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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · Feb 4

OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends.

I hope you check it out

Owned

A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media ...

www.boldtypebooks.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10h

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 13h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17h

“I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

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
Debt & Money
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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Vegard Wærp @vegard.waerp.net · 22h

Great interview with @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in the latest episode of the Dystopia Now podcast.

How Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins | Dystopia Now

Get more from Dystopia Now on Patreon

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

This is Sunny

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with this. When will it end

The Aaron Boone Playoff Script Never Changes

The Yankees are going home losers, just as they have in every playoff appearance of Boone’s tenure. Will the franchise finally learn from its failure?

www.theringer.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Why on earth would a beloved heretofore apolitical figure take a position that this country is literally arresting people for if it wasn’t sincere

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

She’s going to run them through some AI program (contract provided to one of her Silicon Valley backers) and never read a single one in full

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn’t happen to a nicer, more tolerant guy

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Centrists can try to rewrite history, but they’ve been winning the battle over the Democratic Party for years. If that’s translating into losses at the ballot box, maybe it’s time to actually try something new.

Jon Chait Thinks Kamala Harris Went Too Far Left. He's Just Falling for Trump's Demagoguery.

A year ago, Jonathan Chait said centrists were winning. When Kamala Harris lost, though, he fell for Trump's anti-trans demagoguery.

theintercept.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 4d

everything else the trump administration has done has felt like pure libidinal reagan energy. but "this secret opinion says we can legally do sadistic stuff to random guys" has a bush/obama flavor that feels different, simply by virtue of producing a flimsy opinion instead of just shrugging

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/4o7ma1R

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

I block you on Twitter, TBD on here

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

He's replied to emails before and tweeted at me, usually insults and not engaging with anything I've said

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Over the weekend I talked with @jordanuhl.com at @www.insurgentspod.com about Bari Weiss's CBS News takeover

Ep. 412: The Weiss Stuff ft. Eoin Higgins

Bari Weiss has failed upwards all the way to the top of CBS News

www.insurgentspod.com

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Responded to Chait’s take on progressives and the Democrats.

Spoiler: I disagree with him

Jon Chait Thinks Kamala Harris Went Too Far Left. He's Just Falling for Trump's Demagoguery.

A year ago, Jonathan Chait said centrists were winning. When Kamala Harris lost, though, he fell for Trump's anti-trans demagoguery.

theintercept.com

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

lmao cmon Bernie

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

ALDS Game Three tonight

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

The father, the son, the Holy Spirit

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Putting Weiss in charge of CBS News is like “dropping a grenade” in the newsroom, as one former staffer put it. That grenade is sure to impact how the network covers Trump, Israel, and the U.S. in general.