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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

She just like me fr

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1h

have you ever seen a more villainous creature in your life

a fluffy white and gray tabby cat curled up and slumbering peacefully, she would have you think

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

An insane moment in film that comes directly from an insane moment in the novel.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 14d

Scene from inherent vice with Josh Brolin eating a chocolate banana as Joaquin Phoenix watches

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

3. Marilyn, who took acting incredibly seriously as an art form and also wanted people to put respect/paper on her name, would absolutely hate this.

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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 2h

Also, these are the students college professors have to worry about. There is a nearly circular Venn diagram showing where this group overlaps with the Turning Point group, who doxx professors with whom they disagree.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

Watched the excellent John Oliver episode about presidential libraries, which came out 3 days after I wrote this and also contains a Stephen Miller joke similar to one I made on here months ago and all I’m saying is if anyone there follows me we are on the same page and I got laid off recently

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11d

Did you know that the Trump Presidential LIbrary Foundation (run by Eric Trump, of course) was given a piece of Miami real estate likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars this week. Like, just donated to them. By the state. For nothing. On which they can build anything.

What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library?

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! A week ago, a plot of incredibly valuable land in downtown Miami belonged to public Miami Dade Co...

www.gravityisgone.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

Waiting for my inheritance to finally work its way through Chancery.

Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 2h

welcome to bluesky, the dying in debtor's prison of social media

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2h

This is a public university telling student journalists not to publish news and firing them if they disagree

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

Ooh that'd be worth tracking down a shank.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 3h

I am going to go out on a limb and say that being a department chair of a large English department at a public university in Texas in the year of our lord 2025 would be.....a very hard job.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3h

Baby!

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 5h

very Like Me to never post a selfie on here to the point that i worry people think my profile pictures are fraudulent and then finally post one puffed up on a sick day taken in low light with a shaky front camera hand. here’s a cat enjoying me laying in bed all day more than i am

a fluffy white and gray tabby cat laying on a person’s stomach, big polydactyl paws out, looking lovingly at the person

same cat, now pressing her head into the person’s hand

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

She's not being rewarded despite printing lies in the newspaper, she's being rewarded because she printed lies in the newspaper.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 3h

learn to cook one-pot/dish/pan dinners before you dedicate yourself to taking an extra course every quarter

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 16h

11. What is something that you wish someone told you before you went to college?

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4h

I often cite stats like LA County having a larger population than 40 states.

Or being over 4,000 sq miles. (LA City alone is over 500 sq miles!)

But this one is pretty mindblowing ... just IMMIGRANTS in LA are a larger population than 17 states? Whoa.

Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 4h

If the 3 million immigrants in LA County formed their own state, it would be more populous than 17 existing states.

This is why LA was top of mind for Trump & his ilk.

The County’s moved should be lauded - but this is too little & almost too late.

We need more $$$ and resources for our community.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not the first person to raise this but one of the fascinating things about American politics and political reporting is how much a follow-up question short circuits the brains of the politicians (and is a shocking thrill to the audience)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 10h

Thomas Crown Affair (1999) remains one of the best feminist romances of the twentieth century.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 3h

I don't often say "thank god for Walmart" but If you are stuck in a rural interstate hotel for a night and haven't had anything to eat in hours and do not want more fried food, you can find a heat-and-eat salmon and mashed potato meal and a bottle of cheap wine.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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