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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

What a loser.

TIME Magazine: "Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for."

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 1d

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 1d

And the truth is if they were not trying to control the world and everyone else, no one would really give a damn about the billionaires.

Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real problem. The people in power believe horrible things about the people not in power and act accordingly. This is why the billionaires are building bunkers.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

now do jan 6th

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP chose as its leader, the person who referred to himself as “The King of Debt” and wonders why we are here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has lost the peace prize, maybe he can start fulfilling his campaign promises:

• Free IVF
• 100% Tax Free Tips
• Release Epstein files
• Lower Grocery Prices
• 100% Tax Free Overtime
• 100% Tax Free Social Security
• 10% Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 2d

The fundamental problem with AI is that it's not AI. Just like Enron was an innovative energy company that was neither innovative nor actually an energy company. Deluded investors kept both afloat until the books couldn't be cooked any longer.

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

The blast radius of the AI/crypto collapse will be massive.

Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

They are intertwined to the point where they go down together.

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

The government will remain shut down until everyone promises to give Trump a pass on the Epstein files.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Who does Johnson think he’s fooling?! Dude sent the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing the Epstein files, and he’s keeping them away for the same reason.

Congress is still getting paid, but Johnson won’t bring the House back to fund the military. This is on him, not the Democrats.

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

This is why a liberal arts education is important. Take a history class. Take a sociology class.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

Crypto bros have a great idea: "fractional real estate." Investors just buy a piece of a property, on the blockchain.
This is *how every property-related security already works*.
And given its history, securitization might not be something you want to reinvent!
From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords

Crypto executives are selling investors fractions of buildings in yet another scheme to reinvent an existing activity and say rules don’t apply because it’s on the blockchain.

prospect.org

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

They are intertwined to the point where they go down together.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

And for this, he wants a Nobel

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Some fascinating stuff in here for NBA nerds. Look at this shit!

#NBAsky

www.theringer.com/2025/10/10/n...

Two charts showing the top 300 shot locations in the NBA in 2005 and 2025, with the former having a lot of mid-range shots while the latter is only inside the paint and around the 3 point line. Charts by Kirk Goldsberry.

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Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

Pouty little child is going to start a war because he did not get his binky.

The irony of trying to threaten your way to a peace prize is lost on him.

Bob More @bobmore.bsky.social · 2d

The guy makes a pretty good case, unintentionally, that he wants to be the anti-Christ.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

Peter Thiel www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Paula Simoes @paulasimoes.bsky.social · 2d

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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