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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 8h

this but also

your boss: *smile stretched unnaturally across skill* this is good and important and also mandatory

Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 9h

the world: idk about this AI slop. we should maybe not do that

the sweatiest guy you've ever seen: you don't understand. it's inevitable. it's coming to kill us. we have to make more

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 13h

This genuinely made me laugh out loud.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 13h

What the fuck are you talking about?

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 13h

“You’re an op-ed writer who rode Bret Stephens’ coattails into The New York Times newsroom, then quit in a huff because they wouldn’t fire you for whatever it was you wanted to pretend to be a free speech martyr for.” Holy shit @lopatto.bsky.social 🚬

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 20h

Always read @lopatto.bsky.social:

"To: Bari Weiss

I honestly cannot believe you’ve willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company."

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

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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SexyAlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 22h

Why are all the bad things "here to stay" and all the things I love up for constant debate until they're eroded out of life altogether?

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 1d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

Bovino, a nice anglo saxon name. Definitely came over on the mayflower. bsky.app/profile/talk...

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23h

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 1d

Fa is short for “A long long way to run.”

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your Bluesky Account in a single image.

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 2d

These icons look like this on purpose! I’ve been wiping off my screen all week thinking it must be dirty.

Messenger and Slack icons on iPhone screen

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 2d

Liquid Glass more like liquid ass, thank you.

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 2d

The new iOS looks blurry and is giving me a headache and I hate it. Do not update.

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 3d

Curling up with a quick Shudder doc on the making of Cannibal Holocaust before bed because it’s important to unwind.

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 4d

To be clear, bsky is not that popular to begin with. If they drive their trans userbase away, that's game over. This is so fundamentally obvious I almost wonder if the goal here isn't self destruction.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 7d

RIP Valerie Solanas you would have loved the zine where only men can be harmed

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 8d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 6d

CANCELED! is fun and I am very into a Team Blake anthem (fuck you Justin Baldoni you weird creep) but I guarantee Brittany Mahomes and people of her ilk will claim it as their own. It’s very 2015-2016 and doesn’t feel like a great read of the present room.

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whiskey wolfe @whiskeywolfe.bsky.social · Nov 11

Also I’d prefer it if the things I read were written by humans, or if possible dogs.

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when Lana crashed out over a super positive review of NFR in a way that very much indicated a lack of media literacy and unprompted defensiveness? Anyway that’s how I feel about Actually Romantic.

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