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Truckin’

‘Ish

Did I say stop petting?

Cake is meant to be frozen, then eaten as breakfast with coffee

Oscar Schwartau scores!

#NCFC

Had a dream that included two of our previous kittahs, Elliot and Smokey.

Elliot always slept at the foot of the bed and would burrow under the blanket.

Norwich versus Ipswich is what the Premier League wish they could bottle and sell.

Fans with ownership
Owners with a grudge
Game play with an edge

Alright Norwich,

Bring the pain

arch manning lmao

two older men are standing next to each other and one of them is talking to the optometrist ALT: two older men are standing next to each other and one of them is talking to the optometrist

Burgess Meredith

For the win

It’s raining and yet the backward baseball cap with sunglasses firmly affixed to the bill persists.

#Wyoming

I’ve looked and no, I use reader view on edge which is a useful stand in

Lawd, this is the first time I’ve ever thought about using droid. Away vile temptress

Couple hour drive this a.m

Listened to the new Taylor Swift album

Mostly meh

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act - Wikipedia

It was a GOP Congress and Ronald Reagan that created the unfunded mandate to treat anyone, regardless of legal status. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours - Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated Let’s establish some facts: Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time. Every Sora 2 generation - in landscape or portrait - generates at 1280x704 - a variant of 720p resolution, and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one. Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it. It takes about a minute to generate each video. Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely expensive. Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than they charge on an API basis. Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, they’re annihilating all of their margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more. I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case. Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with their audio-generation models they released earlier this year.

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI spent $11.2 billion in compute, sales/marketing for $4.3bn in revenue in 1H 2025.

Desperate to grow ChatGPT, they launched Sora 2, which costs them at least $5 per generated video.

Here's $10 off a year of annual.
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I hike and go to the outdoors because:

It’s quiet, I can hear my heart and the blood rushing in my body. At once my mind can wander and focus.

Your drone ruins that for me.

Who are you and what have you done with @jenmsft.bsky.social

“.. While the average absolute miss on first prints between ADP and BLS private payrolls .. has been large (more than 80k), the cumulative change in ADP first prints over the prior six months has been close (within 20k) .. All this bodes negatively for the BLS report when it gets released.” 👀

Yaz

AI summary of how bad the ADP jobs numbers were ...
#EconSky

Fat bear week winner
CHUNK 32!!!

Fall ‘ish

Dreamt I and others all took our shoes and socks off at work. Worked in bare feet.

Hmmmm

Ann has me watching Below Deck.

They work for 3-4 weeks in a row. Get paid $15,000 cash and bitch every fathom of the way.

*as a 17 yr old I worked 4 months without a day off after graduation

The first page of a resignation letter by Regional Editor Erin Thompson, Sports Editor Jeff Helminiak and reporters Chloe Pleznac and Jake Dye. [Excerpt because the letter is too long to include in full] "Vance also said in the letter that she was “fully aware” of an effort to boycott Homer News advertising — stating that the paper would experience financial and reputational harm if it did not change its approach to covering community events. Rep. Vance never contacted the Homer News editorial team to discuss her concerns. Without consulting the editor of the Homer News or the reporter who wrote the story, Carpenter Media removed the original article from the Homer News website, only to republish a modified version several hours later that reflected the changes demanded by Rep. Vance. In the modified version republished by Carpenter management, there was no note to indicate the article had been changed. We want to be clear: We have no problem with Rep. Vance expressing her opinion of our coverage. We cover difficult and sometimes controversial topics. Respectful dialogue about that coverage is welcome. As a community newspaper, we regularly provide Rep. Vance with a forum to discuss her views. What we do have a problem with is Carpenter Media management changing a story at the behest of an elected official. We believe this destroys the credibility the public has placed in us as reporters and editors. This willingness to acquiesce to a public official’s editorial demands and have conversations with her about the direction of our coverage is a betrayal not just of the journalists who work for Carpenter Media, but of the company’s integrity as a purveyor of news."

The second page of a resignation letter by Regional Editor Erin Thompson, Sports Editor Jeff Helminiak and reporters Chloe Pleznac and Jake Dye. [Excerpt because the letter is too long to include in full] These actions were taken despite there being no immediate urgency to remove the content — Rep. Vance's criticisms were raised regarding what she perceived as political bias, not factual inaccuracy. Despite requests, we have not been informed of the content of dialogue between Rep. Vance and Carpenter Media management. In discussion with management our editor was told that the article did not meet their editorial standards and that the editing and reporting was “juvenile.” We cannot live up to the core responsibility of a community newspaper in such an environment. We, employees of both the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion, are resigning our positions, effective Oct. 13, 2025. Leaving these newspapers, at which we have spent a combined four decades, is not a decision we make lightly. We are proud of the work that we do covering local government as well as the arts, food, history, outdoors and sports. Though this decision is extremely painful for all of us, it is not difficult. We cannot do our jobs knowing that pressure from an elected official can mean our stories are edited without prior consultation with us. Because we care deeply about the work we do and what it means to the community, we are all giving the standard two weeks’ notice instead of resigning outright. We hope Carpenter Media takes the opportunity to get personnel in place to continue the legacies of the Peninsula Clarion and Homer News. We hope this incident provides incentive for Carpenter Media to handle threats from officials in a way that safeguards the valued trust that readers have in newspapers. The community deserves it."

Editors and reporters of the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion submitted their notices of resignation today, after management from Carpenter Media Group made changes to a published story last week in response to intimidation from a state lawmaker and without input from our newsrooms.
#aknews

I have a family member who lives in a rent controlled walk up on the Lower East side of Manhattan.

This deal is similar to the efforts to evict he and others.

Everyone except the tenant is party to the deal.

The Pres

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