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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · Mar 19

never made a pinned till now so! i'm mu, they/them! 18+ only and here's where you can find my scribbles:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 3d

well i know bsky is going to compress this to shit and back but here, some poker night fun 🐷🐺🐱 #oc

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 3d

another crop/close-up for phone users out there who can't see shit on my last post because the compression is wild 💔 (see them on desktop) #oc

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · 8d

so much Hades on the brain and so little time

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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 3d

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#art #artpost #anime #oc #csp

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 3d

cropped b&w version because i think it looks cool 🃏 #oc

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 4d

ty maren i'm trying!! 😭 slowly gettign there

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 4d

shit's way too fast paced for me bro i'm trying to find a better work/life balance rn

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 4d

bruh ngl working in the industry killed my joy for drawing for so long lol it became a source of extreme stress the past few years but i feel like i'm very slowly healing and actually enjoying the process again. i ended up with a full on shoulder injury because of it too lol.

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 6d

identity fraud is gonna become so much more common due to these shitty fucking laws and dog shit data security on these platforms 🤡

The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]

Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation

The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Lyroux @lyroux.bsky.social · 8d

still very much kinktobering btw!! im waiting for the commissioners okay to post yesterday's one and today's i spent eepily trying to fix this guy's face so sorry this is all i got... might post 2 tmrw if it works out!! #kinktober #wip #durgetash

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · 9d

confide

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 11d

reposting the video because the typo was pissing me off anyway BIG GUY

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

made the mistake of trying to repost a video from yesterday because i made a typo and now bluesky won't let me upload any video format media? lol anyone else having this issue? 🤪

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

hey not sure as i wasn't the only one to work on that but also i don't know if or when i'll share most of my professional work, sorry, there's a whole approval process everything has to go through i just don't have the time or energy for right now

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

i'm gonna finish the last few boards i have of the anthro characters and then i'll move back to my durge and gortash wips and general OCs >:)

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

anyway i got a lot of work to do and don't plan to be around much for a while i want to to focus on my personal work with the little free-time i got right now so yeah 🫠

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

the unwinable cycle aka when you dont have a job so you have no money and when you have a job and no time for anyting else

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 12d

hefty guy is here! 🦏 #oc life's kicking my ass lately sorry for not posting much

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

mesmo 💀

mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

nothing costs less than 400k anywhere close to the fucking capital that isn’t complete shit atp like what fucking joke even is this lol minimum wage here is like 700/800 a month for context lol

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mu's rambles @musbrainrot.bsky.social · 12d

the economy and housing market in this fucking country is so FUCKED I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford to ever buy my own house that isn’t a literal ruin in the middle of nowhere without running running water atp 🤪 I love it here! this mf gentrified to shit lol

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