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Javier Pérez Alarcón, ¡traductor de profesión! @javipalarcon.bsky.social · 22h

La tienda SOLO de Harry Potter que abrió en Valencia ha cerrado, nature is healing.

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 1h

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 2h

lou wilson > daniel day lewis

Lou Wilson at his podium saying "I drink your milkshake motherfucker!"

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Alfonso 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @springsteen81.bsky.social · 11h

Miércoles

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virtu @virtuware.bsky.social · 28d

hinako and the scarecrow #silenthillf

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GenghisKait Art - OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS @gk-art.bsky.social · 19h

Digital painting of wrestler Willow Nightingale.

Hot pink, neon green and blue painting of Willow Nightingale smiling.

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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 7h

Desalojan la mitad norte de España por la presencia de una cucaracha

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Penélope Fernández @penelopefernandez.bsky.social · 7h

Si es de las que vuelan, lo entiendo perfectamente.

El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 7h

Desalojan la mitad norte de España por la presencia de una cucaracha

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LandoLabs 🔞 NSFW commissions open! @landolabs.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone make any jack o lanterns this year?
#muppets

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Mikel López Iturriaga @mikeliturriaga.bsky.social · 9h

Qué clase de persona hay que ser para ir al funeral de unos muertos de los que tú fuiste en buena parte responsable. Después de haber mentido mil veces sobre lo que estabas haciendo mientras morían, y de haber tratado de culpar a otros. El cuajo de Mazón es infinito.

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Spooky Facto @facto13.bsky.social · 5h

... I'm playing Stardew Valley wrong.

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Josh W @mariobones.bsky.social · 7h

Reddit post titles “Flagged as AI-generated, how cooked am I?”

Text reads: “My code assignment got flagged as AI-generated. Yes, I did use AI. I used it for a few methods, but most of my code was written by me. There's a snippet of code that sticks out as potentially AI-generated (I mean it is), and I think that's what got me flagged. I have to do an interview because of the suspected breach. How cooked am I? What sort of questions will they ask me?”

Comment from OP: “Whether it's doing the assignment for them, or getting AI to check over their code, I'd wager the average student is using AI to some extent. If you're not, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. I got sloppy and didn't tweak a method enough. I'm not looking for a moral lecture, just wondering if I can get off.”

Reply from another poster: “How is that advantage of yours going right now buddy?”

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Ace (Comms Open) @aceraccoon.neocities.org · 13h

funny you mention Scott in particular

(source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZVc...)

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Willowwisp @will0wwisp.bsky.social · 15h

IMAGINE if Scott the woz said “ngl man ur kind of a weirdo” i’d fuckin delete my channel at that point

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🏳️‍⚧️ Nina 🏳️‍⚧️ @thenina.bsky.social · 18h

He deleted it but hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 8h

welp, boundary break goes in the trash bin

🏳️‍⚧️ Nina 🏳️‍⚧️ @thenina.bsky.social · 18h

He deleted it but hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @asterionhex.monster · 7h

That second image really shows it: saying “Steam is a library, social network, etc.” misses the mark completely. Steam is solely for playing games, the chat and forum functions serve that purpose and that purpose alone. It doesn’t try to be more. It doesn’t need to be

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 20h

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 6h

my daily affirmation

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Sara Lopez Productions 🎵🎮 @saralopezprod.bsky.social · 6h

🧵 Se viene hilo de una sorpresa que me dejó llorando todo el día 🧵

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Contexto necesario: yo estudié la carrera de composición en Alemania y me llevaba muy bien con mi casero, Bernd. Tenía muchos instrumentos en Freiburg que, cuando terminé la carrera, no pude traerme de vuelta a España...

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 12h

I'm so mad that this was actually just Saruman what the fuck this was supposed to be an off-brand wizard

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 18h

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 19h

"250x bigger and lost" is pretty insane. Imagine 250 Steam competitors all spinning their wheels

And it's not like the labor is crap. It's not like thousands and thousands of people did their job wrong

They had shit captains who will experience no repercussions for Shadow Realming billions of $$$

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 1d

Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division, sources tell Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Plans to Cut 30,000 Corporate Jobs, Reuters Reports

Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut corporate jobs in several key departments, including logistics, payments, video games and the cloud-computing unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

www.bloomberg.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 20h

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 23h

MIT basically confirmed it rots your brain

time.com/7295195/ai-c...

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

time.com

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