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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · Oct 29

National day of THE cat amongus

Fjurn who has both her own T shirt and Pillow.

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 20h

More and more context, analogical thinking, empathy appear to be devalued.

For me it means my strengths are becoming scarce and ultimately more valuable.

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 1d

Truckin’

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 2d

‘Ish

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 3d

Did I say stop petting?

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 3d

Cake is meant to be frozen, then eaten as breakfast with coffee

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Canary Yellow @canaryyellow.org.uk · 3d

Oscar Schwartau scores!

#NCFC

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 3d

Had a dream that included two of our previous kittahs, Elliot and Smokey.

Elliot always slept at the foot of the bed and would burrow under the blanket.

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 3d

Norwich versus Ipswich is what the Premier League wish they could bottle and sell.

Fans with ownership
Owners with a grudge
Game play with an edge

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 3d

Alright Norwich,

Bring the pain

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 4d

arch manning lmao

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 4d

Burgess Meredith

For the win

two older men are standing next to each other and one of them is talking to the optometrist

ALT: two older men are standing next to each other and one of them is talking to the optometrist

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 4d

It’s raining and yet the backward baseball cap with sunglasses firmly affixed to the bill persists.

#Wyoming

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve looked and no, I use reader view on edge which is a useful stand in

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 4d

Lawd, this is the first time I’ve ever thought about using droid. Away vile temptress

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 4d

Couple hour drive this a.m

Listened to the new Taylor Swift album

Mostly meh

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 5d

It was a GOP Congress and Ronald Reagan that created the unfunded mandate to treat anyone, regardless of legal status. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6d

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI spent $11.2 billion in compute, sales/marketing for $4.3bn in revenue in 1H 2025.

Desperate to grow ChatGPT, they launched Sora 2, which costs them at least $5 per generated video.

Here's $10 off a year of annual.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours - Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated
Let’s establish some facts:
Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time.
Every Sora 2 generation - in landscape or portrait - generates at 1280x704 - a variant of 720p resolution, and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one.
Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it.
It takes about a minute to generate each video.

Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely expensive.

Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than they charge on an API basis.

Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, they’re annihilating all of their margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more.

I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case.

Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with their audio-generation models they released earlier this year.

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 6d

Yes

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 6d

I hike and go to the outdoors because:

It’s quiet, I can hear my heart and the blood rushing in my body. At once my mind can wander and focus.

Your drone ruins that for me.

alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 6d

Who are you and what have you done with @jenmsft.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. While the average absolute miss on first prints between ADP and BLS private payrolls .. has been large (more than 80k), the cumulative change in ADP first prints over the prior six months has been close (within 20k) .. All this bodes negatively for the BLS report when it gets released.” 👀

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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 7d

Yaz

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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 7d

AI summary of how bad the ADP jobs numbers were ...
#EconSky

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Cpt. Kandy Franklin⚓️🍬 @kandy.has.fish · 8d

Fat bear week winner
CHUNK 32!!!

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