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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 3h

1. Who is asking for this
2. Who is this for

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2h

Techbros: AI produces cost savings to fuel a growing economy!
AI company: AI costs much more than what we charge for it

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Life Grips @ptrkbrn.com · Nov 14

Yeah I fuck with the MCU. The
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 2h

Oohh the CNBC lady is SASSY… Bessent forced into making a full throated defense of government ownership of private corporations. He’s now on record as confirmed socialist.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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jakarta methhead @sweetmax.bsky.social · 13h

i enjoy the racist college group chat with the other college students that are 40 years old. boys will be boys

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 11h

" ... Rodenbush passed on guidance from the Media School administration that the IDS's print publication should solely focus on a special theme, such as homecoming or fall sports, and contain 'no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage.'"

Story time! 1/

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1h

This lady is a real piece of shit

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 4h

Sam Altman's horny ChatGPT announcement was not warmly received.

Like many, I'm skeptical about OpenAI implementing this safely. but, I wrote for @thesizzle.com.au, if we're moving to an age-gated web, I'd like to see other major tech platforms revise their sex negative policies for adults.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 2h

“OpenAI books about $13bn in annual recurring revenue, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT, which costs $20 for a standard subscription, according to people familiar with the company’s finances.

ChatGPT has more than 800mn regular users, but just 5% of those are paying subscribers”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

(Reuters) - ChatGPT owner OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and planning further fundraising as part of a five-year strategy to cover more than $1 trillion in pledged spending, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

www.ft.com/content/a169...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 1d

the far left : poverty is always bad and getting worse :: the far right : crime is always bad and getting worse

once you notice this you can't unsee it

and it makes it impossible to take credit for movement on either of these issues because what are you, insensitive to those suffering?

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 1d

you see the same kind of "no upper limit, no point of comparison" thinking with crime, too. if even one person is murdered, we have to get tougher on crime, even if the murder takes place in Veryfewmurderspercapitaopolis, Vermont.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Like it’s absolutely surreal for me, listening to these bozos construct elaborate fantasies where people personally mocked them for feeling squeezed. This did not happen. No one did this. No one ever said that aggregate national economic data proved that every single person was doing great.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Literally no one said this. Somehow your entire band of overly online weirdos have hallucinated this idea that if anyone pointed out the economy as a whole was thriving from 2021-2024, they were personally attacking anyone who did not do better during that span. It’s infuriating

Ciggy Smoke Bringer @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 1d

There entire thrust was 'you must be a liar or a loser if you are worse off or treading water harder' and it's like, nooooo, I was already that close to poverty line supporting 2 people on 57k, and there's probably enough people like me that blowing smoke and sunshine about how good it was wrong.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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BigXThaHug @iamgoog.bsky.social · 12h

Coding language

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BigXThaHug @iamgoog.bsky.social · 12h

Well the big takeaway about the evil of the conservative base and party apparatus is obvious, so i talked about something specific to me that i have always hated