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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Dec 30

'Corporate Swag' Small Logo-Obscuring Patch — The Clack

Do you have a nice backpack that is marred by the logo of your ex-employer? Do you get embarrassed advertising the tech giant you work for on a Patagonia vest while in the mosh pit at a hardcore show...

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 1d

Why do I feel like in three months there will be a story about how mainstream enterprise-level AI tools weren’t reaalllly isolating sensitive company data from their public models quite as carefully as they claimed they were?

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 1d

Event Poster for Wrong Brain’s 14th Annual Holidaze Bizaare Alternative Craft Fair on Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 11 AM to 4 PM at Community Campus in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Featuring 70 local and regional art, craft, food & drink vendors and workshops. Free and ample parking. ADA accessible.

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 2d

So how long do we just keep going to work.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 3d

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 4d

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 4d

Debate is just improv for people that take themselves too seriously.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 5d

It's better than *THIS*

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 6d

One way Microsoft could start to make it up to us is by allowing you to block coworkers on Teams.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 8d

As bad as it is, I can't imagine what the prompts were.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 9d

The ‘This is your brain on drugs’ egg in a frying pan with an added caption that says “Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.”

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing brings me joy like the grocery store ‘ttonehenge

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to Big Tech, adults get to have snow days too. #aws

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 11d

I read this before I saw the news, and my answer is still yes

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 13d

Every day I'm reminded that this is what we're choosing to spend our money on instead of reanimating the cryogenically frozen remains of Ted Williams and giving the world the most fucked up season of baseball it has ever seen.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14d

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW for Broadcom by 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months.

Here’s $10 off an annual subscription.

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OpenAI Needs Over $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months To Complete Any Of These Deals - And Sam Altman Doesn’t Have Enough Time To Build Any Of it
I know, I know, you’re going to say that OpenAI will simply “raise debt” and “work it out,” but OpenAI has less than a year to do that, because OpenAI has promised in their own announcements that all of these things would happen by the end of December 2026, and even if they’re going to happen in 2027, data centers require actual money to begin construction, Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD are going to actually require cash for those chips before they ship them.
Even if OpenAI finds multiple consortiums of paypigs to take on the tens of billions of dollars of data center funding, there are limits, and based on OpenAI’s aggressive (and insane) timelines, they will need to raise multiple different versions of the largest known data center deals of all time, multiple times a year, every single year.
Say that happens. OpenAI will still need to pay those compute contracts with Oracle, CoreWeave, Microsoft (I believe their Azure credits have run out) and Google (via CoreWeave) with actual, real cash, $40 billion dollars worth, when they’re already burning $9.2 billion in the first half of 2026 on compute on revenues of $4.3 billion. OpenAI will still need to pay their staff, their storage, their sales and marketing department that cost them $2 billion in the first half of 2026, all while converting their non-profit into a for-profit, by the end of the year, or they lose $20 billion in funding from SoftBank.
Also, if they don’t convert to a for-profit by October 2026, their $6.6 billion funding round from 2024 converts to debt.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 18d

Paraphernalia would be a beautiful name for a baby

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 19d

Antique Smokeshow

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 20d

I regret to inform you that Mavis Beacon wasn't a real person.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · 29d

How long before Grok attempts to take down OpenAI?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 1

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Sep 29

Out here getting roasted by captcha puzzles

Captcha jigsaw puzzle that says it was solved in 3.92 seconds

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Sep 28

Sometimes I get a pang of guilt about not following Rosie O’Donnell’s career more closely in the last 20 years.

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Sep 27

Dollhouse Productions Episode 2

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The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Sep 23

Kind of messed up if you think of The Long and Winding Road as being from the perspective of Maxwell before the Silver Hammer murders

The Clack @theclack.bsky.social · Sep 21

We went to a yard sale with our kiddo, and the woman running it picked up this book and was like "This might be a nice one for you" and I pointed to them and was like "oh, we already figured it out"

A book called "The Wonderful Way That Babies Are Made" (A book for children I guess?)