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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think it would happen here for the same reason but it's funny to remember how economic mismanagement leading to chronic shortages of cooking oil is one of the major factors that sparked the massive protests that doomed Ceausescu.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 14h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 7h

dude i looked up the origin of “67” and it may as well have been in martian

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 8h

Alllll of this is gonna be stolen from romance novels and AO3 and none of it is going to be what the type of people who think ChatGPT erotica is a good idea want. But also Romancelandia scammers will be scamming. (Yes, if you write a book with ChatGPT, you are scamming)

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

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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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 8h

Do you do this if your business is going well?

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 8h

OpenAI CEO announces they will soon allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content.

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Lisa LaRue @lisalarue.bsky.social · 9h

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 8h

Charge users the real cost of AI

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8h

Does this guy have some kind of Producers situation where he only gets paid if there’s a junta

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 8h

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.news has learned 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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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9h

MAHA: We’re deeply concerned about chronic diseases, but please don’t try to track their prevalence.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 9h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 9h

My college roommate and I listened Sunday nights on KLSX, I see many of the late 80s Funny Five staples are there in the all time top 40 (but I get how Rich Little's "Contra Rap" didn't stand the test of time). Thanks for all the laughs Dr.!

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 2d

The influential, top hat-wearing DJ, Dr. Demento, wrapped his long-running radio show yesterday with a countdown of his top 40 most requested songs.

www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

www.avclub.com

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

That sounds really good.

I was trained by good Eastern European immigrant home cooks and went outward from there. I am somewhat limited by my family's self-imposed dietary restrictions.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

Any truly foreign cuisine is going to have some awesome stuff and some very weird stuff and medieval European/ME cooking is definitely foreign to modern America.

Also: so many pies. And subtleties.

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

I don't personally do medieval cookery. I have a friend who has done it and the flavor profiles were often what I would consider kind of weird. Rosewater instead of vanilla, sweet seasonings on meat, etc. It was regional & medieval civilization was not limited to Europe (she did a lot of Ottoman)

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

For acid, apple cider and red wine vinegar don't taste that much different than rice vinegar.

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

Nope.

I sometimes use fish sauce and coconut aminos in my duck soup, but mostly I tend toward herbs and citrus.

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 9h

I have never used either of these to flavor my soup.

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 9h

If you're going to a No Kings protest this Saturday (as why would you not?), I have a little sermon to put in your pocket and take along.

Text is Luke 18:1-8, Jesus' story about the little old lady who bullies a rotten judge into giving her justice: lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 9h

completely unfair that I can play ORC in Scrabble but not ENT

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11h

😭👌 she said just a little bit of brain got ate by worm so don’t worry

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Cheryl Hines promised that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain worm 'ate just a little bit' of her husband's brain. 'So don't worry.
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The Worm 'Ate Just a Little Bit' of RFK Jr.'s Brain

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 10h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 11h

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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