Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge
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#TeamOrca. I live in the woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels. #MaskUp because why would you want to be sick? #COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild (she/her)
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Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
riceboilsover.bsky.social
Why are people in school district administrations so susceptible to cold calls from scammy edtech firms anyways?
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Y’all they did not even bother to redirect the old URLs to the new pages when they redid the site…it was an epic shitshow for weeks!
riceboilsover.bsky.social
Just thinking of all the air purifiers you could buy for just a fraction of the AI $$$…or the $$ our district wasted on commissioning an app that was literally just the website displayed in an app. Or the extortionate subscription fee they pay the same company for the shitty back end of said website
marcusluther.bsky.social
Sometimes I pause and wonder what would happen if all the time and energy and especially $$$ that has gone into AI in education the past 2 years would have been redirected towards tangible things we already know works to make classrooms and schools better.

Oh well.
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lexialex.bsky.social
Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents
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histoftech.bsky.social
Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.
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aaliyahxx.bsky.social
Eastern Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip; where scenes of massive destruction stretching to the horizon, with entire neighborhoods and residential homes leveled to the ground by the Israeli occupation.
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The media double-speak of "Israeli hostages" and "Palestinian prisoners" is infuriating.

Call them "Palestinian *political* prisoners" or "Palestinian hostages."

Hundreds of those detained without trial are Palestinian *children.*
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omarahmad34.bsky.social
My child asked me if the stars could drop food instead of bombs. I didn’t know how to answer. In Gaza, we no longer dream we just try to survive another night without losing more of ourselves.
please help me save my children 🙏🏻
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat…we do not live in a world of sticks and stones, but Mausers and Winchesters.”
DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property
In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.
www.thehandbasket.co
riceboilsover.bsky.social
To be clear, this definitely does not apply in Wisconsin. Levels are declining, yes. But a we are not currently at or near a record low.

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/was...
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know
Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown
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riceboilsover.bsky.social
A UK-based influencer I follow on IG posted yesterday that they woke up feeling like they’d been hit by a truck and all their friends felt the same and maybe it’s the planets…
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Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
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As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward
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AI GPUs appear to die in 3-5 years, and even if they don't, NVIDIA releases new ones every year, meaning that data center projects that take 3-4 years to build will, by the time they turn on, be full of years-old tech that will be worthless once the first lease ends.
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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, which 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 — which, although the costs will almost c…
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"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month
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Hello my friend I am really tired for my child. When I cannot do anything for my child, he collapses. I cannot buy him milk or medicine. Our financial situation is very bad. I depend on your donations for my child. Please do not be stingy and share to save my child.🙏🥺🥺
gofund.me/b18154d6
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ahmedwaj120.bsky.social
I wish the war would end,
but we will return to destroyed homes,
and my work is gone.
I will return with my children sick from hunger.
I hope things get better
Link support 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/from-a-hom...
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These people are fucking monsters
thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?