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GLENN X 🇵🇸

@glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social

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Part-Time Writer, Full-Time Dork and all-round Pop Culture Geek Extraordinaire. Vaguely Australian, Gay Siri, Movie Geek & late in life GOOP. Who are you to resist?

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 7d

Okay Spooky Season 2025, time to bring my favourite twitter thread back from the dead.. 😱

(Don’t think I have it in me to do a movie per day this year, but let’s just see how we go now)

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Up first :-

01. FINAL DESTINATION DEUX (2003).

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 1h

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h

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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Ashley’s Dreamboard @ashsdreamboard.bsky.social · 2h

My favorite propmaster🥰 #RHOM

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 4h

BRB, working out how tf I watch this in Australia

GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 4h

OMG HAS IT STARTED? 😍😍

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 4h

It really feels like their only goal was not sitting anyone next to someone they openly hate atm. This is actually so funny.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6h

Always noteworthy those journalists who even now are focusing all their energy on the Liberal Party.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5h

"I have a big report on what Andrew Hastie is doing". Great. You are writing a story on something that impacts precisely zero public policy.

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 4h

Lol, this is actually so funny. A million monkeys arranging charts for a million years never could have guessed this. 😂

GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 13h

I enjoyed this, idgaf.

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A ★★★ review of Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

Really enjoyed this tbh - surprised it’s so reviled. Fun 50’s sci-fi / noir pastiche with great San Fran locations and Carpenter’s reliably wonderful eye - a very particular vibe, but I really dug it...

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 15h

08. MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN (1992)

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 15h

🗣️🗣️ Weekly reminder that this is the best sitcom of the past decade. 🗣️🗣️

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 15h

7.5 SUPERSTORE (S3E05 - SAL’S DEAD)

GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 15h

Lol, not me seeing my first snake of the summer on my run tonight.. 🫣

GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 22h

Kind of obsessed with The Real Housewives of Vitamin C. 😍😍

#RHOSLC

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

So, as part of Taylor Swift's album rollout, there was a scavenger hunt involving videos that looked *really* AI-generated. So #SwiftiesAgainstAI became a thing and now the videos are impossible to find. Fandom outrage can be good!
www.wired.com/story/taylor...

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to ‘Do Better’ After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign.

www.wired.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Good. And?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Travis Thomas @travist991.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve always wanted to touch this sweater

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Easily a contender for me too - was always my favourite from that album, ever since it first came out. I love it so much.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, Mason really is so so good in this, and I actually really appreciated the commitment to romantic comedy above all else. But, as always, it is FUCK SPYGLASS AND EVERYTHING THEY MAKE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.

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A ½ review of Heart Eyes (2025)

FUCK SPYGLASS. FREE PALESTINE. 🇵🇸

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Amazing Race out of context @taroutofcontext.bsky.social · 1d

I don't wanna shave my head. I paid five hundred dollars for extensions. It'd be so sad! #tar #tar20 #amazingrace #bb #bigbrother #realitytv

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 1d

WHY IS EVERYONE BESIDES MASON SO ANNOYING IN THIS?? 😭😭

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GLENN X 🇵🇸 @glennyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 1d

07. HEART EYES (2025)

I guess now I can watch this for free I can morally feel okay watching something made by Spyglass. 🤮🤮

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