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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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hailey @hailey.at · 8h

to be clear, this isn't to suggest that we should stop letting people run models locally. in fact, i believe that we _need_ to level the playing field as much as possible, and i'm very excited about progress being made. but we certainly need to be paying attention to the possible consequences.

hailey @hailey.at · 10h

there actually is a lot of fun to be had with local llm models, but its also quite concerning that its now possible to run these with ease on consumer hardware. if you thought the amount of "bot" type replies and stuff that are all over the internet was bad rn, its probably going to get a lot worse

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 1h

The people who think the inflatable costume street raves are doing "nothing" do not understand the dynamics of the post-social media information ecosystem and should shut the fuck up

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10h

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

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asura @asura.dev · 11h

Little bit of an AI myth at the end.

They've hit the ceiling on model size. Larger models aren't getting us anything. Quite literally models are only getting smaller as the push for smaller models, including edge and on-device models, happens.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Singularity's Bounty e/🇺🇦 @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 1h

And then, for no perceivable reason at all, you decide you’ll be posting all your skeets in second person

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dame @dame.is · 10h

jaywalking should be called “vibe crossing”

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 3h

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 2h

did this earlier, highly recommend

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 3h

New enamel pin for my ita bag

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 3h

I'm literally 37, so at least this is an easy choice.

38, of course. I need to be counter-cultural.

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 3h

You need a lot more than *just* street raves in goofy costumes to stop fascism, but it should be a go to strategy whenever fascists are trying to portray some place as a terrifying war zone.

Fun, effective counter-propaganda.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 3h

It's like the started changing things to a new control panel in Windows 8ish and then just said fuck it and stopped midway

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 4h

Nothing like coming home to find your portfolio in the toilet because the president tweeted stupid threats again

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10h

This wasn’t a shitpost

Holding up my phone connected to my server on Five Points station

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 5h

Not sure if it’s worth it for more than just the memeing

I’d much rather be doing that stuff on my laptop

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10h

This wasn’t a shitpost

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10h

I always thought the shower beer stuff was a little goofy, but I get it now

The contrast of the soothing warmth of the shower and the refreshing cool of the drink 🤌

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11h

Much has been said about the power of a shower beer. Today, I innovated.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11h

Much has been said about the power of a shower beer. Today, I innovated.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h

Claude is a cat. ChatGPT is a studious hunting dog, but like a beagle. Grok is a sweet black lab that got thrown out of a moving car

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h

Honestly, maybe more so than the nsfw ones

I'm more worried about teenagers being radicalized down dark pipelines at a super impressionable age than them looking at porn

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luna @imlunahey.com · 18h

australia is about to enable the under 16 social media ban and fucking 4chan isn’t included in it. 🤦‍♀️

while i think the whole thing is bullshit if any of the sites should be banned for under 16s it should be 4chan. not youtube and github.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h

I'm gonna give this one's mobile version a try. I've mostly avoided ever doing this before because, much as I am a big time masochist, I largely don't wanna be SSHing into stuff without a regular keyboard

termius.com/index.html

Modern SSH Client

Connect with one click from any mobile and desktop device. No re-entering IP addresses, ports, and passwords.

termius.com

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h

The feminine urge to install an SSH client on my iPhone so I can SSH into Five Points server while in Five Points station

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 1d

In the process of moving my projects from Vercel and Render to Coolifly on servers directly controlled by smol farm, and I'm going to be a huge dork and codename the servers after MARTA stations.

ProtoPro and Skyrdle will soon be hosted on Five Points, the main production server.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 1d

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