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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 18h

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

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.
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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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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social

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Cecília Olliveira @cecillia.com.br · 19h

⚠️ Atenção aqui ó: Uma enxurrada de pregadores evangélicos dos EUA apoiadores de Trump têm visitado o Brasil nos últimos meses. A missão deles? Influenciar líderes evangélicos brasileiros. Nos congressos e encontros bíblicos pelo país, as palavras de fé e profecias se misturam ao vocabulário político

Pregadores evangélicos dos EUA invadem o Brasil com a receita que elegeu Trump | Intercept Brasil

Pregadores ligados a Trump viajam o Brasil com discurso de guerra espiritual — e ajudam a expandir conservadorismo evangélico.

www.intercept.com.br

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 19h

nobody has ever lived more rent free in someone's head than Greta Thunberg, a 22 year old activist who has taken up residence in Peter Thiel's mind palace to such an extent that he thinks he needs all $400 billion of Elon Musk's notional wealth to constrain her

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg 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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The Camarote Herald 🇧🇷📢 @camaroteherald.bsky.social · 19h

📊 In almost every Brazilian state, over 50% of workers will now be tax-exempt. In São Paulo: 67%. In Maranhão: a stunning 95%. Only the Federal District falls short of the halfway mark. It’s a massive shift toward income justice.

Infographic map of Brazil titled “População do Brasil com Renda de até R$ 5.000” ("Brazilian Population with Income up to R$5,000"). The map shows the percentage of the employed population in each Brazilian state (UF) earning up to R$5,000 per month (~USD 1,000), based on projections for 2025. States are color-coded in a gradient from dark blue (higher percentages) to light green (lower percentages). A note on the right explains that with an average real income of R$3,477, an estimated 84% of Brazilians fall under the R$5,000/month threshold, totaling around 85.9 million people — all potentially exempt from income tax under the new Lula-Haddad reform.

Regional highlights:

North Region (Norte): Most states above 85%. Amazonas (AM) at 90.7%, Pará (PA) at 87.2%.

Northeast (Nordeste): Highest exemption rates. Piauí (PI) leads with 94.8%, followed by Ceará (93.1%), Paraíba (93.2%), and overall regional average of 91.4%.

Southeast (Sudeste): São Paulo (SP) has the lowest at 67.5%, followed by Rio de Janeiro (RJ) at 69.8%, Minas Gerais (MG) at 81.9%. Regional average is 72.3%.

South (Sul): Rio Grande do Sul (RS) at 72.4%, Santa Catarina (SC) at 68.2%, Paraná (PR) at 71.9%.

Center-West (Centro-Oeste): Distrito Federal (DF) is the only state below 50%, at 48.1%. Other states range from 68.6% to 83.2%.

Bottom section includes:

National average: 84%

National median: 84.1%

Data source: Brasil em Mapas, based on IBGE/PNAD-C data from Q2 2025 and modeled via log-normal distribution.

In the bottom right corner, a small cartoon shows a man checking a tax form next to a large green “TAX” sign, a calculator, and a pencil, representing the tax exemption theme.

This visualization emphasizes how the vast majority of Brazilian workers—especially in poorer regions—stand to benefit from the new income tax exemption policy, which targets those earning up to R$5,000 per month.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Me reading another article uncritically stating that “90% of US farms are small farms & approximately 99% of them are family farms”.
- Many small farms are residential operations often used to reduce taxes;
- Family farms can be owned by individuals or corporations, the term is meaningless.

a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

ALT: a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

media.tenor.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 9d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.

🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

This story is completely insane. After our first article, Flock and the police have aggressively asserted that the woman "was never under criminal investigation by Johnson County." Flock has used it as an example of "clickbait journalism" and its CEO has attacked the reporting multiple times

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4d

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6d

A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade.

If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Vivian Caldas @vhcaldas.bsky.social · 6d

lamento, estou obcecada por tudo que envolve o nosso SARUÊ DA SORTE, então segue o vídeo do seu debut para a história do vôlei nacional.

(ele vai seco correndo em direção da Luzia, me deu muita pena da bichinha kkkkk)

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 7d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 7d

From the @icpsr.bsky.social side I have to say that this was a massive lift that would not have been possible without a few incredible folks at USAID (who were RIF'd) and @datafirst.bsky.social. Many thanks to @datarescueproject.org too! It was a pleasure working with you all to preserve these data!

Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 7d

Good news today! All USAID-funded education data - almost 1,000 datasets - have been rescued! We helped out with a hackathon, but big shout out to @icpsr.bsky.social and @datafirst.bsky.social for all of their efforts!

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 7d

This a fantastic @callingbullshit.bsky.social example.

What proportion of US citizens has ever used ChatGPT? 35%

Now you'd need basically 100% of people who have ever even briefly used ChatGPT to have had a prolonged romantic relationship with it.

Bullshit!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9d

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 9d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 9d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10d

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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