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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · Mar 25

our propaganda account on reddit, chugging steady for a decade, was nuked by man-baby leon, but not before we posted some real bangers like this one with 12 million views and 100k upvotes lol

everyone with a reddit account should kamikaze that shit right now, because it's only getting worse

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

everyone who participated in the 2013-2015 anti-tech uprising in the san francisco deserves a lifetime retirement plan effective immediately

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 26m

both of these authors dealt with their trauma from WWI trench-warfare in different but equally beautiful ways

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 53m

Elgin, Illinois. ICE is placing undercover agents with folks exercising their first amendment rights.

Expect them to incite violence next.

Beware the agent provocateur.

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 36m

anarchist's couldn't have converted as many leftists as quickly as these democratic party brownshirts just did

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Around 100 protesters here now, the crowd is growing in advance of 4pm demo planned.

State trooper Bradley again warning people they can protest but if they set foot in the road (note: this is a driveway) they'll be arrested.

Another fed vehicle departs.

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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 59m

Afghan Defense Ministry announces end of retaliatory operations against Pakistani forces along Durand Line, warning a strong response if Pakistan violates Afghan borders again.

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

I think about this tweet a lot, due to the changes in the world

DVS
@DVSblast
"ok did everyone DOWNLOAD a pencil?" -how school is like now i bet. due to the changes in the world
5:23 PM • Nov 3, 2014

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 41m

wow, the economist temporarily received one (1) spine vertebrae

The Economist @economist.com · 50m

China’s hostility “came out of nowhere”, Donald Trump wrote. But that cannot be literally true. It is possible to distinguish three potential motives

America and China return to fierce trade conflict

Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh tariff spat

econ.st

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 44m

FACT: zero israeli's have assassinated this sack of shit

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"Just before the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire agreement went into effect on Friday morning, [..] Netanyahu vowed a return to Israel's slaughter if Hamas isn't disarmed, a provision not part of the current deal for a partial withdrawal and captive exchange."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Despite Ceasefire, Netanyahu Vows Return to “Hard Way” If Hamas Isn’t Disarmed

Netanyahu made his threat in an address just before the first phase of the ceasefire went into effect.

truthout.org

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

This but an entire country’s economy lol

toddkramer.eth
@toddkramer1
I been hacked.
all my apes gone. this just sold please help me
11:10 PM • 12/29/21

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 1h

Explosion at a branch of the Ministry of Rural Development in Syngrou

iefimerida.gr @iefimerida.bsky.social · 1h

#Εκρηξη σε παράρτημα του υπουργείου Αγροτικής ανάπτυξης στη Συγγρού

Εκρηξη σε παράρτημα του υπουργείου Αγροτικής ανάπτυξης στη Συγγρού - iefimerida.gr

Συναγερμός έχει σημάνει εδώ και λίγη ώρα μετά από έκρηξη που σημειώθηκε σε παράρτημα του υπουργείου Αγροτική Ανάπτυξης στη Συγγρού.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1h

Then call your God damn brownshirts off of LGBTQ Illinois residents who are trying to stop ICE

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 16d

“I spent days reading centuries-old oral histories...” #NewNonfiction author Julian Brave NoiseCat describes the research and legend behind his debut, We Survived the Night. “I found myself drawn to the ones about Coyote, the trickster forefather of our people.” at.pw.org/JulianNoiseCat

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 1h

imagine being so traumatized by your fascist handlers that you willfully traumatize a child into piloting a weapon of mass destruction

Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 2h

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 2
Unfamiliar Ceilings
The Beast

Misato on top of the table harassing Shinji

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 1h

the recuperation of the portland frog for pinche yanqui propaganda has taken less than a week

Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 3h

Never give up hop 🐸

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

lol this movie's the shit

Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 7h

Video of an antifa terrorist damaging an airship.

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

great, just what the world needs

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2h

Footage from the border

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

youtu.be/L7EDz2LNAa8

Fuck Off, Google!

YouTube video by La Idea

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

democrats = republicans

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 4h

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

everyone who participated in the 2013-2015 anti-tech uprising in the san francisco deserves a lifetime retirement plan effective immediately

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2h

ah, yes, 'just trust the state troopers, the rule of law will prevail'

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment