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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure they were really hinging that narrative on this brightly-lit suburban intersection at Tulsa, Oklahoma. 🙄

Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 5h

Darth Vader is evil, but he also killed a bunch of kids.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9h

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Aldia (Dee) @profaneannalist.bsky.social · 7h

my wife just got kicked off medicaid thanks to the cuts so my new policy on "are trans women bourgeois" is that anyone asking the question should be quartered

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 7h

i can’t be your angel or your devil. i’m so tired

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 8h

We massively overrate male coded stuff and massively underrate female coded stuff.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

calmatters.org

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Researchers have devised a hack that uses a malicious Android app to read data from any other app installed on the phone. Google released a patch but the researchers say their methods still work.

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

arstechnica.com

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 1d

No, #Portland is still not burning.

isportlandburning.com/

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

I firmly believe that there should be a Year Without Shakespeare in which every Shakespeare play in every theater's calendar is replaced by new work from a local playwright. I think that would be good for both theater and society.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13h

americans have been learning about "no kings" via alternative media. social media, tiktok etc. we dont need the msm anymore and progressives should be investing billions in building up our own alternative information beachheads instead of constantly begging the dying msm to "do better"

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 14h

This is an extremely important part.

I can tell you from my experience, the reason Germans specifically take so easily to Zionism is because Islamophobia has mostly supplanted Antisemitism as the national hobby, and projecting on Israel also lets us escape our guilt.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 12h

girl who learns architecture to make minecrafts better

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 12h

There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

Researchers No Closer To Understanding What The Fuck You’re Talking About

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Finding themselves increasingly frustrated after years of fruitless analysis, researchers working with a Harvard-coordinated international multi-university research initiative published ...

theonion.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Xy, First Minister of Furries and Autism @xylaria.vg · 13h

on the bright side, if you've got spare cash it could be a great time to scoop up some hardware

especially if you're into breaking it down for parts/recycling because hooooooooooo boy are those markets going NUTS right now with the tariffs.

vin; androgyne @hologramvin.bsky.social · 13h

so many computers are going to be thrown out due to the removal of support for windows 10. genuinely upsetting and disgusting to me

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Narancia⚧️ still in the blue wonder @naranciazebest.bsky.social · 20h

I also want to remind people that Hamas' main demands was straight up the liberation of these 2000 people, of which a huge portion of them are CHILDREN. They made this demand before October 7th and kept insisting this was the cause of their attack. Not one western news media told the public of this.

Jordan is the Huggiest Kaiju @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 21h

Israel had TWO THOUSAND.

At least 1700 of whom were being held without charges.

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED.

That is HORRIFIC.

TWO THOUSAND PRISONERS, OF WHOM ONLY 250 WERE CHARGED WITH ANYTHING.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

DO YOU FUCKING GET IT?

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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 12h

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13h

in retrospect, previous era of twitter moderation was extremely good and regular. it seems almost essential for good moderation systems to be somewhat opaque; you CANNOT be letting people game the refs constantly

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting

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AryaOrgana @aryaorgana.bsky.social · Oct 26

Neurotypicals need to stop telling autistic kids to carry a blue bucket to justify being nonverbal, or not wearing a costume.

Stop asking kids to carry a literal sign they're different.

If a kid shows up on Halloween, give them candy. No requirements. Period.

#autism #actuallyautistic

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 21h

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly it’s worth looking at the non-joke answers here for some important education. My picks? Mayor LaGuardia and Rep. Marcantonio.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Kill Christmas 😔

he's working tirelessly to start as many pointless wars as possible, attacking everyone he can, outside of america and within, so the War on Christmas is BACK ON, BABY! we're gonna fuckin nuke santa!!

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Host: Trump is trying to paint a rosy picture for the upcoming holiday season. In a social media post this morning, he says early prices. But according to the latest price tracker, appliances saw an over 48% increase in price, and 29% increases in prices for toys and games

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