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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 2h

Explains a lot.

August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1h

I absolutely agree. A Carney majority would be terrible. I had it out w/ someone at Adam Solomon's constituency office about their policies. Despite him being my MP, was told to "take it up with the minister in charge" if I had something to say outside of Solomon's ministerial portfolio.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 23h

Oh hey, the movie theatre in the background of one shot is showing Aliens. Bill Paxton all over this movie.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 23h

Oh shit, and there he is. I guess I was right!

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 23h

I have Near Dark on in the background while I work today. It's my first time seeing it, and I swear to god until this very moment I thought it starred Bill Paxton.

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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

The artist responsible for this is OakOak:

www.instagram.com/oakoak_stree...

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a great day for front page obituaries.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

A study in contrasts.

August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

Austerity is death.

martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 1d

@ndp.ca do not support an austerity budget

August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

All paths belong to the forest.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from the Atlantic

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely believe most people who use that phrase don’t even know it’s redundant.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder: you don't need to say "assless chaps." All chaps are assless.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, well good luck to you, then. I once had something stuck like that in my head so severely I posted video of me humming it on social media in the hope that someone would help me so I could do the purge (it turned out to be the Matlock theme song).

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kida2002.bsky.social @kida2002.bsky.social · 2d

I found a copy of the zine issue here: fanac.org/fanzines//Sp... - The gibson article starts on pg 16

fanac.org

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

I recommend listening to the actual song at least once in full. For some reason that's the only thing that purges it for me.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫 @robgasper.bsky.social · 2d

#FilmSky #MovieSky #SciFi
𝐀 𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙚 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗)
tinyurl.com/2s442se8

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 1d

In order to create art as though philosophy accurately describes the world, one must write either poetry or horror.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 2d

...across the board. All in all they took a fun, but not spectacular, series, and made it cheaper, tackier, and more like every other mediocre fantasy series ever on TV. It reminds me of how Blood Origin relentlessly shaved away every thematic deviation from core fantasy stereotypes.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 2d

The new season of The Witcher looks like the Blood Origins prequel series, which is to say the cut the production design budget in half and went w/ the aesthetic of a '90s Sam Raimi series. Liam Hemsworth isn't terrible, but he's clearly just doing a Henry Cavill impression. The acting is worse...