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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

US regional lender PNC's profit jumps on higher interest income, fees reut.rs/48qsmgN

US regional lender PNC's profit jumps on higher interest income, fees

PNC Financial reported a more than 21% rise in third-quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by higher interest income and across-the-board jump in fees.

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 13h

What is wrong with ground turkey? Have you seen beef prices?

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 13h

Everything else you gotta roll out slowly like telling people you switched to ground turkey

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly, as someone who reported a very similar story in the last Trump administration, my main takeaway from this is that 251 slurs is lower than what I would've expect here given the volume of material. 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.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14h

not sure anything in all of college sports has worse vibes than "the student section at Liberty games that shows up to every game wearing Joker makeup"

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threegoodwords @threegoodwords.bsky.social · 14h

Scene:

[Sam reads "Don't Create the Torment Nexus". Sam builds TorNex3000. Sam is miffed so many are anti-TNex3]

The Ethically Aware: Sam, what was the book title again?

Sam: Oh come on! What could go wrong?

TEA: Everything.

Sam: 🙄

*ten days later*

Sam: Whoops, it ate the children. Sorry.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus

--2021 tweet from Alex Blechman

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 17h

Watching videos

Secret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 19h

In today’s episode of Sports Scores & More, @jonbois.bsky.social and @ryansimmons.bsky.social take a spin on the coaching carousel and see who Penn State might be taking a look at in the wake of James Franklin’s firing 👀

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 17h

He loves primetime so I am surprised he hasn't called a primetime presser

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 18h

We're like a month away from DJT telling a woman at a presser to flash him aren't we? No I do not like this but I need you to understand how absurd things have gotten & how we are seemingly just OK with it because it keeps happening

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 18h

President Obama made one comment about Harris as AG... & whew

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 18h

More interesting:
1: Don't you have to be 18 to sign up for this stuff?
2. I know there's at least one former adult star who has an AI of themselves and I need to know how much money someone is spending on an AI version of whatever you call that interaction

Caitlin Gibson @caitjgibson.bsky.social · 21h

📣Calling parents, for a story: Do you have a tween/teen who has interacted with/is currently interacting with an AI companion? I'd love to talk to you about your thoughts/experiences with this issue (and we can avoid identifying you/your kid if needed). Please email me: [email protected].

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 18h

I wanna see him try and move a WC game. Please let him try this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there is unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, and I would say, 'let's move it to another location.' And he would do that ... I could say the same things for the Olympics."

Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 18h

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

Samuel Please

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 19h

I legitimately don't understand this. There is so, so, so much porn on the internet right now, almost all of it featuring real humans. Do we really need to throw the uh, engine that is secretly powering the entire US economy behind "make more porn but make it computer and with wrong # of fingers?"

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

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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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

US banks cheer regulators' steps toward easing capital requirements reut.rs/4952EP3

US banks cheer regulators' steps toward easing capital requirements

U.S. bank executives expressed optimism that Trump administration regulators will soften capital rules, a major reversal from stricter proposals under the Biden administration.

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 19h

Sources are telling us you weren't wrong, just early. Cannot wait to see this play out with Drew Allar

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 20h

Most brutal football vid I've ever seen, not close

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s what I wrote about the DILFSASTER last year

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 20h

I love that markets are like "WOOOO RATE CUTSSS" as the head of the Fed is saying "The economy is flashing critical signs of distress"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 20h

They're not playing games. We do this thing (thanks First Take/NFL) where we feel like there's gotta be something all the time to talk about. When they get on the court the discourse should heat up. Until then its all just noise

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 22h

I do not want to be reading a @solomonmissouri.bsky.social thread about Zohran fumbling his smoking hot wife. If this comes to pass, we will all be in hell.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h

missed that greta niehaus went and sat next to her dad during the 15th inning on friday night

greta niehaus sitting next to a statue of her dad, dave niehaus

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 22h

Who is the Matt Brown of this beat who can FOIA the catalog of uploads

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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