almost simultaneously worldwide."

Dorohedoro Anime's Sequel Season Reveals Spring 2026 Debut, Visual

New visual announces new anime season "will stream almost simultaneously worldwide"

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 2d

Meal prepped for the weekend I'm gone
Need to finish some packing
then can chill for the rest of the night

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AkumaLiChan 😈💜 [DTIYS Ends Oct 31st] @akumalichan.bsky.social · 2d

My ACGGOODS shop is now open! I can now sell to the EU! 😭💜
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AkumaLiChan 😈💜 [DTIYS Ends Oct 31st] @akumalichan.bsky.social · 3d

My Ko-fi page is finally up! I'll be uploading my art over there so there will likely be a lot of posts soon. It's still a bit of a work in progress and I don't have commissions set up yet, so stay tuned
ko-fi.com/akumalichan

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 3d

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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · 3d

I had that says, “you’re weird as hell if you don’t like cats they literally have triangle ears and toe beans,” available on weirdlilguys.com

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 3d

It's just sad because he made some incredible movies

Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 3d

to quote others,
"...god damn it"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

George Miller was asked why he's taking part in an AI film festival

"“AI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making [movies] ... AI is here to stay and change things"

He adds that AI will never have that 'human essence'

(via Guardian)

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 3d

The moral of the story is : stay weird, or else

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 4d

just for topic knowledge, big recommend checking out @edzitron.com & #betteroffline podcast

really goes into the business and economic numbers regarding the sustainability of the AI bubble, and just all of that tangible outlier stuff that's not being discussed mainstream

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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 4d

sometimes just need to get a good cut to +20 the Mental Health

felt BAMF, will delete later~
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Cristophlyz from the 80s @cristophlyz.bsky.social · 4d

Good Fortune at the con!

Pizza Pics or it didn't happen~

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