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Dan Seitz

@dseitz.bsky.social

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Marketing guy, former paid blogger, current commerce content guy. #juggling #cycling #comics #film #gaming. All opinions strictly my own. He/him

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · Jan 17

If you want to understand #climate first you need to understand how emissions are calculated. Let's do that with my wedding ring, my ally bracelet, and my cycling cuff.

A wedding ring on top (visual metaphor for scope 1), a paracord LGBT ally bracelet (visual metaphor for scope 2), and a high viz reflective cuff. All are sitting on a desk.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

Sears also said that being fired for being gay “is not discrimination.” That’s going in ads. #VAGov

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson is the weakest man to be elected Speaker and that role has had convicted pedos in it.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 14h

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.”

(Published May with KYUK)

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

www.propublica.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you to our federal judges for keeping the courtroom doors open and holding this White House accountable during this shutdown.

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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s call this what it is: the President of the United States directing federal prosecution for his personal political agenda.

I stand with AG James — as we all should, for the sake of our democracy.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 10h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

HSEAS already relies on its endowment for 40% of its operating revenue

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/m...

The school also receives about 40 percent of its annual operating revenue from the endowment, which will be impacted by the new endowment tax that goes into effect next year. The new tax, which raises the tax rate on endowment income from 1.4 percent to 8 percent for universities with assets of $2 million or more per student, was signed by President Trump in July.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

To preempt inevitable comments: HSEAS cannot just use their endowment to close funding gaps like that. Endowment funds are specifically earmarked by donors and are not "free cash." Endowments also need to be sustainable for decades, which is they can't be used to plug holes in the short-term.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 8h

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 7h

Unreliable is extremely polite.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NYT: Judge Perry said the Trump administration’s version of events was “simply unreliable” and that deploying troops anywhere in the state would “only add fuel to the fire.”

@nytimes.com #Chicago
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 7h

My take from that debate is Sears will run one ad saying Spanberger refused to denounce Jones and Spanberger will run an anti-gay marriage ad about Sears and an “that lady’s crazy” ad.

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 8d

This year marks 10 years of Harrow County! One of the best things I ever worked on and I'm super proud of what @cullenbunn.bsky.social and I were able to accomplish with this series along with the help of @danielchabon.bsky.social and dozens of other artists contributing along the way!

The creeping hand of the skinless boy reaches from a drawer is blowing eyes within.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 7h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

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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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 7h

Just saying shit right out loud

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8h

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.

This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.

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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 7h

Ah ha, this is not legal, actually, though I CAN freeze a boozie frappe and sell it to you as a cocktail to go.

The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 7h

Alcoholic ice cream to go?

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 8h

This is why absurdity is just as important in protest as sincerity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 9h

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office.

Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

Andrew Cuomo * @andrewcuomo
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In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive.
We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses.
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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 8h

I think we need the ability to block specific people from sending pictures in our replies, because there are just some memes I'm sick of seeing every day.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

antifa in portland just announced they will be hosting a counter halftime show to counter turning point's counter halftime show

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