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Words can buzz and hum like in insects in the air. I'm not actually a cat. But that's a secret. Tawatawa. Pōneke. Aotearoa. I was BuzzAndHum. I stil am.

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pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 5h

It's so inevitable.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 8h

Engage the Simeon!

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 9h

Ah. I see.

Given those ICE facists shot a priest in the face with a "bean bag", I really appreciate those making stands like that.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 9h

a close up of a man 's face with the words do you think i 'm spooky .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words do you think i 'm spooky .

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pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

I took a trip down to the supermarket.

It was certainly... damp.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

Mind you, thats not "stick-like". No, the other sort of sticky.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

Onya!

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

I think Lamia hit the nail on the head with "sticky.'

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

There's some context I'm clearly missing here.

Blissful ignorance in Aotearoa, I guess?

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

I keep trying to avoid the word "moist", but, this weather is really not helping.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

That's quite... impressive.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

Everything just feels - smells - damp.

This weather is a bit much, eh.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

To be honest, it just makes me want to re-install Gran Turismo 7.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 10h

Whoever the one that isn't Christopher.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 11h

...Gio.

😂

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 11h

"Fan service" is, rightfully, usually a derogatory term.

That performance by John Cena and AJ Styles, however, was perfect fan service. And, as a life-long fan of this ridiculous pro-wrestling thing... I loved every minute of it.

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 22h

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 1d

I also had an undercut with red-dyed bangs hanging over my right eye.

The 90s were not a nice time.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 1d

Well, we all mistakes.

I'd paint all my fingernails different shades of blue, black and green. Sometimes with glitter.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 1d

1998, I think.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 1d

I know i shouldn't really personalize politics, but I still keep thinking of when I saw Peter Dunne sadly eating a bowl of noodles at the James Smiths food court.

Alone.

He was a Cabinet Minister at the time.

pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 1d

Peter who?

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Comment: Ruling itself out of any government would leave the party free to maintain its mana and independence, de-fang the centre-right’s potential attack lines and bring the focus of the election campaign back to the Government’s performance, writes Peter Dunne.

Te Pāti Māori must walk away from aspiration to govern