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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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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Steven Toth @toths.info · 2h

He seriously had to one up a dead guy at their own memorial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 4h

I hate that people think highly enough him that he might actually help them in the first place. He’s such a sociopath.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

This is the legacy of Jurassic park, they managed to make dinosaurs forgettable through their ability to keep making the same experience over and over. Remember the first JP movie and how awesome it was to see “real” dinosaurs on the screen?

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

Alarm bells should be going off, this is terrible news. fortune.com/2025/10/13/g...

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries | Fortune

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

fortune.com

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

I see you have been listening to the economics podcasts. That is the best term, yup. I just bring this up cause you know when Coke is doing it that the economy is really in bad shape.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

I really don’t understand how a man who eats the weird shit he does, in such a raw and uncooked state is still alive. Gotta hand it to his medical staff I suppose.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

We’re hitting the big time of companies raising prices by shrinking sizes of products. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

Coca-Cola to offer new way to drink sodas; announces limited-time flavor

Coca-Cola is rolling out a major new serving option meant to match today's consumption habits. A new flavor will hit shelves next year, too.

www.masslive.com

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

You do have to pay them or be using their pc setting sync which I assume means you need to login with a ms id and possibly spying on you. It’s not clear to me what it means.

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 2d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

I do miss when the internet wasn’t just a bunch of webpages with screenshots of Reddit posts. Sigh.

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

According to this random internet page, someone did win a “lifetime supply” but it was only 2 pallets and they drank so much they almost died. www.thescroller.net/12383/20-lif...

20 Lifetime Supply Winners Share Tales of Their Spoils - The Scroller

Some days it seems like good luck finds you everywhere you look. It's on those days that some folks decide to really reach for it, and see just how far their

www.thescroller.net

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

According to this random internet page, someone did win a “lifetime supply” but it was only 2 pallets and they drank so much they almost died. www.thescroller.net/12383/20-lif...

20 Lifetime Supply Winners Share Tales of Their Spoils - The Scroller

Some days it seems like good luck finds you everywhere you look. It's on those days that some folks decide to really reach for it, and see just how far their

www.thescroller.net

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

Carl usually has some great takes but this one is especially good. The whole doomer AI movement is obviously a distraction from the harm that it is already doing on a much smaller scale. It’s just a way for them to get the tech installed in its sorry state.

youtu.be/MaFTqjYjADw?...

No, AI Will Not Doom Us All. We have REAL AI Problems to deal with instead.

YouTube video by Internet of Bugs

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

They should be using it as publicity. See. Sugar, corn, yellow powder and caffeine are good for you!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

I think this from @donmoyn.bsky.social is essential reading for the moment. I’d emphasize that the staggering process he describes doesn’t end with the assault on immigrants. It’s about creating an armed force loyal to nobody but Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

Not even black mirror wanted to do the episode where someone falls in love with the chatbot, only for the chatbot to convince them to kill themselves instead of chatbot getting tired of them and telling them they have ascended to a higher plane of consciousness.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

Is this how we finally get rid of self checkout? (Buried in the article, Albertsons closed multiple checkout lanes at multiple stores due to this change).

Alex Wolinetz @alexwolinetz.com · 1d

it was a union campaign so they couldn’t cut staff 😎 laist.com/news/food/lo...

Long Beach is first city in the nation to impose new check-out lane rules

The new ordinance applies to certain grocers operating in the city and has led to some self-checkout lanes to shutter.

laist.com

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

MS: Cancels future updates of Windows 10.
Also MS: here are some pictures we made by raising the temperature of the earth. www.theverge.com/news/798923/...

Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house

The model excels at photorealistic imagery.

www.theverge.com

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

Sam won’t even use a roomba, he likes making the help pickup his trash too much. And in this case he wants us to be his maid. web.archive.org/web/20250713...

Greg Morris - See Into Sam Altman’s Soul

There is nothing I enjoy more than an insightful discussion on notebooks, and hearing Sam Altman on the How I Write Podcast was a fascinating listen. I made a few notes whilst walking the dog this mor...

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

One is used and based on thievery and lies, the other is helping people, possibly in a time of great pain for their loved ones.

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

I don’t know how to say this any louder, klarna is a service that should not exist and it probably illegal as it doesn’t follow laws around payday loans. Also they are AI grifters too. Makes sense. fortune.com/2025/10/10/k...

AI enabled Klarna to halve its workforce—now, the CEO is warning workers that other ‘tech bros’ are sugarcoating just how badly it’s about to impact jobs | Fortune

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who told Sam Altman he wanted Klarna to be ChatGPT’s “favorite guinea pig,” says too many CEOs are downplaying how disruptive AI will really be.

fortune.com

Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

We’ve definitely reached the end game of capitalism where they reveal that we all knew all along that it was inefficient to force everyone to have a job or die. It appears that the psychopaths in charge have no qualms about letting some die.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

I don’t see a problem with this but also, what are we using that part of our brains we used to devote to the trivia of numbers needed to contact people? TikTok’s?

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 1d

We went from asking the operator to connect us to specific people, to dialing numbers via another human operator, to dialing numbers into a circle, to dialing numbers with tones to cell phones where we manually entered the numbers in each phone to now where we just use Facebook and WhatsApp

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 1d

My pharmacy replaced their number directory when I call with a voice assistant. What used to take 2 seconds took me 30

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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