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Aura Wellness Center @aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social · 20h

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When you give everything you've got all your life, you hope there will be some help from the system you paid into.

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 8h

Who could have guessed
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Shrapnel from Marines anniversary demonstration detonates over California interstate and hits squad car, highway patrol says | CNN

An artillery shell fired as part of the Marine Corps’ 250-year anniversary celebrations prematurely detonated over Interstate 5 in California Saturday, striking a patrol vehicle with shrapnel, accordi...

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 8h

TIL Ang Lee was attached to Terminator 3 and my head is about to explode by what that could have been. He did Hulk instead

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

At brunch and asked if I could get this mixed berry puree and orange juice mocktail on the menu but with prosecco in it

Bartender came out and called me a genius, I'm gonna be riding this high all day

Photo of me, wearing a green romper with a white tank top under it, hold up by drink proudly and beaming 😁

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 21h

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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Steven Hassan PhD @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com · 14h

Russia has kidnapped a reported 30,000 Ukrainian children and is reportedly brainwashing them.

This strategy? It’s terrifyingly familiar. Hitler did it with the Nazi Youth: target the young, sever their ties to family, culture, and country, and reprogram their minds.

Putin’s Abduction and Brainwashing of Ukraine’s Children

An Analysis by Cult Expert Dr. Steven Hassan

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 10h

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 13h

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

He ain’t wrong

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Instead, Apptopia says it’s possible that the experimentation phase with the ChatGPT app is over, and now it’s becoming a part of users’ daily routines. People are likely using the app when they need it or remember to use it, as compared with the increased use it saw when it was still new.
For OpenAI, that means the company will have to invest in app marketing or release new features for it to boost some of these core metrics again, just as other established mobile apps have to do. It can no longer rely on novelty alone to provide growth.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I think about how much Wikipedia has improved its credibility from where it was 15 years ago alongside so many other digital ways of finding information completely trashing theirs.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

This is another customer paying $200 a month for ChatGPT. Now there’s a happy customer!

r/ChatGPTPro
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PRO USERS - What are your custom instructions...
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I see no point in memories. I'm a researcher in hydrodynamics. Sometimes it would get something totally and completely wrong, I don't want it to remember the wrong output and reference it later again. I clean out my chats often.
At some point I had so many chats, it would reference the same wrong stuff over and over again. Keeping chats to the minimum, not using any memory - I find is the best way.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 8h

The scale of the production is massive with these huge location sets and stage sets. Tons of primary colors in the production design. Interesting exploration of trauma as the birth of Hulk. The ending was mud in '03 on 35mm and VHS. On 4K HDR it's clear and understandable

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 9h

Decided to give Ang Lee's Hulk (2003) another shot. Haven't seen in over decade. Hated it in '03. Wanted to try and appreciate the 4K with a different intent and on its own terms. Fascinating failure. Wonderful example of massive budget Hollywood filmmaking before CG was everything

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 13h

Nailing the whole whitewashing Trump thing

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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Night of the Living Ted Raymond @tedraymond.bsky.social · 16h

Somewhere along the way in the pursuit of objectivity, the language of commercial news reporting became unnecessarily obfuscative. "What appeared to be an A.I.-generated video" like, no, it's A.I. Just use your eyes. "Dumps brown liquid." It's shit. Just use your eyes.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 13h

YES! Thank you all for coming out this weekend! We will EXPAND next week for those waiting to see!! 57 (and counting) entirely sold out shows for this first weekend of FRANKENSTEIN!!

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 2d

@realgdt.bsky.social’s FRANKENSTEIN is the movie I’ve wanted to see of one of my favorite books. An emotional biography of Mary Shelley conversing with Del Toro & his collaborators, about how we all have a choice to pass on pain or mercy. The most tragic, bloody & compassionate Frankenstein film.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

Good thing the military isn't woke anymore and is willing to take the fight to our enemies, like Colombian fisherman and Interstate 5.

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Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social · 16h

After being forced to "upgrade" to Win 11, I find @microsoft.com Dragon Naturally Speaking won't work unless I upgrade to 16 for $700. Without Dragon, it took me 15 min. to type this. So, I have no choice. God bless disability tax. Beware, fellow disabled peeps.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
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WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
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Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
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Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20h

Israel has already killed least 51 people in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, now it’s resuming airstrikes.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 18h

The other day, I caught @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein on a 35mm print. Even though the movie was shot digitally, can't deny, seeing it on a print definitely adds to the atmosphere of the piece, which is something that helps when the film is every bit as gorgeous as it is.

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Scott C Bourgeois 💣 @scottybomb.bsky.social · 14h

A real “sir, you don’t need to be embarrassed, you’re already in the sex shop” situation.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 16h

The perils of AI: The AP uses STATS LLC, a British sports AI company (they once owned).

The team and players for this AI recap are all wrong, they took the Texas Southern vs Virginia-Lynchburg game and switched team names and scores.

Now it's on ESPN, CBS, and other AP subscribers

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Cinematological🇨🇦 @cinematological.com · 15h

Exciting to see Paramount get strip mined to buy WB so they both can be venture capitaled into dust but first become MAGA AI studios

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Paramount Skydance is preparing to layoff about 2,000 US employees.

Paramount president Jeff Shell said that “painful” layoffs would be coming after the merger with Skydance. Now Variety is reporting they’re going to begin the week of October 27th. It’s also expected ...

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