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Amy-Elizabeth

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I talk to teens about dead people. 42, AuDHD, Married & ATL. 🏳️‍🌈 BA History & MA in World History. http://Amy-Elizabeth.net/social

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · Sep 17

Overheard at work:

Student 1: Of course Socrates isn’t real, do you think anyone would talk to Plato?

Student 2: Low-key, I feel that way about Saint Augustine. He HAD to be close with God because he was like, a weird homeschool kid.

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 22m

On Wednesday, a barred owl flew across the parking lot and perched in a branch right in front of my car.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 59m

Sunday in your nations capital:
Shut Down Day 12

Obviously Congress is out of town for the weekend because why would they be working during a crisis

The Smithsonians have run out of money and closed.

Anxiety is high.

Does the dancing frog want to come here?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1h

To many Canadians, Jonathan Crombie will always be Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables but he did so much more in his life and career.
He was a great Canadian actor, taken far too soon.
This is his story

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A color photograph of a young man sitting at a wooden table in a café or restaurant, gesturing with both hands. He is wearing a light blue and white striped shirt with rolled-up sleeves. The background features dark walls adorned with framed black-and-white posters of people in various poses, including a dancer and a man in a suit. The setting includes wicker chairs and a warm, dimly lit ambiance.

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 31m

Yes. It’s like autocorrect on every device and program has lost the plot. Anything that I need to properly write is written on my 2012 MacBook. It’s so slow, but it’s accurate

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 16h

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

a scale of Dracula to Not Dracula going from right to left: Dracula (Dracula), Count Orlok (Legally Distinct Dracula), Drake from Blade Trinity (Might Be Dracula), Vlad the Poker (Probably Not Dracula, and Morbius (Not Dracula)

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 14h

Saame.

a man in a black cape is walking across a field

ALT: a man in a black cape is walking across a field

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 21h

Oh gosh, Sophie!! I miss her.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 21h

Husband: We need a new stud finder, this thing says there are no studs in the walls… wait, if I press this button, it says the walls are ALL studs?

Me (queer): Well, it is Pride weekend in Atlanta…

Husband: *facepalm*

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Student: Ogedei Khan really switched things up after Genghis Khan’s death. Things changed really quickly.
*judge-y face*

Me: Well, let’s think about it this way. Who was elected after President Obama? How have things changed here over the last nine months?

Student: FML.

Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I thought I’d be leaning into Daoism. As a class we found ourselves really into the idea of emphasizing that no one is above the law and that people are loyal to the law, rather than a person… I can’t imagine what would get kids to feel that way.

Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Truly mind-boggling. It’s like someone telling me that my work bag will end up in a museum on one of the Jovian moons… like Io?

Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe we need Viking cloaks for class…

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

I learned a lot about myself while teaching Chinese philosophies over the last couple of weeks. Gen Alpha is surprisingly open to Legalism.

It is “distracted boyfriend meme” showing a 20 something white man checking out a woman walking by in a res dress. The man’s romantic partner, a white woman also in her 20s looks at him with a disgusted expression on her face. The photo has been captioned with the boyfriend labeled as “2025 me”, the disgusted partner is labeled “Confucianism” and the woman in red is labeled “Legalism.”

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the orc nation!

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Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus was arrested in his own time because of his horrific crimes. Just saying.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Well said.

Creator Of 'Jurassic World' Animated Series Speaks Out After Same-Sex Kiss Sparks MAGA Outrage

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all dont want a functioning democracy.

You wanna feel like good people and forget that other people in the world exist and are willing to sacrifice whomever for your own comfort.

You’re just as selfish and delusional as Trump supporters.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Happy pride, Atlanta!

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“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1d

"I just left a hipster Nobel coffee shop, and all the Nobel Prize winners were whispering to each other how they all really wanted me to get the prize and how I deserved it more than them all put together..."

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot imagine what it would be like to find 13 rare medieval and Roman artifacts at a charity thrift store in Chilliwack, BC, but I'm glad they were donated to Simon Fraser University for further study: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study

Rare artifacts dating back potentially thousands of years have been found in a British Columbia thrift store and donated to Simon Fraser University for study.

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Wait - Glenn Close doesn’t have an Oscar?! That is bananas.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. As a child, I was not afraid of monsters under the bed. I was afraid of communists. It goes DEEP.