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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 3h

www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

love asking google stuff

US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

Edel Hsieh, who is linked to HyperVerse CEO, alleges police tortured him into signing a false confession

www.theguardian.com

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 8h

trump indicting his enemies

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 11h

weird no pressure huh

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 11h

extremely normal to go for multiple annual checkups a year

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 11h

weird, it went from "she was throwing shit at homeland security" to "she was obstructing" to "no charges filed" all in an afternoon

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 11h

it's illegal, nbc

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 12h

lmao

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 12h

wait until that starts to happen with openai and other slopware.

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 12h

a drawing of a dinosaur with the words " and i don 't like it " above it

ALT: a drawing of a dinosaur with the words " and i don 't like it " above it

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 13h

pikachu is making a surprised face with his mouth open .

ALT: pikachu is making a surprised face with his mouth open .

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 13h

do you know something specific or is this just speculation from the selloff?

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

hope they aren't made in china or you can ship fast

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

is it because a lot are now unemployed or because healthcare costs are gonna mushroom

(its both)

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

OH MY GOD

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Chron.com @chron.com · 14h

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 22h

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

also christmas

Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

it turns out VIX is not one of those vanguard ETFs that you just hold onto

(made this funny mistake some time back, thankfully a discussion mistake rather than a financial one)

Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

yeah like the job i had which consumed that api was only in the ~10/s order of magnitude and that was uber service-equivalent

.i spent a lot of engineering work optimizing and caching (technically against google TOS btw), and it was STILL a lot of money.

a few thousand/sec for days?

💸💸💸💸💸

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

have a good weekend everyone.

a nice 3 day one so you can think about this for another 24h.

Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

this is famously a large problem with all the cloud compute services. vibe coding fools are even more susceptible.

i've worked with the google maps api and it can be verrryyyy spendy in bulk. 2300/s is a decent sized business!

also lmao @davidgerard.co.uk

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 14h

especially as we burn through the stock imported earlier in the year

Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 15h

look at them using fuckin' rental cars to snatch people.

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