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VaJenell Hugh-Briss

@finalgirlboss.bsky.social

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A sentient tapestry of inquiry. Horror-obsessed 40+ Hottie. I don’t have any fruit snacks or games on my phone. “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.” #Earthseed

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · Nov 16

I think Bluesky’s mission, vision, and values can be summed up as:

“AY! We ain’t doing that weirdo shit over here.”

“Weirdo shit” being pretty much the collective experience of using FB, IG, and Twitter.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 6h

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review

In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder to apply to AddisCoder, a one month free algorithms and coding camp for high schoolers in Ethiopia. Deadline is December 31. Spread the word to those who may benefit from the program.

www.addiscoder.com

AddisCoder

www.addiscoder.com

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 6h

Watching Clown in a Cornfield and the lead actress looks EXACTLY like Jill Hennessy. I had to look Katie Douglas up cuz I just knew that was Jill’s daughter.

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Juicy Fruit aka I Am Abundant AF @iamabundantaf.blacksky.app · 6h

Um, I’m confused as to why you aren’t using DuckDuckGo for those kinds of activities 🫣

I never utilize that browser in any other circumstances

Monie Love @scaryspicee.blacksky.app · 8h

When you open Safari in public and xvideos pops up 😩😩😩😩

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

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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Sid @sosodolo.on.computer · 8h

Lil Wayne forgot to go back and carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain so she too could drink 😂

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PKMN Trainer PK! @poetickadence.bsky.social · 8h

They ain’t carry madam zeroni up the mountain and she don’t play that

VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 8h

YMCMB must have hit an old Romani woman with their car and covered it up cuz her death curse has reverberated through their lives.

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High School English Hashira @sleepyteach82.bsky.social · 8h

How to pick up English teachers:

Feyd-Author @theboywhowrote.bsky.social · 8h

I have crossed oceans of time to find you

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 8h

I got one of the special shaped pillows just for this lol

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 8h

Me and LeBron having the same ailments was not on my bingo card.

Gotta sleep with a pillow between ya knees, Unc.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 9h

NEWS: LeBron James will miss the start of the Lakers' season due to sciatica on his right side, the team announced.

He will be re-evaluated in 3-4 weeks.

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 8h

lmfaooo UMG said—

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 8h

YMCMB must have hit an old Romani woman with their car and covered it up cuz her death curse has reverberated through their lives.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 8h

"Oh Nicki not going out bad by herself! We a family!!!" - YMCMB

Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 9h

Young Money is going L for L

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 10h

Bruh Drake lost. It's done. You still arguing different is a tragic moral failure on your part. Out rapped. Outsold. Out awarded. Dissed at the super bowl while his ex crip walked on stage. And lost in a court of law. Only thing left is for Kendrick to adopt Adonis and give a father to look up to.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway I wrote an article back in 2013 analyzing permutations on Benedict Cumberbatch which you may read and sub in Timothée Chalamet should you so desire
web.archive.org/web/20250322...

A Linguist Explains the Rules of Summoning Benedict Cumberbatch -The Toast

A willing foe, and sea room.

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 8h

I watched Wonka and Dune Parts 1 & 2 and I still don’t see the hype over Thermidor Cabaret.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 11h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Queen of Hyrule @queenofhyrule.bsky.social · 1d

I have a whole litter of kitten close to my home. If anyone is interested in homing a kitten or tin Atlanta please hit me up.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 9h

TO SEE WHAT INSTITUTIONS THEY'RE ATTACKING NEXT, PAY ATTENTION TO WHICH BLACK WOMAN THEY ATTACK. ATTACKING LETITIA JAMES IS ABOUT REDUCING THE AG CAPACITY IN STATES. THIS IS #TheDoubleTax. THIS IS THE SAME PLAYBOOK THEY'RE USING ON GOVERNOR LISA COOK.

GET THE BOOK: annagifty.com #blacksky

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 9h

The focuses on autism because autism is big business and all of the attention and research and everything is geared towards it when the truth of the matter is autism didn’t just show up a few years ago. It’s been around forever just like everything else. Albert Einstein was on the spectrum.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 9h

Jennyfer, a restaurant worker in FL, reported to police that her manager sexually assaulted her. Within weeks, she was charged with a DUI & deported to Nicaragua. The criminal legal system, in tandem with immigration enforcement, is built to disappear vulnerable people, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

Deported after reporting sexual assault: A worker’s fight for justice

Jennyfer told police that her manager assaulted her. Within weeks of reporting, she was charged with a DUI and deported to Nicaragua

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 9h

🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾💔💔💔💔

Mr Mohamad @mojhamad.bsky.social · 10h

Hello friends - today the ceasefire was announced in Gaza - but we are still the same - I try to provide food and water for my children but I fail💔 - I have no source of money - I lost my job because of the war - please I urgently need $300 to buy food🙏
Plz Helpe
Support: tinyurl.com/Support-Muha...

VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 11h

Spotted lanternflies do not like Wondercide. I sprayed our trees 2 days ago, and even after heavy rain, there are a fraction of the fuckers on our trees vs our neighbors. We’ve got traps coming as well, but I need to order more Wondercide.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 11h

Its the modern day version of the white man's burden. Colonialism and empire building at its best, using the same arguments of empires of yore as Karen Hao so eloquently put it in her book, Empire of AI.

This IS the side to fight against, not the side to join in service of some larger goal.

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