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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10m

also most cooking oil in the US is imported from europe, and we're importing like $300m oec.world/en/profile/h...

chart showing half of the US seed oil imports is from european countries

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9h

Ah I see the tariff RNG program has booted up again

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h

TRUMP: THINKING ABOUT GIVING SPAIN TRADE PUNISHEMENT

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17m

COOL COOL COOL
(remember when trump was backing down lololol)

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1h

pics related it's me with my dad in some of the coolest places

me at the grand canyon, as photographed by my dad

the Epcot "leave a legacy" locator with our faces on it

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1h

happy 80th birthday to the guy who taught me the most important stuff I know, and has taken me to some of the coolest places i've ever been: my dad!!

my dad wearing a comically large pair of glasses in a restaurant

my father and i looking deranged in a restaurant; he is grinning and i have my tongue out

my father wearing multiple christmas hats in our old dining room

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

ngl i kinda fuck with the BUTTER Shirt

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

LMFAO IT GOT LABELED

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

i think about this clip every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5dR...

Family Guy S18E16 - Peter works from home

YouTube video by doubleu2

www.youtube.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

how things are going rn

screenshot showing spotify on my computer is playing "my own summer (shove it)" by deftones on a playlist called "mentally a divorced dad (gym rock)". I am doing very okay.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

it's dynamic customer-centric content with a foucs on hyperagile marketing paradigms, obviously?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

"adapt to your visitors"
(later)
"hey jerry, why is the website suddenly in chinese?"

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

AHAHAHAHA
consistent brand identity? I don't know her

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10h

Who among us

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Studies based on the medical records of millions of people taking GLP-1s," such as Ozempic, "for obesity or diabetes have revealed strong signals of their potential as addiction treatment,” Maia Szalavitz writes.

Opinion | She Struggled With Addiction, Then Tried a Weight Loss Drug

Is a powerful addiction treatment already invented?

nyti.ms

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 9h

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian. https://to.pbs.org/3J8JYDA

WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Charlie Kirk posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian.

www.pbs.org

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

they are completely insane and divorced from consensus reality, and they have a deep seated psychosexual desire to be punished for Something

Does any of this sound familiar

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

So you have these people who are wealthy but often through no work of their own or only the most superficial engagement in work, they’re addicted to drugs, they are obsessed with their status and being seen in high-end restaurants

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

You know, I was talking with a friend of mine about our current political moment and the issues we were having in our society, and they said that they had just re-read the books American psycho && bonfire of the vanities, and their argument was basically that we’re being governed by Patrick Bateman

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

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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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14h

hrm www.apolloacademy.com/esg-as-part-...

ESG as Part of the Fiduciary Responsibility - Apollo Academy

According to a recent Morningstar survey, the proportion of investors who view ESG as part of their fiduciary duty has...

www.apolloacademy.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

Solomiia, a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl, had been separated from her mother for more than three years, and now the two have to get to know each other all over again.

Her grandma saved her from the Russians, then chose to say goodbye

The 9-year-old Ukrainian girl had been separated from her mother for more than three years, and now the two have to get to know each other all over again.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h

Silver price hits record amid scramble in London market on.ft.com/3J8OoKy

Silver price hits record amid scramble in London market

The metal has staged a bigger rally than gold this year

on.ft.com

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22h

Math class is a minefield this fall for teachers, who are going to extraordinary lengths to avoid uttering the two numbers that send teens into a frenzy

The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers

‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’

on.wsj.com

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