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She/Her. Queer. Luddite (complimentary) . Dumb bitch.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · Aug 15

Gif that pops up when you type your name

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1h

Hot Weather = women with nice shoulders in tank tops 😍

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Sean Raymond (planetplanet.net) @planetplanet.bsky.social · 1d

New animation of the ultimate engineered solar system for a talk I'm giving tomorrow at a sci-fi convention in Lithuania.

It has 400 rocky planets in the habitable zone of a single Sun-like star

It's perfectly stable (I simulated it out to about a billion years)

planetplanet.net/2017/05/03/t...

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 3h

little greek monsters
#art

illustration of some greek monsters

featured are

orthrus
cerebrus
hydra
manticore
chimera
pegasus
minotaur
griffin
hippocampus

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 2h

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 5h

Caves of Qud: Bard edition

👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 14h

Those cats don't look friendly

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 20h

And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 19h

Oh god they're hunting in packs now!

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 20h

Ship Shapes…

#Spaceship #SciFi #Illustration

A page of rough, monochrome, spaceship sketches.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 19h

That sounds a good opening for a DnD campaign

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

75% off on InFlux Redux this week! That's a pretty big discount, probably buy a few copies!

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

I used to learn the way of the sword. Like unironically, with people who went to Japan to learn from living national treasures.

I should go back sometime...

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

Why can't they just fuck off?

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

I hate Microsoft so much.

Microsoft is 'removing known mechanisms for creating a local account' from Windows 11 setup - get ready to use a Microsoft account

This isn't a popular decision...

www.techradar.com

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 1d

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

Wife text me a small household request. I replied okie dokey which was auto corrected to ok donkey. Now I'm making my own tea. Fuck you technology.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

*me surrounded by pickle jars*

Really?

👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

The UK still makes steel!?

Patrick Robey @pat-beauclerc.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I meet politicians who championed Brexit nowadays, I ask them a simple question: do you still think you were right? A few fools mutter, “Yes, on balance” & “In the long term, perhaps.” Fools ? Or charlatans ? Either way, Starmer's inaction is a disgrace
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

Hence the compulsion to pinch it!

👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

I think the apparent increase in bi trans people is just reflective of the fight against bi erasure that's been happening over the last 30 years.

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

I want to pinch your tummy ❤️

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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

I want something to create a fictional cisgender typology so I can watch people combust into flames

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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.

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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👻🎃PennyDreadful🎃👻 @abstractslug.bsky.social · 1d

You're just horny for Slaanesh

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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