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Cris @crisvector.com · 9h

Companheiro, já te conteis a parábola do frango no cofre?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

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Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Inicio - teleSUR @telesurtv.net.web.brid.gy · 9h

Venezuela solicita reunión urgente del Consejo de Seguridad por amenazas militares de EE.UU.

Caracas advierte que esta escalada podría derivar en un ataque armado en el corto plazo, con graves consecuencias para la estabilidad regional.

www.telesurtv.net

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

the one admirable trait trump has is he wants to bleed his entire fanbase dry of all of their money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Jérôme Vallès 🍁φ‬ @jeromev.bsky.social · 14h

Stiglitz dans Le Monde.

La croissance mondiale est en moyenne de 3%.

La richesse d'un milliardaire croit d'au moins 10% par an.

Combien de temps leur faudra-t-il pour tout posséder?

Prendre 2% du total de leurs avoirs serait un niveau normal.

« C'est une taxe très conservatrice, pas du tout radicale, expliquait-il au Monde,
mercredi 1er octobre. Si vous êtes un milliardaire et que vous ne gagnez pas un
rendement annuel de, disons, 10 % par an, c'est que vraiment vous vous y prenez mal. Dans ces circonstances, imposer leur patrimoine à 2 % reviendrait à taxer à 20 % ce rendement annuel. C'est un niveau qui est commun à travers le monde. »

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

He's a mathematician!

"The Portland Chicken—Jack Dickinson, 26, of Portland—started out protesting at the Tesla dealership, also on South Macadam Avenue, in February but has switched to the ICE building."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 9h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5h

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 5h

PHIL
C'est le jour de la nomination du
Premier Ministre... Encore.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

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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locked account 🔒🇵🇸 @gwarez.bsky.social · 4h

”Thiel says he has grown wary that an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.” Unhinged mf

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9h

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 11h

ah pô kkkkk tá na página de entrada do site do GE caceta

Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 11h

quê?

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 11h

eita

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 11h

no GE

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pj ★彡 @pejotagatari.bsky.social · 6d

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 12h

00h30 hora de dormir

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 12h

a cereja no bolo pra mim foi os caras falarem que a bola tá saindo da área

MEU AMIGO, ELA NEM ATINGIU O BICO DA PEQUENA ÁREA AINDA

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 12h

é tão doida a análise do VAR no lance do pênalti do SPFC x Palmeiras que eu nem sei o que pensar

tô atônito: nesse nível de incompetência não era nem pra estar apitando na série A

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Claudia Fragata @claufragata.bsky.social · 16h

Alerta de Hamsters enrolados em charutinho para fazer tomografia (alô @anapads.bsky.social )

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Carim @c4rim.bsky.social · 14h

Os 3.600 europeus mais ricos possuem a mesma riqueza que os 181 milhões de europeus mais pobres, o que corresponde à população da Alemanha, da Itália e da Espanha reunidas.

Soupe aux orties @soupeauxorties.bsky.social · 1d

« Les 3.600 Européens les plus riches possèdent désormais autant de richesse que les 181 millions les plus pauvres, ce qui correspond à la population de l'Allemagne, de l'Italie et de l'Espagne réunies. »

La Libre @lalibre.be · 1d

La fortune des Européens les plus aisés a grimpé de 405 milliards d'euros au 1er semestre

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15h

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 15h

another day in very normal times

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