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John @jeronimofic.us · Feb 4

Prayer for the logging on:

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field medic - song i made up to stop myself from having a panic attack just now

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John @jeronimofic.us · 2h

Angels smh

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 5h

ruled over by a reich of shirt in pool guys

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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John @jeronimofic.us · 17h

And most companies.

John @jeronimofic.us · 17h

The utility of the demand is the flashing red light.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 18h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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John @jeronimofic.us · 1d

This is Benioff’s POV

John @jeronimofic.us · 1d

This is a fact.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 1d

Endlessly attacking Trump as depraved and support for him as a form of moral failure actually made people stop supporting him. Shame and disgust are very powerful weapons.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

"what the fuck just happened"

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the 400-foot unassisted double play

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John @jeronimofic.us · 1d

Blake Snell looks like a character in a Coen brothers’ movie. #nlcs

John @jeronimofic.us · 1d

Loins, girded. #Brewers #NLCS

John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

and Trump doesn’t give a shit. He got his “peace deal”

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John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

There is no incentive for Israel to keep the peace now that hostages are free. Actually, Netanyahu’s career depends on not keeping it.

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John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

The hostage release incentives Netanyahu to break the peace deal.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 2d

It’s amazing watching so many people choose the wrong side of history while history is happening all around us

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John @jeronimofic.us · 2d

lol

John @jeronimofic.us · 3d

Where could i purchase one of those gorgeous plaid Brewers sport coats I saw in the champagne celebration last night?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 3d

Luffy's straw hat is yellow, like straw, and towards the 'end' of the story, which hasn't ended, he doesn't turn into Christ, he turns into a Tex Avery cartoon. At least Charles Manson had listened to Helter Skelter.

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 3d

I can't believe this is real

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John @jeronimofic.us · 3d

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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