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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 4h

OpenSløp
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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 4h

Even the slop machines are slop

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5h

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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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 8h

Article doesn’t mention how Truth Social is an unauthorized fork of Mastodon. Mastodon is notorious how it handles DMs in a non-standard way. This weird UI/UX probably confused the president which had legal implications. These articles should be inquisitive about it. newrepublic.com/post/201529/...

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

The Library of Congress record for antifa dot org captured June 2020
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LIBRARY
WEB ARCHIVES
HETA
https://www.antifa.org/
antifa is not an organization
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The United States of America will be designating
ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
12:23 PM • May 31, 2020 • Twitter for iPhone
BLACK LIVES
MATTER

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

Take it from a TV chef who doesn’t sell a line of cookware. Love my cast iron pans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

Slop-n-Scroll

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

Mastodon might be a haven for the truly insufferable, yes, okay, but, but, but, it is actually decentralized and really quite cheap and easy to spin up your own server.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

<guffaw>adds favorite</guffaw>

DAD ROCK
Nostalgic rock with dad jokes
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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

Miller’s wild “plenary authority” hit hits different

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

The idea that Republicans would theoretically abhor a centrally managed economy appears to be a myth!

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2d

The idea of a U.S. president, all on his own, levying taxes and appropriating revenue would have been entirely alien to the framers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

Senate oversight by whataboutism is further evidence of a malfunctioning institution. Congress excels at ceding its power to the executive branch.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 3d

POV: You’re a Mastodon server admin and some folks just haven’t seen The Blues Brothers.

To provide more information, the remote user from
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7d

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.

Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8d

"Too."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Vought easily the most underrated villain in the administration (Miller and RFK Jr are properly rated).

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 8d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 8d

Slop-n-Scroll www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads

www.nytimes.com

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