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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 6h

With a ChatGPT ad above it, no less!

(Also I remember when that place actually sold cigars)

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 10h

The Tim Cook Labubu just dropped $AAPL

x.com/HYPEBEAST/st...

HYPEBEAST on X: "Tim Cook just got his own custom Labubu, complete with an iPhone 17 🟠 https://t.co/kowr9kvCxx" / X

Tim Cook just got his own custom Labubu, complete with an iPhone 17 🟠 https://t.co/kowr9kvCxx

x.com

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 11h

Altman: Erotica coming to ChatGPT in December

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Sam Altman on X: "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" / X

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

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 12h

I wish!

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 12h

I dunno I'm just repeating what Kernen tells me

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 12h

I thought it was a Bad Thing when the administration asks a social media company to take down content

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 1d

Of course!

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/o...

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 1d

My mom still calls it the "iWatch"

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to take my victory lap on this prediction. Dow's up 600 points.

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 1d

It's the second Monday in October.

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

media.tenor.com

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 2d

At least the Jets have a perfect record.

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 4d

Don't worry we'll get a taco before futures open Sunday

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

$SPX $FXI

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 4d

They did it

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 4d

Close the market

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 4d

As the president rants about China today, it's a good time to remind folks there is no TikTok deal.

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 4d

So many companies telling their staff to just “do AI” not knowing how specifically that makes them more productive. (In this case, 5x more) Or if the output is even good or just workslop.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d

Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 5d

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 5d

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.
People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community.
The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 5d

"They don't meet their friends as often..."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

PEPSI CEO, on @cnbc.com:

Lower-income consumers are "stretched, very stretched." Hispanics "are especially hurting. We see their mobility, their income, their behavior changing. .. They don't meet their friends as often. .. We're concerned about some parts of the population."

$PEP

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 6d

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, so that’s how he got the name for the show! 🤯

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Mike Calia @mikecalia.bsky.social · 6d

It’s fun to watch people try to challenge the wiretap knowledge of the longtime police reporter who (checks notes) created The Wire.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6d

It is mildly disappointing when you take a moment to abuse some meme-slinging wunderkind with belt-fired facts and instead of either doubling down into more moronity or crumbling into babbling what-I-meant-to-say apologia they simply run the fuck away.

Levi Holmes of the internet was no fun at all.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6d

Dear Moron Who Has Girded His Partisan Stupidity With Random Wikipedia Drivel: A pen register or DNR (dialed number recorder) is not a wiretap. It is in fact a preliminary investigative and legal step to a TItle III wiretap in that it records only numbers called. But this WASN'T EVEN THAT....

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 7d

I dunno that chart looks pretty simple to me 😵‍💫

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 7d

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 7d

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 7d

Tesla's new Model Y is slightly cheaper than the old Model Y and the stock is selling off

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/t...

Tesla prices Model Y standard below $40,000, debuting more affordable vehicle

The unveiling could be a long-awaited lower-cost model, the next-generation Roadster, or something else.

www.cnbc.com

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