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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 6h

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine devoting your entire life to prostrating yourself before this man and when you die trying to further his movement he eulogizes you by saying "lmao skill issue git gud"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 14h

One of my "old man yells at cloud" takes is that I refuse to constantly re-name what I call sports arenas based upon whoever happens to be holding the naming rights at any given time, so I still refer to the place the Astros play baseball as Enron Field.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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Dave @pugganoche.bsky.social · 9h

Joe Buck: Welcome to thanks giving
[Joe Davis takes turkey out of the oven]
[carves turkey to see it’s pink]
Joe Buck: Oh yes
[Joe Davis takes bite of raw turkey]
[gets food poisoning]
Joe Buck: Oh God Yes

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

Hooting

Kevin Burkhardt fears Joe Davis may have gotten food poisoning from pink turkey
| "I just hope the tum tum is okay"

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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 9h

#DoctorWho

Sylvester McCoy sitting on a sofa. Caption:
"Looks like a giant turd."
"Yeah."

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 15h

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 10h

Like... why is there a window to nothing in that space?

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

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 · 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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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating discussion on the complexities of recovering lost and missing movies and TV shows. And absolutely ridiculous to hear about the threats and abuse from (a very small number of) Doctor Who fans who have a monstrous sense of entitlement.

filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 2d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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limousine-liberal.bsky.social @limousine-liberal.bsky.social · 12h

FAPGPT

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 19h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 13h

Yes! People didn’t remember what Trump did *during his first term!* He dropped the MOAB to hear it go boom! He tried to nuke a hurricane! He met the grieving families of murder victims and signed photos of their dead loved ones!

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h

in the last decade and a half, very few of us on the liberal side even bring up george w bush -- which is why im not optimistic about liberalism collectively remembering everything trump has done to us. we've already reduced reagan and bush to "not so bad" and you even see people praise goldwater

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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I imagine the demand for this exists, but probably not a trillion dollars worth of demand 😂

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 14h

This has to be sending up some alarm bells about the viability of this technology.

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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💀🧟‍♂️Kevin Church of the UNHOLY 🧟‍♂️💀 @beaucoupkevin.com · 14h

Enough going on in the world that I don't need someone telling me they don't like the movie where Kirk asks God what he needs with a starship.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip