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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 3h

a new guy "chatgpt user with no mental health problems" has been invented

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5h

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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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

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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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

“we need to replace the gop with a better republican party!”, “we need to form a new center-right party!”, yeah great plans. or you could try one that doesnt suck ass.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 1d

tetris worlds, print ad, imagery (2001) archive.org/details/nint...

a red t tetris piece with legs is running towards a man, holding a bunch of flowers on a beach. text: tetris is back
smaller text: if you love it then, you'll love it even more now.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Columbus it's Mrs Columbo Day

TV Guide cover featuring Kate Mulgrew as Mrs Columbo and the caption Here comes Columbo's wife.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · Sep 15

every ideology has a basic question it grapples with. for example, in anarchism, it is "how do you balance individual freedom with communal solidarity". in leninism it is "how do you keep state power from becoming an end in itself". in libertarianism it is "what is the age of consent in my state"

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

man i missed seeing tim meadows in stuff. just put him in your show and let him say whatever. it hits every time

tim meadows in peacemaker saying “But you almost got Titties killed”

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 1d

husband: I didn’t know there was a horror series about cell phones
me: you’re going to have to be a little more specific
h: they just had a bumper for “the black phone 2”
m: that one is actually about landlines

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2d

The Niners kicker carrying my otherwise terrible fantasy team every week

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · Jan 25

you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible

the cover of the book “The OpenGL SuperBible”, by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Jr., and Nicholas Haemel

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

my dude at the pork store is VERY bored, he is GETTING UP to some shit

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

YOU: I don't know, that could be go-

ME: *slamming this shit down like a yugioh card*

Same website, two photos of sausages. Top one says

Choco mint- fresh chicken sausage with dark chocolate, black cherries and fresh mint

Second one says

Choco peppers- chicken sausage with dark chocolate, black cherry and hot pepper flakes

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 3d

manifesting parental derangement by creating a rigid taxonomy of ”’mine!’ toddlers” and “‘no!!’ toddlers.” watch this space for when adults start convincing each other that their problems all source to being no-toddlers in a mine-toddler society

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 4d

i think about this tweet a lot

tweet from @arod_twit:

"characters in tv shows are too self aware now! every emotional convo is like "i guess i yelled at you earlier because i never processed dad leaving" no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Moon Snail Music @moonsnailmusic.bsky.social · 4d

In middle school my friend printed this out and brought it to his catholic school and got in trouble

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Fart Vision @slugworlds.bsky.social · 4d

ok so the deal is that magic the gathering (terminally fortnitified) got the license to make a tournament legal spiderman set but the license doesn't cover digital products so they need to make a functionally equivalent but non-spiderman themed set specifically for online play

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Dec 26

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hanavesinauttija:
"I went to the forest that makes you have multiple pronouns and accidentally touched some poison ivy there"

hanavesinauttija

"now I'm it/she"

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 5d

Honey, the new STFU About Chicago pins just dropped. #chicago

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