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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 2h

tariffs will double until ~morale~ economy improves

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 2h

Very proud of my alma mater today

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 5h

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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

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

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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.

tom_watts • 3d
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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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4h

Cooking up an app-view 🧑🏾‍🍳

ASCII art at the Blacksky App View homepage

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 4h

egg and cheese on an everything bagel.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

5. The bill, which cleared the Senate 77–20 last night, sets the rules for how the military operates and spends its money. This year, the senate version includes a military ban on trans sports/surgery, including dependents/spouses, DOD funded contractors, and more.

It also strikes DEI protections.

U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 4h

Updated the AppViews explainer with a write-up on how AppViews (and the ATproto building blocks) compare to the current status quo in Fediverse software, and what issues they solve.

Shoutout and huge thank you to @thisismissem.social who helped me FINALLY, truly get it.

github.com/FujoWebDev/l...

A screenshot of the Decentralized (Federated) Software section of the article

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5h

it's also here if you want to cite original on-platform source. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Hayes: New reporting from the Wall Street Journal tonight, that message that Trump posted to Pam Bondi online was meant to be basically a DM that he accidentally posted publicly... Pam was surprised to learn it was public. Bondi, upset, called the White House aides.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 5h

What an amazing past few days at SREcon EMEA 2025! 💛

From Liz Fong-Jones on faster builds with Docker Bake to Charity Majors on empowering every engineer, the insights were incredible. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, and congrats to our giveaway winners!

Stay tuned: buff.ly/yPVs8vU

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5h

yup. them being on here is not a licence to yell at them anything you like.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 8h

Trump crudely mocks transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister, one of whose children is nonbinary. Keep it classy, America. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary

Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.

www.advocate.com

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5h

you can email [email protected] if it's being too aggressive.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5h

I'm so sorry. Thank you for your service.

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 5h

If someone had told me that there was fuckery afoot, that maybe a judge had ruled against Elon, or maybe there was dispute over who was the official leadership, and I saw records being deleted, I 100% would have done exactly what André did.

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 5h

For about 2 weeks after Elon bought Twitter:
* there was no official communication about the termination of former leadership or Elon being CEO
* all HR systems were broken, LDAP was the only way to know if someone was really an employee
* I had full admin rights over the compute infra. 1/

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

I don't day trade, I only trade on longer term fundamentals.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 20h

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

Nope. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

the old adage: the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6h

I'm not giving investment advice of course, but I'm telling you what I don't do: I don't short Tesla.

Shorting Tesla, is essentially asking the question: "How rich exactly are US finance and tech bros that don't know anything about the world?"

The answer to that question is "Ungodly rich."🤷🏿‍♂️

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

the old adage: the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6h

I'm not giving investment advice of course, but I'm telling you what I don't do: I don't short Tesla.

Shorting Tesla, is essentially asking the question: "How rich exactly are US finance and tech bros that don't know anything about the world?"

The answer to that question is "Ungodly rich."🤷🏿‍♂️

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. ..

“.. it’s a cult.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

Today I learned the English word vituperative, thanks to @badambulist.bsky.social!

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

Where's the labeler to subscribe to so I can see the results?

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