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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 11h

white privilege?? i'm made of pure alabaster italian carrara marble and you do NOT know how hard it is to be stone in Amerika

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 11h

each day on this planet is worse than the last

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 16h

j'aime basket

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 1d

each day on this planet is worse than the last

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 2d

took this picture of the moon for u

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with the show ballers is that the most interesting thing football players do is play football, there is no football on the show

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 1d

the act of shopping is a lot like the act of murder or aggravated assault

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 2d

each day on this planet is worse than the last

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck to Hamid Bradshawl in his last NFL game

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 2d

Green Bay's throwbacks look outstanding

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 3d

each day on this planet is worse than the last

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 3d

Remember that research chemical that people were injecting themselves with to become instantly tan

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Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social · Mar 2

Happy belated birthday to my twin

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 4d

I really want this guy to call my cellular phone

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 4d

each day on this planet is worse than the last

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 6d

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 4d

I fucking dare any of you to call me a wastewoman

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 4d

Joe Healthcare over here shaking his no copay prescription and dancing like a seal over a 100 dollar hospital bill

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 5d

SKIN MITE SHERPAS ASSISTING BED BUGS ASCENDING SLEEPING GIRL CRESP...WHAT A JOURNEY!! SUMMITING GIRLBUTT, AMAZING SIGHT FOR A BUG TO BEHOLD

Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 5d

that buzzing noise? 10,000 silkworms weaving our bed, my darling asian girlfriend. def. not warming up a bandsaw. relax, eat ur fourthmeal.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 6d

ed has been doing the math on why openAI (and other "AI" companies) are unprofitable and unsustainable, and why they will likely stay that way. follow that link to sub to his newsletter, it's worth it

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.
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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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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 6d

It's called Bone Bread and if you aren't eating it you aren't anybody anyway

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 6d

so why is the caveman hovering in front of the bear hive

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Carlos Eagle @mexicoseagle.bsky.social · 7d

I'm trying to meet a girl whose skin peels off and snaps back on without causing damage so I can have an easier time in anatomy class

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 7d

In middle school my friend James showed me a song by a Chinese punk band that was just them going ‘anarchy in the prc’ over and over again and I thought it was so cool. He went on to join the marines. I went on to become Chinese and communist. Crazy world.

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