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@winterreisende.bsky.social

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what power art thou who from below hast made me rise unwillingly and slow from beds of everlasting snow I keep my online and offline lives separate. Academic, musician, writer, among other art forms. #nobridge

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · Jun 8

my life goal is to die anonymously in a flat in Berlin, to be discovered only six months later by a small avant-garde circle

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

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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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t get why people are so squeamish about it, I would totally break a butterfly upon a wheel if it had it coming.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 11h

These guys are all Nazis, it's really that simple. They deserve the fate of Nazis

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Leonard @droseragonist.bsky.social · 11h

this is such a gutpunch. Fenway positioned itself as such a central, nationally leading resource for trans health care, and then they pull this?? I'd love to know who to shake by the shoulders right about now.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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joyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 11h

really had enough of the sword lesbian shit

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · 12h

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · 12h

and there was much rejoicing

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 12h

Serious chance he's basically going to break one of the world's premier sporting events on a whim one day.

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

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

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15h

this is the “break glass in case of not enough potentially monetizing users”

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 15h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13h

lol. article 1 dead on arrival. not a republic, it's a junta with a functionally dissolved legislative body.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 15h

‘we successfully chased ppl back in to the closet. huzzah!’ — @mattyglesias.bsky.social

if you’re looking for the ppl responsible for contemporary fascism you should start with ‘liberal’ political advisors like matt. without them it wouldn’t have happened.

onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

people are acting like this is a study talking about all trans people but it’s just about nonbinary people which makes sense that this is lower, 9 out of 10 nonbinary people i’ve ever met have now transitioned lol

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder: leaving the ECHR is not a popular position with voters! But the 3 most prominent parties in the country are all at least leaning towards it for some reason!

Do British people want to leave the ECHR? Here’s what the polls say

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights has become a defining issue for political parties

www.independent.co.uk

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

this is probably one of the most public displays of how grandpa is increasingly desperate and confused for a way out

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.