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Alice "Speed Dawg" @yolowoho.bsky.social · 5d

seriously tho tune in for updates on the canal ducks, my cat, various cooking adventures and overall just a chill time

Alice "Speed Dawg" @yolowoho.bsky.social · 6d

anyway join me on Retro it's like minimalist snapchat/instagram but just for friends sharing photos and it rules

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 1h

I began connecting some dots in a post earlier this year abt the way white Gen X women were talking about Caitlin Clark. There's an expanded analysis to be written, I think, as it pertains to an "anti-woke" lens permeating these formerly liberally-minded women. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/no-playing...

"Many of the people arguing for less physicality in the W—Brennan, Jenkins, tennis legend Chris Evert—have spent their careers covering or taking part in women's sports (or both). And yet, they’re buying into the oldest sexist trope in the book, a narrative that existed over a century ago as a way to keep women out of sports altogether: That women are too weak to handle physicality in sports.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry 1 day lmao

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 3h

A question from the stands:

Danny Page @danny.page · 4h

If Major League Soccer doesn’t care enough to watch their own games in order to write about them, why should we watch their games?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 4h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

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Jashvina Shah @icehockeystick.bsky.social · 2h

Learning how to plan a road trip on your own without the help of chat gpt is an important life skill

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Travis | AEW Women’s Division Blog @aew.one · 19h

Wrestling is nuts.

“How’s it going?”

“Yeah my leg’s broken.”

“Can you still take a few worked punches to the face?”

“I said my leg is broken not my face”

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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🌟 Flighty Buttlass 🎀🧸🏪💥 @flightybuttlass.bsky.social · 17h

🌼 #wrestlesky / Hangman Adam Page

a little chibi hangman reminding you that you are not immune to propagnada

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 6h

My friendo's book is on sale! and it's really awesome!

Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 6h

*trying to ignore state of universe for 2 seconds*

It's week 2 of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe's SUPER SALE! Just $1.99 on eBook at most fine retailers and also Jeff's. (Pls share, it helps)

Bookshop
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Jeff's Amazon
www.amazon.com/Ship-Edge-Un...

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

Check out A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe - <B>A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adv...

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 5h

i don't want to diminish the idea that technology has offered improved opportunities for communication in education (i work in edu IT, for goodness' sake) but like, i went to elementary school in the 90s and they sent us home with the lunch calendar on a piece of paper and it was fine

Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 6h

Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 5h

the "inventing problems to solve" stuff really feels in stark relief because the surveillance stuff in edu/parent/child relationships really becomes about de-emphasizing your individual and community responsibility at the end of the day

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 5h

you don't learn that you are supposed to do something because it is right or because it is the expectation, but that we simply can't really expect you to do these things (bring papers home to your parents, explain absences) so you will be surveilled and tracked with online platforms instead

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Tunnel Talk Pod @tunneltalkpod.bsky.social · 4h

NEW EP full of philosophical questions. What does it take to be in the Conglomeration? Does Don Callis have a basement of Deformed Boys? And how does one live in Samoa Joe's America? redcircle.com/shows/74d8fc...

The Belt Was a Chastity Belt

Listen to Tunnel Talk on RedCircle

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Alicia Rodriguez @soccermusings.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote hundreds of match recaps & edited hundreds more for this site back in the day. It’s not just MLS - I’m increasingly convinced soccer will “fail” because at this moment when U.S.-based fans love it more than ever, there is a rapidly shrinking media ecosystem covering the sport. We are screwed

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 4h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Alice "Speed Dawg" @yolowoho.bsky.social · 19h

I photoshop a cowboy hat onto Hangman Adam Page every day until I forget: Day 615

Hangman Adam Page crouching in a field looking at a herd of cows. He has a black cartoon cowboy hat photoshopped onto his head.

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Alice "Speed Dawg" @yolowoho.bsky.social · 19h

this is how I noticed the sensbot wasn't working and it might be fixed now or not but I'm going to sleep regardless so I'll find out in the morning at least the official sens account is posting the goal clips too now goodnight

NHL Goals @nhlgoals.bsky.social · 20h

Ottawa goal!

Scored by Shane Pinto with 02:27 remaining in the 1st period.

Assisted by Ridly Greig.

Florida: 2
Ottawa: 1

#OTTvsFLA #TimeToHunt #GoSensGo

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GameTimeArt @gametimeart.bsky.social · 23h

Yankees literally did the same thing to the Griffeys as well which is why Griffey JR famously said he'd never sign with the Yankees.

RAKETTA DU HOCKEY🇨🇦 @hockeyvids.bsky.social · 23h

Vladdy admits why he dislikes the Yankees in a 2023 interview: "When a team humiliates you, the Lord grants you the ability to humiliate them

“It was me who was removed from the stadium, I was 7 or 8 years old, so I was like okay... Now when I arrive you're going to feel my presence in the Bronx."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22h

If Chicagoans in general don’t fuck around, radical Chicago clergy fuck around even less

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

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."

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Moni 💫🇵🇸 @venusleo.bsky.social · 1d

the only propaganda i love is hangman propaganda

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Moni 💫🇵🇸 @venusleo.bsky.social · 1d

and then i burst into tears

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HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 1d

new hangman propaganda film being disseminated this friday

(its actually very good and i am proud of it)

youtu.be/05Nter-UzF8?...

SNEAK PEEK: "The Good, The Bad and the Hangman" Trailer | AEW Stories

YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect the Venn Diagram of men who do not care that AI doesn't generate a profit and the men who insist the WNBA isn't profitable (and think that matters if it was true) is a damn circle.

Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 1d

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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Blossom of Sky Vale @cfettback.bsky.social · 1d

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SNEAK PEEK: "The Good, The Bad and the Hangman" Trailer | AEW Stories

YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to me very carefully: I will never, *never*, "ask Gemini."

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

“the nobel committee investigating whether people were insider trading on the peace prize” is the most 2025 story so far www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Nobel Organizers Look Into Surge of Bets for Winner Ahead of Announcement

www.nytimes.com

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