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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

the Republican party of the future may not find a figurehead that can replace Trump but it's getting worse by the day, the next generation thinks Stephen Miller is a squish

these are very, very bad people

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2d

the average fish has 37 eyes. yes that is a statistical error. no you do not want to know the details of that statistical error

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Just Death 💀 @protocrone.bsky.social · 6h

Can the world please just blow up or something?

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 1d

Tech bros will be like "Our start up is called Icarus Labs and our motto is 'Hubris is not real'."

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22h

computer: enhance 🧐

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

A pandemic, fascism, open racism, food insecurity and book bans will do that

NPR @npr.org · 8h

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 5h

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 7h

There comes a time in every fantasy writer’s life when they are obliged to learn about ships.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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✨💕Happy💕✨ @princessofbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Every time I catch one of my mutuals interacting with another mutual from a completely different corner of Bluesky I’m like “WOT DA HELLY?? How do y’all even know each other??”

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ghostes.space @handle.invalid · 22h

...so ...close ...

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · Mar 21

wehn i get to 10k follwoers i will declare myself the god-mayor of dinosaur, colorado

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...