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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · Nov 18

I live in an echo chamber of FROSTY CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKES

An army of Homer Simpsons consider the hell that is their existence

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Lubna 🩵 @l222ubna.bsky.social · 7h

Dear friends there’s finally a glimpse of hope with recent positive news but we’re still exhausted and need to reach safety The crossing may open soon and we hope to leave before it’s too late I’m in early pregnancy after losing a fetus during the war please donate and share 🙏 ❤️

Help Mohammad and Lubna evacuate to safety!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I’ve created this fundraiser to help my dear friends Mohammad and Lubna, who are currently living in unthinkable conditions in Gaza.

chuffed.org

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 6h

Nice!

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Scroto Faggins ✨ IT'S PRIDE Y'ALL 💖 🦄 🌟 @teen-cthulhu.bsky.social · 6h

youtu.be/Owf5Uq4oFps?...

How the Normans changed the history of Europe - Mark Robinson

YouTube video by TED-Ed

youtu.be

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 7h

Yup! She has a lot to gain that way and it avoids becoming a target, unlike Oslo

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h

For the record, mockery is a perfectly effective form of resistance against ICE.

They want us to be violent so they can put pictures on Facebook and justify a forceful response with their base. They can't do that with an inflatable unicorn costume.

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 8h

Politics is complicated, especially when one country is threatening to invade another, and could result in her being pushed into power at US effort

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah and if the oppo was functioning at all they’d have jumped on that. I’m amazed they havent, actually.

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you!

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 9h

Now I must know!

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 9h

It was pretty big a decade ago, pretty much ruined him

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, its often assumed people remember these things. This is why he didnt really get serious work in the industry again.

That said yes it should have been brought back up and pushed, but the oppo didnt bother, so no “reason” (direct activity) to rehash it (that’s how editorial would say it)

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 9h

Lol, I’ll take it!

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 10h

Lol, intimidating, lil ol me??

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 11h

Happy birthday haul!

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you thank you, I only steal from the best (seasons 3-10)

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 11h

I’d have called em “chazzwazzers”

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 15h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 11h

TCM posted this a few days ago on YouTube.

The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies

www.youtube.com

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia.bsky.social · 1d

#AMomentofJoy
“La Bohème”

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 12h

ABSOLUTELY

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J. Margot Critch @jmargotcritch.bsky.social · 14h

ATTN:
Lacey Lane and Bandido doing the Macarena to Dragula. 🤼‍♂️ #aew

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 13h

God, I love this play.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 1d

hi hello unpaywalled

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

www.wired.com

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Dresden Black @dresdenblack.bsky.social · 14h

As to the value relative to cost of fjords, Slartibartfast was unavailable for comment

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 14h

As a former muck-raker, I resemble that remark 🤣

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14h

Nvidia gets to make all the money *now,* probably the only real winner in the entire "AI" debacle.

That win is at the cost of their future, because there's not going to be this kind of market in five years. Everyone's already gone incredible in debt to buy server GPUs they won't be able to pay off.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

Yet even if these data centers get built - and one analyst told me only 30% of them are viable - they are dead weight debt vehicles of what will be near-obsolete GPUs that *everybody* has been buying - all built for AI compute demand that doesn't exist.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

And Even If They Build Them, These Projects Are Dead Weight Debt Vehicles
Private equity firms make money by investing in things that they eventually sell, with the average holding period being around 5.8 years.

How, exactly, does that work when you’re building data centers full of GPUs that will, after five years, be five generations behind?

How, exactly, does a private equity firm cash out on an asset that everybody else appears to be building, and who exactly do they sell it to?

And what happens if the GPUs inside die after three years? Who pays to replace them, and what do they replace them with?

In the best case scenario, we’re watching a situation where private equity investors pile tens or hundreds of billions of dollars into assets that start decaying the second that they’re built, ones that are commoditized by the very nature of the supposed “popularity” of generative AI and the single vendor — NVIDIA — that everybody is buying GPUs from.

There is little to differentiate one data center from another outside of its location, and at some point you have to wonder if that will matter when only one company — OpenAI — appears to actually need these massive amounts of compute.

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