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Combination. I see this, my instant reaction was. 'rolls eyes', good lord, it's another Tuesday isn't it.

OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...

10K Word Premium: OpenAI is another unprofitable, desperate AI startup building products on its own models, spending $2.60 to make $1. Sora 2 is a reckless attempt to grow ChatGPT that costs them at least $5 per generated video. They need to raise $20bn+ before EoY.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

This brings back so many memories of dial up, and the fact that bonding just worked. Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ25...

Fluff Festival '25 in my hometown of Somerville a resounding success

@darthbluesky.bsky.social

If the victims weren't carrying IDs when ICE kidnapped them, DHS might not even know who they are. If the victims' families are afraid to come forward, it could take days, weeks or longer.

Night shot of the US Capitol lighted up.

Would y'all mind showing up and doing your job, please??

Just a little, even.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

ByteDance is the only other significant AI customer at Oracle. They’re going to try and feed TikTok’s revenue into Oracle, not realizing the problem is that TikTok is also unprofitable. Have fun with all of that!

How long will it be until some poor suffering .net dev has to ask me to formally state in an email if .net was affected by this weekends npm kerfuffle because their corporate compliance team is making them ask?

And which US bank will they work for?

Managed to capture this single lightning strike as a storm moved out to sea this evening. Captured in Vaucluse at around 6.35pm.

Media licensing available via Severe Weather Australia

Awwwwee. I love them!

CRUCIAL NEWS:

CBS News says it will no longer edit interviews on Sunday show ‘Face the Nation’, days after Kristi Noem complaint The network announced Friday it will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews, subject to national security or legal restrictions

Yeah right, I doubt it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Screen shot from Twitter from the Reading Report that says "BREAKING: CBS News announced it will stop editing interviews and will only broadcast mice or live-to-tape interviews from now on." Blow the images are displayed. On the left a headshot of Vice President JD Vance. On the right the CBS logo.

I can't even tell what is or isn't real anymore.

I’m not sure about you, but I’d rethink my religion if my religious broadcasting station could afford a $500 million dollar contract.

I’d think to myself about how that money isn’t helping my community.

I may just be dumb though.

A lot of media has normalised to a level of "oh so we're doing [thing] now," a willingness to publish whatever someone says and to let the reader decide its validity, as if the journalist is simply there to convey statements rather than any analysis of any kind

Two things can be true:

1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings

2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

Next week's bestseller 😃

The encoding ladder for a 1440p60 Twitch stream will be:
1440p60 7.5mbps HEVC
1080p60 6mbps AVC/H264
+ a couple lower res/bitrate H264 transcodes
So it might seem a bit misleading that the bitrate is "only" 7.5mbps for 1440p, as it's a much better codec!

Whoa I've been wondering when this was going to finally happen.

From earlier tonight at 8:38PM CDT, East Bound 435 at K-7 looking back to the North at the shelf cloud as the storm approaches Kansas City. #kswx

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to swiftly deport migrants to third countries The Trump administration lost a bid on Friday to lift a judge's order barring it from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own including Libya and El Salvador without first hearing their concerns about their safety.

Thank all that’s sane.

JUST IN: The Trump administration lost a bid to lift a judge's order barring it from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own including Libya and El Salvador without first hearing their concerns about their safety reut.rs/3H0rZhe

Rather incredible structure and lightning on this tornado producing supercell NE of Post Texas. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA...

Golf ball sized hail falling NW of San Angelo, Texas. @NWSSanAngelo #txwx Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA...

Finally implemented the new setup for the additional front facing camera. The angle has worked out well. I wasn't able to capture the tornado from the drivers seat, but the top camera managed to capture the weak tornado to the right. Captured between Barnhart and Sterling City in Texas today.

Tornado warned storm ongoing. This was the 5 mins ago SE of Fort Stockton, Texas Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSMidland #txwx

This is the current view of the severe storm SE of Fort Stockton, Texas Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSMidland #txwx

Current view of the severe storm SE of Fort Stockton, Texas, Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSMidland #txwx