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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

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Released Palestinians Reunite With Their Families

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

Correction: is AJ+ (the like digital only part of Al Jazeera)

Palestinian Prisoner Reunited With His Daughter After 20 Years

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

Another man was reunited with his family after 2 years. Israeli soldiers had told the family he was dead. They'd grieved and mourned this man.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 2h

kinda. they also deliberately ask only certain (private) colleges and there’s a significant decrease in the number of people of one survey compared to a previous survey and a bunch of other shit. it’s intentionally making things look a certain way.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 9h

They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

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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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 8h

can’t wait for the inevitable leak of drivers licenses and passports with what kind of dirty things people talk about with chatbots

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 9h

I WROTE THIS AS A JOKE

Oh, except intersectionality. That one’s definitely a CIA plot, which I can prove with this image of Crenshaw standing next to Hillary Clinton.

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

aw come on

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

thread. scroll to the top from here.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

Why put out this study at all?

Anti-trans policy requires a belief that being trans is a trend. If the numbers of people ID'ing as trans is shown to have major fluctuations, it can be used to argue that trans identity is fake and social contagion. That's the point of this whole project.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

Why put out this study at all?

Anti-trans policy requires a belief that being trans is a trend. If the numbers of people ID'ing as trans is shown to have major fluctuations, it can be used to argue that trans identity is fake and social contagion. That's the point of this whole project.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

Indeed, the "changes" he's noting in the data can basically be accounted for as statistical noise considering the amount of people surveyed varied *drastically* between years, and he tossed out data that didn't agree with his conclusions.

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

badger was i never following you??

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

yeah i’m just not liking this tho

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🔥🤖 INSANE! Amazon FAR team made a #HumanoidRobot #wallflip —100% Real! #unitree #humanoid #robot

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

robots do not need to know how to do parkour

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

wait he did what for the navy

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 13h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 9h

that is actually terrifying, yes

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 10h

no

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 6d

free bill kezos. free link.

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Ahmad @kshs05.bsky.social · 12h

For two years, my family and I have been living through war, displacement, and hunger.

From one tent to another, from one cold night to the next.

Now we're sick all of us because of the freezing air and this torn tent that can't protect us anymore

tinyurl.com/AhmedinGaza

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h

Seems notable that Republicans are now pushing dual loyalty allegations against prominent Jewish political donors.

Facebook post from Congressman Thomas Massie: “Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson, a billionaire running nasty ads against me in Kentucky, “what do you love more, the United States or Israel?” She refused to answer him. He says that might mean she loves Israel more.

This isn’t AI, it’s real video…”

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 10h

oh yeah, the good smell

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 10h

hell yeag

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 10h

oh

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