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minmaxmango.bsky.social
A Menace. (she/her)
@minmaxmango.bsky.social
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Black eyeliner is my supporting character. [ Mexicana-Americana. ] Won "Most Complicated" award in high school math class. #1 hater of chatgpt and everything genAI. 30+ y/o.
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inkwell.bsky.social
With the recent news I am deeply disappointed and disgusted.

Disney would be nothing without human artists and with AI or not they will continue to be nothing without human artists. For that reason I don’t think this will last. I will no longer accepting assignments or work based on Disney IP.
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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mjgault.bsky.social
Iron Man coming at you soon, nice and sloppy
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
my toxic trait is that I will wait until something is falling apart to replace it, but then I will still hold onto the ruined thing, and justify "I can still use it, though".
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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scottpb.bsky.social
too real lol
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
I wrote "chix" instead of "chicken" on my shopping list, and I feel like I have lost touch with my roots with that one.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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meidastouch.com
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.

Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen

Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social
Here are the Democratic senators up in 2026. If one of them is yours, find their primary opponent and start boosting them. Primary blue no matter who

Cory A Booker (NJ)
Christopher Coons (DE)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Ben Ray Lujan (NM)
Edward Markey (MA)
Jeffrey Merkley (OR)
Jonathan Ossoff (GA)
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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adrimakesart.bsky.social
using genAI and calling yourself an artist is like taking a shit and calling yourself a chef
March 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason. It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Just Fuckin Quit Then
October 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
It's way, way too easy to dunk this dude into oblivion, but I will leave it at: goog|e really doesn't care how much you know or think you know. They care that they are getting your data and your money, and that's about it.
cait.bsky.social cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Oct 10
guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d Join Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals Debt & Money Hi there and thanks for reading. I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem. Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset. Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity. I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k. Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45. Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps. Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output. Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API. Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days. tom_watts • 3d According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code. ••• 146 ShavedAp3 OP • 3d Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to. Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did. If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much. If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things. Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours. • • • 4
October 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
it's exhausting being heavily critical of A I in a tech position.

every day I have to hear about snake oil and why I should drink the snake oil.
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
yeah of course he fucking does.
October 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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proton.me
Avoiding US tech? Some European alts:

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🇫🇷 Search: Qwant
🇫🇷 Music: Deezer
🇫🇷 Hosting: OVH
🇫🇮 Mobile OS: Jolla
🇩🇪 Maps: Here WeGo
🇩🇪 Translation: DeepL
🇳🇱 Design: Sketch
🇨🇭 Notes: Standard Notes
🇨🇭 Messenger: Threema
🇨🇭 Dev Tools: Sonar

https://proton.me/blog/european-tech-alternatives
European alternatives to US tech | Proton | Proton
Take back control of your digital life with privacy-focused European alternatives to US Big Tech apps and services.
proton.me
October 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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rossignol.bsky.social
The terrifying thing is the number of people who seem to want this, who say it saves them from having to think, as if existence should be a unchallenging and comfortable dream.
meemalee.bsky.social MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · Oct 4
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
and yet, they make it so easy.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 15
A major animating principle of modern Republicans is that you are never allowed to make fun of them
September 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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simon.overgrown.garden
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
minmaxmango.bsky.social
A two-panel image. The top shows a monkey floating in water, looking at a phone screen. On the bottom, it is pressing its fingers into its forehead in upset and disappointment.
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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cait.bsky.social
it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving
August 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mrmandolino.itch.io
"they needed to hire multiple studios to do what the AI promised to do but was completely unable to perform, and are keeping it hidden from the public" is the real story here

like what are we doing at this point
crimsonmayhem.bsky.social Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · Aug 5
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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cassafrass.bsky.social
sorry to get political, but if they wanted to protect kids, they would feed them. they would invest in their education. they would build more parks, more programs, and invest in their future.

if they wanted to protect kids, they would build a world meant for them.
August 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM