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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

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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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 13h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 7h

Hahahaha!

Thanks to ya'll here on Bluesky I found out my doctor was doing something illegal. Went to report it and found out that the agency where you report it to is permanently closed.

So that's cool and fun and the government is functioning perfectly, no notes.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

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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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 15h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 13h

Rip to an incredible talent

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 1d

May God forgive those who believe history began on 10/7 and may God punish those who tricked them

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Now that the final 20 Israeli hostages are free, remember: those claiming violence “began on 10/7” want us to ignore that Israel was forced to free 2,000 Palestinians hostages—some 20 years w/o charge—& 8,000 remain.

If Hamas holding 20 is violence—& I agree it is—what is when Israel holds 8,000?🤔

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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 1d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

ICE is now richer than most of world’s militaries thanks to Trump’s new funding

ICE’s annual budget increased from $8.7 billion to $27.7 billion

www.independent.co.uk

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the 6th Amendment was violated when a juror completely lost her mind and viciously coerced other jurors to return a death verdict even though they opposed it and voted 11-1 for life without parole. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

On the second day of deliberations, “even when the other
eleven jurors . . . voted for life without parole” in an internal
poll, “Chancey would not even consider it.” Id., at 71a–72a.
At that point, the foreperson wrote a note to the trial court
explaining that the jurors were “‘unable to come to a
unanimous decision on either death or life imprisonment
without parole as a sentence.’ ” Id., at 9a. Chancey,
believing the note as written would result in a mistrial,
revised the note to say that the jurors were “‘currently
unable to come to a unanimous decision.’” Id., at 9a–10a.
The court instructed the jury to continue deliberating.
Chancey then “snapped.” Humphreys v. Sellers, No.
1:18–cv–02534 (ND Ga., Sept. 19, 2018), ECF Doc. 42–7, p.
443. She yelled, cursed, and screamed that she would “stay
[t]here till forever if ” that is what it took “for [Humphreys]
to get death.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 9a. She threw the
victims’ photos across the table and demanded, “‘[D]o you
want this to happen to someone you know?’” Ibid. She
reminded the jurors of the similar details of her own attack,
and told them that “‘they had to reach a unanimous
decision or [Humphreys] would be paroled,’” which was not
true under Georgia law. Ibid. She then levied personal

attacks against the jurors and refused to engage in any
debate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, jury deliberations almost
completely broke down. Screaming could be overheard from
the courtroom. One juror “‘took a swing’” at Chancey and
punched a hole in the wall. Ibid. Jurors were seen crying
on several occasions. A juror later recalled that “it was as
if an evil force took over . . . Chancey.” ECF Doc. 33–12,
p. 13. The foreperson even wrote a note asking to be
removed from the jury because of the “‘hostile nature of one
of the jurors.’” App. to Pet. for Cert. 12a. The court instead
gave an Allen charge and instructed the jury to deliberate
further. See Allen v. United States, 164 U. S. 492 (1896). It
also rejected defense counsel’s renewed motion for a
mistrial. On the third morning of deliberations, the jury
returned a unanimous verdict of death.
The above facts constitute a likely violation of
Humphreys’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
The problem for Humphreys is that these facts came to light
largely through juror affidavits and juror testimony
obtained after the trial. The Georgia courts held this
evidence inadmissible under Georgia’s no-impeachment
rule, which generally prohibits the use of juror testimony to
impeach a verdict, even in death penalty cases. See App. to
Pet. for Cert. 325a (citing Spencer v. State, 260 Ga. 640, 643,
398 S. E. 2d 179, 184 (1990)). The no-impeachment rule,
however, is not an absolute shield, and in extreme cases it
must give way to constitutional guarantees.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 19h

As the bull market turns 3 years old and becomes ever more concentrated in a handful of companies building a speculative technology, the Trump administration is systematically removing guardrails in every major risk category. Fun.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/fragility-...

Fragility Is Getting Scary

The opposite of risk management.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

I like to listen to the audiobook first and then go back and read the paper version

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

The most placeable photo background of all time lol

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

Good on you SeaTac www.king5.com/article/news...

SEA Airport won't play video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for government shutdown

In a statement, the airport said it won't play the video on TSA screens due to the political nature of the content.

www.king5.com

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

Delightful!

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

Me in mid 2000s after winning the world champs of a card game I learned to play (incorrectly) the night before.

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

great looking piece!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

One hour until the debut of Bad Pedophile.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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dave767.bsky.social @dave767.bsky.social · 1d

Calculated, calculated, what a save! what a save!

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so good at rocket league

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in awe

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 2d

“Just get it right”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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