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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 6h

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 5h

Mistuh Zorban Mamdamo. Mistuh Zordon Bammango. Mistuh Zorton Mammydamo.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 6h

The mayor of New York shouldn't be commenting on Israel. That's the mayor of Israel's job.

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

there are so many trans women in my hema club lol

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

its gonna be some mafia shit. breaking knees if they dont lower the prices type shit

Axios @axios.com · 8h

JUST IN: Trump promises deal to lower surging beef prices

Trump promises deal to lower surging beef prices

Rising beef prices are putting more pressure on the growing share of consumers who say it's gotten harder to afford groceries.

trib.al

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

i reckon they dont have much self awareness. on account of owning the cybertruck and all

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 9h

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
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Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
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30000
20000
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Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
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Donor Age

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

like the reasons why state capacity declines are legion, but the thing is that you kinda don't want to deliberately do it to yourself

Anyway when Margaret Thatcher was elected she deliberately began hacking at the state's capacity to govern like a slasher movie villain

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

I dont buy into "this one variable explains everything" but also this one variable kinda explains everything

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 8h

case studies for collapse of state capacity: The Western Roman Empire, Late Qing China, The breakup of the Soviet Union, The UK after Thatcher

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Britain simply could not afford so much reckless spending on youth clubs

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 8h

[Spongebob narrator voice] One Day Later....

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 9h

there's a way you can import your archive, with the correct timestamps and everything

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11h

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

an AI datacenter built in a town in Ohio doesn't affect the water usage in, idk, Rome, but it absolutely affects the Ohio town's residents

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

like industrial manufacturing plants are built *where there is infrastructure built for industrial manufacturing*, whereas data centers are built where they can parasitise residential infrastructure, or further exploit dwindling groundwater reserves

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

the problem with data center water usage is that they exist in physical places and place an outsized amount of stress on local infrastructure, or have been built in places that are already water scarce

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

1. those are objects with actual utility
2. water is a localised issue, and equating globalised supply chains like smartphones or textiles to localised data centers is a category error

Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 7d

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

If you can guess what this guy is defending I'll give you a gold star

Ryan Horath
@therealrthorat
X.com
But no one was blowing up Nazi Germany with suicide bombs or firing rockets into their territory.
The difference here are the actual facts, a concept you seem unfamiliar with.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 17h

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits."

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From the artificial community on Reddit: Sam Altman, 10 months ago: I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits

Explore this post and more from the artificial community

www.reddit.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 15h

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 15h

the way you draw the lighting