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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 1d

Luigi Mangione.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

There is no dialectic, no synthesis between "reality exists and we're trying to deal with it" and the absolute rejection of reality and insertion of unreality, you stupid, conceited fucks.

There is no middle ground!

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

I am going to have a small meltdown.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Binary thinking is not always destructive,” Mark Edmundson writes. “But when all thought is binary, we are in trouble.”

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 2d

Artists should be able to live out comfortable lives whether or not they are commercially successful.

All people should but creative people really struggle.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 3d

Dressing like a frog is not the answer.

The real way Dems own this moment is to start acting. Start blocking, begin impeachment proceedings, dump all anti-trans & anti-choice Dems, & side with Labor against their big donors.

Running to the left is the only path to victory & they will never do it.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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(regular)dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 5d

mcdonal is doing the monopoly thing again and if you didn't know, it's considered a sweepstakes which means they need what's called an "alternative method of entry" for people who don't want to pay. you can request free game pieces (which occasionally are free food) 5 times per day here

Alternate Method of Entry || Get Started

Monopoly Game at McDonald's

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 7d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 9d

Being informed, sharing jokes, keeping up with friends & people we are fans of, & all the other reasons we use Social Media apps are important

But they also worsen our mental health & we are treat treated with such.

Our eyes, data, & usage are their product.

I post less bc I've left. You can too.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14d

🧵*9/30/2025 noncooperation thread*

A daily-ish thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

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The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 14d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15d

the democrats need to let the government shut down happen. they cannot let donald trump pass the funding bill that ends federal funding to hospitals that give hormone replacement therapy

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Bryce Youngquist (but for Easter) @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 19d

fun trivia! in the second French revolution, sensible liberal men listened to this complaint, and rather than kill conservatives in power reached out to them as partners in a new and more equal form of governance!

the conservatives said "hey thanks for that" and immediately killed the lot of them

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Luis @loosf.bsky.social · Mar 31

know what, fuck it, putting some alt text on this

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Anonymous said

if you want young queers to want to associate with elder queers then maybe the culture shouldn't be so ridiculous and over the top. I get second hand embarrassment from drag queens and leather daddies and kinksters in puphoods acting like they represent all gays

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I would much rather be represented by drag queens, leather daddies and pups than by petulant cowards afraid of their own reflection. You are talking about people who never had the option of being seen as "normal people who just happen to be gay" and channeled their pain into self expression, community and art. And who are you? You define yourself not in terms of who you are and what you create but in terms of who you are not and what you lack. These people you hate only seem larger than life because your life is too small and insignificant to fit them.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 15d

Why this instead of just shutting down the camps?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d

There is one tried and true way ordinary Americans can stop Trump’s political prosecutions: Jury Nullification. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock

When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 16d

Being correct doesn't save us. Being correct does not mean we automatically win. It does not mean we do not have to fight.

Bur we are already correct.

And because of that not only can we win.
But all we have to do is win.

/Fin

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 16d

Enriching and uplifting everyone is a wealthier world just by sheer volume than having a thousand or so trillionaires.

But I digress. We have been proven correct repeatedly.

Draw strength from that correctness and keep fighting. Because these wrong "right wing" people only win if we give up. /2

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 16d

Hundreds of studies have been done. Universal Basic Income & Healthcare works. Planned economies work. Housing everyone appropriately works. Etc.

These & other humane and egalitarian solutions are possible, affordable, have better & more lasting results & are actually more profitable. /1

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 16d

In a system rigged to ensure golden tickets are only ever found by people swimming in golden tickets the false idea that you might find one & be free was made more alluring than freeing us all

In the absence of correctness they've chosen slaughter & silence

Extinction over admitting they're wrong.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 16d

It was never just about winning but also about being correct. Their poison didn't just have to win it had to /work/. But it doesn't work & they can't make it work.

But they can blame & destroy those who point out it's not getting the results promised to the common person. Always worse never better.

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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 16d

This one was loud.

Old twitter meme from @mixedgrass666

I hate that the right wing freaks are too stupid to notice they won the war and they’ve been winning it for decades. Our economic policy is right wing our foreign policy is right wing our courts are right wing our media is right wing. You won and your life still sucks so now what

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 16d

"But do you condemn Hamas?"
The IDF has killed more children in the past year than the total number of casualties of any age attributed to Hamas over all time, and it's not even close. So the real question is, "Do you condemn the IDF?"

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G8erlaw68 @g8erlaw68.bsky.social · 16d

Bro, the US Attorney's office had such a slam dunk corruption case against Adams that like 7 of them quit rather than agreeing to the quid pro quo dismissal the administration wanted. What in the actual fuck is Jeffries even talking about? This shit is absolutely why the Dems fucking suck.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty.

Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”

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