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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 9h

Sweden feministing again

Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 9h

Greta was stripped and had soldiers film themselves with her while Israel's far-right minister Ben-Gvir screamed at her. Absolutely degrading sexual abuse and the Swedish foreign minister's reaction is essentially "she asked for it".

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 18h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

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Maître Crayon @maitre-crayon.bsky.social · 10h

Bah du coup, le deal va sauter et le PS va voter la censure…
Ils sont pas très affuté à droite non plus, quand même

Sidonie 🍃 @isimvix.bsky.social · 10h

🥳 #PS

Tweet Ian Brossat - PCF

💣 La droite sénatoriale vient de vendre la mèche : par la voix de Malhuret, elle annonce que la suspension de la réforme des retraites sera remise en cause en Commission mixte paritaire, où la droite est majoritaire !

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 11h

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 13h

Heureusement qu'il a arrêté de gaspiller l'argent public
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Spooky Connections @spookyconnections.bsky.social · 7d

US taxpayers forked about $20 billion to, the pro-Israel / pro-Trump, President Javier Milei of Argentina who then performed a rock concert advertising and celebrating the publishing of his new book.

Meanwhile the average Argentinian is living in extreme poverty. 🧵
#spookyconnections

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 13h

Je viens d'apprendre que Javier "Le phare de l'Occident*" Milei avait décidé de fêter son affaire de corruption et la faillite de l'économie de son pays en faisant organiser un méga concert avec lui en star et j'imagine les articles qu'on aurait eu s'il avait été de gauche

*Copyright le Point

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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 15h

Une crise qui couve depuis longtemps.

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 16h

Le commerce des œufs sous tension, en raison de la forte demande et du surstockage

Protéine bon marché, l’œuf a la cote auprès des consommateurs. Si aucune pénurie ne menace, le léger déséquilibre entre offre et demande crée des phénomènes de rupture ponctuelle et chamboule un marché où la part des œufs bio a dépassé celle des œufs de poules en cage.

www.lemonde.fr

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 15h

The Red Cross got the bodies of 45 Palestinians who were tortured in Israeli prisons, a lot of them have heavy injuries and bruises

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 18h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Cathulhu (Cathy Lou if you work at Starbucks) @frankexchange.bsky.social · 17h

Maintenant, je dois compiler une lib c++ pour l'integrer dans cet exe, et dans un autre projet connexe. Compilé en lib statique; veulent une dll, ça sent fort la douleur dans le fondement.

Cathulhu (Cathy Lou if you work at Starbucks) @frankexchange.bsky.social · 12d

Ayé, c'est tout compilé avec la lib C qui me cassait les gonades. TIL un peu de Fortran; assez pour écrire le module "glue" qui manquait.

(Je connais pas spécialement le C non plus, même si j'ai un Kernighan and Ritchie chez moi. On rigole bien quand même)

Cathulhu (Cathy Lou if you work at Starbucks) @frankexchange.bsky.social · 13d

Update: hier j'ai réussi à compiler des exe fonctionnels. Yay!

Aujourd'hui, j'ai essayé de rajouter et linker une lib nécessaire, en C, appelée depuis du Fortran; ça m'a occupé l'aprem', et no joy le linker me chie dessus.
Pas yay.
Il est >21h et je relance une compil' en essayant un autre truc.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

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Cathulhu (Cathy Lou if you work at Starbucks) @frankexchange.bsky.social · 20h

Omg il écrit encore!! Je le croyais retraité

L'ours inculte @ours-inculte.fr · 1d

Tiens, la suite de la compagnie noire sort en VO le mois prochain on dirait

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

The grandfather of grimdark brings a brand-new book in the Chronicles of the Black Company. We're delighted to share an excerpt from Lies Weeping by Glen Cook!!

reactormag.com/excerpts-lie...

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L'ours inculte @ours-inculte.fr · 1d

Tiens, la suite de la compagnie noire sort en VO le mois prochain on dirait

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

The grandfather of grimdark brings a brand-new book in the Chronicles of the Black Company. We're delighted to share an excerpt from Lies Weeping by Glen Cook!!

reactormag.com/excerpts-lie...

Read an Excerpt From Lies Weeping by Glen Cook - Reactor

From the godfather of grimdark himself comes the first book in a new arc of his groundbreaking Chronicles of the Black Company…

reactormag.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 1d

Dirty secret of these tools:

If they charge by the query, and they encourage users to code by trial and error... there's a fairly obvious disincentive to getting things right the first (or even twentieth) time.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 22h

L'extrême-droite corse qui hurle que c'est la tradition qu'on assassine parce qu'un tribunal fait enlever une immense croix chrétienne installée dans un village en... 2022.

C'est mignon de découvrir que cette laïcité qu'ils aiment tant détourner au service de leur racisme les concerne aussi.

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 1d

La vérité du projet de budget Lecornu pour 2026 : pour l’assurance maladie et les missions non régaliennes de l’État, il est aussi austère que celui proposé par Bayrou. Pis, il épargne considérablement les ultrariches et les grandes entreprises. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

Ultrariches épargnés, austérité dans la santé : le budget Lecornu déçoit d’emblée

Pour ce qui concerne l’assurance maladie et les missions non régaliennes de l’État, le projet de budget Lecornu pour 2026 est aussi austère que celui proposé en juillet par François Bayrou. Pis, il é…

www.mediapart.fr

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

presume I'm not the first person to say this but real cool that actual human adults can't get up to regular, legal human adult stuff online anymore but somehow the robots doing porn will be fine

real cool!

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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ChristopherE @christopher664023.bsky.social · 1d

Oh here we go again with BBC America. What a joke. Did you know that BBC America is licensed from BBC UK by rightwing billionaires in the USA? It’s not really a BBC News outlet. It’s a franchise owned by Trump friendly oligarchs.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 1d

on the other hand this explains the extreme increase in volume and success of braindead bro content

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Protein is probably the most studied OTC supplement related to health & fitness - feels like a big thing to have missed previously! I'll be very curious to see if this article from Consumer Reports is replicated by academic researchers.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Cathulhu (Cathy Lou if you work at Starbucks) @frankexchange.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaand doing that when payment processors are cracking down on porn on Steam, itch.io, and so on. Bold move, cotton..

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