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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 5h

fun fact. you know how people say em dashes are a common sign of AI writing? The oxford comma as well? It’s partially because fanfic writers LOVE those bitches, and genAI programs scrape the FUCK out of websites like AO3. Support fanfic writers, not the pieces of shit stealing from them.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

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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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 10h

successfully stopped biting my nails and the hard part now isnt even random daily urges its that i am far too lazy to trim/file them constantly and i want to just bite them the fuck off

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 1d

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone give me $10

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 1d

Chat on Saturday

A screenshot from a video game, two boys sit at a table in a train cabin facing the user with books opened in front of them. The one on the left has blonde hair, the one on the right has black. The graphics are old and not very detailed.

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 2d

truly everything surrounding football is bad, the very very small positives dont even come CLOSE to outweighing all the negatives

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 4d

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 4d

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 5d

eating apple slices doesn’t even come close to the primal animalistic experience of eating it whole. Sometimes I eat the core too. just to feel something.

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 6d

not to mention the SPORTS BETTING

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 6d

I have another one. Possibly more controversial. Football (American) should be banned. Studies have been done on football players’ brains postmortem (the only current way to diagnose CTE) and found that NINETY PERCENT had permanent brain damage from constant impacts, 99% for NFL Players. Ban it.

Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · Mar 11

Gunna start posting my opinions that could be seen as the most extreme

I think golf courses should be banned

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 7d

This is also why I highly encourage broadening your interests. Find multiple things you love, don’t focus all your time and energy into one singular thing that can be ripped away all at once. Don’t idolize celebrities. As someone neurodivergent I get how hard that is, but it’s vital.

Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 8d

I really do hate being the debbie downer or the “too woke” friend but you HAVE to stand your ground when it comes to your morals. Even when it hits something you love. NOTHING will change if you just let things slide when you have the ability not to. It SUCKS. It sucks SO BAD. But you have to.

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 8d

I really do hate being the debbie downer or the “too woke” friend but you HAVE to stand your ground when it comes to your morals. Even when it hits something you love. NOTHING will change if you just let things slide when you have the ability not to. It SUCKS. It sucks SO BAD. But you have to.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 11d

she constantlyyyy surrounds herself with MAGA people, her fiance literally said it was a “great honor” to have trump at super bowl lmao like im sorry but the signs are all there that she at the VERY least is tolerant of MAGA ideology, and neutrality is complicity.

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 11d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ALagtd/ for your viewing pleasure, i genuinely cried watching it they look so happy

The boats carrying food and water never made it to Gaza, but because military efforts were focused on the boats, people in Gaza were able to fish. The flotilla wasn't for nothing, they fed the people ...

TikTok video by 𓂆Z☪

www.tiktok.com

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 11d

If anyone needs good news- the Global Sumud Flotilla distracted Israel enough that Palestinians were able to FISH without being attacked and brought in a whole huge net of fish. They may not have reached shore with aid but their efforts still managed to bring them food

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 12d

its times like these that make me happy i got the entirety of the sims 4 for free (definitely totally legally mhm) instead of spending over a grand

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 14d

EA’s new owners have already stated theyre going to be heavily leaning on generative AI to cut costs so we better be keeping the same energy now with the Sims that we did with InZOI

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 15d

Welp, EA is now owned by a group including the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and Trump's son in law Jared Kushner (CEO of Affinity Partners).

Good luck Bioware - I wish your brand of queer centric RPGs good luck...

www.eurogamer.net/ea-privately...

EA privately acquired in $55bn deal by group of investors, including Saudi Arabia's investment fund and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA has officially been acquired by a group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in a private tr…

www.eurogamer.net

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16d

Spread the word about NSPM-7 🗣️

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 17d

Now that cold weather is approaching are the people who claimed using AC is irresponsible going to also yell at people using their heating (something far worse for the environment than AC) or is only one heat extreme worthy of not making yourself sick or dying from

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve started noting down words I have to look up while reading. Here are some from the last few months or so (the line separations are by book)

A list of words/phrases-
“schadenfreude, susurrus, karahi, sherwani, rubbed his knuckles across his chin?, monoglot, lackadaisical, parochial”

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 18d

dont worry bestie the update went quicker than they expected its already back up

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 19d

I swear to god if Nintendo doesn’t sue after that DHS pokemon video. Won’t stand against fascists but will sue a single disabled man to the point of basically making him an indentured servant (he owes them 30% of his income for the rest of his life.)

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 20d

Is this the rapture everyone’s been talkin about

A screenshot of an announcement post that says “AO3 will be down for about 20 hours starting at 07:30 UTC on September 26 (what time is that for me?) while we prepare some improvements to collection browsing. Please follow our status page for updates.”

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 21d

Saw the Witcher in concert on Sunday :) was very very fun everyone thank Luke for bringing me I demand it

A landscape shot of the stage, there is an orchestra playing below a large screen which is showing a scene from the game The Witcher 3

A selfie of me and Luke, I am wearing a cat school medallion from The Witcher.

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