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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 4h

Ahh fun stuff. Fun stuff

Who could have seen this coming?

(everyone)

404 Media @404media.co · 21h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 12h

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::up the print fund::

we fundraise in advance so we can distro to others at no charge.

>support the PWAR print fund<

October Goal: $0/500

We will update as our goals our met.

Support the Pride Was A Riot print fund.
We like to distribute our literature & flyers at no cost. We believe charging for our materials creates a barrier between our work & those who can benefit from it.
We lead online fundraisers like this to remove that paywall and ensure our community can benefit from our radical material, free of charge.

Consider sharing or supporting the Pride Was A Riot print fund. Our goal is $500 for the month of October. Donations of $5, $10 and $20 go a long way to creating a more radical Sacramento community.
You can create the community you want to see, and today, we need your help to do it.
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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 5h

I know what this is.

“Focusing on the marginalized, marginalizes us.”

You know. A completely coherent thought not grounded in prejudice at all.

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ksmetalartist.bsky.social @ksmetalartist.bsky.social · 5h

I would point and laugh but more people believe this than would ridicule it [which is why and how we've gotten to the place we are in this country]. Merde.😡

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

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, who 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. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 5h

These people live amongst us.

Never forget that.

thatsaqualifier • 31m
Religion is just another way to say
"worldview", defined as "the overall framework of fundamental beliefs which a person interprets reality, makes decisions, and understands their place in the world."
You have a religion also, whether or not you agree is irrelevant.
Only one religion is true: the Protestant Christian religion, and that religion has laws which are the basis of every law ever written in any place in history, whether or not the writers of those laws were aware of them.
The best laws and societies are aware of the
10 Commandments and other precepts in the scriptures.
Freedom of religion in the US specifically does not mean freedom from religion. As understood by the founders, it's the right to belong to a specific Protestant denomination and not have any denomination be the official state religion.
Freedom of religion does not mean you are free from living under the rules and laws that should be written per biblical guidelines.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve got a herringbone I’m terrified of wearing now that gold is so high lmao plus it’s a herringbone. I love it tho.

🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 7h

Idk. Went from calling me a monkey to calling anyone that replies a monkey to this and now they’re asking me to be ableist. Idk what this is. I’m only seeing it through out of pure curiosity. 😭

🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 7h

I didn’t say a lot of things. Lol

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Kendrick lyrics @ummmmmm-m.bsky.social · 8h

Self-indulged, discipline never been my sentiments
I needed drugs, to me, an 8-ball was like penicillin
Fuck love, my happiness was in that brown sugar
Sex and melodies gave me hope when nobody's lookin'

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 8h

Idk wtf this shit is. Like ok, you’re the most moralistic moralist morality ever had.

All this becuase I said folks shouldn’t defend Hakeem Jeffries. 😩

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 8h

First I’m a monkey, now you want my disabled ass to say something ableist.

Idk what kinda fetish this is but I want no parts. Twitter is right there, you can head back whenever you want.

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social · 8h

Honey, your bait isn’t working. I’ve only blocked two people.

Please try harder.

I do recommend saying something ableist, it helps sometimes.

🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 8h

She still at it fam. Telling me to say something ableist. Like ma’am. I’m disabled 😭.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 8h

Whew, white*** women are insufferable.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

Well. She just called me and other Black folks replying to her flying monkeys. So.

Yup.

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social • 9m
→ Replied to you
Thank you for the quote.
I really don't like people who abuse others because they're having a bad day, and I don't like people who justify it. It's toxic as fuck and it's exactly what flying monkeys do when they defend abusers.
I do really enjoy blocking them tho.
Bring them on. I'll block.

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social • 7m
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Two so far.
I'll circle back later after you get the flying monkeys over here.
I mean, if your pathetic attempt for attention works out for you.
Good luck.

🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

You calling me a monkey now?

Look ma’am. I just rest a study about how essential rose oil can help increase gray matter in your brain. Maybe that can help?

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for the quote.

I really don’t like people who abuse others because they’re having a bad day, and I don’t like people who justify it. It’s toxic as fuck and it’s exactly what flying monkeys do when they defend abusers.

I do really enjoy blocking them tho.

Bring them on. I’ll block.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

Ma’am this is a Wendy’s.

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social · 9h

Oh.

You’re the one who defends your bro who has a bad day and then hits his girlfriend.

You probably cheer him and tell him the bitch deserved it too.

God forbid you hold him accountable for his bad decisions,

He’s your fav bro and she’s just a dumb ho.

Right?

Bye.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

You know me so well. Tell me more about my self **squints** picture of a door.

(Btw. This is the response you get when you ask people to not worship politicians)

Lilith @wildstarryskies.bsky.social · 9h

I am now wondering why you are you so eager to let white bigots abuse a Black man because they feel bad about enabling a fascist regime.

What’s up with that?

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

I just posted a picture of…

Know what. Nvm. I don’t have the patience for rejecting reality. Have a good day in bliss land where you protect politicians from criticism and coddle them like infants who can’t take care of themselves.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

I just read the study. WOW!!! Ima cop a case asap.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

So then your initial response was BS becuase this was in-fact about defending him and you just wanted to make it seem like this was about white folks sitting on their asses. Which I might add, are two complete separate issues.

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

Yes (minus peanut butter)

✨the daniel✨ @intelectconfig.wtf · 12h

what is your favorite kind of cookie?

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

Soooooooooooooooo.

(Brb. Tryna see something)

MoistBob DripPants @triskaidekaaa.bsky.social · 9h

So you know I bought some lmao

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 9h

Shit I forgot the alt.

Emotional Support Were... @stu-doll... • 1h
Frankly, it's ignorance. There's really nothing substantive he can do.
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.s... • 1h
What?
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Emotional Support Were... @stu-doll... • 1h
Jeffries. He's a minority leader. What substantive could he do under the circumstances? He can't reopen the house (Speaker), nor can he call for a vote.
Plain ignorance that people don't understand that being a minority leader means you really don't have a lot of power in many circumstances?
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.s... • 1h
Ah. Yep. You're right.
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