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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 6h

Just switched out my bullshit 3-season comforter for my big, fat, winter pre-death shroud. Hibernation starts in 6 minutes.

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Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @amandabf.bsky.social · 8h

Dogs when they did something wrong: guilty meme
Cats when the did something wrong: Samuel L. Jackson staring daggers into your soul

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 9h

Everyday we must remind people that gestapo agents are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleaning. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

#MedicareForAll

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jandee924 🌻🕊️🦋 @jandee924.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, sweet Kanga! This pup needs a foster out East. Can anyone help? ⬇️

Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 17h

My sweet Kangaroo has no idea what she’s done wrong! She ♥️s people, other dogs, kids but no1 wants her! They act like she’s Kid Rock! Now she’s going 2b killed! NY NJ NH NE MA ME MD CT PA VA RI VT VA PA- pls foster her! #resisters #resistance #caturday lovers- pls help a #dogsofbluesky pup! 🆘

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 10h

I say “I don’t wanna tell you how to live your life” a LOT for somebody who 100% wants to tell you how to live your life. No wait, I think I want to tell you how you should’ve lived your life up until now. Moving forward, I suggest regret and apologies.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 13h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 10h

I was going to say that I don’t know why dry skin season catches me off guard every year, but that’s a lie. It’s the weed. I was alive in this part of the country for like 46 years before they decriminalized cannabis and I was always stocked up on moisturizer.

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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 11h

You can tell that AI boosterism is a right wing movement because they constantly try and piggy back off of historically oppressed people’s movements instead of trying to craft their own narrative on how their oppressed.

Conservatives love to compare aggrieved white men to MLK and etc.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21h

I think the Democrats need to start making the likely AI crash an issue right now. It has everything they need, and unlike the "boys in girls' sports" issue, it is actually rooted in reality.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 14h

I planned on getting high & rewatching “the Sopranos” Monday but I didn’t know it was Columbus Day.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 19h

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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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h

"The [EPA] is also reconsidering bans on solvents called TCE and PCE, which are linked to Parkinson's disease. It is offering exemptions from pollution restrictions for up to two years ... The [EPA] recently announced a plan to ease regulations on climate pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons."

Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

This spring, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency completed a report on the toxicity of a “forever chemical” called PFNA, which is in the drinking water systems serving some 26 million people. It still has not been released.

Why Hasn’t Trump’s EPA Released the Toxicity Report on This “Forever Chemical”?

PFNA is in the drinking water systems of 26 million people and could cause developmental, liver, and reproductive harms.

truthout.org

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a pretty good game.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 19h

They could’ve saved us all a lot of trouble by naming it machine inventing instead of machine learning

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 20h

I believe I speak for all Chicagoans when I beg you to nickname him Deep Dish.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I have, however, given up caring if my continuing to talk about COVID makes people feel bad.

My mother died of COVID complications this year. And one thing everyone told me was "I didn't realize COVID was still around/could do this" and it still makes me angry enough to spit teeth.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

If this makes you feel like shit, imagine how it makes me feel.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

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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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 21h

Ok, this song is awesome & I’m sharing it today so I don’t have to apologize for what’s next (I’ve also got some unremembered 80s/90s glam rock stuck in my head and so this is kind of a pre-apology

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 23h

Has he gotten to the part in Religion 101 where your money can’t buy you salvation or forgiveness?

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 23h

So weird that all of the things he personally doesn't like are linked to the antichrist. What are the chances?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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