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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 5h

You can really see the Astro Boy design DNA here. Just a shiny black dome with a coif.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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djok @djokbuilt.bsky.social · 11h

dorfin

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 9h

Holy fuck

Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 21h

As someone who was providing direct care to COVID patients from the start of the pandemic, but couldn’t get tested for almost 8 months, this was particularly infuriating

5. KENT arrived at UVA just before the COVID pandemic. Just after he started, he
left for a vacation with his family to the Caribbean for two weeks. When he returned, and once
there were finally limited tests for COVID available, KENT dictated that his family and close friends be tested routinely for the virus, coupling the results of the testing with fake medical records so as to hide the identity of those being tested, and, instead of using the limited tests on staff and physicians who were still treating patients through COVID and the patients who were arriving at the hospital with COVID-type symptoms, KENT prioritized testing on the University's football
players.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 12h

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.

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

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
Join
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.

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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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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 1d

Quirby Air Ride

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1d

really did not expect bloomberg to become the place for detailed reporting on my most anticipated indie games
(gift link)

Why 'Mina the Hollower' Was Delayed

Yacht Club Games hasn't given a new release date, but the delay shouldn’t be more than a few months

www.bloomberg.com

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 1d

“In his short time as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about autism, chronic illness and disability are having real-life impacts on disabled individuals, their families, caregivers.” discojourno.com/eugenics/how...

From 'Wellness Farms' to Budget Cuts, How RFK Jr.'s Misguided Policies Threaten Disabled People - Disabled Journalists Association

In his short time as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about autism, chronic illness and disability are having real-life impacts on disabled…

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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 1d

she's only two notebook lines tall

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence that AI is accelerating our economy!

The phrase "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is no longer true, because of the incredible rate at which this nonsense is burning money.

The correction is already upon us, it's just not evenly distributed.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense that it's the Governor AND the Mayor AND the Chief of Police AND the Superintendent of the Highway Patrol who are all lying.

And let's not forget the tons of Portlanders, news reporters, judges, etc. All lying.

Yep. Makes total sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 2d

CBS is crumbling under the weight of a billionaire and his favourite news lackey. It's emblematic of the larger issues facing U.S. media, writes @katelynburns.com:

Bari Weiss’s hiring at CBS signals a much bigger problem | Xtra Magazine

CBS is crumbling under the weight of a billionaire and his favourite news lackey. This is emblematic of the larger issues facing U.S. media

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the best case scenario is Weiss doing so catastrophically bad that they're forced to can her before she can do too much more damage.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

Bari gets rightfully mocked as a hack, but I will suggest that she is also a person who has no original ideas

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Mossforatu @dinolich.bsky.social · 2d

this turned out so gorgeous!!!!! and so catchyyyy

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 2d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Finally we have found the method to glitch out the kneejerk means testers.

What the fuck do you mean "wealthy new yorkers who take the bus??"

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

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@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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