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Just use Claude Code ffs. Even at the $20 per month tier you get more Sonnet requests than 93. That’s just pitiful.

Perplexity Search? Great.
Comet browser? Promising.

But their models?
The entire Sonar line is just Llama 3.3 fine-tunes.

$20B feels… optimistic.

Some people are out here shedding real tears over losing access to GPT-4o/o3 like it’s their childhood friend moving to the other side of the world. Buddy… it’s just new firmware.

This headline is obvious right-wing ragebait, but Vikings did settle in Muslim Spain (Seville, 844 CE) and there’s archaeological evidence some converted to Islam. Teaching about Muslim Vikings isn’t ‘woke’ - it’s documented history. Not the norm, but not preposterous either.

If your TikTok starts with ‘I tried the viral assblaster 5000’ but it’s literally the first time I’ve ever heard of it AND there’s a TikTok Shop link… Sure bestie, super viral. Anyway imma swipe away now.

GitHub Copilot joins Replit in having annoying usage limits as of this week. Cursor ruthlessly crushes context sizes so the agent can't remember anything. One day of using Zencoder and thngs are looking very interesting now.

There aren’t any fanboy flame wars because every other week there’s a new “best model” being released so then that chatbot becomes the new “best” chatbot.

Whichever chatbot you use the most is going to be the most useful to you because that’s the one that has the most context ABOUT you.

On top of that, some of the most well-loved episodes have been ones that don't develop the season arc at all and when your season is only 8 episodes long, there's just not enough room for those episodes.

The problem with the last two seasons of #DoctorWho isn't the writing, or the actors, or the move away from the "grungy" aesthetic of previous Doctors. The problem with the last two seasons is that an an 8-episode season isn't nearly enough content to properly flesh out a Doctor Who season arc.

All of your criticisms of JKR and the HP reboot are valid but I’m begging Bluesky users to not bully child actors. We don’t want to make any more Jake Lloyd situations.

Fuck Ki-Adi-Mundi. He gets to be an exception to all the rules and yet dogmatically insists on others following the rules.

If Ki-Adi-Mundi has 1000 haters, I am one of them. If Ki-Adi-Mundi has 1 hater, it is me. If Ki-Adi-Mundi has no haters, I am dead.
#StarWars

Oh we’re so fucked.

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A screenshot from the r/RedRising community on Reddit with the title "We need more Howlers in office" and attached is Kat Abughazeleh's campaign launch video.

Hey @katmabu.bsky.social thought you'd like to know that r/RedRising is howling your praises. Hail Libertas!

You’ve mentioned things like shoddy steel, bad welds, and now ‘tofu dregs,’ and it makes me feel like you’ve had a personal run-in with those issues. What projects or products gave you that experience?
/gen

Regarding the poverty: ironically, the World Bank. They put out a detailed, well-researched report in 2022 stating as such: openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

Regarding medical devices, a report from Deloitte: www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/...

I won't excuse Xinjiang’s late-2022 forced-labor abuses. That being said, China lifted ~800 million out of extreme poverty in four decades. Sure, bargain-basement Temu or Shein goods are low-end—but that doesn’t apply universally. China’s medical-device industry, for example, is world-leading.

I hope you don’t take this as being condescending, because that’s not how I mean it and I think we agree on a lot more than we disagree: I think you need to take a closer look at your beliefs regarding China. I get being anti-authoritarian but some of what you're saying is swerving into Sinophobia.

I’ve looked into it and the US has put up massive regulatory hurdles that make it basically impossible for a consumer to import a BYD car.

US-made cars do the same thing, they just report to your insurance company instead of the government.

Alternatively: American CEOs should get paid less money

Just wait until you see all the cool Chinese EVs from BYD that are $20,000 cheaper while still blowing anything our automakers are doing out of the water. If Chinese automakers were allowed here in the US, Ford, GM, etc. would be cooked.

Tesla Apparently Managed To Sell Just 6,406 Cybertrucks In The First Three Months Of 2025 Tesla's 2025 Q1 sales sure seems to spell disaster for the flagship Cybertruck

And over half of them are in the I-Drive/Dr. Philips areas of Orlando 🙃
www.jalopnik.com/1842050/tesl...

I CANNOT believe I missed the “bye Felicia” joke in Morning Star until my third read through #redrising

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch A few ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems.

This isn’t new at all. It’s used my name in the chain of thought since they released o1. OpenAI is more proud of the chain of thought in o3 and o4-mini so it’s making it more prominent, that’s why people are noticing it.
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If we don’t get Magneto in a speedo I’m rioting.

OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are cool and all but what I'm really waiting for is Teams and Plus users to get access to the Operator agent.

It’s incredible how wrong this post is.

1. This bill was introduced on April 1st, before Trump’s tariffs were announced.
2. These are sanctions, not tariffs.
3. Thinking “just one more round of sanctions, that’ll show Russia” is definitely an opinion

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Openvibe is doing some cool stuff on the fediverse

London I am inside of you