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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 1d
NoT soON eNouGH
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 2d
This could be an Irish woman
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 3d
Sad to hear that Freddie the cat, AKA the Mayor of Shawlands, has gone over the rainbow bridge at the grand old age of 20. A kenspeckle figure around Skirving St, he'd bless the chosen few by selecting their car bonnet or roof for an afternoon snooze.

#Glasgow
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3d
🇪🇬😃 The lucky Egyptian Foreign Minister receives a LEGO model of the Giza Pyramids from his Danish colleague, who arrived in Cairo for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t know why, but I always hear “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” when listening to the Elton John classic
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 5d
Not totally happy with this Uber…
Skeleton inside a car
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d
Mike McDaniel, depressed: I’m going as entropy, the ruin of all things

*nervous light laughter from the gathered media*

Mike McDaniel: …
byjbh.bsky.social Jason B. Hirschhorn @byjbh.bsky.social · 5d
Packers HC Matt LaFleur when asked what his Halloween costume will be:

"I don't give a shit if it's Halloween."
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 6d
If he wrecks OpenAI, I say we give him a pass on finishing GoT
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Naushabah Khan MP @naushabahkhanmp.bsky.social · 7d
Reform MP Sarah Pochin not in the chamber today for #PMQs it must be because seeing our faces makes her mad…
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 11d
Sick of this thoughtless regurgitation in the press. Also…
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Glasgow Live @glasgowlive.co.uk · 13d
The Nook, in Glasgow, is the first of a national network of walk-in hubs which will provide immediate support for people experiencing mental health problems.
Scotland's first walk-in mental health support hub opens in Glasgow
www.glasgowlive.co.uk
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19d
It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com
Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.
www.thefarside.com
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19d
Great moments in redaction history.
Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 18d
Reminds me of someone I worked with who lived on Copland road and complained about *every* *single* Rangers home game
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 19d
I now also have to take the time to correct junior engineers who have presented incorrect LLM output as fact, when they could’ve gone to the ample source documentation, or run their own quick test to get the truth.
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 20d
Without context I thought this was about musk
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26d
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · 27d
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victimofmaths.bsky.social Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 27d
Lots of coverage today on these new government proposals to reform the alcohol licensing system.

I can see an inherent popular appeal to allowing pubs to stay open later, but I have a lot of thoughts about why these plans are an extremely bad idea..

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth
Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts
www.theguardian.com
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29d
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Oct 6
OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun
crushbort.bsky.social bort @crushbort.bsky.social · Oct 6
i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along
Buried in Altman's post is the real story: "People are generating much more than we expected per user," using massive compute resources on content that's often being generated for very small audiences (it is, after all, a social media app). OpenAl will "have to somehow make money for video generation," Altman wrote. Translation: Sora is burning through compute costs with no offsetting revenue. Altman floated a potential solution: "We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users." The idea-perhaps similar to You Tube's ad-monetization program for videos that include copyrighted material -would give studios a financial incentive to opt in. "The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out," Altman acknowledged, "but we plan to start very soon."
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · Oct 6
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The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · Oct 6
This is the type of honesty we need in the current climate
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grantnd @grantnd.bsky.social · Oct 4
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Burnistoun - Look Good For The Lassies But Feel Like A D**khead
YouTube video by Burnistoun
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Oct 3
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · Oct 1
shout out to the icons from Office 2013
The last 20 years of Microsoft Office icons
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