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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 5h

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Diane Keaton Wins Best Actress Oscar: 1978 Oscars

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 5h

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Yang Hansen WENT OFF in the 3rd quarter putting up 16 points in a win against the Sacramento Kings

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 5h

It's hard to believe that this evil f**k isn't a fictional character!

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Remembering Diane Keaton 🤍

More on her life and legacy: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Augustina @augustina.bsky.social · 1d

Truth.....

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist?

Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.”

If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs?

Every Trump voter needs to see this.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

some more interesting interstate collaboration efforts in this thread!

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

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California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

You know what’s really tiresome?

Hearing over & over again that “Republicans are good at messaging.”

Saying “Democrats are all terrorists in Antifa” a million times isn’t being good at messaging.

It’s just being good at bullshit.

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WokeCanadiac🍁Nasty as necessary🇨🇦NerdyBookhoarder 🖇️ @zedneverzee.bsky.social · 1d

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Share this resistance.
The media won't.

ICE Agents Knock Down Vietnam Veteran with Tear Gas in Portland!! FDT 😡 🤬

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

I love when celebrities use their FU money like this. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it's messy (in a good way) and entertaining.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT,” Neil Young writes. “IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 3d

For too long, opening a restaurant in CA has meant endless hurdles & delays.

With @governor.ca.gov's signature on AB 671, we’re making it easier for small restaurateurs to turn their ideas into reality — opening doors faster, hiring sooner & bringing new energy to our main streets.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

🔗 These bills help continue California's entrepreneurial spirit and growth by providing additional support for restaurant owner:

Governor Newsom signs new laws to help restaurant owners keep California cooking | Governor of California

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

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.
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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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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 3d

"Over four decades as a journalist, I’ve covered 7 presidents, 20 Congresses, & thousands of staffers. I’ve never encountered one as sinister as Stephen Miller.

I see it in the darkness of his eyes, the venom of his words, the malevolence of his affect."

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Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 3d

So yes — if the Gaza deal holds, he deserves some credit for helping end a brutal conflict. But that’s where the praise should stop. A man who fans the flames of violence in his own country cannot credibly call himself a peacemaker.

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The "Peacemaker" Who Thrives on Chaos

Trump’s Gaza deal may earn him applause — but his record of stoking violence at home shows he’s no champion of peace.

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

"It was an ‘unwillingness to face realities...it was hope that destroyed humanity by turning people away from the world in front of them. It was hope that prevented people from acting courageously in dark times."
~from "Hannah Arendt and The Danger of Hope"

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck finding them, morons!

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is committing crimes, that's what's illegal!!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

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And now for a report from the hellish war-zone that is Portland

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic job.

Other National Guard leaders should echo these mission remarks.

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 5d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

It's only a matter of when...

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 4d

Well, one way or another there will be power transfers, and she will face a reckoning. It's only a matter of when...

Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 5d

"Aren't we just a bunch of wispy, soy boy cucks, riding our unicycles to gender studies class & dreaming up pronouns; or are we a dangerous insurgency, an elite faction of special forces shadow queers, capable of bringing Toby Keith's America to its knees!! C'mon, which is it maga??"
~Trae Crowder

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Chris Trevett @imissthe70s.bsky.social · 5d

From the conservative Cato Institute:

"Flawed calculations and overlooked benefits show why Trump’s immigration plan would be a fiscal disaster for America."

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The Math on Mass Deportation Doesn't Add Up

Flawed calculations and overlooked benefits show why Trump’s immigration plan would be a fiscal disaster for America.

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