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John @jeronimofic.us · Feb 4

Prayer for the logging on:

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field medic - song i made up to stop myself from having a panic attack just now

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John @jeronimofic.us · 6h

I don’t think this is quite right.

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John @jeronimofic.us · 6h

These DraftKings will the Brewers score this inning bet ads are so predatory

John @jeronimofic.us · 6h

Baseball, what a mistake.

John @jeronimofic.us · 6h

I don’t care for the Dodgers or their fans.

John @jeronimofic.us · 7h

The Plan: Start Ashby and let him walk people to extend the inning until the shadows are right over home plate.

John @jeronimofic.us · 7h

Attn: @rubie.bsky.social

John @jeronimofic.us · 8h

I think I need to recalibrate my tv screen because strikes keep showing up outside that box! #NLCS

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 10h

Ok fine it’s longer than 6 words but this is the greatest short story ever written.

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John @jeronimofic.us · 19h

There are so many external financial and capital pressures on this, not to mention the laws of the known universe, but he always seems to brush them aside. Klein tried to pin him down on that but he is so evasive on it.

John @jeronimofic.us · 19h

This is what I thought you meant. Even without the Rationalist context, I find his answers overly confident and smug when they ultimately boil down to, “and then this will happen and that will happen and we’ll all die.”

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John @jeronimofic.us · 19h

Can you say that another way?

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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John @jeronimofic.us · 1d

Angels smh

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

ruled over by a reich of shirt in pool guys

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

And most companies.

John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

The utility of the demand is the flashing red light.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

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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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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John @jeronimofic.us · 3d

This is Benioff’s POV

John @jeronimofic.us · 3d

This is a fact.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 3d

Endlessly attacking Trump as depraved and support for him as a form of moral failure actually made people stop supporting him. Shame and disgust are very powerful weapons.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

"what the fuck just happened"

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the 400-foot unassisted double play

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