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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

New federal budget also kicks in so we're about to see the rubber hit the road

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

It’s bonkers. Like say what you will about Andrew Carnegie but after getting wealthy beyond compare he built libraries. Thiel and Musk and Ellison have been like “what if we restored the third reich? what if I became Big Brother? what if we ushered in an age of superstition, wouldn’t that be neat”

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2d

I want 10,000 words longform on how these drug-addled creeps have all openly embraced literal villainy. Like, the most clownish form of "I want to look evil." This feels different than a lot of their historical predecessors!

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

I like a good Taylor Ham + Egg + hard roll but also I would eat this sandwich in an instant

Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

Without price hikes, this is a 4.6% hit on gross and net margins for an industry that averages 6-7% EBIT margins. It's existential through countless supply chains

There is a zero percent chance we make it through 2026 without a severe economic crisis without a massive change in the administration

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 9h

“One victim….is AlphaUSA, a Detroit-based group that makes precision metal components….the company is incurring additional costs of $250K/month because of the 50% tariff it pays on steel nuts it imports from Taiwan — a lot for a company with annual sales of $65M."

www.ft.com/content/55d7...

‘This is existential’: Donald Trump’s tariffs drive US car sector into turmoil

[FREE TO READ] Michigan’s ‘Big Three’ carmakers forecast a combined $7bn tariff-related hit to earnings in 2025

www.ft.com

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

nope

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

We were talking about the death penalty, not gay marriage. I grew up Catholic

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

George Orwell had it nailed in 1946

orwell.substack.com/p/on-svengali

There is no question that the book is antisemitic. Apart from the fact that Svengali’s vanity, treacherousness, selfishness, personal uncleanliness and so forth are constantly connected with the fact that he is a Jew, there are the illustrations. Du Maurier, better known for his drawings in Punch than for his writings, illustrated his own book, and he made Svengali into a sinister caricature of the traditional type. But what is most interesting is the divergence of the antisemitism of that date—1895, the period of the Dreyfus Case—and that of today.

To begin with, du Maurier evidently holds that there are two kinds of Jew, good ones and bad ones, and that there is a racial difference between them. There enters briefly into the story another Jew, Glorioli, who possesses all the virtues and qualities that Svengali lacks. Glorioli is ‘one of the Sephardim’—of Spanish extraction, that is—whereas Svengali, who comes from German Poland, is ‘an oriental Israelite Hebrew Jew’. Secondly du Maurier considers that to have a dash of Jewish blood is an advantage. We are told that the hero, Little Billee, may have had some Jewish blood, of which there was a suggestion in his features, and ‘fortunately for the world, and especially for ourselves, most of us have in our veins at least a minimum of this precious fluid’. Clearly, this is not the Nazi form of antisemitism.

And yet the tone of all the references to Svengali is almost unconsciously contemptuous, and the fact that du Maurier chose a Jew to play such a part is significant. Svengali, who cannot sing himself and has to sing, as it were, through Trilby’s lungs, represents that well-known type, the clever underling who acts as the brains of some more impressive person.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 8h

it's the text version of posting the happy merchant meme and you should never cite it as a trope outside of very specific discussions with people familiar with late 19th century European Literature

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 9h

I beg you, before using the word "svengali," look up where it comes from. I beg you.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 9h

ChatGPT should tell these guys to go watch the Disney Classic Aladdin again because woof, this is rough

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 16h

this is incorrect, traditionally even the more conservative Reagan-republican Catholic generally and historically opposed the death penalty. Catholics becoming indistinguishable from Creationist Fundies is a very new phenomenon

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4d

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

I worked for a company that stored (not used or processed) one ton Chlorine Gas cylinders. Since it was a gas, we were subject to RMP. PSSR, Hazops, procedures, RAGAGEP, audits, annual reports, etc

Processing and using class 3 Solid oxidizers that explode if you look at em funny? Not subject!

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

If you store 10,000 lbs of butane in a tank, size of the vessel below, you're subject to ongoing, exhaustive process safety management requirements

But you can store, process & mix millions of pounds of gunpowder, solid chlorine, and ammonium nitrate and be subject to only a fraction of these reqs

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

yeah but it's a bit idiosyncratic, easier and better ways to make $$$ on that

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

The Chemical Safety Board has been begging EPA/OSHA to update process safety standards to include reactive solid chemicals for literal decades. It's Disgusting

www.primatech.com/technical/pt...

The CSB reiterated its recommendation to EPA from 2001:

Revise the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements, 40 CFR 68, to explicitly cover catastrophic reactive hazards that have the potential to seriously impact the public, including those resulting from self-reactive chemicals and combinations of chemicals and process-specific conditions.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

-West Texas Fertilizer Depot (2013)
-California Fireworks Depot (2025)
-Atlanta Chlorine Depot (2024)
-This incident

This and Countless other examples is a reminder that hazardous solids are exempt from RMP process safety rules, and deaths pile up every year. Shameful bipartisan fuckup

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A powerful explosion that tore through a central Tennessee ammunition plant on Friday morning has left 18 people missing, putting the small rural communities surrounding the facility on edge. Here’s what we know about the blast.

What We Know About the Explosion in Central Tennessee

The blast happened at a plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. Officials did not specify a death toll but said 18 people were missing.

nyti.ms

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

I'm sorry but assuming BTC specifically would crash on Tariff escalation is quite the reach. It's generally a risk-on asset that correlates to tech equities but that isn't always true

Trump policy insider trading is real but I'm not sure this trade was *that*

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

RDR2 lets you mass murder racists in the post civil war era

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

go away

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

everyone reading this reddit post has won however

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

it's because of nostalgia but not direct nostalgia. It's been parodied so many times that people hallucinate nostalgia for the original

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

the will smith eating pasta video was the best AI generated clip I've seen

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

She's gonna have to change her name to Losesome Elect-Shuns lmfao

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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